Patterns

Klettermax Castle

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Disgruntled with their greedy mean king, who has hoarded all of the treasures in his castle, the knights join forces. Already they have a plan for how to get the treasures back. They climb up the castle wall, one on top of the other, then leap into the castle. To do so they need your help.

Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Content Area: 
Special Education
Play Time: 
15 min.
Klettermax Castle

Problem Solving Part 2 (2004)

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--review of Part 1
--the discovering patterns strategy is used to solve a problem discovering patterns in number sequences.
--the making lists and charts strategy is used to solve a problem with disparate and incomplete information
--the drawing pictures and diagrams strategy is used to solve a problem about the number of poles needed to build a fence

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
00:21
Problem Solving Part 2

Treasure, Ready, Go!

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The object of the game is to obtain the most treasures. Treasures are awarded by completing tasks. Each turn the player turns over the hour glass, then turns over the first treasure card.

Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Content Area: 
Math
Special Education
Play Time: 
15 min.
Treasure, Ready, Go!

Save the Fairy Tale Treasure!

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Story: An evil king has burned all fairy tale books. Only one is left, and its sheets have been shredded and scattered in an enchanted garden. Now the players must hurry and find the matching pieces, and leave the garden with them, before the king returns.

Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Content Area: 
Special Education
Play Time: 
25 min.
Save the Fairy Tale Treasure!

Mummy's Treasure

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Each player, or treasure hunter, has an excavation site board, or a rectangular cardboard grid decorated to look like an Egyptian archeological site. Stacks of treasure tiles are set up between the players, sorted by size and shape.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Content Area: 
Math
Special Education
Play Time: 
10 min.
Mummy's Treasure

Ingenious

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Designed by Reiner Knizia, Ingenious is the popular board game in which two to four players place colored tiles on a hexagonal board, scoring points, blocking opponents’ tile placement, and protecting themselves from being blocked.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Play Time: 
30 min.
Ingenious

Trinkets (Krims-krams)

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What a mess! Squirrel Sammy Walnut likes to collect trinkets, and they are piled up all over the place in his home. The bicycle helment is in the refrigerator and the toothbrush underneath the sofa. It's time to clean up! But what will fit in which box?

Grade Level: 
Primary
Elementary
Content Area: 
Math
Special Education
Play Time: 
10 min.
Trinkets (Krims-krams)

Patterns (1998)

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Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill Nye the Science Guy is here to talk about patterns.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
00:23
Patterns

Science of Music (1998)

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Crank it up – it’s the “Music” episode.

Grade Level: 
Elementary
Middle
Length: 
00:23
Science of Music

Uluru

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We're in Australia, a land of myth and magic, and every night at sundown eight dreambirds gather around the holy rock Uluru. To make the magic work to its fullest, they all wish to land in specific locations to fulfill specific conditions.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Play Time: 
20 min.
Uluru

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