Games for Learning

This classroom activity is a great way to end a unit on The Giver. Completion of the 7 challenges takes 30-50 minutes of highly engaging and entertaining problem solving. Teams work together to escape the community using clues left by the Receiver of Memory in the Annex. This game is a great way to review The Giver as well as a chance for kids to use higher level thinking skills. The set up is based on the popular Escape room set up but only requires paper (and maybe some lamination and loc

Based on MN Third grade standards your students will work together in small teams to track down the alien Bylorg by using, math, literacy, and scientific method skills. This Escape Room style adventure will lets students demonstrate their skills while chasing down and alien thief through out the solar system. There are 8 different challenges ending in a group science experiment. This activity was created for a third grade class and will fit into a class up to 30 students. Teams should be com

Ready to bring your multiplication practice up a notch? This multiplication matching game is a great way to increase multiplication fluency without the boring flashcards. The matching set goes from 1-9 and the answers are color coded on the cards to make self checking smooth. Also the colors are a great way to add visual memory to mix. Multiplication Matching allows students to have a fun, social, and competitive way to work on their multiplication table. It works great as a math center, o

Use this worksheet to help your students dig into what they are reading. By noticing the group plan and thinking about the impact of the setting and other clues in the narrative students can do some higher level thinking about this skill. Close Reading stories is a great way to work on comprehension and perspective taking. This is included in my social smarts worksheets with two other close reading activities.

Three worksheets that use close reading skills to practice social skills. The first is identifying what is expected or unexpected in the reading. The second is finding examples of empathy in the text. The third has students look for the group plan and to judge what it is, who is following it, and why. These can be used with any story or article to practice these skills.