TheApple

 I'm all about getting my kids moving around as much as possible- games, teaching outside, etc. 

Each day during Math Meeting we count the days and subtract them from 180 (how many school days we have in a year).  This gives them great practice in borrowing, even before I have officially taught it in a lesson.  It also helps the struggling ones as they work it through on the board and the rest of the class is helping them out. 

I always introduce an extended interdisciplinary project to my 6thg grade special education students for the last few weeks. Last year it was doing the planning to throw a pizza party for our academy (data collection and manipulation, negotiation with the pizza places in the neighborhood, budgeting, logistics, personnel allocation, time management, percentages [for taxes and tips], division [to figure each teacher's share of the cost], money handling, etc.).

This year we are forming hypotheses about how the design elements of paper airplanes will affect flight distance and accuracy, creating the planes to test the hypotheses, designing a tests for the hypotheses, conducting the tests, analyising the data generated and using the data to form new hypotheses, etc.

sanmccarron says ...

Deven, may I suggest goggles for flight tests?  I got hit in the eye by a very fast, pointy plane when we worked on Bernoulli's Principle.  My eye swelled up and became badly infected (think about the germs on a 14-yr-old boys hands creating the point of the plane - eww), and I missed a day of work.

Thanks for the excellent suggestion. I think I'll put them on the kids, too, I know they'll enjoy the image.