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E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Hawaii Tiki Lounge: How Can We Protect Our Senses?
Learn about the five senses and how to protect them from harm.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Antarctica: Which Types of Sounds Do You Know?
For this lesson, students learn about the five senses, identify objects that make sound, and take a fun fact quiz at the end.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Our Sense of Vision
Which parts of the body are involved in vision (seeing)? Is light important for vision? In this lesson students make kaleidoscopes to learn that light is essential to vision, and that the brain processes information from the eyes, which...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Minnesota Tree Leaves
In this biology field exercise, students will collect leaves, describe differences seen in casual and detailed observation and give reasons for the importance of trees. Students will use their five senses to take a closer look at leaves...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: The Five Senses
An activity where students try to identify objects using only their senses, with and without a blindfold. The lesson is also appropriate for special needs or ELL students in higher grades.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Easter Island: Senses: Observation of Living Familiar Things
Students investigate how the senses are used to make observations about objects and things in the environment.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Bikini Atoll: Senses: Observation of Familiar Materials and Objects
Students use their senses to identify and describe objects.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Know and Learn: Violet Counts Cookies
Violet must resist eating a cookie before she finishes counting them. Includes audio narration in 20 additional languages with text in English.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Best Tech Creation Tools
Check out this list of terrific tools for tech creation that offer a wide variety of engaging end products kids can create, from stories to animations to music to games.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Let's Learn
This collection of resources for children ages 3-8 are drawn from the public television series Let's Learn, a partnership between the WNET Group and the New York City Department of Education. Let's Learn aims to provide our young...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Saxon Activity Center: Calculator Activity 5: Division [Pdf]
A worksheet for practicing basic division facts and word problems using a calculator. Includes detailed examples. Acrobat Reader required.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Aliki
This resource site for the work of the children's author Aliki includes lesson plans and activities for students reading Corn is Maize, Painted Words, Spoken Memories, My Visit to the Zoo, My Visit to the Aquarium, and Wild and Wooly...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Can Our Eyes Fool Our Taste Buds?
Engage young learners in science with this poem and simple experiment from The Poetry Friday Anthology for Science for Kids by Pomelo Books.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Ed Tech Top Picks List
See Common Sense Media's top ed-tech tools lists for many categories.
Other
Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers: Science Ideas
A great resource to discover fun new activities to use in your classroom. Activities are age-appropriate, and span several science topics.
Teaching Treasures Publications
Teaching Treasures Picture Math Grades K 1 (Page 5)
Add and subtract pictures and numbers in this easy to use interactive worksheet. A great tool for a quick practice. Problems are presented in a horizontal format.
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Making Rain
Your students will enjoy making their own rainstick while learning about poetry and expressing their feelings about rain. This three-part lesson gives step-by-step instructions, as well as an assessment rubric.
Mr. Martini's Classroom
Mr. Martini's Classroom: Counting by 5's
Practice counting by 5's and change the value to count higher or lower. Press "How to do this" for further instructions.
University of Washington
Taste: Activities, Experiments Models and More
This site has an directions for an exercise called "Tasty activities." Tasty Buds is just the first of many cool activities exploring one of the five senses. The grade levels for the activities vary so keep searching for your best fit.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: k.oa Shake and Spill
The purpose of this task is for students to decompose a number as a sum of two other numbers in more than one way. Students will shake and spill 5 two colored counters and determine how many of each color is showing and record the sum...
Staten Island Children's Museum
Staten Island Children's Museum: Sensory Play
Fun sensory activities to do at home with the family.
Teaching Treasures Publications
Teaching Treasures: Year One Timed Mental Math (Page1)
Test your computation skills using this timed interactive worksheet. Five minutes is the time limit. Answers can be checked when finished. This short activity would be suitable for a quick assessment.
Teaching Treasures Publications
Teaching Treasures: Year One Timed Mental Math (Page 3)
Try to solve ten addition or subtraction problems in less than five minutes using this interactive worksheet. Immediate feedback is given. A suitable tool for use as a quick assessment.