Arctic Animals Keeping Warm

Here is a great experiment on insulation for Arctic animals.  We simply use ice water, rubber gloves and crisco.  Students feel the water with no insulation, just a rubber glove.  Then they dip their hands in the ice water with a blubber glove (crisco insulated Ziploc bag).  We go through the scientific process and make an observation chart for their findings.

Monster Match

Students make a crayon - water color resist monster.  I tell them to use different colors and make lots of details.  Then I have them write a descriptive paragraph about their monster and name their monster. I put the paragraphs on the the bulletin board all mixed up.  I put their monsters with a letter of the alphabet attached to it away from the paragraph. At our Halloween party I give them a sheet with the letters on it, and they are to write down the name of the monster next to the letter that matches.

Primary Pumpkins

First we used oil pastels to make outlines of pumpkins and leaves.  Then we used paint in the primary colors and mixed them to make orange and green to paint our pumpkins and leaves.  When then cut out these and glued them to black construction paper, adding pastel chalk vines, moon and stars.  We used the lesson from Deep Space Sparkle.