Students use the Internet to research the author Leo Lionni, then rewrite and illustrate one of his stories.

Students investigate the relationship between children and parents by reading a book about owls.  In this story analysis lesson, students read the book Owl Babies and participate in a role play based on one of the characters....

Students are given organizing boards and play domino and cube games. These simple games provide fun and practice in categorizing, using dominos and unifix cubes.

Students listen to the book, "The Grouchy Ladybug" by Eric Carle and sequence the events in the story. Using a graph, they draw and color the animals that the ladybug meets next to the corresponding time from the story, and conduct...

Teach young mathematicians the concepts of greater than, less than, and equal to with kinesthetic, visual, verbal, and numeric approaches. In a playful session that addresses multiple intelligences, your class will: dramatize a greedy...

Students classify and compare plants using specific information, observations, and numbers. In this mathematical inquiry lesson, students use plant characteristics to describe, compare, and classify them. They attempt to develop a system...

Improve your kindergartners' math and science vocabulary with flash cards and word walls. Based on the vocabulary in the Common Core standards, the cards use illustrations to show the meanings of many math terms and descriptions.

Students engage in a lesson which involves role-play and the use of manipulatives to solve subtraction problems. After a lecture/demo, students utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to gain subtraction practice. They get to eat the...

Students work in small groups as they are assigned one of the food groups. They decide how to act out one of the foods included in that group. Next, they discuss their favorite foods and where they fit on the food pyramid and examine the...

Students discover how to break into equal teams. In this dividing lesson, students break different numbers of people into equal groups. Students draw pictures to represent their division and discuss what to do when an equal division...

Students explore how ice cream is made in a factory and at home. They help make ice cream in the classroom. They measure out the ingredients. Students share the ice cream when it is done.

Students investigate the quantities of those foods they must eat each day in order to have a balanced diet. They determine the quantities from each food group they need to eat for a balanced diet.

Students perform a study of farm animals and their babies. They compile a graph of their favorite farm animals. They utilize a spreadsheet worksheet which is imbedded in this plan.

In this alphabet learning exercise, students focus on the letter a. Coloring pictures that begin with the letter a sound, students choose the largest object in each box to color.

Students identify the different colors in a rainbow. They experiment with dropping food coloring into a water and then making ice cubes. They discuss what happens to the water in the freezer

Students strengthen observational skills by searching for insects in their home and classroom. In this observation lesson, students use magnifying glasses to classify what kinds of bugs were found. Students then create a bar graph to...

Learners work in groups to describe plants using numbers. In this number instructional activity, students use numbers to define plants and then use numbers to write descriptions of themselves.

Molly is back in a More or Less Quest! This educational activity provides word problems with manipulatives for kids to practice comparing more or less. The word problems are read aloud and have objects that can be used for counting and...

This lesson is More or Less a great lesson! Engage students in finding 10 more and 10 less than a number using these fun activities. Includes an eSpark video on place value, detailed lesson plan, copy of a hundreds chart, and practice...

This is a good small group/pairs activity to practice counting. Each student grabs two handfuls of counters and counts them. The student then draws and records the quantity on a student-recording sheet (example included). Student...

Practice finding one more or one less than a number. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.

Compare two groups of coins and determine which group is worth more or less than the other. Money values are less than thirty cents. Words, not inequality signs, are used to compare the values. Score is kept as you go through activity.

Did you know that counting and all numbers are based on tens and that everything starts over when you hit a number with a "0" in the ones column? This lesson provides strategies and pattterns for counting to fifty and includes two...

Practice solving word problems by finding how many more (or fewer) objects there are. Numbers used are 20 or less. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.