Rush Creek Elementary
Laura Thompson, Gifted Education Specialist
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SCHOOLWIDE ENRICHMENT CHALLENGES FOR EVERY STUDENT
SCHOOLWIDE ENRICHMENT CHALLENGES FOR EVERY STUDENT
Every Friday for ALL students
Every Friday for ALL students
Not offered currently since students are in person. We will resume the Friday Challenge if we go back to Distant Learning!
Not offered currently since students are in person. We will resume the Friday Challenge if we go back to Distant Learning!
Website of the week:
Website of the week:
Very Simple Origami for Kids and Easy Instructions: https://www.origamiway.com/very-simple-origami-for-kids.shtml
Very Simple Origami for Kids and Easy Instructions: https://www.origamiway.com/very-simple-origami-for-kids.shtml
Links to Brain Challenges
Links to Brain Challenges
Verbal (words/language)
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)
Quantitative (math/logic/numbers)
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 games: https://www.youcubed.org/resources/nim-games-3-12-video/?utm_source=Youcubed+Updates&utm_campaign=1b72b21d40-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_18_04_51_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_230e567c40-1b72b21d40-163709605
Nim-like games: https://nrich.maths.org/1209
https://mathathome.mathlearningcenter.org/activities-of-the-day
Non-Verbal (visual/spatial)
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/
NASA STEM for Kids: https://www.nasa.gov/stem-at-home-for-students-k-4.html
Switch Zoo: https://switchzoo.com/
Card Board Challenge: https://cardboardchallenge.com/
Rube Goldberg's granddaughter is challenging all interested individuals and families to create a machine that uses 10-20 steps to drop a bar of soap into someone's hand. Watch the video invitation and submission guidelines to learn more about it. Don't delay! Only 3 more weeks until the deadline! Submissions are due by May 31st to the Rube Goldberg website: https://www.rubegoldberg.com/ . Winners will receive some Rube Goldberg swag and have their videos posted on the official Rube site. You can watch several examples of Rube Goldberg machines in the Create a Rube Goldberg Marble Run challenge below.
Check out this tasty math challenge for making 872 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, 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 daily breakout puzzle on your own or with your family! The challenge goes live at 1 p.m. each day. Follow this link to see the rules and to find the link to the form to enter your answer for the puzzle.
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
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