Smart Chick Teaching Resources

Always looking for fun first week of school picture books! I found this one at Target. We are the GATORS, so it is perfect! My 4th graders will write class rules in a funny way after reading the book aloud!

Owl Pellets Dissection! Using owl pellets is a great way to discuss food chains and food webs. I usually grab owl pellets on ebay! The kids were completely amazed.

Button Quails! We have 5 hatched so far...
These are one of the easier birds to hatch, just 16 days! They are also pretty easy to keep as pets.

Game on!!! Our testing theme has our kids so excited! Found some fun video game related treats on Amazon.

Germ and Microbe Reports! The kids write reports and sew the germ or microbe as it looks in a petri dish. They turned out amazing!

Today we worked on some Solar Eclipse Models. Seeing how a solar eclipse actually works was really exciting for my students! They had some choice in the materials they used in this activity.

Practicing Math with Dominoes! We are working on multiplying fractions and dominoes are a great way to make that math practice hands-on and more engaging! I ordered the dominoes on Amazon.

My kids got a letter from NASA, we will be receiving our own extra terrestrial next week! They are so excited, this was a great hook! Writing projects will be started next week!

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Rubber Duck Swing STEM Challenge! This one required very few supplies but was harder than it looked! I did not limit their amount of tape, that would have made it even tougher! Find the lab sheets in my tpt shop!

WRITING BIG BOOKS - My students love writing class big books about a variety of topics. They create a slide of pictures and one of information. We glue the 2 pages onto a 12 x 18 sheet of colored construction paper and bind it into a book. Kids often choose to read these books!

Rubber Duck Rescue STEM Challenge! Students had to use the fewest materials to rescue 20 rubber ducks off the surface of the table. Some groups used just one cup and one index card!

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My students are getting a surprise! They are each getting a pet penguin to take care of as we read Mr. Popper's Penguins!

Pool Noodle Towers - These are a great early STEM challenge!

Grab a pool noodle for each table, cut it up randomly with straight and diagonal cuts. Teams have to work together to make the tallest free-standing tower.

Who doesn't love cryptids? We are making Cryptid Cards as our writing assignment this week!

Launching paper rockets to test different FIN SHAPES. The rectangle shaped fins worked the best for most teams.

I love pairing out novels with picture books!

Pi Day STEM Challenge! Can you make paper circles with the given diameters? This one requires some teamwork!!!

Have you ever made Paper Rockets??? These are so easy to make and so fun to launch! Just grab and cut pvc pipes, one per student, and a sheet of copy paper and 2 index cards per rocket! You will also need some clear tape. We use stomp launchers to send ours up in the air!

STEM Challenge - Building the Tallest Free-standing Paper Snowman! This is actually tougher than it looks. Just grab some copy paper, a few strips of tape, and some accent colors to add details.

Today (January 28th) is National Kazoo Day! Make your own kazoo from a cardboard tube, wax paper, and some rubber bands. Be sure to make a least one hole in the side of the tube.

Make microscope slides with some clear nail polish, slides, and various items like sand! Super easy and a lot of fun!

Desk Pet Homes! These are awesome and inexpensive! Grab a class set of them from for under $3!!! My students are so excited about them!

Today is National Squirrel Appreciation Day! Celebrate it in your classroom by making some life-sized squirrels with bulletin board paper!