Learning with Lineback

This STEM challenge is a fun way for students to experiment with a variety of skills. Download this worksheet to guide students through an easy and fun activity with flipping water bottles. All you need is empty plastic water bottles-- I ask my students ahead of time to bring them in.

Use this worksheet as morning work, homework or as an assessment tool. Works with decomposing 3-digit numbers. Involves using base ten blocks to show multiple representations of numbers.

Includes measuring objects with broken rulers and measuring objects in inches. Also includes basic inches, feet and yards conversions. Can also be used as homework, classwork, or a formative assessment.

A fun way to get students creating their own bar graphs using colorful goldfish. Give each student a handful of goldfish and have them graph their goldfish by color. This lesson will help students practice using all components of a bar graph (i.e. title, labels, etc.)

Learn about friction by rolling marbles down ramps onto surfaces with different amounts of friction. This product is editable so that you can change the surfaces that you would like to use. I used dry erase boards as ramps, and rested them on plastic bins from my classroom library. Students dropped their marble down the ramp and used a yard stick to measure how far their marble rolled from the bottom of the ramp on each surface. Definitely a more challenging lesson and a lot of organized chaos,

I used this as a quiz, but it can also be used for homework, morning work, classwork, etc. It is a great way to assess students understanding of adding with open number lines. Can be printed front and back to save paper.