Sidewalk Capers Use sidewalk art to explore spatial relations and tessellations. Identify tessellations and use nature walks, songs and manipulatives to reinforce understanding. Measurement Bubble Mania Learn about circumference, diameter, and area using soap bubble prints. It Takes Ten Students gain practice in using various base-ten measurement systems. The teacher reinforces metric units by having her students sing the metric song.
Many intermediate teachers say their students are too old for songs.
Sand Babies Use non-standard measures of weight in experiments with sand. The teacher arranged with older students to assist and supervise her students while they paint their body tracings in the hall. An Apple a Day Reinforce estimation skills with this apple activity. By estimating unit costs for food, students learn about decimals and fractions. Money Counts Compare amounts of money less than or equal to a dollar.