Groundhog's Day
This section includes activities and resources related to Groundhog's Day
Phil's Groundhog's Day Math Challenge
Description: Phil’s Flash Card Challenge is a fast-paced Groundhog Day math game where students race through a 20-second test round, then try to beat Phil’s 2-minute prediction to win. Players can choose addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division (with optional number ranges 1–12), track progress with a moving groundhog, and earn a celebratory printable certificate if they win.
The Calendar Game - Online
Description: How well do you know when American holidays occur? You have 1000 days to place as many holidays as you can on the calendar. Drag and drop the events that appear in the upper left hand side of the page to where you think they belong on the calendar. For example, if you drag Christmas to December 29, you’ll earn one event but lose four days. When you are out of days the game ends.
Temperature Map - Online Game
Description: How well can you add and subtract both positive and negative numbers? Temperature Map requires students to add and subtract both positive and negative numbers in specially-designed word problems to determine the temperatures of ten cities around the world. This game serves as an enjoyable way for students to practice adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers, improve number sense, and to learn a little bit about world geography and climate, and each city’s temperature in the game is within the range of its actual normal temperatures in summer or winter.
Groundhog's Day Across America Temperature Map
Description: This printable requires students to answer addition and subtraction problems about the temperatures of eight cities on Groundhog's Day. A few questions involve negative numbers.
Groundhog's Day and Colloquialsims
Description: This activity gives a list of colloquialisms for "groundhog" and other animals. It requires students to make up colloquialisms to two other animals (of their choice) and to include drawings.
Groundhog's Day Sentence Surgeons
Description: This innovative activity requires students to correct the flawed spelling, grammar, and punctuation. The online versions show the numbers and types of errors. As students check their answers, they can see how many of each type of error still need to be corrected.
Groundhog's Day Across America Map
Description: Your job is return these fine groundhogs to their correct homes. Cut out the groundhogs (and names) below and paste them on the rectangles that point to each state on the map on the next page. You can color them in as well.
Groundhog's Day Across America Temperature Map - Online
Description: This online map requires students to answer addition and subtraction problems about the temperatures of eight cities on Groundhog's Day. A few questions involve negative numbers.
Groundhog's Day and Central Tendency
Description: This activity requires students to find the mean, median, range, and mode, of the temperatures of Groundhog's Day between 2010-2017.
Groundhog's Day Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a short passage and four multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 119 Words; LEXILE = 710
Groundhog's Day Cloze Reading - Online
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
Groundhog's Day Cloze Reading
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
Groundhog's Day Cloze Reading
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
Groundhog's Day Cloze Reading - Online
Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.
Groundhog's Day Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH = 247 Words; LEXILE = 910
February Animals Days
Description: This activity requires students to label the other February animal days on a calendar by drawing icons on the correct days. Students even get to make up their own animal day!
Groundhog's Day Reading Comprehension - Online
Description: This resource includes a short passage and four multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH = 119 Words; LEXILE = 710
Groundhog's Day Reading Comprehension
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 247 Words; LEXILE = 910
