This is a Miniature Golf unit I taught to a group of 4th graders for our Gifted and Talented program. Please note that other materials will be needed to coincide with this PowerPoint. Most of the materials are everyday things you could find in your classroom.
This unit includes 28 slides to teach kids about angles, pentominos, design, cooperation, and most importantly fun building their own golf hole.
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This math challenge requires students to design a new business district for a downtown city. As they add dimensions to their businesses, they must calculate the area of each business and stay under a specified budget. They then must write a letter to the mayor of their city defending their business plan!
Note: This is specific for Hagerstown, MD, but please feel free to modify it for your town!
Very STEAMy with reading and writing, too! This unit is loaded with higher order thinking tasks, variety across the curriculum, creative responses, and hands-on learning through building and design. It’s the same sort of stuff you’re used to seeing here, and your kids will love it!
• Level—4th through 6th grade GATE
• Time—about 15 hours
• Materials—start saving cardboard!
Craft sticks and tape or low temp hot glue. Otherwise, common classroom materials.
You’ll get explanations, teacher
Students not only study physical science, they design with it, build with it, they write about it, calculate with it, and they live it.
It’s the engineering process in miniature as our engineering teams design and then build desktop ziplines from scratch. Students will draft plans, build zipline towers, choose the best zippy materials, and assemble their ziplines. Hey, it’s incredible fun . . . but it’s not just fun and games here! Students will use their ziplines to collaborate on a physica
Independent, small group, or whole class: you’ll find this unit to be of the same nature as my other strongly reviewed math units for 4th and 5th GATE and 6th (or even 7th) grades.
Download now if you are looking for real world/applied math challenges, grit, hands-on tasks, creative problem-solving, design, economics, and plenty of room for creativity!
This unit spans 20 or more hours of focused work time for an advanced learner (probably 30 hours if you teach this whole class). It’s r
Properties of Matter STEM Unit | Rock Museum Project for Grades 4–5 Looking for an engaging, hands-on way to teach properties of matter and connect it to math and STEM skills? This STEM Unit for Grades 4–5 has everything you need! Students will become geologists and museum curators as they design and create their own rock museum exhibit. Along the way, they’ll investigate the properties of matter, practice critical math skills with perimeter and area of irregular figures (including unknow
This work mat help students organize their thinking when finding volume of composite figures. I print them and place them in clear pocket protectors for students to use individually. It really helps students feel successful when practicing this skill.
Tops are the tops! Let’s make our own and experiment!
Who would have thought we could blend so much science, engineering, and math into this simple little toy?
You’ve probably seen those valentines where you can punch out a circle and insert a pencil to make a top. Those are hugely disappointing. These tops, however, are COOL!
Anytime we do something cool in the classroom, we want to sneak in plenty of content with it, right? Such is the case here, and you’ll find Common Core State Standa
Students will use their knowledge of square, rectangle, parallelogram, rhombus, and trapezoid to identify and evaluate the attributes of each figure. The worksheet provides the quadrilateral, asks students to identify and then describe its features.
This assesses students knowledge of 2D Geometry (parallel llines, rays, angles, etc.). It is a 12 question quiz, which asks students to illustrate and define each term.
This series of activities will challenge students’ Common Core skills and critical thinking skills in a variety of ways!
How do baseball video game developers design their video games so that Major League players perform with relative accuracy according to their real-life strengths and weaknesses? They begin with statistics and probability.
In this series of activities, students will apply probability (expressed as fractions and dice rolls) in order to design a baseball card which will be use
Another Friday Math lesson for hands-on learning across several Common Core Standards . . . at least 22 standards from 2nd to 6th grade: multiplication, division, decimals, area, geometry arrays, expressing ratios, public speaking and listening, and more!
In this lesson, students apply math skills to determine the number of pennies required to tile a kitchen floor. They’ll make strong hands-on, visual-mathematic connections for area and multiplication as they tackle this real-life DYI dilem
♟️ Beginner Chess Lesson 5: Common Checkmate Patterns (Bonus Lesson!)Aligned to CA Common Core State Standards Perfect for Building Strategy & ConfidenceWrap up your beginner chess unit with this powerful bonus lesson (sneak peak of the intermediate chess course) on the most important checkmate patterns every player should know! These patterns give students the confidence to win games, recognize threats, and plan ahead—skills that transfer directly to logic and critical thinking. In this engag
♟️ Beginner Chess Lesson 2: The Pieces & How They MoveAligned to CA Common Core State Standards Perfect for Elementary–Middle School ClassroomsBring the game to life with this engaging second lesson in your beginner chess unit! After mastering the board and coordinates, students are ready to explore the heart of the game: the six chess pieces and their unique movements.This clear, visual, highly structured lesson helps students build confidence by learning: ✔️ The names of all six pieces ✔️
♟️ Beginner Chess Lesson 4: Special Moves (Castling, En Passant & Promotion)Aligned to CA Common Core State Standards Engaging & Easy-to-Teach for Grades 3–8Take your students’ chess skills to the next level with this exciting lesson on the three most important—and most misunderstood—special moves in chess! After learning how pieces move and how to identify check and checkmate, students are ready to master the strategic moves that transform real gameplay. In this clear and visual lesson, stud
I love to teach geometry because students must combine logic, visual perception, and math to solve problems. Why not add art and history into the mix as well?
Here is a challenging unit to reinforce basic understanding of calculating the area of complex figures. It will challenge the brightest students in your classroom!
We use vintage hotel and restaurant signs to solve problems about calculating the area of complex figures.
We begin with the basics and then ramp the level of challenge u
Try this FREE Joyful Learner routine out in your classroom... Great for any class K-5! Give students and opportunity to work with attributes, construct something new, use geometric and spatial reasoning, and justify their choices. All you will need for this lesson is a printer to print the worksheets and the book 'Not a Box' by Antoinette Portis (read aloud on Youtube for free if needed). Free lesson plan and all differentiated resources included. Have fun creating and make sure to check out mo
Kick off your chess unit with a lesson that builds rock-solid foundations! This engaging, student-friendly resource introduces learners to the most essential first step in mastering chess: understanding the board, coordinates, and how to set the game up correctly.Students will learn: ✔️ How the chessboard is organized ✔️ How to read and use chess coordinates (files, ranks, algebraic notation) ✔️ How to correctly set up every piece ✔️ Through hands-on practice that builds confidence and spa
What a great challenge activity for your gifted and talented students, or those students who learn best by drawing the shapes themselves. A good review of counting faces, vertices and edges.
Download the ChatterPix app for ios
Then kids choose one of the polygon cards and draw a color example of their polygon in the box. They will answer simple questions about the attributes and then use the attributes to write a who am I riddle about their assigned polygon. Once they have this sheet completed they will be able to use the chatterPix app to import their polygon and record their polygon saying their 30 second or less riddle!
1st - 6th
Geometry, Instructional Technology
CCSS
3.G.A.1
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