Youngsters use their large motor skills to build numbers to 20 in this outdoor, kinesthetic, collaborative activity. Amass cardboard boxes for groups to stack, sort, and bundle into 10s and 1s to show numbers and place value. They'll...

Demonstrate how rain is measured. Pupils will use a rain gauge to measure the amount of rainfall during one week. Then record the data and discuss the results.

Students use their math skills of sorting and classifying with materials they collect outdoors. In this early childhood math activity, students participate in a treasure hunt to gather item in nature and categorize their finds.

Students celebrate the summer by preparing a picnic together. For this early childhood lesson plan, students word together to prepare a picnic and develop fine motor and cooperative skills.

Help young scientists connect with nature and learn about trees with a fun life science lesson. Heading out into the school yard, children choose a tree to adopt, taking measurements, writing descriptions, and drawing sketches of it in...

Students observe math and science concepts no matter which way the wind blows. In this early childhood problem solving lesson plan, students will develop science, math, and observation skills as they learn about the wind.

Students can turn the block area into a travel agency. In this early childhood problem solving instructional activity, students use creative-thinking and language skills as they design a play environment.

Students experiment with the angle that yields the greatest distance of water at constant pressure.  In this experiment with the angle that yields the greatest distance of water at constant pressure lesson, students shoot water out...