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Sorting Sizes

For Teachers Pre-K
Students follow a pattern. For this sorting lesson, students are given various objects and they must sort them from smallest to largest.
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Foam Ball Passover

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students work together using positive verbal affirmations in a relay game of passing an object with their feet.
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Catching Assessment: Part II

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students are given the opportunity to improve some of their catching skills. They practice catching using the cues of "pinky" fingers together to catch objects below their waist, and thumbs together for catching objects that are above the h
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Clips, Cards, Rocks and Rulers

For Teachers 1st
First graders use standard and non-standard tools to measure classroom objects. Partners compare data and responds to a journal prompt that provides application to real-world situations.
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Geo Jammin' - Day 4, Lesson 13: Where, Oh Where, Can the Geo Be?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners listen to a story "My Crazy Dream" with an intent to identify shapes in ordinary objects. They raise their hands when they've heard an object whose shape they can identify. They discuss their findings.
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What Do We Need for Our Picnic?

For Teachers 1st
First graders group objects according to physical characteristics.
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How Fast Is that Rocket?

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders calculate the speed of a falling object using measurements from a falling rocket. They report data from their data sheet to the teacher to record on the board or on the overhead transparency and discuss the results with...
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Finding the Spot

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use circles to "home in" on particular spots, showing the ability of scientists to locate unseen objects in space. This activity shows how scientists know certain objects exist in space due to the forces exerted by...
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Jin Soo Kim

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine and discuss a sculpture by the artist Jin Soo Kim. They explore and identify basic sculpture techniques, and create a sculpture using found objects, plaster, and cardboard.
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Balloon Round-Up

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice using paddles to hit objects. In this striking skills lesson, students use wooden paddles to round up balloon farm animals without touching the balloons with their hands.
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Here Kitty, Kitty

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students count up to ten objects in a group to find out how many.
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Mind over Matter

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create new devices out of everyday objects.
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Welcome to My Neighborhood

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create pictures of neighborhoods and label the people and objects with Spanish words and phrases.
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How Dense Are You?

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Young scholars examine how density is a value that describes what type of a material an object is made of regardless of its shape or size.
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Do You See What I See?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students observe and describe different objects seen under a microscope and compare the individual perspectives of what was seen.
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Stayin' Alive

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Pupils pick an object of their choice based on their ability to kick. The object is not to touch the ground. Group sizes vary within the instructional activity.
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Switch and Rotate

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in a game whose object is to stay so close to a partner that when the teacher says "Stop," the players freeze. The follower should touch the leader.
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Grocery Bag Fun

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners improve their ability to catch and control an object with a plastic grocery sack.
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Excuse Me

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in a game where one student is "the tagger." The tagger holds an object in their hand to signify they are the tagger. They attempt to move through the playing area attempting to tag other players with their beanbag.
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Tech Number Patterns

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders, using concrete objects or drawings, explain the difference between odd and even numbers.
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What's the Mean?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify mean using concrete objects.
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Diagonal Lengths

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students collect, organize, and analyze data while studying the Pythagorean Theorem, measure length and width of several rectangular objects, and compare the measured results to the calculated results.
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Oscar's Garbage Can

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students are arranged in a circle with two students inside the circle. They try to clean out Oscar's garbage can while the ones outside the circle try to throw the objects back in.
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Hula Hoop Hullabaloo

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use hula hoops to represent the zero as they count objects into ones, tens, hundreds and thousands. They complete an activity to after they have practiced counting objects.