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How to Survive as a Shark - FLOAT or SINK

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Get this free activity to accompany the AWESOME book How to Survive as a Shark by Kristen Foote. All images created by Erica Salcedo are used with permission from The Innovation Press. These are 2 great activities to teach and reinforce the concepts of floating and sinking. The first lesson discusses whether solid objects can float or sink and the second lesson discusses whether liquids can float on not. This ties in with the concept that the oil in a shark's liver gives it buoyancy so it

1st - 3rd

Engineering, Other (Math)

Problem Solving Strategy for Word Problems - CUBES Methodology

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Zany Brainy Kids

CUBES is a proven strategy for solving word problems. The acronym stands for Circle, Underline, Box, Equation, and Solve. The CUBES methodology breaks apart the large and daunting task of solving a word problem into chunks. If you teach someone how to swim, you wouldn’t just throw them off of a boat and tell them to swim to shore. You may even tell them all of the steps of how to swim at once. How well would this work? They would likely drown. Yet, we teachers do that all of the time when teach

3rd - 5th

Math, Other (Math)

CCSS

4.OA.A.1

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