Learners utilize their own drawings of spiders to analyze and sort the attributes that each student drew.

Color is the focus of this amazing resource packed with math, social studies, science, and language arts activities. Kids create a color word wall and post symbols, graph the number of objects they find of each color while on a...

In this transportation learning exercise, students recognize the various modes of transportation. Students then color, cut, and sort the images.

Fifth graders draw 2-D and 3-D shapes. They sketch and label geometric figures with correct terminology, then explore parallel and perpendicular lines. Pupils sort and classify shapes drawn.

Students explore organization by participating in an object sorting activity. In this classification lesson, students view a diagram which details the different ways to sort items. Students practice sorting random objects in class by...

Students classify various hardware items using the attributes of the objects. In this classification lesson, students group objects based on their attributes and explain their classification key.

Students explore nature by participating in a class lab activity. In this human vs. nature lesson plan, students examine a group of items in their classroom and discuss whether they were created naturally or have been altered or created...

Students investigate living organisms and define the properties of a living species.  In this life characteristic lesson, students examine plants in their class and discuss whether or not they are alive.  Students create a...

Learners practice classifying objects while utilizing candy. In this sorting activity, students observe an assortment of M&M's and analyze the candy based on color. Learners create a color chart based on the number of different...

Young scholars identify basic geometric shapes. In this geometry lesson, students read the book Shapetown and identify the various shapes from the story. Young scholars are given a sheet and draw part of a town using only shapes.

Students learn five songs to define and develop understanding of the attributes of two- and three-dimensional figures and the meaning of mathematical terms. They classify objects as either two- or three-dimensional, through the use of...

Fifth graders investigate coral reefs and the dangers they face by labeling and drawing.  In this oceanography lesson, 5th graders view a PowerPoint presentation of photographs of coral reefs in Belize.  Students investigate...

Young scholars explore gingerbread stories. In this poetry lesson, students read the folk tale "The Gingerbread Man" as well as Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett and identify rhyming words. Young scholars also make art projects, dramatize...

Third graders use Google Earth to examine Roman architecture. In this ancient Rome lesson, 3rd graders visit the noted URLs to look at examples of Roman architecture. Students work in teams to examine data about the structures.