K-5 Math Teaching Resources
K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Congruent Eighths [Pdf]
This activity could be used to introduce the concept of congruence. You will need the following materials: geoboards, rubber bands, and geoboard recording paper.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Making Shapes on Geoboard
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use the lines (rubber bands) to make a shape modeled by the teacher using a Geoboard.
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Geoboard Line Segments [Pdf]
Students are to find different ways to make two line segments that touch seven pins. Materials needed include geoboards, rubber bands, geoboard paper and rulers.
Crayola
Crayola: Fun in the Sun Visors
This activity shows children how to make sun visors using simple paper plates, markers, and a rubber band.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Spool Racer Experiment
Demonstrate stored and kinetic energy by making a racer toy from a spool and a rubber band.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Make a Guitar, Vibration Experiment
Experience how vibrations make sound by constructing a guitar using rubber bands and a cereal box.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Inventors & Inventions 1801 1850
This site from Enchanted Learning presents several brief overviews of major early nineteenth century inventors and their inventions. The information is accessible by clicking on the corresponding link.
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