Post It Notes Brainstorming

Geometric Shapes Idea # of Hits Draw a solid Geometric Shape 1 Draw a geometric Shape – Plane Shape 1 Find a geometric shape example in the room 2 Fill Hollow Geometric Shapes to teach volume 2 Geometric shapes – pattern mosaics 1 Make shapes with their bodies 1 Find shapes outside i.e rocks and construct pictograph on floor inside 1 Find geometric shapes around us and list items found 1 Take pictures – Identify Geometric Shapes 3 (barn, house, trampoline, fence) Clay, playdough, construction paper, blocks, look at nature for these shapes & take pictures Shape – playing & discusses 1 Gumdrops/toothpicks or coffee stirrers 1 Have them build shapes using their bodies in a fun activity ie: make 2 a triangle using all the kids Find geo shapes in the school – draw or take a picture 1 Use pipe cleaners to create 3D geometric shapes 2 Nails, rubberbands, boards – create geometric shape Guess the shape game – 1 I have four straight edges all equal in length. I also have four points. What shape am I? Mold them out of clay 4 Students bring in examples of products of different shapes 1 Build geometric shapes using clay & toothpicks Build shapes with toothpicks and marshmellows 1 Form shapes out of paper Draw shapes, build shapes, write a poem in a geometric shape 1 Use geometric shapes to create a picture. Each shape will have its 1 appropriate vocabulary term labeled Paper Mache scale objects one shape at a time. Intro to K kids – Have kids separate choc. chips, mini marshmellows, 1 whoppers, and other candy shapes with foam geo shapes Kids talk about attributes of geo shapes and differences Kids “eat” candy shapes at lesson conclusion. Form Shapes with clay Look for shapes in nature and take pictures of the shapes Form Geometric shapes with play dough either individually or use 2 cookie cutters Geo boards to come up with shapes Do shape scavenger hunt 1 Use your own body and classmates to form different geometric 2 shapes Geometric shapes can be taught by students “feeling” shapes and making determinations of the shape. Paint with shapes – apple stamping Shape print painting Find shapes in the school/community Gumdrops or marshmallows with toothpicks/skewers 2 Create Shapes with body Flash Cards Wikki Stix Stamps 1 Shape Collages 1 Magnetic Shapes 1 Shape Games 1 Connecting Straws 1 Shape Tracing Collages 1 Look at shape books and discuss 1 Items in students’ environment that may reflect shapes 2 Take pictures (scenes) of things in nature/spaces in classroom 2 Find Shapes in Magazines Build and map a town using 3D geometric shapes 3 Graham Crackers and frosting – students use frosting as glue to show 2 a variety of shapes Life Cycles – goldfish, guppies, worms, flowers Building using shapes 1 Use marshmallows & toothpicks to build geometric solids 6 Geometric patterns used in particular cultures beadwork & designs 2 Make a shape creature using different shapes 2 Unfolded version – can you figure out what shape it is 2 Using Tangrams Tessellations 1 Tessellations with Art Make a model of a building 2 Plane figures using straws & marshmallows make rectangles, squares 1 Use clay to make shapes or generate the map grid put paper shapes together With straws or toothpicks and marshmallows build 3 dimensional and 1 2 dimensional shapes Paper cut outs 2 Use a camera to find a photograph shapes in the classroom and 1 playground Using body to form particular shape 2 Make the shapes 3-D with paper, clay, or cookie dough 5 Marshmallows and toothpicks 2 Use food items i.e. cheerios, celery, orange 6 Use craft sticks to build different shapes 1

Science

Idea # of Hits Scientific method challenge – find something from home you have a question about – (ie. stuff in the fridge) bring to school, go through scientific method. Act out 6 Make a rap sing song Science Experiment Goldberg machine to identify & use simple machines 2 Agriculture Unit – grow plants from seed, hatch eggs, learn about how 1 to care for chick. Build an insect with clay and pipe cleaners 7 Macroinvertebrates 1 Identify larvae in river Using digital microscopes and slides with laptops – photograph or video Grow plants from seeds, bulbs, cuttings 1 Using foil, sticks, and glue create a craft. Discover how much weight it will hold. Create/build habitats for animals 2 Give student materials and basic guidelines. Have them come up with solutions using scientific method. Display the water cycle in a creative way 2 Explain why a worm farm is an eco system 3 Biome Naturalists Glaciers 2 Rock Cycle 1 Volume Mass Aquariums – life cycle of snails and fish 1 Timeline of earth Germinate seeds place them in a variety of settings to explore the best growing conditions Plant a garden composter and make a compost for the garden. Make a 4 greenhouse Show food web in poster, diorama or other format Good garbage Build sea creatures Create different types of clouds using cotton balls Build a microscope out of junk Create inventions out of junk Skits on the water cycle Native American Food & Structures 2 Makin (building) an electric circuit 1 Building an electric game board Make volcano 3 Use construction paper – build most efficient box with your page – No top just4 sides & a bottom Atoms movement 1 Liquids & have students move fluidly Gas – move fast apart Solid – they stick closer together move very slow Solid/Liquid/Gas Take ice cube out on a hot day, wait until it melts 1 and dries up on side walk. Water Cycle – Climb up a ladder on the playground (evaporate), gather 3 at top (condense), slide down (precipitate) Solids, liquids, gases – oobleck 1 Chemistry Pair students with scientific terms and have them find term/definition Virtual experiments

Creative Writing

Idea # of Hits Baggy of variety of object – create a story centered around those 5 subjects Take picture - make a story to match 2 2 truths and a lie – write story Traveling story Rewrite a fairytale into a Halloween story 6 Choose a time period, Create a character from that time, have 3 them write a letter to a friend If you were a crayon what color would you be? 1 Team write a story – start with a story starter and pass story back 1 and forth until story is finished. Persuasive paragraph Haunted houses Write a story about insects created in science Random objects that students must incorporate into a creative 1 writing piece Pic from a Jar – character, setting, problem – then write a play Make a t chart for creative writing on a topic Create a classroom newspaper Use popcorn for senses and write a descriptive paragraph Shape oien – why I want or don’t want turkey for Thanksgiving 3 Elephants hiding in the wheat. 2 Story about worms in classroom worm farm Write story backwards 7 Toss a story 1 Create Skits Collectively write a school newspaper pertaining to thematic unit 1 What do you see at a party After learning about weather students will write a paragraph to explain how they would design protection from rain that sprays “up”. Mad Lips 1 Presentation on Cultures Create a play or skit about the first Thanksgiving Wax museum for Thanksgiving reports Act out reading stories or other books Pantomime a story in a group. Then write it out in script format. 2 Writing a fable Native American – How language in the culture is used – sign & 2 pictographs Blow paint art and make a creature with that then write a 2 story/poem Use ABC’s write 1 attribute for yourself for each letter. Do a list 3 for your friend. Write a story about their shape creature 1 Pick an object and have students write from its point of view. 3 Writer’s Workshop – different forms of poetry 1 New ways to teach spelling 1 Punctuation activities & sentence structure Write a poem or story in the shape of a figure (geometric shape) 3 Take turns adding sentences to a story