Help students learn how to encourage others using kindness and supportive words with this social skills game. Designed for learners on the autism spectrum, students practice using encouragement phrase prompts while...

Introduce the importance of sharing and taking turns with your learners through a hands-on learning experience involving toy cars! Here you'll find activity instructions and printables to support your "Share the Road" collaborative...

Learning math is so much more fun when it involves playing games. Following the rules of the classic game Memory, young mathematicians flip over two cards at a time as they look for numbers whose sum or difference is equal to the value...

Tunnel tag requires players to form some kind of tunnel when they are tagged. In order to become unfrozen from being tagged, another player has to go through the tunnel they formed. There are several examples of tunnels that a player can...

Learning how to describe an object or a person is a great way to develop verbal and written expression. Learners with special needs improve their verbal expressive skills and concept development skills while playing a guessing game. The...

You don't usually find lessons written just for learners with Down syndrome, so this is a true jewel. Kindergartners will explore farm animal sounds and identification as they sing the song, "Down on Grandpa's Farm." They sing the song,...

Play a coordinates game to encourage collaborative learning and grid use! Learners plot points on grids and play a game that challenges them to locate a specific point on a coordinate grid by using horizontal and vertical movements.

Show your kids that staying healthy is the smart choice! They examine nutrition, healthy snacks, and the importance of staying active in a several-part lesson plan. There are different ideas for older and younger students here, and you...

Students match the instruments to the characters they represent in Peter and the Wolf. They also identify the instruments by name from listening to their sound.

Students listen to a read aloud of "Hats, hats, hats," by Ann Morris focusing on the variety of hats. They play a file folder game categorizing hats from the book.

Students play a musical Alphabet game after listening to the book "Alphabet Letters" by Rolando Merino in this Language Arts instructional activity for early-elementary classrooms. The instructional activity includes an idea on how to...

Students practice sorting books. For this sorting lesson, students play the Flood Game on the PBS web site. With knowledge of the sorting system used by libraries, students sort small numbers of books using categories devised by their...

Young scholars examine character traits to find the most positive behaviors.  In this getting along lesson, students identify behaviors that are beneficial to getting along.  Young scholars evaluate their own behaviors and...

Students organize ways of reading expressively as well as fluently. They encounter books by Dr. Seuss within this instructional activity. Practice, practice and more practice makes perfect. Punctuation marks are reviewed for accuracy.

Young scholars add pennies, nickels and dimes and organize the coins to display a variety of price values from real life examples. They discuss the importance of money in the day-to-day world.

For this printing learning exercise, learners form upper and lowercase letter K. Students also color in pictures that begin with the letter.

Kids will get a kick out of this kooky Letter K activity! With pictures of a kite, king, keys, and kangaroo, kids practice printing their uppercase and lowercase K's in guided dotted letters and on the dotted line. The instructions on...

Students practice their spelling words with shaving cream. In this spelling skills lesson, students practice their spelling words using shaving cream on their desks.

Students entertain themselves in a laundry basket. In this performing arts lesson, students sit in a basket with small items and then throw the items out repeating the procss over an over again.

Students explore animals, plants, and their habitats.

Students recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ from other vowel phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation in a story...