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Here is a bundle with 5 fun and hands-on activities which investigate the Fibonacci sequence and the Golden Ratio. "Fibonacci Numbers" helps students derive the sequence with arithmetic. "Fibonacci Spiral" shows the geometry behind the sequence. It has kids use squares to create a golden rectangle and then uses the golden rectangle to replicate the famous spiral! "Fibonacci in Food" has kids investigate fruits and vegetables to see where these famous numbers show up in nature. Kids will collect

Here is a wonderful bundle for your elementary class! It includes 5 units on evergreen topics such as time, money, 2D/3D shapes, equations, and fractions. The units all include 10-12 unique and engaging lessons in a workbook format. Each workbook includes interactive worksheets, hands-on activities, review, a unit assessment, and a cover page. Answer keys are provided in a separate document, making these lessons easy to leave for sub plans! Additionally, each unit has numbered pages, so that st

Here is a wonderful bundle for your elementary class! It includes activities for 4 different units on evergreen topics such as time, money, 3D shapes, and fractions. The money, time, and fractions activities have 15-17 resources each, and the 3D shapes activities come with 4 resources. I have tried to make the units come to life with resources including cut-and-paste matching, dice games, measuring investigations, coloring, "Two Truths and a Lie", folding activities, and more. Activities can ea

DESCRIPTION Here are 17 wonderful, interactive activities to get kids fluent in telling time on an analog clock in a hands-on way! The activities are widely varied to keep kids engaged and include cut-and-paste activities, coloring, matching, drawing in the hands of a clock, “Truth or Lie?”, a dice game, and a hand-made clock manipulative where the hands actually move! All the activities would be great additions to any elementary time unit. My hope is that these activities bring both joy and lea

DESCRIPTION Here are two great activities to investigate the Golden Ratio! Do them together, or each can be a stand-alone lesson. The first activity is a simple way to show the connection between the Golden Ratio and the Fibonacci sequence. Students will use their calculators to complete 12 division problems which divide consecutive Fibonacci numbers. By the end they will see that the numbers converge to 1.618 (the Golden Ratio)! I have made a cut-and-paste version of this also, so that younger

DESCRIPTION Here are 15 wonderful, interactive activities to introduce kids to fractions in a hands-on way! The activities are widely varied to keep kids engaged and include cut-and-paste activities, coloring, matching, “Two Truths and a Lie”, a dice game, and a measuring cup investigation. All the activities would be great additions to any elementary intro to fractions unit. My hope is that these activities bring both joy and learning to your students! MATERIALS NEEDED: Scissors, glue, markers/

DESCRIPTION Here are 15 wonderful, interactive activities to get kids fluent in counting money (US currency) in a hands-on way! The resources are widely varied to keep kids engaged and include cut-and-paste activities, coloring, matching, “Two Truths and a Lie”, and games or activities using real coins and bills. Many of the resources include both color and black-and-white versions. All the activities would be great additions to any elementary money unit. My hope is that these activities bring b

DESCRIPTION Here is a great (and easy!) activity to give kids a visual understanding of the geometry behind the Fibonacci sequence! Kids will understand that the Golden Rectangle (the rectangle we are drawing the spiral within) is actually composed of squares. Kids will see that the squares are not just randomly numbered, but that the (1 unit square) + (1 unit square) = (2 unit square)’s side length. The pattern continues as the (2 unit square) + (1 unit square) = (3 unit square)’s side length,

DESCRIPTION Here are 4 wonderful and engaging activities to get kids learning about 3D shapes in a hands-on way! The first two activities familiarize students with the names of nine 3D shapes (cube, rectangular prism, cylinder, sphere, hemisphere, cone, triangular prism, square pyramid, and triangular pyramid). In “Color the 3D Shapes”, students color the 3D shapes based on a color key to learn the names. “3D Shapes Match” is a cut-and-paste activity that will review these same names with studen

