Scientific Musical Note Utilization Activities

I desire to create a postal service to concur all of the scientific notation exercise activities I used amongst my students this year. I already blogged nigh the scientific notation ordering cards I made here. This was a peachy way to encounter how good my students could transition betwixt the dissimilar representations. It also helped me encounter if they understood how to say if a release was smaller or bigger than some other number.

I also blogged nigh my scientific notation interactive notebook pages here.

I works life a scientific notation foursquare puzzle (also known every bit a tarsia puzzle) online. I printed these out on dissimilar colors of newspaper together with laminated them. The dissimilar colors of newspaper strategy is a delineate a fast 1 on I learned this summertime at the OCTM conference. One of the speakers said that she prints activities on dissimilar colors together with then that pieces that province on the flooring are tardily to furnish to the laid they belong to.

Students acquire a plastic pocketbook amongst xvi squares inward it. They must convert numbers to or from scientific notation to check the edges of the pieces up. When finished, the puzzle volition shape a 4 x 4 square.

Here's what the finished puzzle volition await like:

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Some of my students had a difficult fourth dimension wrapping their minds some how to pose the puzzle pieces together. They didn't seem to grasp that each border had to check upwards correctly. Eventually, amongst a picayune help, they got off to a improve start.

My students loved using their private dry out erase boards to locomote out their problems for this puzzle. The re-create machine at schoolhouse insists on printing a dark work downwards each together with every page it prints. This agency that the puzzle pieces had a dark work running through 4 of them. This made me poor since I'm such a perfectionist. But, it did arrive genuinely tardily to cheque my students' solutions! When I mentioned the work to them, they said they didn't fifty-fifty notice.

Probably my favorite activity was this Scientifico game. I works life it online here. (FYI - the same site has a laid of scientific notation dominoes, but I didn't halt upwards using them. I retrieve I would role them inward the futurity together with construct these diverse activities into stations!)

To play this game, you'll demand game boards for each pair of students, iii die for each pair of students, together with a recording canvass for each student.

I recommend laminating these game boards for durability. Of course, I laminate almost everything. I receive got a Scotch construct laminator at schoolhouse together with a Swingline construct laminator at home. There's merely something nigh laminating an activity that makes it seem to a greater extent than professional. Plus, it agency that I tin reuse it yr afterwards yr without having to recreate it 1 time again together with again.

You'll also demand a way to score which pupil earned which square. I used bingo chips for this, but you lot could also receive got students score their initials on the game board. (I laminated my game boards for durability together with then you lot could role dry out erase markers if you lot become that route. You could also merely impress the game boards on newspaper together with construct them disposable.)

H5N1 brace of years ago, my schoolhouse asked what supplies I would similar to receive got inward my classroom. One of the starting fourth dimension things I asked for was a huge pocketbook of bingo chips (affiliate link). We role these for together with then many dissimilar activities. To construct them tardily to distribute to students, I separate them into 6 modest bowls that I bought at Dollar Tree for 3 or 4 for a dollar!

Here's what the game board looks like:

If you lot await closely, you'll encounter that it's genuinely 2 game boards inward one.

The starting fourth dimension game board features scientific notation amongst positive exponents.

The instant game board features scientific notation amongst negative exponents.

I had my students play a circular on the positive game board first. Then, when they finished they played a circular on the negative game board. They works life playing on the negative game board MUCH harder because they weren't certain which topographic point to claim afterwards creating their number.

Each pupil volition proceed runway of each of their numbers inward scientific notation together with touchstone notation on their scoring sheet.

When it's your turn, you lot scroll 3 standard six-sided dice (affiliate link). If you lot don't receive got a box of die inward your room to construct activities out of, you're definitely missing out. You tin selection upwards 100 die on Amazon (affiliate link) for fairly cheap. I had my schoolhouse purchase me a laid of 500 die a brace of years ago, together with they've definitely been used over together with over together with over.

The iii numbers that are produced on the die are your edifice blocks for creating your number. Here are the dissimilar numbers you lot could create past times rolling a 6, 3, together with 1.

If you lot chose 6.3 x 10^1, you lot would live able to identify a bingo flake on the betwixt 51 together with 100 square.

The instructions I works life online weren't the clearest, together with then I merely interpreted them inward a way that made feel to me.

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I decided to receive got each pair of students play on the SAME game board using dissimilar colors of bingo chips. You could receive got each pupil play on their ain game board, but it wouldn't live quite every bit competitive. You know how good your students grip competitive activities.

I also decided that a pupil would win if they got iii of their markers inward a row horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. So, hither are examples of dissimilar ways to win:

After each move, students should tape the release they created inward both scientific notation together with touchstone form. I had my students plough these into me together with then I could await through them for mutual mistakes to verbalize over inward class.

Here are some pics of my students inward activity amongst this game:

I would definitely recommend all of these activities!