Quest At home Choice Board
Choose an activity from 3 different columns.Directions can be found in the packet for activities labeled with a I
Thinking Skills Creativity Information Literacy Communication Skills Affective Skills Success Skills
Design a Tiny HouseI
Usematerials you have in your house to build a leprechaun trap. Write a short paragraph explaining
how it works.
Skeletal SystemWebQuestI
Invent something that solves a problem.
Create a commercial for your product.
Emotions CharadesI
Make a ScheduleI
Mind BendersI
Create a self-‐portrait. Draw, color, paint, cut out paper, or use any other materials you
have at home.
WeatherWebQuestI
Write a letter to yourself in the future. Tell all about your life
now.
JournalingI
Allowance BudgetI
Use the template to create your own mind
bender. I
Create a Color Wheel using objects you find in your house for each
colorI
Color WalkerExperimentI
Think about your favorite book. Write a newspaper article about an event that takes place in the
book.
Read or Listen to ABad Case of Stripes
ICareer Interview
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Math ProblemsI
Story SwapI
Water DensityExperimentI
Write a persuasivespeech. Perform it for
an audience.I
Reador Listen to Enemy Pie on Storyline Online
Career ExplorationI
Design a Tiny House
Create a blueprint of the floor plan of your dream house.You may want to use the grid paper in this packet to help you.
• Give your house at least five rooms.• Be creative! You can include rooms that are not in your real house, like a game room or a bedroom for your pet!
• Label each room.• Find the area and perimeter of each room. (one unit on the paper = one foot)
• Think about how big a room like that would actually be!• Add furniture to your floor plan.• Color your floor plan, but make sure you can still read the labels.
Bonus:• Write a description of each room in your dream house.• Draw a picture of the outside of your dream house.
Kitchen
Living Room
Game Room
Bedroom
bathroom
Dog Room
mind bender
1. Fluffy does not have fur.
2. Chip and Cookie are bigger than Buzz.
3. Cookie has whiskers, but Abba does not.
4. Chip is a golden retriever.
5. Fluffy has more legs than Abba.
6. Buzz likes to run.
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MATH PROBLEMS
1. Sam went to the zoo. He explored the experimental room where flamingos and rabbits were cohabitating. There were 36 heads and 76 legs. How many of the animals were flamingos, and how many were rabbits?
2. There is a 30 foot flag pole outside of the school. A monkey tries to climb the pole, but it is very slippery. In the first second, the monkey climbs up 4 feet but slips down 3 feet in the next second. If it continues at the same speed, how many second will it take for the monkey to reach the top of the pole?
3. Which digit (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) is used most frequently when counting from 1 to 100?
4. Lisa is going to the beach. She wants to know how many different ways she can combine her clothes to make outfits. Use the chart below to help Lisa solve her problem.
Shoes Shirts Shorts
Tennis Red Black
Crocs Pink Blue
Sandals Yellow Tan
Green
Number of Different Outfits:
___________
Color Wheel Story Swap
Use the color wheel below to guide you. Try to find as many objects in your house in each of the primary and secondary colors. Arrange those objects in the shape of a color wheel. You may even want to take a picture of your color wheel!
Choose three short stories or books. Use the characters from the first story, the setting from the second story, and the events from the third story to write a new short story. Use the chart below to help organize your thoughts. You may want to use Storyline Online (www.storylineonline.net ) to find your stories.
Characters Setting Events
Story 1:
_______________
Story 2:
_______________
Story 3:
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Skeletal System webquest
Use the websites given to learn more about the Skeletal System
Go to: Ducksters to answer questions 1-‐3https://www.ducksters.com/science/bones.php1. What is the purpose of the skeleton?2. What are bones made of?3. How many bones does an adult have?
Go to: Kids Health to answer questions 4-‐6https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/bones.html4. Why do adults have fewer bones than babies?5. What is the longest bone in the human body?6. What can you do to take care of your bones?
Go to: DK Find Out (explore the different sections!) and answer questions 7-‐9https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/human-‐body/skeleton-‐and-‐bones/7. Name three kinds of joints and explain how they are different8. What does a human skeleton and a giraffe skeleton have in common?9. How many bones does your skull contain?
Go to: ABCya and play the skeleton games.https://www.abcya.com/games/skeletal_system
WEATHER WebQuest
Use the websites given to learn more about the Skeletal System
Go to: Ducksters to answer questions 1-‐3https://www.ducksters.com/science/weather.php1. Name and describe three different kinds of precipitation.2. What is a weather front?3. What happens when an area of low pressure and high pressure meet?
Go to: Weather Wiz Kids to answer questions 4-‐6www.weatherwizkids.com4. Why is snow white?5. How do blizzards form?6. What is thundersnow?
