Fun Stuff to Do with Google

I’ve collected a few fun Google activities during the last week that I thought I would share for this week’s Phun Phriday post.  Remember, these are not necessarily educational – but that doesn’t mean you won’t find a way to integrate them into your classroom 🙂 I saw this Google Docs trick tweeted out earlier … Read more

Don’t Forget to Take the Fridge

For today’s Phun Phriday post, I would like to share with you a delightful video I found on Neatorama.  Before you watch,  I have this disclaimer: I am certain that Canada is a lovely place, and I’m pretty sure it is not the only spot on the globe that suffers from natural disasters. Also, it might … Read more

Tried and True – Robot Turtles

On this blog, I tend to post about a lot of ideas that I find, and some readers don’t always get a chance to know if I ever tried them – or if they were complete flops.  This week, I want to feature a few past ideas that I did try and that were successful … Read more

Dominoes

For today’s Phun Phriday post, I have a couple of amazing videos created by people who have way more imagination, time, and dominoes than I do!  Both of these videos come courtesy of LaughingSquid.com.  Some dominoes sources are: Marbles, The Brain Store and Bulk Dominoes (recommended by Hevesh5, who created the 1st video). http://laughingsquid.com/22000-dominoes-fall-in-mind-bogglingly-elaborate-setup-by-hevesh5/   http://laughingsquid.com/37-elaborately-linked-setups-of-falling-dominoes-featuring-an-incredible-number-of-domino-rally-stunts/

Last Letter by ThinkFun

Note: ThinkFun gave a copy of Last Letter to my GT class to review.  However all opinions are my own – and those of my daughter and students 😉 ThinkFun always lives up to its name with its products.  Over my 14 years of teaching elementary GT students, we have enjoyed and learned from a lot … Read more

Gladys the Gorilla’s 1st Easter Egg Hunt

For today’s Phun Phriday post, I give you a video of gorillas going on an Easter egg hunt at the Cincinnati zoo.  They do it a bit differently than humans…