Wayne McKenzie from Timiskaming First Nation created Pow-Wow-Opoly, the first Aboriginal Monopoly! This board game promotes awareness of Aboriginal peoples in Canada and bring families closer together. Discover, learn and have fun.
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Many of us don’t realize that while we are stomping, separating, and bundling our recyclables, other creatures are also busy recycling. Nature’s recyclers are responsible for turning dead plants and animals back into usable nutrients for new plants and animals.
Play Recycler-opoly, an online quiz game from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to test your [...]
Library pockets can be used in your homemade games for sorting.
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I was looking in a paper craft magazine July 2006 and found a few big punches that fold to shape like little file folders and library pockets. I actually have one that is shaped like little file folders - I got it for [...]
A Jason-1 Game Oceanic Adventure - Voyage on the High Seas printable game. In addition to being a game, it is an eye-catching poster showing continents, oceans and all of the major ocean currents. The game is offered by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The game is printable in pdf format. Download the latest version of Adobe [...]
Picture Recipe Board Game is a free printable game that can reinforce picture recipe concepts or general measurement concepts. The game consists of a game board and game cards. Print out the game board pieces and the card pieces you wish to use.
You can expand the game by measuring the game cards and creating a [...]
Salmon Life Cycle: The Incredible Journey The life cycle of sockeye salmon is an incredible journey that begins and ends in the cold freshwater streams of the Pacific Northwest. In this activity kids learn about the salmon life cycle by developing a board game based on the many helpful and harmful events salmon encounter during [...]
Print out these free picture bingo boards, perfect for when you’re on the go or looking for a fun game at home. Choose from Car, Supermarket, Doctor’s Office, Airplane, Item Words and Square Numbers.
With Teacher’s Pet you can select a vertical list of words or sentences with your cursor and this macro will create up [...]
Create Your Own Native American Board Game–U.S. History lesson plan (grades K-5).
Game Objectives - Students will: 1. discuss how games reflect a culture’s beliefs, priorities, and aspects of everyday life; 2. learn about a few games and toys of Native American children; and 3. analyze basic elements of a selected Native American tribe in order [...]
Discovery School offers many ideas to make your own board games.
Classroom Planetarium–Astronomy/Space lesson plan (grades K-5)
Students learn about the relationship of the nine planets in our solar system to the sun by creating a three-dimensional representation. They find out the planets’ relative distance from the sun and their approximate size in relation to the Earth.
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