This session will focus on utilizing a variety of teaching and learning strategies in integrating across the curriculum utilizing magic and balloons and other activities as the vehicles to support the classroom teachers' program

Objective:

This session will enable teachers to:

1. explore a variety of applications which can be used to help deliver

and/or support instruction,

2. design activities which uses magic and balloons and other

instructional medium to deliver and/or support instruction.

A variety of standards can be applied. Visit the various state standards. Here are some state standard starting points.

6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Pick a number from 1 through 12:

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Types of Magic

Close - Up

Mental

Parlor

Stage

Illusion

Engineers' tools: Math, science, and computers.

Actors' tools: Dress, play script, and stage props.

Chefs' tools: Food, spices, oven, and kitchen utensils

Singers' tools: Song and music.

Cards, Money, Rope, Silk & Handkerchief, Sponge balls, Numbers & Math, etc.

Props (big & small)

Sleight of Hand

Never explain how a trick is done

Never explain what you are going to do ahead of time

Never repeat a trick for the same spectators

Practice each trick before you present it

Real Magic

Interactive Magic (ex. flags)

Online Magic

Mind Reader ... an animal?

Mathemagic Research

Google

Pick a card

Lessons: 1, 2, 3

Geometric Vanishes

Extra Square

Get off the Earth

Rubber Geometry

Patterns / Symmetry / Tessellations

Exploratorium

1.Write a 3-digit number with all different digits

2.Reverse the digits and subtract the smaller from the larger

3.Reverse the result and add them up

4.Answer should be secret number

and a triangle on the 3rd piece.

Number each piece 1, 2 and 3 respectively by placing the

"1" in the circle

"2" in the square

"3" in the triangle

1) Circle, 2) Square, 3) Triangle

Opposite side write :

"4" on the back of the circle

"5" on back of the square

"6" on back of the triangle

Arrange the paper with 4, 5, 6 side up ...

mix them up to form any 3-digit number: 456, 654, 564,645, etc.

Take center paper and

turn it over ...

add up the 3 numbers ....

you have come up with a

number between 1 & 15

Both digits are odd

Both digits are different

Sum of digits greater than 9

Performance: Four-Ace Trick

1.Before trick, put 4 aces in positions 9, 10, 11, and 12 in deck.

2.Have subject pick a number between 10 and 20.

3.Deal that many off the deck.

4.Add digits of that number and put that many back on top of deck.

5.Take top card and set aside.

6.Repeat until you have four cards out of the deck.

7.These four cards will be the aces.

1. Before trick, prepare 4 cards faced up as follows:

Card 1(bottom and facing up): Teacher; Card 2: Success; Card 3: Collaboration; Card 4 (top and facing up): Learning.

2. Have subject flip the top "Learning" card.

3. Cut the deck.

4. Flip the top 2 cards.

5. Cut the deck.

6. Turn over all cards.

7. Flip the top 2 cards.

8. Cut the deck.

(May repeat steps 7 & 8)

9. Flip the top card.

10. Flip the top 2 cards as one.

11. Flip the top 3 cards as one.

12. You will note that 3 cards are faced one way and only one card is faced the other. Check the other participants, and it should be a "success!"

Performance: A Magician Kelvin Chun:

1.Have someone cut the deck approximately in half.

2.Pick up either half and count the number of cards.

3.Add the digits, and counting from the bottom, go to that card number.

Have subject remember the card.

4.Replace that 1/2 deck on top of the other half deck.

5.Spell out A M A G I C I A N K E L V I N C H U N

(or any other 19 letter phrase or word)

Take paper and fill in the following letters:

Fold in 1/2

Fold in 1/2 again => 2 more times

You should have 8 separate rectangles

Trim off the edges of folded paper

Sort paper with face up and face down letters

Choose either one

Study letters and try to form a word with all the letters

If you can't make up a word, then choose other stack.

Secret Word?

Performance: Professor's NightMare

Performer shows three separate pieces of rope each of a different size.

There is a very short piece, a medium size piece, and a long piece. The

performer folds the three pieces and when the ropes are opened out again,

all three pieces are seen to be of the same size. A perfect illusion. If

required, the ropes can again be restored to their original different

sizes and tossed out for examination.

Statistics & Probability

Estimate the total number of balloons in bag

Estimate the probability of a color

Probability = Actual Number / Total Number

	Yellow	Orange	Pink	L Blue	White	Black	Red	Green	D Blue	Purple	Total
P1	11	10	8	12	11	9	8	14	6	11	100
P2	8	10	12	12	9	9	12	11	6	11	100
Average?

Definition?

Estimate/Measure:

Draw

Cut String

Unblown balloon

Blown balloon

Inflate

Twist Types:

Connect

Pinch

Hook

Fold

Poodle tail

Ear

Create Bubble

Angles: Acute, Right, Obtuse

Shapes

Air Pressure: How many bubbles can be twisted ... maximum? Estimate!

Create Shapes!

Geometric Shapes:

Triangle

Square

Circle

Create objects with symmetry.

Animal figures

Concepts:

Estimation, probability, measurement, line segment, angles, surface tension, air pressure, symmetry, patterns, and shapes

Skills:

Problem Solving

Collaboration

Basic: Communication- Read, Write, Math, Listening, and Speaking

Thinking: Creative, Decision Making, Problem Solving, etc.

Personal Qualities

Resources:

Balloon Sites

kchun

Books & Articles

Identify geometric shapes in the kite

Apply the concept of symmetry to kites

Apply the concepts of balance and aerodynamics to kites

Concepts : General Math ( elementary and intermediate)

A. Measurement skills

B. Ratio and proportion

C. Approximation (height of kite in flight)

D. Angles

E. Simple geometric shapes

Secondary Education: Math

A. Area

B. Geometric shapes (hexagon, rectangle, and triangle)

C. Symmetry

D. Construction concepts

E. Angles (ex. Find the angles, given two parallel lines)

F. Calculation of heights using trigonometric functions

G. Calculation of heights using right triangle. ( Given: hypotenuse: string length; and leg of right triangle: ground length)

Aerodynamic Concepts

1. Resistance

2. Upward thrust or lift

3. Downward pull or gravity

4. Propulsion

Discussion (Individual critical thinking skills)

Discuss problems you encounter while doing this project.

How would you redo this project to increase height and distance of your kite's flight?

If your kite spin like a propellor, how would you adjust your design?

How would you incorporate proportions?

Reflection

History

Origination ... China

First kite:

Chinese peasants - tied strings to hats

Chinese hunters - adoption of shooting arrows with attached string or rope.

Kites Around the World

Kites spread to India, Malaysia, and Polynesia, and Japan after the Northern Sung period (960 - 1126 A.D.)

Europe:

Oldest kite dates back to 230 B.C.

Fourteenth century - German military flew kites on horses.

America:

Benjamin Franklin - June, 1756

Sled Kite Materials:

Plastic (white) kitchen trash bag

Spool of thread

Permanent colored marsh pens

Scissors

Scotch tape

Hole puncher

12" ruler

Two - 12" bamboo sticks ( bbq - sticks are fine)