Subject: Math, Measurement (E2)
Grade: 5/6
Date: December 2022
Description: Escape room based on finding the area and perimeter of rectangles.
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Subject: Math, Data Literacy (D1.3)
Grade: 4/5
Date: March 2023
Description: Making predictions and graphing with Smarties.
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Subject: Science, Light (C2)
Grade: 4/5
Date: April 20, 2023
Description: Learning about light, with an underwater theme.
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Subject: Social studies (Early Societies) and drama
Grade: 4/5
Date: April 2023
Description: Acting out stories of ancient civilizations.
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Subject: Math (C3)
Grade: 1
Date: December 2023
Description: Fisher-Price ® Think & Learn Code-a-pillar ™ and Twister Coding
Fisher-Price ® Think & Learn Code-a-pillar ™
Materials needed: Code-a-pillar, batteries.
- Works as an excellent “hook”.
- Students use the Code-a-Pillar to learn how code is sequential; it involves a series of steps.
- Students learn to read the Code-a-Pillar code in a sequential order. Students begin to predict how changes to the code will change the outcome.
Twister Coding
Materials needed: Arrows on Q-cards, 2 objects (e.g., stuffed animal mouse and cheese), Twister game mat.
- Students give instructions to get object 1 to object 2 on the Twister board.
- Students practise their directions (e.g., left, right, up, down).
- Students must use simple instructions that a computer would understand (e.g., “move 2 spaces up”).
- Students learn about efficient and inefficient pathways, and when someone might choose to take a more, or less, efficient path (e.g., when someone really has to get home to use the washroom, they might want to take an efficient path. When someone wants to take their time, and smell the flowers along the way, they might take a more inefficient path).
Subject: Literacy
Grade: Kindergarten
Date: April 2024
Description: Students practice writing their letters and numbers in sand with a paintbrush. This is an environmentally friendly, therapeutic and low-stress way for students to practice writing. For students that need to see a number line or the alphabet in front of them while they practice, that is an option as well.
Subject: Math
Grade: Kindergarten
Date: April 2024
Description: Students play a game of “Race to the Top” using links, a paper towel holder, and a die. The game works by each player choosing a colour of link (e.g., player 1 is read and player 2 is blue). Then each player rolls the die and adds that number of links to the paper towel holder. For example, if a player rolls a 5, then they add 5 links. Whoever gets to the top first, wins.
Topic: Plants and animals; collaborative art
Grade: Kindergarten
Date: April 2024
Description: The teacher creates a lion head with cardboard and pokes small holes around the face. Students hunt for dandelions to make a mane for the lion. The teacher can discuss topics related to teamwork and collaboration, mixed-media artwork, lions and other animals, dandelions and other plants.
