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These STEM cards activity task cards are a great way to incorporate STEM into the classroom. Students will love the challenge of building all sorts of shapes.
Students will LOVE practicing engineering skills with this hands-on STEM Jellybean Structures. Best part? The taste-testing afterwards!
Cymatics is the study of wave phenomena and vibration. It uses the power of sound to shape, transform and destroy the solid structures we see all about us.
In this article, we explore the icosahedron meaning in sacred geometry and spirituality, the mathematical properties and it's structure, and offer practical
In this article, we explore the icosahedron meaning in sacred geometry and spirituality, the mathematical properties and it's structure, and offer practical
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Although I know it already, it never ceases to surprise me just how true it is. Learners of all ages need the opportunity to experiment with a new medium before putting it to its more formal or expected use. Often this kind of activity is called 'playing around' which I often perceive as a derogatory term in relation to learning. But, in my experience, if you observe children at play long enough and really pay attention you will be astounded by the myriad of ways they are representing their knowledge, understanding and mastery of a subject. Play and exploration are not wasted time. In fact, I think it is exactly the kind of activity that builds the foundation of real understanding. Here is a case in point from a recent Math in Your Feet Family Night. Having finally found success using straws and pipe cleaners as a math toy and building material with my own first grader, I decided to include it in the Family Night for the first time. I made some models of polygons and polyhedra, gave the station volunteer a quick orientation, and left the materials to be discovered. Immediately, it was the most popular station of the eight offered that night. As the children descended, the adults followed, providing lots of helpful advice and some modeling... ...which the kids politely and assiduously ignored as they confidently forged ahead. This initial inclination to explore the materials on their own terms was fortified by the fact that this was not officially 'school time'. There was no pressure to do things 'right', or follow the rules, or learn and use proper technique. As a result, most kids cheerfully ignored the formula for folding a pipe cleaner in half and making a nice right angle before inserting it as a connector between two straws, and instead found their own twisty or unequal ways to make it work. Most also ignored the nice models I had made and created their own. I had never heard of a hexagon cube, for example, but there it was! They were having a grand time 'playing around' when I noticed something amazing happening. After a very focused exploration period, they started discovering the rules on their own! This little one, two years old according to her brother who sat beside her, had been methodically putting pipe cleaners into the straws, one after another. It looked like a little gallery of Q-tips, someone joked. She was working on her own. She must have been at it for thirty minutes and then...she started connecting straws together! Voila! A hexagon. No one, I suspect, expected much out of a girl so young. And yet, there she was discovering the materials and watching others around her, ultimately creating something for herself. I'd wager that if someone had insisted on sitting her down and showing her how to make a hexagon, she might have been less interested, engaged, focused and, ultimately, successful. Children much older also experienced this same progression. Check out what her brother was building, below. Kids kept coming up to me wanting to know if they could have the dodecahedron I made as model for the night. Sort of like a door prize? I said, "Well, no, that one's mine. But you could make your own!" Only one girl decided to make one for herself; she also really wanted me to sit next to her while she figured it out. I provided moral support for about five minutes, and then had to 'go do something...' A few minutes later, she came and found me with a question and, still later, enlisted support from another adult so she could finally finish it. But you know what? She did all the work, she just needed help 'seeing' the structure and pattern. If we had had more time she and I could have talked how to make all the angles congruent so it would be more regular but, still...what a prize! So, what kind of learning was happening during all this 'playing'? I heard a teacher mention that this activity reinforced the learning they were doing in class about corners and sides. Yes, and so much more. The side of the shape becomes a shared edge. You only need one straw for each edge. The more you build on to your initial shape, the more this aspect of intersection and sharing is apparent. A vertex can be created from the intersection of two, three, sometimes even five different lines/edges. Depending on what polygon or polyhedron you're making, the pipe cleaners need to be bent at different angles. An equilateral triangle's angles are different from a square's which are different yet again when you create a hexagon, or a pentagon. These are properties you might not truly understand unless you had to make them yourself. And, when every angle in a shape has to be the same, and you're the one who has to make them that way, you truly build a new understanding of 'sameness'. And that's just the math stuff and just what I noticed while watching them build. I'm sure there's more. All in all, a good evening's work. I think my new definition of success is when my project idea is just the starting point and, over the course of the 'lesson' not only do multiple right answers emerge but the children are satisfied with their efforts. If the resulting mess is any indication, I'd say it was an entirely satisfying evening.
Are you looking for different shape names in English? Here you will find a list of shapes with different types and useful example sentences. If you work in a
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These 24 challenge cards are perfect for STEM centers, makerspaces or math stations. Kids will love building 2 and 3-dimensional toothpick STEM structures!
List of all color names in English with images! When talking about a variety of subjects, you may need to refer to a particular color. This could be true when
We are getting geared up for learning about 2D and 3D shapes in my classroom! Let's keep this low-prep, rigorous, and FUN! These activities are from my NO-PREP Shapes Printables and also my Common Core Math Centers Bundle. Here are a few examples from these packets! And a few centers from my Common Core Math Centers... Download them HERE!
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each space serves a different function: an entrance area with water closet and showers, guest quarters, living/dining/kitchen, and the master bedroom.
Excellent advice for beginner artists. The tips in this guide provide information on the 10 main things you need to learn and practice to improve your painting skills.
I HAVE MOVED MY BLOG! CHECK IT OUT HERE: KINDERWORLD TEACHER HAUNTED HOUSE This is our 3D Haunted House this year!!! The kids did a grea...
Well our second Australian Busy Bag Swap is all but over! Participants will be receiving their bags in the mail this week and their children will be enjoying the amazing collection of Busy Bags from our contributors. This time around I made a Geoboard with activity cards and I'd love to share with you how we made it. Hubby was kind enough to cut up 11 pieces of pine for me in a 6" squares. Miss Daisy and I painted them blue (hers was treated with some extra colours!) and we added a piece of 5" felt to the backside. Next I made a template for where our nails would sit on the geoboard... using this I dotted each board ready for the nails. They are approximately 1" apart. I developed a simple template in Word after seeing these ones but wanting each square to be separate and just make some detailed touches myself. (Unfortunately the day I was printing my parents printer wasn't working so my sister and I hand ruled each of these patterns for all 11 Busy Bags!) We laminated the cards and included a set of blank ones too! I grabbed a few bags of thick elastic bands from the junk shop and voila, put it all together and you have a geoboard! This size is perfect for toddler hands, easy to pick up and a good size to manipulate bands around the nails. It would be great to use in the car or slip in your nappy bag for some quiet time in a waiting room. Miss Daisy enjoyed getting the hang of stretching and positioning the elastic bands. The pictures will be something we work our way up to! I'd love to know if you make your own geoboard! (Alternatively you could make 11 like I did!) :) I would love to share with you my simple template you can use for a 5x5 Geoboard just like this one! Click on the pictures to be taken to the free download.
We recently started learning the names and different attributes of 3 dimensional shapes from the many creations and structures done by the students during their free flow time. We also read the book called, "Circles of Round" by: Signe Sturup. Using the book to further extend knowledge, various strips of paper and twist ties were placed at a table with the caption, "What shape can you create?" The students created some amazing things! W.E. and E.E. experimented with their newly created circles! More to come!
