Creative Learning Ideas

Need a fun, hands-on activity to introduce the Scientific Method? This activity is just what you need. Kids will love learning what happens to different types of gummy candy that are left in water over 24 hours! Use this experiment to meaningfully go through the steps of the scientific method. This pack includes step by step instructions for the experiment, recording pages for students, pre/post test, extension activity ideas, and word wall cards. Great way to integrate science and math as stude

These cards can be used as a daily Calendar Math pattern or as fraction practice cards. They fit the traditional calendar pocket charts or can be laminated and used with velcro or magnets. The concepts covered in this set include identifying fractions of a shaded region, benchmark fractions, equivalent fractions. Created by Jaclyn Seiders.

Puzzled Penguin is a cute, little penguin who needs student's help in figuring out whether he has the right or wrong answer. Students respond to P. Penguin in a speech bubble and use words and numbers to justify their response back to him. Students must use critical thinking skills in order to support their reasoning. This pack includes: comparing numbers, writing numbers, subtracting and adding numbers, multiplying, dividing, comparing fractions, unit fractions, mixed numbers, decimals, and ela

This pack includes what you need to practice and reinforce perimeter and area skills. Included are cards to be used in math centers for students to practice solving various problems, Hands-on activities for constructing shapes, Geoboard questions and record sheets, Problem solving pages, word problems for discovery math/CGI, and a quiz for an assessment of student's understanding. Created by Jaclyn Seiders, NBCT

These cards can be used as a daily Calendar Math pattern or as line recognition practice cards. They fit the traditional calendar pocket charts or can be laminated and used with velcro or magnets. The concepts covered in this set include perpendicular lines, rays, line segments, parallel lines, and lines. Created by Jaclyn Seiders.

These cards can be used as a daily Calendar Math pattern or as shape practice cards. They fit the traditional calendar pocket charts or can be laminated and used with velcro or magnets. The shapes included in this pattern are circle, square, triangle, and rectangle. The pattern also used the primary colors. Created by Jaclyn Seiders.

These cards can be used as a daily Calendar Math pattern or as shape practice cards. They fit the traditional calendar pocket charts or can be laminated and used with velcro or magnets. The concepts covered with this set include acute triangles, obtuse triangle, right triangles, isosceles triangles, scaled, and equilateral triangles. Created by Jaclyn Seiders.

Need some great Halloween themed math resources to engage and challenge your students? Try this pack which includes a multiplication/division activity using candy corn, a game called Candy Corn Double +1 where students roll a dice, double the number and then add 1 to the product, and finally a Halloween logic puzzle where students must figure out which character dressed up with each costume and how many pieces of candy they got trick-or-treating.

These cards can be used as a daily Calendar Math pattern or as practice cards. They fit the traditional calendar pocket charts or can be laminated and used with velcro or magnets. This set includes a pattern that grows each time, but also has a secondary pattern of red, black, white. Would make a good starting pattern to teach at the beginning of the year. Created by Jaclyn Seiders.

This pack includes 3 unique games to practice and reinforce basic division skills and concepts. Division Monster Mash is a great way for students to practice finding simple quotients with problems written in both division formatting. Fishing for Remainders reinforces students' understanding of remainders. In this game, students are looking to create the largest remainder to earn points. Finally, in Find the Missing Factor, students use their understanding of multiplication and division to find t

These cards can be used as a daily Calendar Math pattern or as shape practice cards. They fit the traditional calendar pocket charts or can be laminated and used with velcro or magnets. The concepts covered with this set include 3D solids such as cube, sphere, square pyramid, cone, and cylinder.

Do you need a classroom economy system or a way to practice using place value? This monkey themed money is just what you need! Money comes in denominations of 1; 10; 100; 1,000; 10,000; 100,000; 1,000,000. I use this money in my calendar math center in the daily depositor to help reinforce place value concepts, but it can be used for lots of other activities also! I run each place value on a different color before laminating them. Also check out my Bird Bucks for bird themed money.

This scavenger hunt uses cute fall and Halloween themed cards to review concepts such as multiplication, division, comparisons, unit conversions, basic operations, and place value. Laminate the cards, hide them around the room, and let students use their answer sheets to record their answers to the questions. Great active review of beginning of the year concepts. Graphics from © Laura Strickland/MyCuteGraphics.com.

In this game, students either work by themselves or with a group to sort the frogs onto the correct lily pad by either rounding to the nearest ten, hundred, or thousand. Game includes color board which can printed and glued into a file folder and then laminated, 12 game cards, student recording page, and an answer sheet.

These "Bird Bucks" can be used as money for a daily depositor system, calendar math, economy system or to teach place value. The bills correlate with the place value system ones through one million. Images are created to be printed onto color paper, therefore, the images are in grays, black, and white. Graphics provided by © Laura Strickland/MyCuteGraphics.com. Bird Bucks created by Jaclyn Seiders.

These cards can be used as a daily Calendar Math pattern or as practice cards. They fit the traditional calendar pocket charts or can be laminated and used with velcro or magnets. The concepts covered in this set include adding by 1, adding by 10, and adding by 100. Created by Jaclyn Seiders.

Bundled together in one great pack are activities themed for the fall and Halloween! Included are: Candy Corn Activities for problem solving and a game where students use a dice to practice doubling and adding 1 to a number. A logic puzzle where students must read clues in order to discover who collected the most candy and who wore which costume. Math Scavenger Hunt cards and answer sheet--Hide these cards around the room and let students work individually or with a partner to solve the quest

These cards can be used as a daily Calendar Math pattern or as shape practice cards. They fit the traditional calendar pocket charts or can be laminated and used with velcro or magnets. The concepts covered with this set are 2D shapes including: hexagon, pentagon, trapezoid, and octagon.

These 2 fraction games are great ways for students to practice simplifying or reducing fractions as well as creating equivalent fractions. These games work great either in centers, rotations, group work, or as a fun way for students to review with a partner. The sports theme is a fun way to engage the sports lovers among our students! Created by Jaclyn Seiders, NBCT.