Please keep a daily log on Good Notes of all enrichment activities that you are working on. When we have individual meetings we will discuss your log and learning.

Work on your monthly math and/or critical thinking workbooks (in your folder)

***6th Grade NHD (previously arranged with students) - I am adding your process work on your NHD Schoology Course.

Week of 12/7

4 & 6

The Wonder of a Question - Blueprints, By Diane Draze (Independent Study Projects)

The Wonder of the Question power point is on the home page of my website

5th

Tinsmithing

Tinsmithing 2

Tinsmithing 3

11/19 & 11/23 Origami Activity and Link

Intermediate Level Origami

Intermediate Origami

Origami Expressions

Origami Tutorials - Intermediate

Origami Me

There are many more origami sites out there. Search in google for what you are looking for. Think about the Ted Talk that we watched. What could you create, what could you design, what animated video could you make with your creations.

Week of 11/9

Logicville - Tangrams

Independent Student Projects - I will be putting more information here throughout the school year. I have several step-by step guides to help you get started. Some choices that you have right now:

• Create a multi-media presentation of a topic you want to investigate. Share the presentation with your classroom teacher and share with me during our individual meetings. (lesson to guide you or I have another version in my K-6 room)

• Create a game that others can play to learn about what you are studying in your daily classes

• Learn vocabulary or spelling words from your daily classes in another language

• Create and present a live or animated puppet show about something you are learning about

• Create a radio or television broadcast, video production, webpage, or podcast about a topic you are interested in.

• Write a diary or journal of an important historical event or person as if you lived that life.

• Create an invention to fill a personal or social need

• Study the life of a famous entrepreneur such as Steve Jobs, Martha Stewart, etc. Create a manual, "How to Be a Successful Entrepreneur"

• Create a song, rap, poem, story, advertisement, or jingle and perform it.

• Create a travel brochure for another country or planet (example of steps).

• Write a script for a play or a mock trial

• Write to a local Representative or Senator about something you would like to see changed.

• Create a learning center in your classroom (with the teacher's permission). Make this something that you think all students could learn from.

• Gather political cartoons and analyze them (tell what they actually mean)

• Write a "how-to" manual for people who need instruction on how to do or use something.

• Contact publishers about how to get something you've written published

• Find an email address to one of your favorite authors and email them questions that you have

• Create a new recipe and then advertise it as if you were going to sell the product.

• Develop an app to help students learn about our community. You can learn how to do this at code.org. Discoveries Unit 4 - the Design Process This will teach kids to develop an app.

• Develop healthy eating and exercise scan codes to place around the school

• Create a debate project

• Create a survey project

• Create a science project

• Create a model project

• Create a special event project

• Make a podcast or a Ted talk of the knowledge you have and want to share

• make a word card game - using information from one of your subjects

• trading card creation - using information from one of your subjects

• Soundtrack to my life

• Additional activities to look through from readwritethink.org

• Make an interactive greeting card

• Create an interactive book report

• Make a vocabulary poster in a foreign language

• Create an interactive herbavorium

• Build a diorama with QR codes

• Design Projects

• Create a crossword puzzle using vocabulary or facts

• Create an interview of an expert in what you are studying

• Create a flow chart or diagram

• Write an interview of a relevant person

• Create questions and an answer key

• Write journal/diary entries

• Write a postcard or letter exchange

• Create a scrapbook

• Create a photo album

• Make an instructional video

• Create an interactive notebook

• Create a set of task cards

• Make a pamphlet or brochure about your topic

• Write a newspaper article

• Perform a puppet show

• Create an episode of a reality show

• Create a game show

• Have a panel discussion of “experts”

• Use a Venn diagram to compare two aspects of the topic

• Create a children’s story about the topic

• Create a map

• Write a fable or myth about the topic

• Create a help wanted add and a letter/resume to answer it

• Write a text message dialogue relevant to the topic

• Write a series of tweets relevant to the topic

• Create a Facebook wall relative to the topic

• Create a Pinterest board relative to the topic

• Start a blog

• Decorate a box and fill with relevant objects

• Create a foldable

• Create a flip book

• Create a Cootie Catcher

• Create a cereal based on the topic (cover a cereal box)

• Assemble a time capsule

• Create several bookmarks about different aspects of the topic

• Write a recipe relevant to the topic (good for showing causes of an event)

