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Grandpa Duffy Maze Game

About the Game

Help Grandpa Duffy get his canola seeds through the crushing plant!


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Doubles Aren’t Trouble!

From one canola seed we can get many more!
Practice your adding in Doubles Aren’t Trouble, roll one die and double your answer to see how many possible canola plants will grow from one seed!

Stained Glass

A canola plant journeys through many steps before it becomes canola oil! Make a picture of your favourite processing stage, or of your favourite item that is produced from canola and be sure to hang it in the window.

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Let’s Play! – Connect Four: Addition

Materials

  • Two 6-sided dice
  • A yellow marker
  • A game board for each player

Objective of the game

For the student to have the first straight or diagonal row filled in on their gameboards.

Number of players: 2

View the Alberta math curriculum connections here.

Game can be found in It All Begins With The Seed (pg. 29)


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Let’s Play! – Colour by Number

About the Game

Find the number of items in each section of the field to guide your colour-by-number art creation!


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Let’s Play! – Back to Back

Materials

  • Sheets of paper
  • Markers

Objectives of the game

To display how well you know your addition and multiplication facts to help Grandpa Duffy determine the best canola yield possible!

Numbers of players: smaller groups to whole class

View the Alberta math curriculum connections here.

Game can be found in It All Begins With The Seed (pg. 45)


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Let’s Play! – Area and Perimeter of a Canola Field

Materials

  • 2 coloured markers or coloured pencil crayons (1 for each player)
  • 2 players (evenly skilled)
  • 2 dice (numbered 1-6)
  • 1 piece of grid paper for each game with each square measuring 1 cm2

Objective of the game

Build up the largest amount of total surface area first on the grid paper.

Number of players: 2

View the Alberta math curriculum connections here.

Game can be found in It All Begins With The Seed (pg. 47)


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Let’s Play – 4 Seasons

Materials

Class of students, and one big area where students can run.

Objective of the game

To eventually tag all students and have all students in the middle with the “It” person.

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Game can be found in It All Begins With The Seed (pg. 18)


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Let’s Play – The Quickest Chef

Materials

  • Two players
  • Deck of playing cards

Objective of the game

This game is similar to the card game, war. The winner wants to have the largest pile of cards by the end of the game.

Number of players: 2-3

View the Alberta math curriculum connections here.

Game can be found in It All Begins With The Seed (pg. 46)


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Let’s Play – Stand Up, Sit Down

Materials

A homemade deck of cards numbered 1-100. Based on total number of students, split the numbers up and give each student an assigned set of numbers to cut out and write out so that in the end there are 100 individual cards each labelled with one number from 1-100. The cards need to be the same size and the numbers need to big enough to see from a distance. All students provide their cards to the teacher.

Objective of the game

Not to be the last person remaining in your seat!

Number of players: Single-player or up to a large class of students.

View the Alberta math curriculum connections here.


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Let’s Play – One Metre Canola Dash Madness!

Materials

  • Ruler
  • Metre stick
  • Pencil
  • Paper

Objective of the game

To earn the highest number of points by estimating and measuring the actual length of objects in the classroom with your teammate.

View the Alberta math curriculum connections here.

Game can be found in It All Begins With The Seed (pg. 41)


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Let’s Play! – Let There Be Cake!

Materials

  • Print and cut out: Equivalent Fraction Cards included in book (see last page after additional resource page for these cards. There are two decks worth of cards available. You will use both sets of cards. See the reference section for website for more cards).
  • Grab enough spoons so you have 1 less than the total number of players.

Objective of the game

To be the last player remaining in the game, and collect four fraction cards that equivalent but do not have to be same to obtain a spoon (e.g., ½ = 4/8 but is not the exact same fraction). Players get closer to being eliminated each time they are left without a spoon, which earns them the next letter in the word C-A-K-E. Once a player has earned all 4 letters in the word C-A-K-E, they are eliminated for that round and can cheer on their teammates.

Number of players: 3-6 players

View the Alberta math curriculum connections here.

Game can be found in It All Begins With The Seed (pg. 45)


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Let’s Play – Elimination

About the Game

In Elimination, you will pretend you are a canola farmer trying to get rid of the bad insects harming your canola plant.

Materials Needed to Play:

  • one 6-sided dice
  • Game Board (download below)
  • Marker or something to cover up numbers as you play
  • Partner

Objective of the game: To cover up 5 numbers to form a row first on your gameboard.

Number of players: 2

View the Alberta math curriculum connections here.

Game can be found in It All Begins With The Seed (pg. 34)


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CANOLA Breakout!

Help Chase and Amelia find all the canola related words in this fun game!

Game can be found in It All Begins With The Seed (pg. 40)


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