What’s Not Activities, with three connected and one missing options, is popular in math, but also great for reading, science, and just plain fun! Imagine collaboration, abstract thinking, and applying concepts and knowledge, all in one task.
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How to Use What’s Not for Puzzles in the Classroom
What Is Not Part of Activities encourages critical thinking and encourages discussion as students explain their thinking. They are a great way to reinforce knowledge and skills and a great activity that you can incorporate into teaching, give to students who finish early, or use interventions for students who need more practice. Which Is Not A puzzle has a great impact on student learning when students know how to deal with it. Here’s how to use them:
Share with Google Slides or print and pass them as worksheets.
Give students time to study the grid and think about their answers.
Have students work in pairs or small groups to talk about the answer they chose and why.
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1. Number Sense
These What’s Not Yours activities focus on understanding numbers and how they are represented. There are functions for displaying numbers, place value, division, odd or even, and prime (or not prime).
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2. Fractions
Everyone’s favorite math topic! Use What’s Not for Activities to practice showing common fractions and fractions.
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3. Geometry
Which Is Not Yours is great for analyzing situations. This geometry worksheet has six problems that have students analyze the differences and similarities between 2D and 3D figures.
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4. Phonemic awareness
Which Doesn’t Belongs is a great way to practice listening for sounds in words. Use this for small group work or independent practice to rhyme, hear beginning and ending sounds, and listen for short and long vowel sounds.
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5. Word Work
As students learn about word types (nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs), use Which Is Not Yours to practice identifying and discussing how words can be combined. When students identify a common form of a word, can they think of any other ways words can be combined?
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6. Animals and habitats
How are a dog, horse and cat alike? All mammals! These two worksheets engage students in thinking about animal categories and habitats around the world. Perfect for activating background information during a spatial unit or integrating a unit on animals.
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7. Topography
Divide maps and teach students about different types of world structures. These What’s Not Your Ways are great for talking about what makes the world’s structure the same. Challenge the students to create their own after they have finished learning about geography.
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8. The Water Cycle and Climate
Climate and the water cycle are topics that students talk about many times in their lives, so introduce What’s Not activities to help them discuss these topics in a new way.
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9. Provinces
Solid, liquid, or gas? This set of slides is a great way to warm up a lesson on a topic.
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10. Emotions
These What’s Not Emotion activities are a way to talk about the types of emotions we have, ways to describe emotions, and levels of emotions. Use one a day to start a morning meeting or an emotional reading lesson.
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11. Just For Fun!
Put these What’s Missing pages in your to-do bin ahead of time, or have them for students to finish in the morning when they come in and need some quiet work to get ready for the day. With back-to-school, holiday, and summer themes, we designed this for kids to complete independently.
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