• Do a newscast

• Write an acrostic poem

• Create an Internet scavenger hunt

• Write an advice column with several problems related to the topic

• Create flash cards or trivia cards

• Create a cheer relevant to the topic

• Make a short documentary film

• Create a museum exhibit

• Create a top 10 list relevant to the topic

• Create a video game

• Make a “Choose Your Own Adventure”

• Create a mini book with one fact/idea per page

• Create a glossary of relevant terms

• Make a paper chain with a different fact for each link

• Make a flower with a different fact for each petal

• Write a handbook or instruction book

• Create a newsletter

Science Choice Board

Social Studies

WWF

Websites to explore to develop your personal interests. If you see a topic that is missing let me know. I am going to add more in the area of fine arts.

Careers

Read to Lead

Middle School Career and Budgeting Unit

Coding Programs

Tynker Computer Coding Courses-Free, 6 lesson course for students in grades 3-8. Additional courses can be purchased by a campus that focus on math, English, social studies, or life science for grades 3-5.

Scratch-Free computer coding activities for students aged 8-16. Students can program interactive games, stories, and animations.

Code Studio- Free, 20 hour courses in Computer Science for students aged 4-18.

Foreign Language

Duo Lingo

ELA Enrichment Resources

Wonderopolis-website where a "wonder of the day" submitted by students is explored. Students can read for themselves (or there is audio available for students who need help with reading). Each "wonder of the day" is accompanied with "wonder words" for vocabulary development and a short comprehension quiz.

Poetry 4 Kids -website with tons of poems, poetry games, poetry activities, and other resources

Daily Quiddler Puzzle-from the creators of SET, a critical thinking, word-building puzzle

Mensa for Kids Excellence in Reading Students can earn t-shirts for completing all the reading for their grade span

Mensa Book Parade - Students review books for possible posting on national websites

The Writers’ Toolbox - lesson plan for teachers or help for students

Mensa Lesson Plans and Activities - Many feature authentic learning PBLs - scroll ⅔ of the way down the page to find the plans and activities - all subject areas

Name that thing

Spell-it

How Strong is Your Vocabulary

True or False

Websters word puzzles and quizzes

12 Stories - series to help students with the Envision program

Daily Word Games from MENSA for KIDS

Inflationary and

Lofty Language

Word Merge Puzzles

Letter Tower Puzzles

Word Winks (sample)

Analogy Challenges(sample)

Greek Roots(lesson resources)

Create a Logic Puzzle(Template for Kids)

World of Words Virtual Museum(with scavenger hunt)

Myths and Legends

Bookopolis Bookopolis is a community for young readers, almost a GoodReads for kids. Children can set up an account, create book lists, review books, and interact with other readers.

Journal Buddies Get your creative juices flowing with journal prompts, story starters, and other inspiration.

Visuwords A visually stunning interactive dictionary. Budding lexicographers can delve the depths of word origins, meanings, and families to their heart’s content.

Analogy Skill Builder

Science Activities

Renew the Zoo (Redesigned for virtual learning!): Students update an outdated zoo, learning about various jobs and animals along the way. Students finish with a research project on an animal of their choice, as well as a drawing and explanation of the exhibit they create for it for the zoo.

Mars Rover Experience from NASA

Be a Scientist

Animal Webcams

Kids Science Challenge

Sally Ride EarthKam

Fizzics Science Experiements

Fizzics Science Resources

Science Bob

Cincinnati Zoo - safari resources

Science Daily

Bozeman Science Videos

Social Studies:

See the side link for US History and World Geography Information. There are several videos and units that I developed over the years for teaching Social Studies. Right now they are very unorganized as I have been dumping things on the same page. Eventually I will have them organized.

Games to Make You Think

Daily SET Game- SET builds cognitive, logical and spatial reasoning skills as well as visual perception skills while playing a game! Because it has a rule of logic (three cards that are all the same or all different in each individual feature), and because players must apply this rule to the spatial array of patterns all at once, they must use both left brain and right brain thought processes.

Chess Kid-site to help kids learn and play chess with either the computer or other kids from around the world

Rules for Chess in Kid-Friendly Language

Mensa for Kids Games-online games that focus on different math and language skills, best for 3rd grade and up

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