In this classroom management learning exercise, students learn the method of 'Give Me Five' by studying the pictures and learning the techniques of paying attention to the teacher.

Find the best way to appeal to the kids in your class with a positive reinforcement survey. Using forced choices, they decide which of two options would be better for them, based on adult approval, peer approval, independent rewards,...

Have your pupils really been reading the directions? Find out with this tricky little test. The first instruction is to read all of the directions quickly, but you'll find that quite a few pupils start acting rather funny just a few...

Use this worksheet to gather insight into the types of activities assignments that each of your students prefers, and create an effective, student-centered learning environment.

Determining whether or not something is living can be more difficult than it seems. Put your young scientists to work defining their own criteria to identify life, then work with three samples to see if they are alive or...

What better way to get your class interested in history than to embody important historical characters and make events come to life? Stage a realistic mock trial of the British soldiers accused of murdering five Bostonians after the...

Here is a simple worksheet in which junior chemists match thirty-three chemical symbols to their elements. Print one out to make photocopies and then click on the "view solution" button at the bottom for an answer key. Use this as a pop...

What do "milk," "rich," and "fix" have in common? They all have short "i" sounds, and they're all featured on this matching worksheet, along with twelve other words and definitions. Students who are struggling with vowel sounds will...

Consider using this simple list of matching vocabulary to welcome learners to (or back to) your Spanish classroom. They're not confined to one category, so they'd be a good general introduction back to Spanish. Bienvenido!

This matching exercise features 14 words and their definitions, including "Emancipation Proclamation," "dysentery," "rheumatism," and other vocabulary associated with Harriet Tubman and the Civil War. The instructional activity most...

Match the French word or phrase on the left to its English counterpart on the right. This online instructional activity provides practice for those learning French. Title claims it assesses the allez and venir verb forms, but vocabulary...

Learners match the vocabulary terms that are found in the left column with the definitions on the right side of the page. Pupils must solve 15 matching problems. The solution to the activity is viewable online. This could be a good...

Matching the vocabulary terms with the correct definition can be a fun way to build a content specific vocabulary. The class matches the words in the right column to the definitions in the left. Words are labeled by parts of speech.

Are you going on a trip, or do you want your beginning speakers to know travel-related vocabulary? Learners review the Spanish meaning for 22 words like bus, trip, first class, and trolley. 

Chomp chomp! Match the teeth terms to their definitions. Fifteen words are available for anatomy aces to define. Use this worksheet when teaching the digestive system in your human body systems unit. 

Test your students' knowledge of literary and cinematic genres with this matching worksheet. Twenty-one terms, such as "thriller," "western," "novel," and "horror," can be matched with their definition. Use this activity as an...

Introduce this list of fairy tale vocabulary to your class and then have a read aloud. As an extension activity, you could break your class into small groups and have each group write their own fairy tale, highlighting the new...

A 5 question learning exercise to match a physical fitness activity with its definition. This is not much use on it's own, but it could be used as an extension to another lesson.

Middle-school space science explorers review remote sensing and electromagnetic radiation vocabulary terms by unscrambling them. Consider having space scholars write out the definitions for each after unscrambling. If they take time to...

There are so many key vocabulary terms to know for French food! Use this list as a basis, and pair it with some fun activities to get your class moving. You could print off pictures to correspond with each vocabulary word and have...

Do you have an extra five or ten minutes of class time to fill? Grab one of these worksheets and have your learners test their knowledge. If you need to extend the activity, have them choose five words and then write sentences using...

Science stars unscramble twelve terms associated with the landforms and natural resources of the southwest United States. Print out this instructional activity and assign it to your middle school earth scientists. Have them write...

Chemistry apprentices unscramble seventeen general chemistry terms. At the bottom of the list, you will find online access to the solution. Print this resource out and have learners also write definitions for the different vocabulary...

Enhance your unit on sound waves with this word scramble. Fifteen terms are available for physics learners to unscramble. Have them write the definition for each as homework.