- 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.
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Great post, Kate! Thanks for the ideas!
ReplyDeleteIts really been a very informative post. Thanks for sharing such a nice informative post. Nice work. Keep it up....
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