Teach Engineering
An Inflated Impression of Mars
Help your class understand the magnitude of the distance between Earth and Mars with an activity that asks small groups to use balloons to create scale models of the Earth, Moon, and Mars. Class members figure out the distances between...
PLS 3rd Learning
Interpreting Heart Rates During Various Physical Activities
Learners review terminology: pulse, heart rate, target heart rate zone. They work in three groups, and assigned to one of three activity stations. At 5-minute intervals, 4th graders check their pulse and record it on their group card....
Curated OER
Who Wants to Spend $20,000?
Who wouldn't want $20,000 to spend? But, the question becomes, what do you spend it on? Learners discuss loans, interest, and making adult-like financial decisions. They role-play a scenario that depicts the choices of a girl who took...
PEGAMES.org
Buddy Buddy
If you're in need of a fun, active game in the classroom for your youngsters on a rainy day or during a break, try the steps listed here. While all class members hop around the room, learners become searchers to identify a hidden object.
Curated OER
Pride and Prejudice: ABC book (Vocabulary Activity)
Master Jane Austen's language from A to Z with an activity based on Pride and Prejudice. As kids read the novel, they find (or are assigned) words that begin with each letter of the alphabet, and create one-page documents that show the...
DocsTeach
Uncle Sam and the American Diet
Uncle Sam wants you to follow the food pyramid! Scholars analyze two images of propaganda posters the government created to promote the food pyramid. Academics complete a worksheet to understand the impact of the campaign and end the...
Curated OER
Makes Cents to Me: Penny Drive
St that people have wants and must find ways to get them. In this philanthropy lesson, young scholars understand the ways people get things and arrange a penny drive to help others. Students arrange an artistic project to reflect on...
University of Minnesota
Memory Items
Ready to have an "unforgettable" time in science class? Try a fun and insightful activity, suitable for a wide age group of learners. Explore how human memory works when pupils try to remember objects they've seen before comparing the...
Curated OER
Calendar Activity Set
In these calendar activities worksheets, students view and use a calendar with the days of the week, holiday stickers, months of the year, number squares one to thirty-one, the "Days of the Months" poem, and a calendar research activity....
Curated OER
Men in Black: Activity Worksheets
In this set of activity worksheets for the story, Men In Black, students complete a total of 23 questions: short answer, word order, matching and true/false. Worksheets are followed by a 9 question assessment.
Curated OER
Determining Needs Versus Wants
Students discriminate between a need and a want in home buying. They write a detailed description of their dream home. Finally they categorize each of their listed home features as a need or a want.
Curated OER
4-H Photography Beginning Activity Pages
Activate interest in photography with these beginning activity pages! Learners build their own pinhole cameras, fill in a crossword puzzle about camera equipment, complete a service project, and research careers. This resource is...
Equality and Human Rights Commission
What Are Human Rights
What if, rather than being entitle to human rights, basic human rights had to be purchased? With a fixed income, what rights would you buy? How much would you be willing to pay for a particular right? to gain an understanding of the...
US Institute of Peace
The Process of Negotiation
What does it take to be a great negotiator? Learners discover the factors that affect the negotiation process through group discussion and brainstorming. An installment in a series of peacebuilding activities compares the needs and wants...
Department of Education (Ireland)
Assertive Communication
Assertive communication is an acquired skill. Teaching young people to ask for what they need and to believe that they have a right to ask is at the core of a unit on assertive communication. Over the course of the unit, middle and high...
Ideas From Suzi
Guided Reading: Beyond the Basics
Elevate children's reading comprehension skills with this collection of guided reading resources. From paper dice with basic comprehension questions printed on them to a system for using sticky notes to identify key parts of a story,...
Project B.A.S.I.C. Child Development Specialist and Child Care Consultation
Better Attitudes and Skills in Children
Little kids often have very big feelings, and need help expressing them. A set of social emotional lessons provide tangible ways for young elementary learners to visualize their emotions, focus on clear communication, and channel their...
Federal Reserve Bank
Saturday Sancocho
What does stew have to do with bartering? Learners will find out how by reading the story Saturday Sancocho, discussing the text, participating in a bartering activity in class (once with goods only and once with money), and discussing...
Curated OER
Reading a Comparison-Contrast Essay
Turn your passive readers into active readers with an engaging lesson on reading informational text. Focused on compare and contrast structured essays, the activity prompts elementary learners to jot down questions and think-aloud...
EngageNY
Speaking and Listening Skills: Practice
After reviewing their resources from the unit, scholars participate in multiple group discussions with a World Café activity. During the discussions, they share ideas about their focus questions pertaining to Canada's natural resources...
Curated OER
Goals, Ideas, and Activities
In this goals and self awareness worksheet, students complete a set of sentences about their own goals, ideas for the future, activities they enjoy or don't enjoy and people in their lives who can help them reach their goals.
Curated OER
Needs of the Family
Students investigate the needs that need to met in order for a family to survive and flourish.
Curated OER
Everybody Needs
Pupils compare cultures. In this needs and wants lesson, students discuss the basic necessities of life and what they need in a day in order to survive. Pupils also discuss how these needs might change if they lived in another country....
Curated OER
Human Needs
Young scholars investigate human needs and how they have adapted to different environments. They complete an experiment to discover the effect of stress on muscles. They use the food pyramid to create a plan for healthy eating.