It’s great to be back at work after a much-needed holiday which included a rare snow day, Presidents Day, and Mardi Gras break. It was great having some time off to watch the Olympics as well! So keeping in the Olympic spirit, I thought I’d share some related activities with you. Here’s one I ran across called The Award Ceremony which can be found at http://www.mathsonline.co.uk. In this activity, students choose an Olympic event, then sort the event results into order. You can choose the difficulty by clicking on the options at the bottom of the home screen. Make sure you read the directions for sorting each event, since it could require ordering the scores greatest to least or least to greatest. Click “Award Medals” once the numbers have been sorted to check your answers. If the answers are correct, the award ceremony will begin. Check it out!
Posted by Amber Coggin | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 12-02-2010
I haven’t seen snow in about 15 years. What a treat!
Learning Together is a website that offers a variety of history and geography games, including one on State Abbreviations. Just match the states with the correct abbreviation by touching and dragging. Time yourself or split the class into two teams and keep score. For more practice, you could also try this abbreviations game or take this geography quiz.
Back in December I blogged about the gold mine of interactive whiteboard resources found at tes.iboard.co.uk. At the time, the site offered their resources free for 6 months with a school account. I am happy to announce that now ALL the resources are free and no account creation is needed. Please have another look at this gem for whiteboard resources in all subjects. Thanks to Jonathan Wylie over at The Education Technology Blog for bringing this to my attention again!
Below is a really cool Insect Survey activity. From the site: Zoom in on different parts of the picture to count the insects. Use the three sets of data to prompt a range of comparison questions. Investigate which insects are in the scene – could be used as a preliminary activity before carrying out a survey in the school grounds and plotting the results.
