Educational Games for Elementary Students

Educators can utilize the following engaging games for learning and assessment:

1. Memory game - This game can be used for lessons in animals (e.g. matching parents and their babies).
2. Name that Tune game - This game can be used for lessons in culture and arts (e.g. cultural songs).
3. Crossword Puzzle -  This can be used for vocabulary and spelling lessons.
4. Sudoko - This can be used Math lessons.
5. Scrabble - This can be used not only for vocabulary lessons but also for Science lessons (e.g. geology terms)

For more games, you can visit Learning Games for Kids or Fun Brain.

Moebius Transformation

Transformation Lesson Plan

Semi-Detailed Lesson Plan in Mathematics (Transformations)

Level: First Year High School
Subjects: Mathematics, Geometry, Transformations

I. Objectives:

A. To recognize Euclidean transformations.
B. To recognize reflections, translations, and rotations.
C. To prove theorems related to transformations.
D. To solve problems involving transformations.
E. To apply transformations to real-world situations.
F. To create designs using transformations.

II. Materials:

papers, protractor, ruler
tangram puzzle
worksheets

III. Procedure:

A. Presentation

Activity - Folding of Paper
The teacher will give an activity that involves the folding of paper and tracing of shapes.

B. Discussion

From the activity, the teacher will point out that geometry is not only the
study of figures but is also the study of the movement of figures.

• Is the original figure congruent to the other figures?
• How does the second image compare to the original figure?

C. Input

Definitions:

• Transformations
• Reflection
• Rotation
• Translation
• Dilation
• Rigid Motion

Theorems:

• Theorem 18-1
• Theorem 18-2
• Theorem 18-3
• Theorem 18-4
  

C. Discussion

The above definitions and theorems will be discussed and proved. The teacher will ask the student to give examples of transformations.

D. Activity

Tangram Puzzle
The students will form six groups. Each group is going to make images of animals using tangram puzzle and they will identify the kind of transformation depicted or made after doing the activity.

E. Evaluation

Worksheet

1. Which of the following transformations creates a figure that is similar (but not congruent) to the original figure?
2. How can transformations be applied to real-world situations?

III. Assignment

Drawing
The student will use transformations to move figures and create designs.

Integrated Lesson Plan For A House For Hermit Crab

Level: Pre-school/Kindergarten
Subjects: Reading, Science, Mathematics, Writing, Art

I. Objectives:
A. To realize that:

1. We find happiness in sharing good things with others.
2. We should help our friends when they need it.

B. To describe the function of a seashell.
C. To arrange pictures of sea animals from biggest to smallest.
D. To recognize the letter H.
E. To use a variety of materials and creativity to decorate the Hermit Crab's house.

II. Subject Matter and Materials:

A. Selection: A House For Hermit Crab by Eric Carle
B. Materials:

pictures of animals
charts and big box for activities
crayons, color pens, glitters and cutouts for the art activity

III. Procedure:

A. Pre-reading
Unlocking of Difficulties:
The teacher will show pictures and ask the students to describe them:

1. shell
2. claw

B. Reading
The teacher will read the story aloud while the students will follow silently. He or she will show big cutouts of the animals/plants that Hermit meets in the story.

C. Post Reading

1. For Noting Details:
The teacher will show colorful pictures of animals (starfish, snail, crocodile, cow, duck, coral, weeds, etc).

a. Which of the following are not in the story?
b. Which of these animals did Hermit Crab meet first?

2. For Visual Discrimination:
The teacher will show colorful pictures of animals.

a. Which of these pictures look like the one in the big box?
b. Which of the pictures look the same?

3. For Reasoning Skill:
The teacher will show different groups of animals.

a. Which one does not belong to this group (fish, lobster,
shrimp)? Why?
b. Which one does not belong to this group (crab, oyster,
rayfish)? Why?

4. For Science:
The teacher will introduce sea creatures with shells. He or she will show some pictures of shelled animals and ask the students to describe them.

a. What is the function of a seashell?
b. Can you relate the function of a seashell to their own dwelling?

5. For Mathematics:
The teacher will introduce the concept of "big" and "small". He or she will ask the students to arrange the pictures of crab from biggest to smallest.

6. For Beginning Reading:
The teacher will introduce the words beginning with letter H.

a. Which of the pictures has a different beginning
sound? (house, hand, mask, head)
b. Read the following words and sentences:

• hat, ham, head, holt, horn, has
• Harry has a hat.
• Hannah has a ham.
• Henry and Heidi sat on the mat.

7. For Writing:
Children will write about their dreamhouse.

8. For Art:
The teacher will give each student a picture of Hermit Crab's house and ask them to decorate it using crayons, colorpens, glitters, magazine cutouts, etc.