Positively Autism
Color Clips
R-E-D spells red. Kids manipulate squares of color and match a lettered, color square with the same letter printed on a clothespin.
All Our Days
Duplo/Lego Tower Pattern Busy Bag
Turn young learners into pattern detectives with this fun hands-on activity. Using the included set of cards showing different block towers, children replicate each pattern with their own manipulatives while attempting identify...
Curated OER
Color the Pattern
This geometric pattern will appeal to learners' artistic sides as they color various shapes based on a guide: they color circles blue, triangles red, squares green, and rectangles yellow. What does this finished design remind scholars...
Curated OER
Color the Quilt
In this addition without regrouping worksheet, students will find the sums of 9 addition problems each on a square of a quilt. Then students will color the squares according to a key.
Curated OER
Color, Light, and Excited Electrons
Investigate color, light and excited electrons and produce waves using slinkys. Your high schoolers will observe a continuous spectrum with a prism and an overhead projector. They observe flame tests to identify elements and they observe...
PreKinders
Christmas Tree Pattern Block Mat
Put the tree back in geometry! Explore shapes and celebrate Christmas while using pentagon, square, and triangle pattern blocks to create a Christmas tree.
Curated OER
Color by Number
In this color and number recognition worksheet, pupils use a color code to color blocks that are labeled with numbers 1 or 2.
PreKinders
Snowman Pattern Block Mat
What do a bunch of rhombuses, squares, and pentagons create? A snowman on a pattern block mat! Let young mathematicians explore shapes to create patterns in this hands-on activity worksheet.
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
Pattern Blocks
Who needs to buy pattern blocks when you have this printable pattern block template? Including triangles, squares, trapezoids, rhombuses, and hexagons, this resource offers endless possibilities for teaching children about geometric shapes.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Human Skin Color: Evidence for Selection
Skin color is controlled by at least six genes. Young scientists learn about skin colors through a documentary. They discuss the topics of pigment, natural selection, and vitamin D absorption. They apply their knowledge to higher order...
Curated OER
Alphabet Coloring Pages
Encourage your class to learn the alphabet with these alphabet coloring pages. Each page includes a large block letter and a drawing of an animal for leaners to color in. To make this a project that your pupils will keep with them for...
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Geometric Patterns
Geometric patterns illuminate this colorful and interactive PowerPoint. First, patterns must be identified. Next, students discern the missing color in a block pattern. Lastly, they observe a figure to determine how many blocks are used....
American Museum of Natural History
North American Mammals Coloring Book
Seven pages offer scholars the opportunity to learn about North American mammals and boost their coloring skills. Animals include brown bears, beavers, jackrabbits, wolves, jaguar, and Dall sheep
Curated OER
Preschool Coloring Page - Blocks
In this coloring the blocks worksheet, learners experience colors, letters, numbers, and use small motor skills. Students color three blocks.
Kids Can Have Fun
Cut and Paste Shapes
Engage youngsters in exploring the wonderful world of shapes with this series of cut-and-paste activities. Offering a variety of materials from printable pattern blocks to a series of matching exercises, this resource will have your...
Curated OER
Colors Clip Art
Explore the ways in which block color clip art can enhance your classroom. These bright printable color blocks come with five different teaching ideas that span graphing, sorting, and even bulletin board building.
Curated OER
Investigation - Can You Guess My Favorite Color?
Second graders explore a bag of mixed pattern blocks. As a class they discuss different attributes of these shapes. In this math lesson, 2nd graders search to find shapes that are similar by placing shapes on top of one another to...
Curated OER
Elements of Art: Student Assessment
What a neat test! The class is asked to draw and color to create examples of eight elements of art. They focus on each element (line, value, shape, form, space, texture, primary and secondary color) by creating an original piece in each...
Curated OER
ABC Blocks: Print and Color
In this word recognition worksheet, students trace the phrase "ABC Blocks", write the phrase independently, and color the picture of blocks.
Curated OER
Blocks: Print and Color
In this word recognition worksheet, students trace the word "blocks", write the word independently, and color the picture of blocks.
Texas Woman’s University
Patterns, Patterns Everywhere!
Not only is pattern recognition an essential skill for young children to develop, it's also a lot of fun to teach! Over the course of this lesson, class members participate in shared readings, perform small group activities, and complete...
Curated OER
Differences Are Keys For Coloring
In this math worksheet, students solve subtraction problems and match the differences to color words to complete a picture. Students solve twenty problems to color the picture.
Curated OER
Color the Block!
In this coloring cubes worksheet, students color the cubes that are stacked on top of each other different colors according to the directions. Students color 5 blocks total.
National Gallery of Canada
My Treehouse
If you could build your own treehouse, what would it look like? Using a piece of contemporary art as inspiration, learners draw their own treehouses and add geometric and organic shapes. The lesson touches on Visual Thinking Strategies...