Enhancing Elementary

Hands on activity to teach students balanced equations. Students will create two number sentences that are equal using different colored squares and explain how they know the equations are equal/balanced.

Craft for students to review/practice identifying 2D shapes

Activity to teach students that shapes can go together to create other shapes/things (a shape is just a shape until...) Pairs perfectly with the book "The Shape of Things" by Dayle Ann Dodds Includes teacher example

Fun and creative way for students to practice place value! Students use base ten blocks to create any picture that they would like. After creating their picture, students count up their total value. Students write their number in standard form, expanded form, and word form, and identify how many hundreds, tens, and ones are in the number.

To play 3D Shape Memory, students flip over cards and take turns trying to match the name of the 3D shape to the corresponding picture. Shapes included: Sphere, Pyramid, Cube, Cone, Cylinder, Rectangular Prism, Triangular Prism Black and white and colored versions are included