"I tried an expanded version of the cup stacking challenge on iTEAMS website from 2014. Highest level of student engagement I've witnessed of almost anything I've ever done with students. This one has multiple increasing levels of difficulty and limits on communication and use of hands." Adam Singer, Middle School engineering and technology, Davidson Middle School Blog post describing activity: https://middleschoolscience.com/2015/06/25/cup-stacking-collaboration-challenge/ Activity cards: http://www.lancsd.org/cms/lib011/CA01802504/Centricity/Domain/150/cup_stacking_challenge.pdf Pictures of my students doing the activity: https://www.flickr.com/photos/66937636@N08/albums/72157674495375846 Tweet about activity: https://twitter.com/DavidsonMakers/status/781952500353998848
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Juicy word problems and her discourse speech bubbles from Eileen Smith and Catherine Nam "Georgia Math's lessons and tasks dive a little deeper into the math standards. The lessons are set up as tasks (instead of a workbook page) and students are very engaged in the lessons." Tracey Osterman, 3rd grade, Dixie School "I found a great resource from Scholastic Books called The Body Book which has 'Easy to make hands-on models that teach.' They say these models are meant for 5-6th grades but I have used them with 4th graders in the past and they work really well. There is a lesson plan and pages that you can run off on regular paper to build each of the models. For the eye model you need to have a piece of clear plastic or plastic wrap for each student. For those of you who are doing other human systems, there are models of many of them all in this book. For example: the sense organs, the joints, bones, brain, digestive system, respiratory system, heart, how muscles move bones, all the body parts for senses, the skeleton. The one I have has a copyright from 1993 so it has been out awhile. It is written by Donald M. Silver and Patricia J. Wynne." Mary Acord, 4th grade, Manor School "This is a great, friendly website for students to navigate independently. Topics include:Animals, Plants, Human Body, Earth Science,Technology, and Biographies. The technology section explains concepts such as levers, velocity, gravity, and laws of motion. Quick reads with good visuals." Michelle Giraud, 3rd grade, Sun Valley "This site has many different "bits" or activities die students to learn about within many avenues of our 3rd grade animal, plant, ecosystem unit. This site has an activity and slideshow for each bit. The areas pertaining to third grade are : ants - group behavior, snacking on sunlight - photosynthesis, biomes, and feather. There is also a link to Zipcode Zoo." Carolyn Robello, 3rd grade, Sun Valley School "Inside Mathematics is a website that has been put together by the Silicon Valley Mathematics Initiative. They have a number of great mathematics resources available, in addition, they have recently shared some free ebooks on how to support mathematical discourse in the classroom." Mary Clare Neal, 7th grade math, White Hill Middle School.
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