- pour glitter onto a craft project
- pour sand into bottle to make sand art
- pour paint onto a Spin Art Machine
- water plants
- roll dice (especially fun for multiple dice games like Yathzee and Boggle)
- set up dominoes to be toppled, attach a ruler or cardboard to the cup and knock 'em down
- combine chemicals to make silly putty or oobleck
- pour crushed Oreos on top of "dirt cups"
- add the chocolate to milk
- fill plastic ziploc baggies with liquid dishsoap to make freezer packs for lunchs and boo-boos (soap is gel like and takes longer to defrost so is better than water)
- fill bags with ice for the trainers office or the school nurse as community service
- measure ingredients for a cooking project
- toss a handful of coins for a probability experiment
- drop blocks onto a fragile surface (like damp tissue paper over a trashcan) to experiment on how much weight will cause the surface to break
- use two pouring cups and drop items from a height to see which falls faster
- blindfold a contestant and drop different items so the contestant can guess what you are dropping
- drop a ball onto a slope to learn about velocity
- fill the class pet's food dish
- dump fish food in the tank
- fill the candy dish before important IEP meetings
- pour coins into the coin sorter/wrapper
- position the pouring cup over someone's head and allow the winner of a contest to activate it to pour ice cold water or ice cubes down that person's back
- tape the cloth covering a surprise to the edge of the cup and press the switch to unveil the item
- remove the cup, attach an arrow and use it as a choosing device
- write the names of every student on a small wooden block and pour out a block a day to pick the day's helper at random
Resources and ideas for teachers of learners with severe, profound, intensive, significant, complex or multiple special needs.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
25 Things to Do with a Switch Activated Pouring Cup
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Great post, Kate! Thanks for the ideas!
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