Play Battleship with a Hundreds Chart

October 29, 2024 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

Teachers are always coming up with fun ways to use Battleship in the classroom for teaching different concepts. My teen recently made a Battleship game in Google Sheets for her computing class, which used conditional formatting so when you guessed a square it would change color if there was a ship there. So clever!

In the past we have shared a Battleship game you can play with the periodic table (which is just so clever) and using sight words (adorable!) and while this is a new one to me it makes total sense and is super easy to set up.

123 Homeschool 4 Me shared the idea of using a hundreds chart to play Battleship. If you aren’t familiar with them, a hundreds chart is just a 10 square by 10 square chart that lists the numbers from 1 to 100. If you are familiar with a hundreds chart, you know it’s a grid, so it is the perfect choice for using in a game like Battleship.

This is a two player game, like the original, and you can decide how many ships each child has and their size depending on their age and level of patience. Having more and bigger ships probably makes sense for younger players so they won’t get frustrated when they don’t get a lot of hits. You can do variations based on using the actual numbers or coordinates based on the number’s position on the chart, how many ships and their sizes, etc.

It’s a great game for little kids first learning to count to 100, but I think older kids could enjoy this version, too. It’s great to have on hand because it doesn’t take any set up at all and it’s easy to explain to kids how it works.

You can find all the details plus a printable hundreds chart you can use for your own Battleship games and other learning at 123 Homeschool 4 Me.

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Make Unpoppable Bubbles You Can Play with Inside

If it’s hot where you live, you might be looking for some fun activities you can do with kids inside the house. And while bubbles are generally a strictly outside the house kid of activity, these special bubbles are ones you can play with inside. It’s both a lot of fun and a science lesson.

These bubbles aren’t blown into the air, you blow them onto a tabletop gently through a straw.

What’s really cool about them is that they will stay on the table top without popping. You can even blow another bubble inside the first bubble, or stack bubbles on top of each other.

Why does this work? It’s thanks to a special ingredient in the bubble solution: sugar.

This particular recipe is from Play Party Game, but I’m sure you can find it other places with similar ingredients as well. But this post has a good explanation for what is normally happening with regular bubble solution made mostly with just soap and water, as well as why the sugar helps to make bubbles stronger and helps them last longer.

You could make this into a full on science experiment for your kids, comparing regular bubbles (this time you’ll want to do it outside or somewhere easy to clean) to the “unbreakable” bubbles, letting them hypothesize about what ingredients might help make bubbles stronger or what the sugar does to the solution.

You can talk about the molecular structure of the bubble being altered by the sugar, which makes it stronger and longer lasting.

They even have an activity kit you can buy to help guide your explorations and that offers extension activities for you to try.

Or you could just play with them. No judgement here; it’s summertime.

Grab the recipe and more of the science behind the bubbles from Play Party Game. And while you’re playing with bubbles you can also check out my giant bubble solution recipe over at Our Daily Craft.

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