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Addition: The Raindrop Game

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students play the Raindrop Game to reinforce math skills. In this addition and subtraction lesson, students explore the concept of more and less as they play a weather-themed card game.
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Bugs Lesson Plan

For Teachers K
Students complete a unit of lessons on insects. They participate in a bug hunt, construct paper flowers, discuss pollination, create bug paperweights and insect mobiles, play bug charades, and participate in a bug scavenger hunt.
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Region Reality

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders compare and contrast world regions and explore the theme of world regions. In this world geography instructional activity, 8th graders name regions in the U.S. and mark them on a map. Students discuss the cultural and...
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The Water Cycle/States of Matter

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers engage in a lesson that is concerned with the water cycle and different states of matter. They conduct research using a variety of resources in preparation for taking a quiz. Then students take the quiz in correlation to...
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Worksheet 8

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this math worksheet, students explore how the use of implicit differentiation does not give the solutions to the differential equation. Then they write the definitions to the vocabulary related to differential equations.
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House 3

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this ESL asking/answering questions activity, students examine a picture of a common household object or a room in the house. Students read the question and answer it on the line provided.
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Homelessness

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the importance of soup kitchens. In this philanthropy lesson, students brainstorm ways they can be philanthropists. Students watch a puppet show about a young girl who doesn't have enough to eat at home and has to go...
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Spark Activity: Parachute Switcheroo

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students move from one parachute to another, based on a color called out by the teacher. Students attempt to move before the teacher counts to five. Students discuss direction and moving in clockwise and counter clockwise directions.
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Spark Activity: VIP Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students play VIP tag. In this physical education lesson, students practice their cardiovascular endurance and agility as they follow the provided directions to play VIP tag.
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Partner Switcheroo Stunt Hunt

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice tumbling skills. In this physical education lesson, students use their flexibility skills in order to follow the provided procedures to play Switcheroo Stunt Hunt.
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Exploring Projective Geometry

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this exploring projective geometry worksheet, students use computer software for instruction, then answer 9 questions about 3D drawings.
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Principles of Flight

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders study flight and compare various flights.  In this measurement lesson students complete a lab activity and record measurements. 
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Celsius or Fahrenheit?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create a thermometer.  In this Celsius or Fahrenheit lesson, 2nd graders create an individual thermometer to use for measuring the temperature.  Students convert the outside temperature. 
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Describe and Classify 2-D Shapes

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this 2-D shapes worksheet, students match a set of descriptions to shapes given. A reference website for additional resources is given.
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The Easter Celebration

For Teachers K - 4th
Young scholars read a short story about Easter. They recognize and point to pictures of the key words (egg, chicken, rabbit, basket, flower). They make an Easter basket and count how many chickens can fit inside. They also practice...
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Five Senses: Brave Little Monster

For Teachers K
Students identify which of the five senses is being used at a given time. They read "Brave Little Monster" by Ken Baker and then read the story again as they match student-made cards depicting the five senses to moments in the story.
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Subtract Is From 10 to 18 (Shapes) II

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this finding the differences worksheet, students subtract number sentences and count sets of total numbers of objects, the objects with x's, and the difference. Students solve 6 problems.
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Number Recognition: 10

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this early childhood number recognition worksheet, students examine the number 10 in the center of the worksheet. Students then count 6 sets of objects which each total 10.
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And the Number Is

For Teachers K
Students identify the numbers 1-10 while listening to a counting song. They practice counting items using the numbers 1-10.
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Array to Go!

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders are introduced to arrays as a means for multiplication readiness. Once students are comfortable with naming the array by counting the columns and rows, they integrate skip counting.
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The Letter Race

For Teachers K
Students practice identifying the letters in the alphabet. They use this activity in phyical education class and run to each letter when they identify it correctly. They also state the name of different objects throughout the room.
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Rectangles and Squares

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify two dimensional shapes in the school environment. In this basic shapes lesson, students watch a video about rectangles and squares. Students find examples shapes in their classroom and draw them. Students present their...
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What's the Mean?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify mean using concrete objects.
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Over and Under Estimation

For Teachers 1st
First graders distinguish between an over-estimate and an under-estimate. They estimate the number of beans that can be held in a hand, organize data and actual findings.