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A hands-on activity where students create their own water cycle in a bag!

Randomly select a letter in the alphabet and have students brainstorm a word that applies to each question. Set a timer (e.g. 2 minutes) and see if anyone can come up with unique answers that no one else has. For each unique answer, one point is awarded.

Students work in pairs with a whiteboard and marker. One student selected a card. They look at the pattern rule on the back and create their own pattern following that rule. They write their pattern on the whiteboard. Their partner needs to figure out what the pattern rule is.

Students can design their own patterned t-shirt.

Use this template for various forms of writing.

Learning about probability? Do your students enjoy math centres? Then this is for you! Four math centres using popular games: 1) Rock, Paper, Scissors 2) Twister 3) Go Fish and 4) Pig. Students fill out the accompanying worksheets as they rotate centres.

Test out the transparency of a number of household items.

Working in partners, students pick different game sheets. Students mark their spots with a counter. Students play rock, paper, scissors. Winner moves their counter up one spot and answers the conversion question. If they are correct, they stay where they are. If they are wrong, they move back one space. First player to the top, wins. Game deals with converting metres to centimetres and kilometres to metres.

Students apply their knowledge of advertising techniques by creating their own cereal brand (cereal box and commercial).

Best taught with OREOs ;)

Students learn about probability through the simple game of rock, paper, scissors. Students fill out the accompanying worksheet.

Learning about the Medieval Times? Cut out these labels (job and description) and have students match them up. Includes a master list of all jobs.

Students find things in the classroom that start with each letter of the alphabet. Great activity for the first day of school!

Have students research the following European Explorers and complete the postcards. Map is included on last page for students to indicate voyages. Can print double-sided (explorer information on side 1, map on side 2) on cardstock. John Cabot Jacques Cartier Samuel de Champlain Martin Frobisher Henry Hudson

Learning about procedural writing? Make homemade ice cream as a class with a few ingredients and Ziploc bags! Instructions and a blank template are included.

Students can glue froot loops on this worksheet to create various types of patterns.

6 steps of how blood flows through the heart and body. Students can use this to arrange in the correct order and/or teachers can post on bulletin board.

Students write three facts about them. Two of the facts must be true but one is a lie. Teacher or student reads the three facts aloud and other students guess which one is the lie.

Students each get a bingo card. They fill in each of the squares with a Medieval word (selection of words is on second page). Teacher calls out definition of Medieval word (cut the definitions into strips to be picked at random). Select a student to tell you the word that belongs to that definition. If correct, and if student has written that word down on bingo card, they put a marker over it. First one to get a line, wins!

Students can use this template to fill in information regarding 9 renewable and non-renewable energy sources. Print on 11" by 17" paper.