Ice Cream Dough : Add one Kool-aid packet to baking soda and mix in a bowl. Then slowly add water and mix. Continue to slowly add water until you have a slightly damp, moldable dough. Too much water and the baking soda will be too liquidy and not.
Mr. Potato Head Building Variation. Take pictures of Potato Heads with an iPad. Students can scroll through pictures to choose Potato Head. Have the students make matching potato heads. Goals - requesting, WH questions, describing, sentence building
Bloom's Taxonomy / new teacher evaluations require evidence of lesson planning for higher level thinking ~ I like thinking of it as a ladder and not a pyramid. All students can get to the top, with a pyramid it feels like only a few can.