https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a en-us 2019-11-09 03:33:54 UTC 2019-11-12 01:45:48 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010173 Fill a small inflatable pool with plastic eggs (Y for male, X for female) that hold different chromosomes inside. Students will pair up with male and female eggs to create an offspring using their combined genetic data.]]> 2019-11-09 14:59:22 UTC https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010173 https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010184 Students bring their fav recipes. Pick one, change the recipe to serve more or less people. Make it! Or bring cookies to feed them after working with the recipes. ]]> 2019-11-09 14:59:28 UTC https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010184 erin_howe2 https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010231 -Sewer Lice - have box delivered during class that has FRAGILE LIVE SPECIMEN on the box. Inside have a flask with "living samples" (really sprite/mt dew with raisins. Show students that they are a new species and the are moving (they move up and down). Tell students they are edible and found in sewers - eventually eat one - very dramatically. Then throw one on a desk - eventually they will figure out its a raisin. Talk about characteristics of life (movement isn't alive). Talk about being a skeptic in science. ]]> 2019-11-09 14:59:50 UTC https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010231 https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010250 Design an car. Use their car to go through digestive system.]]> 2019-11-09 15:00:01 UTC https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010250 pdjoseph1 https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010376 Display one or more pictures on the promethean board and have students infer what we will discuss.  
Extend by giving each child a vocabulary word or description of the specific topic as they enter the class that relates to the images. Have them guess which image goes along with the term they were given.

Before discussing with the whole group, give kids a chance to talk in pairs or small groups.

]]> 2019-11-09 15:00:54 UTC https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010376 https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010385 Each student gets an envelope with different information. Must work together to connect all the information. ]]> 2019-11-09 15:00:59 UTC https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010385 https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010397 Students walk around school [and the neighborhood school is in] to identify as many different quadrilaterals as possible.]]> 2019-11-09 15:01:05 UTC https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010397 ctobias1 https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010420 Dance Party for types of Angles. 
Have lines taped on the floor and music playing]]> 2019-11-09 15:01:17 UTC https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010420 https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010429 Choose a recipe
Price shop - cost for ingredients
Double recipe or cut in half
Make it at home with family if possible.]]> 2019-11-09 15:01:20 UTC https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010429 https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010443 2019-11-09 15:01:25 UTC https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010443 https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010469 Hand out target plastic bags when students walk into class. For the lesson they shop at Target in your classroom comparing unit rates and the better buy. ]]> 2019-11-09 15:01:38 UTC https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010469 https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010504 Divide the room into three sections and give them a country (either Austria, Great Britain, or Russia). Have them decorate their "station" in their colors and give a prize for the most patriotic display. After this activity, teach about nationalism and how it led to the start of WW1.]]> 2019-11-09 15:01:49 UTC https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010504 https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010513 Tell students that the dress code has changed for prom (to something restrictive). Channel the outrage. Why can't this happen in our gov't?]]> 2019-11-09 15:01:52 UTC https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010513 https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010565 Demonstrate the formation of a polymer with hand-holding --> break the bond --> chain propagation.]]> 2019-11-09 15:02:14 UTC https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010565 ctobias1 https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010675 Record myself on a shopping trip and ask them to determine if I am getting a good deal. (yes you look silly talking to yourself in a store...but it is amazing!)]]> 2019-11-09 15:03:02 UTC https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010675 https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010743 Give each student a card with a rational number and challenge them to get in numerical order. Time them. Choose a student to check the work. Give new numbers and try again.]]> 2019-11-09 15:03:19 UTC https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010743 erin_howe2 https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010750 Tell students you will be "Mating" in class tomorrow. Explain NOTHING else : ) Next day -- Students have a cup that represents their "genes" they will find a partner - mate and get a new partner for the next 10 rounds. Overtime see how a population will change. ]]> 2019-11-09 15:03:22 UTC https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010750 https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010756 Turn off all of the lights, hang "seaweed" from the ceiling (cut up green plastic table cloths), project an underwater aquarium on the board, play ocean sounds overhead. Give each student a "rock" (black card stock paper with coordinates on them). Line up the students to symbolize the mid-ocean ridge.]]> 2019-11-09 15:03:25 UTC https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010756 kristenbryan5 https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010815 Hang printed out flies all over the ceiling of your classroom. When they walk in they are instantly curious. This leads into the story about Descartes's inspiration for the coordinate system. Tell the story and then act out coordinate graphing on a life size quadrant 1 mat]]> 2019-11-09 15:03:54 UTC https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010815 https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010826 -Book Tasting Party: I set up my room like a cafe (playing dinner music, checkered table cloths, battery operated candles)and I have six different genres of books on tables. I set students on a timer and they rotate tables "tasting books." This gets students interested in books. 

Test Prep
-Set up board games like candy land, shoots and ladders, trouble, etc. and put students into groups. Then, students can only play the game if they get the question correct. ]]> 2019-11-09 15:03:57 UTC https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010826 ctobias1 https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010949 determine the height of the ball by using the time it hits after throwing it. ]]> 2019-11-09 15:04:43 UTC https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010949 https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010975 Making menus and setting up the classroom like a restaurant while using different objects like dry macaroni pasta for kids to insert commas in passages ]]> 2019-11-09 15:04:49 UTC https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409010975 erin_howe2 https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409011057 Get very large plastic sheeting from Lowe's - cut holes in it large enough for studnets. Have students represent molecules and act out diffusion as water molecules. Can be redone with some student in hula hoops to represent larger molecules or charged molecules]]> 2019-11-09 15:05:26 UTC https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409011057 https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409011355 Set up challenges throughout the week - instead of letters to create words they are using numbers/terms to create expressions, categorize their expressions by the number of terms used]]> 2019-11-09 15:07:21 UTC https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409011355 https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409011573 Stack paper cups separated with an index card with a string attached to it. Have students pull one string in order to have the cups fall in a straight line to stack inside one another to introduce the concept of inertia (Newton's First Law).]]> 2019-11-09 15:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409011573 https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409011611 All 6th grade math classes compete against each other during the month of March in a math madness bracket using the game 24.]]> 2019-11-09 15:09:04 UTC https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409011611 https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409011834 Assign them a number for two truths and a lie. Demonstrate it first. They must analyze the number or convert form to find the lie.]]> 2019-11-09 15:10:30 UTC https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409011834 https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409012025 Give a prompt every Friday relating to content covered that week.]]> 2019-11-09 15:12:08 UTC https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409012025 https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409012143 Students are given "Which One Doesn't Belong" picture and record a response]]> 2019-11-09 15:12:55 UTC https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409012143 https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409012312 Give each student a mini Snickers bar and have them explain the different layers of the candy bar. Use this lesson to lead into relative age dating methods of rocks.]]> 2019-11-09 15:13:57 UTC https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409012312 ctobias1 https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409012672 Use skittles as "dice" and record data of how many are S up when you roll them. Students learn that it is exponential.]]> 2019-11-09 15:16:26 UTC https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409012672 https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409748832 2019-11-12 01:45:48 UTC https://padlet.com/memarnold/b14ut09d6u3a/wish/409748832