DESCRIPTION Here is a complete unit to introduce and teach addition and subtraction equations and word problems to your elementary class. Students will be introduced to solving for a missing number in equations by coloring groups of items two different colors. For example, in Lesson 1 kids are given a nest with 6 blue or red eggs. Students are told there is 1 blue egg and must figure out the number of red eggs in the nest. After they color 1 egg blue, it is easy to color and count that there are

DESCRIPTION 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,…Here is a great investigative activity that will show kids Fibonacci numbers in nature! You can use the real-life fruit and vegetables or simply do an internet search! If you use the real-life food, you will need an apple, a banana, an orange, a lemon, a cucumber, a head of cabbage, and a pineapple. Follow the directions to cut the fruit or vegetables to see their cross-sections, or in the case of the pineapple, you will be counting the spirals. Not all the produce

DESCRIPTION How many toes do each of these animals have?? Make this adorable and fun book that combines counting with facts about mammal feet and footprints! Each page includes one mammal pictured with either 1,2,3,4, or 5 toes and its footprints. It then includes one or more examples of other mammals with that same number of toes. Another cool feature of the book is an optional foldout page for the student’s own footprint! Each page of the book is a half page, so the book is easy to hold in sma

Here are 3 great activities that could be used for both younger and older kids! Show how pi is equal to the circumference of a circle divided by its diameter with "Seeing Pi". Then help kids see pi's beauty by adding color to this irrational number with "Famous Digits of Math". Finally, add some mathemagic to your worksheets with some mathy borders that include not just Pi, but Algebra, Calculus, and math in general! I hope this bundle makes your Pi Day fabulous this year and for years to come!

DESCRIPTION Here is an easy activity to bring some color to the Fibonacci sequence! Simply print out the numbers and glue them on to see how the sum of the two previous terms equals the next term in the sequence! If you choose to use different colors for each number, kids will see the pattern come alive even more with the color coordination! There is also an extra sheet with blank terms at the end of the equation for younger kids to practice their addition. Enjoy! DIRECTIONS Print out the main p

Here is a fun cut-and-paste activity to review for a unit assessment on “Telling Time”. Kids have 15 digital times to cut out and paste under the matching analog clock. This activity covers full hours, half hours, quarter hours, 5 minute increments, and 1 minute increments. This activity is minimal prep and set up. Simply print off the two sheets, provide each kid with a pair of scissors and a glue stick and you are ready to go! This would be an easy activity to leave for sub plans should you ne

DESCRIPTION Here are 10 activity pages perfect for the Christmas season in your Pre-K or Kindergarten classroom. The activities focus on numbers 1-10, letters, ordinal numbers, and colors. Some worksheets simply require circling or drawing a line to the matching answer, while others require students to trace the letters or numbers. Print out the entire workbook and make it a packet, or use singular pages that best fit what you are covering at the moment. These activity pages would make great (an

DESCRIPTION Here are 10 activity pages perfect for the Thanksgiving season in your Pre-K or Kindergarten classroom. The activities focus on numbers 1-10, letters, ordinal numbers, and colors. Some worksheets simply require circling or drawing a line to the matching answer, while others require students to trace the letters or numbers. Print out the entire workbook and make it a packet, or use singular pages that best fit what you are covering at the moment. These activity pages would make great

DESCRIPTION Here are 7 math activity pages perfect for the Thanksgiving season in your Pre-K or Kindergarten classroom. The activities focus on numbers 1-10, simple equations, ten frames, and ordinal numbers. Some worksheets simply require coloring, circling and/or drawing a line to the matching answer, while others require students to trace the numbers. Print out all 7 pages and make it a festive holiday packet, or use singular pages that best fit what you are covering at the moment. These acti

DESCRIPTION Here are 7 math activity pages perfect for the Christmas season in your Pre-K or Kindergarten classroom. The activities focus on numbers 1-10, simple equations, ten frames, and ordinal numbers. Some worksheets simply require coloring or circling the matching answer, while others require students to trace the numbers. Print out all 7 pages and make it a festive holiday packet, or use singular pages that best fit what you are covering at the moment. These activity pages would make grea