Today was actually the first day of Physical Science. I teach this class at a homeschool consortium that started today, so it is certainly falls into the category of a non-traditional classroom. I only see this class for one 90 minute period a week, and I design the class with all hands-on labs to complement whatever chapter/topic they are reading and studying at home.
After we finished with our team building activity with Legos and clue cards that I blogged about earlier here, we moved onto the Mini Metric Olympics. I used the direction cards from this post on Math = Love. The only thing that I had to do besides gathering materials was create an answer sheet that would fit into their notebooks. I also wanted them just to find their percent error, so I only included a column for that, not error.
The kids loved the activity and I actually overheard one of the students say, "This class is fun," as her group was moving from one station to another. That's a win in my book!
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| Lots of measuring going on... |
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| ...and estimating too. |
