Engage the Brain Games Grade Five Author:Marcia L. Tate The Engage the Brain: Games series offers practical activities that energize students, increase brain connections to content, and reinforce learning in a nonthreatening atmosphere.\n\nDerived from tested, research-based strategies found in the bestseller Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites, this book provides activities that incorporate games aligne... more »d with national academic standards for language arts, math, science, social studies, physical education, art, and music. \n\nYou will find brain-friendly activities that can be integrated easily into your lesson plans to inspire enthusiasm and help students achieve. Each game provides learning objectives, a comprehensive materials list, step-by-step guidelines for playing the game, activities for extended learning, and required reproducibles such as game cards, game boards, and scorecards. Discover favorites such as simon says, scavenger hunt, and relay races applied to fifth-grade content in games like Mystery Measure Relay, Camouflage Tag, and A-maze-ing Expeditions. All games include a focus activity, modeling, guided practice, independent practice, and a closing. Students actively process content as they play existing games, and construct and design a variety of new ones.\n« less