Basswood Elementary TAG
Marji Olson, TAG Teacher
Challenge Activities
Check out this tasty math challenge for making 1,086 chocolate chip cookies!
Take your thinking to the limits. Complete each STEM challenge and record your thinking.
Click the link above to follow the process for becoming an inventor. What will you create? Use this link to the Inventor's Log Book. This is an optional tool for you to use.
Learn about Rube Goldberg on the official website and/or here, and then create a contraption that gets a marble or other round object from one place to the other using simple machines. Enjoy watching some Rube Goldberg machines at these links:
The Cedar Creek Reservation in Blaine needs citizen scientists to help them identify the types of animals found on the reserve. Please go to this link and help classify some really amazing animals that can be found close to where you live!
Solve a breakout puzzle on your own or with your family! The challenge is now done for the school year, but you can still play past games.
2030, A day in the Life Of Tomorrow Kids. This is an adventure story for elementary readers. The reader will travel into the future with the main characters. Readers will enjoy the adventure of time traveling. This gives our students an opportunity for some improvement. They will have a chance to do some critical thinking, inventing and understanding of the problems of today. This is a great story for students to see how things can change.
Here is a video of the book needed: 2030, A day in the Life Of Tomorrow Kids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aae2jrrbBxU
Links to Brain Warm-ups
Verbal (words/language)
Rebus puzzlzes (Visual word puzzles: http://www.vella-zarb.com/thomas/rebuses.html
Vocabulary Quiz: https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/vocabulary-quiz
Name That Thing: https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/name-that-thing
Boggle: https://www.puzzle-words.com/boggle-4x4/
Another Boggle site: https://wordhub.com/?fca=1&success=0#/
Super Word Searches: https://www.superwordsearchpuzzles.com/
Commonyms: https://www.thinkablepuzzles.com/commonyms/commonym1.shtml
Daily Quiddler puzzle: https://www.setgame.com/quiddler/puzzle
Quantitative (math/logic/numbers)
KenKen puzzles: http://www.kenkenpuzzle.com/
Calcudoku puzzles: http://www.calcudoku.org/
Sudoku puzzles: https://krazydad.com/tablet/sudoku/
Kakuro puzzles: https://krazydad.com/tablet/kakuro/
Bridges puzzles: https://krazydad.com/tablet/bridges/
Suguru puzzles: https://krazydad.com/tablet/suguru/
Inkies (KenKen) puzzles: https://krazydad.com/tablet/inkies/
Logic grid puzzles: https://www.brainzilla.com/logic/logic-grid/
Logic puzzles: https://logic.puzzlebaron.com/
Skyscrapers puzzles: https://www.puzzle-skyscrapers.com/
Arrow puzzles: https://www2.stetson.edu/~efriedma/puzzle/arrow/
Dice game ideas: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yvr2nxC6LfYoVbpmEFd0ysWwLljAilkW/copy
Problem of the Week: https://www.cemc.uwaterloo.ca/resources/potw.php
Nim-like games: https://nrich.maths.org/1209
Mashup Math: https://mashupmath.com/
Math For Love: https://mathforlove.com/
Non-verbal (visual/spatial)
Daily Set puzzle: http://www.setgame.com/set/daily_puzzle
Battleships puzzles: https://krazydad.com/tablet/battleships/
Masyu puzzles: http://krazydad.com/tablet/masyu/
Galaxy puzzles: http://krazydad.com/tablet/galaxies/
Slitherlink puzzles: https://krazydad.com/tablet/slitherlink/
Krazydad Star Battle puzzles: https://krazydad.com/tablet/starbattle/
Star Battle puzzles: https://www.puzzle-star-battle.com/
Stitches puzzles: https://www.puzzle-stitches.com/
Which One Doesn't Belong: https://wodb.ca/