Learn about Ocean Animals with This Bump Game

It’s always nice to have games to include in unit studies to make learning more fun or to present information in different ways. If you’re learning about the ocean, this printable game is a fun way for kids to learn the names of different ocean animals.

It’s called a bump game because when kids roll the die to get an animal, they put one marker on the image of the animal. Two markers secures the animal, but another player can “bump” their piece off that animal so that it counts for them instead. The game ends when all animals are secured and the player with the most animals collected wins.

The game includes animals like anemones, clams, urchin, sea horse, moon snail, jellyfish and more, and you can learn about the animals as you play or read some books or watch videos about the same creatures before or after you play.

Get the free game from You’ve Got This Math.

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Several countries have a day set aside to honor and recognize their inventors, but Nov. 9 is a special one that’s known as Tag der Erfinder in German. It’s celebrated in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and it falls on Nov. 9 because that’s the birthday of Hedy Lamarr.

Hedy Lamarr is widely known as an actress but there’s a lot more to her story. You can get a little of it geared to little kids in the Little People, Big Dreams book Hedy Lamarr (32 pages, hardcover, published 2023 by Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, suggested retail price $15.99).

The book explores her birth in Austria and how she spent time when she was young coming up with inventions. She became an actress, married an arms dealer, made her escape to America and became an actress again.

But she also helped develop a frequency-hopping signal device for airplanes that was used by the Americans and their allies during World War II. That technology became the basis for wireless technology such as wifi and GPS.

While Inventor’s Day is a great time to learn about Hedy Lamarr, you can take this opportunity to check out books and do little studies on lots of different inventors. If there’s an inventor or an invention your child is particularly interested in, that’s a great place to start. It’s fun to think about all the things we use every day that didn’t always exist; someone had to invent them!

For a start here at Craft Gossip you can learn more about Garrett Morgan, who invented traffic lights; Maria Oroso, who developed a clay oven that could cook food without electricity; and more female inventors and scientists.

And for more general inventors’ fun, check out this inventors word search from Fun Findery (and another from Let’s Do Puzzles) or take a quiz on inventors and their inventions from Flanders Family Home Life.

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