Electron Magnets

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Electron Magnets

Today I convey a super quick post service for you.  It's been sitting inward my drafts folder for MONTHS.  I decided it was fourth dimension to either post service it or delete it!  

My sis gave me a set of colored, round down magnets (affiliate link) for my classroom.  I wasn't precisely certain what I was going to purpose them for at the time, but they came inward SUPER-handy when nosotros were making Bohr models of atoms inward physical science.  

This happened to coincide amongst my nearly calendar month long sense of having no projector in addition to thus no SMARTboard inward my classroom.  Let's only country that magnets brand awesome electrons!    

Maybe this is 1 of those ideas that every other scientific discipline instructor has already figured out.  But, I was pretty proud of myself for coming upwards amongst this idea!  

Guessing Correlation Coefficient Game

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Guessing Correlation Coefficient Game

State testing has thrown my teaching off then much lately.  I unremarkably stimulate to continue all of my Algebra i classes inward the same place, but that only hasn't been possible these by few weeks.  

Algebra i is currently working amongst scatter plots in addition to regression.  My sixth threescore minutes course of pedagogy finished super-early compared to my other classes, then I pulled upwards a game on the SMARTBoard that asked them to approximate the correlation coefficient of a scatter plot.  

Here's the link to the website I used.  The website loads iv dissimilar scatter plots. 

The iv scatterplots each accept the same iv choices, then it is essentially a matching activity.  I actually similar that the site tells you lot the historical risk of fault below each problem.  

I had students volunteer to come upwards up to the front end of the classroom in addition to play along.  Each pupil would click their answers on the SMARTBoard in addition to click "Check answers." 

If the pupil got all iv answers correct, he/she got to pick a slice of candy out of my prize bag.

My kids got actually into this activity.  Even the kids who weren't playing at the SMARTBoard were next along.  There were numerous times when a shaver inward the audience gave the mortal at the board a actually big hint.

I definitely desire to include this equally business office of my principal curriculum adjacent yr instead of a random filler activity!

Printable Gameboard for Traffic Lights

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Printable Gameboard for Traffic Lights

As schoolhouse starts this week, I'm looking forwards to didactics my novel ninth graders (yes, I am didactics ninth graders for 5 of half dozen periods over again this year) to play Traffic Lights. As I wrote inward my giant 21 Ideas for the First Week of School post, I learned of this game from Rainbow Logic to play this game. This year, I decided it deserved its ain laid upward of game boards. :)

Here's what I came upward with:

I printed the game boards 2 to a page in addition to laminated them in addition to then my students volition live on able to play alongside red/yellow/green bingo chips. 

Another means I'm changing things upward this twelvemonth is demonstrating how to play the game using my SMARTBoard instead of my document camera. I made an interactive version of the game using i of my favorite SMARTNotebook tools - Infinite cloner! I volition permit the class operate together to drive in addition to musical rhythm out me earlier they e'er initiative of all playing their ain partners.

You tin download the file for the gameboards in addition to the SMARTNotebook file for the drag in addition to driblet version here.