Fraction Games

Teachers Pay Teachers have a lot of neat (and free or affordable) lesson ides they share, this one is a neat one for fractions.

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LEGO Comprehension - Listening to Instructions and Team Work

Kids try to build an identical structure by only listening to each others' instructions! 

Place something in between 2 lego plates, so kids can't see each others' lego building base (no cheating!). Kids take turns giving instructions. They must be very detail oriented (describe color, size, and placement). Also, they have to have good listening skills, so they place the lego in the correct spot! When they're finished building, they look at their structures to see if they are identical. Did they give good directions?!



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Everything is Awesome - Lego movie - BCTF version

A colleague and I made this video this weekend after the BCTF New Teachers' Conference. She had seen the lego movie recently and loved the positive pro-union message and wanted to make a lego movie for BCTF. And so we did.

1981 LEGO Ad compared to today's feminized 'girl toys'

Pay attention, 2014 Mad Men: This little girl is holding a LEGO set. The LEGOs are not pink or "made for girls." She isn't even wearing pink. The copy is about "younger children" who "build for fun." Not just "girls" who build. ALL KIDS.

In an age when little girls and boys are treated as though they are two entirely different species by toy marketers, this 1981 ad for LEGO -- one of our favorite images ever -- issues an important reminder.

You need to check out the comparisons of toys then and now - it is astonishing how much things have changed and how much "girlie girl" advertising is happening now compared to the 80s [which is when I grew up with transformers, lego, barbies, Rainbow Brite, She-Ra, He-Man and G.I. Joes]

Why have toys for girls become so feminized?  

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