Glassline Magazine is planning a special issue with the best of the best beadmakers and they are putting out a call for submissions. Got to the site for details. This will be for their June/July 2012 issue and you have until April to get it together. I already know what I’m going to make for it. You can submit single beads or groups…but do check out all of their rules. And good luck!!
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Use LEGOs to Build Landmarks from Around the World
I love using LEGOs and other blocks in educational ways, because it’s a way to build on something that most kids already love and sneak in a bit of learning about another topic. Building is a great STEM lesson because it teaches creative thinking and problem solving, and it’s also just fun.
123 Homeschool 4 Me brings blocks to your social studies or history lessons with a set of LEGO challenge cards involving landmarks of the world. The cards don’t call for any particular blocks, they just show a picture of the landmark and kids can use what they have to try to re-create the design.
The cards included in the set are:
- Taj Mahal, India
- Windmills, Holland
- Brandenburg Gate, Germany
- Eiffel Tower, France
- Notre Dame, France
- Arc de Triumphe, France
- Sagrada Familia, Spain
- Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy
- Colosseum, Italy
- Stonehenge, United Kingdom
- Big Ben, Great Britain
- Blue Domed Church, Greece
- Acropolis, Greece
- St Basil’s Cathedral, Russia
- Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
- The Blue Mosque, Istanbul
- Statue of Liberty, United States of America
- Golden Gate Bridge, USA
- Capital Hill, USA
- Mount Rushmore, United States
- Great Wall of China, China
- Sydney Opera House, Australia
- Machu Picchu, Peru
- Chichen Itza, Mexico
You can use these challenge cards in lots of different ways. Of course you can just tuck them in the block are and see if kids want to play with them. You can also add them to a unit where you are learning about that country or a particular time period where the landmark makes sense to include. Have kids do a little research on the landmark, build their own version and present their findings.
I would love to try some of these challenges, and I’ll bet your kids will, too. You can grab the free printable landmarks LEGO challenge cards from 123 Homeschool 4 Me. I’d love to hear how you use them!
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