Go to: DK Find Out (explore the different sections!) and answer questions 7-‐9https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/earth/weather/7. In what part of a hurricane can the strongest winds be found?8. How can you use a pinecone to predict the weather?9. What is climate?
Go to: Weather Wiz Kids to read some weather jokes!http://www.weatherwizkids.com/?page_id=13
Color Walkers
Materials:
Five small, clear, plastic cups (or other small clear containers)Food color (red, yellow, blue)10 to 12 paper towelsWater
Steps:
1. Place the cups in a line on a flat surface.2. Fill cups 1, 3 and 5 to one inch below the top.3. Fill cups 2 and 4 about half way to the top.4. Add red food color to cup 1. About 5 drops.5. Add yellow food color to cup 3. About 8 drops.6. Add blue food color to cup 5. About 5 drops.7. Separate the paper towels.8. Roll each paper towel into a long tube shape.9. Put one end of one paper towel in cup 1 and the other end in cup 2. Using another paper towel put one
end of the paper towel in cup2 and the other end in cup 3. Continue this for cups 3 and 4 and then for cups 4 and 5. (Extra paper towels are for the messes we make!)
10. Let the cups sit and you can watch the colors walk!
Water DEnsity
Use the Scientific Process to test water density.
Problem: Will mixing different ingredients in water affect the density of the water?
Research: Find the answer to the following questions. Write and answer one more question related to water or density.What is density? What is freshwater? What is saltwater?
Hypothesis: What do you think? Will adding different ingredients to water affect the density of the water?
Conclusion:
Was your hypothesis correct? Did adding any of the ingredients affect the density of the water?
Materials:
Four clear containersTeaspoon measuring spoonSpoon for stirringWaterSaltSugarBaking SodaSmall lightweight plastic toys Paper towels (to clean up our mess)
Steps:
1. Place containers on a flat surface.2. Fill containers to ¾ full.3. Leave one container with clear water.4. Add 1 teaspoon of salt to one container. Mix well.5. Add 1 teaspoon of sugar to another container. Mix well.6. Add 1 teaspoon of baking soda to another container. Mix well.7. Add one small toy to each container.8. Record results. Do the toys float in all of the containers? What was added
to the water in the containers where the toys float?
Persuasive Speech
Use this outline to help you write a speech to persuade!Attention getter:
Your position (what you’re trying to convince people to think or do):
Supporting fact 1:
Supporting fact 2:
Supporting fact 3:
Conclusion (restate your position):
Charades Journaling
Think about how you can tell if someone is happy, mad, or scared without them even having to talk. Gather your family members to play charades with emotion words!
1. Write down a list of emotion words. Try to have the same number of enjoyable feelings (like happy and excited) as uncomfortable feelings (like frustrated and confused)
2. Choose a word from the list. Act your feeling word out using facial expressions and body language, without talking, while the other people guess your word.
3. When your word is correctly identified, make a check mark next to it on the list.
4. The person who guesses correctly gets to take the next turn.
5. Continue until all of the words on your list are used.
Choose a prompt from the list below. Set a timer for 10 minutes and write. Stay on topic.
1. Write about a unique quality you have and how that makes you special.
1. Write a bout someone you admire. What qualities do you have in common with this person?
2. Write about a time when you did something you were afraid to try. How did you feel afterwards?
A Bad Case of Stripes
1. Read or listen to the book A Bad Case of Stripes • You can listen online at https://www.storylineonline.net/books/a-‐bad-‐case-‐of-‐stripes/
2. Think of something you have a “bad case of.”• Do you really like fishing? Cars? Ballet?
3. Draw a self portrait that shows you with a “bad case of _______”• I love pizza, so I might draw myself covered with different pizza toppings.• Yours CANNOT be a food!
Make a Schedule Allowance Budget
• Make a schedule showing how you are spending your days at home.
• Some things you might want to include are school work, meals, and chores.
• You should add other things that make up your day.
• Pretend that you are given $20 as an allowance. • How would you spend that $20? • Make a chart to show what you will use the money for. • You should save at least 10% of your money. You can not
save all of the money.
Career INterview Career Exploration
• Chose a family member to interview about their job.(You may also email or FaceTime someone for this interview)• Write 5 questions that you will ask the person you are
interviewing. (Example: What are the three most important things you do at your job?)Record their answers.
• Write a paragraph to share what you learned about this career.
• Use the Bureau of Labor Statistics website https://www.bls.gov/k12/students/careers/career-‐exploration.htm
• Choose a category and then a career you think you might be interested in.
• Come up with five questions you would like to learn about your chosen career.
• Explore the website and find the answers to your questions.
THANKS!
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