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Cooperative Handball

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners, in teams, spread out on their half of the playing area and pass the ball from teammate to teammate, until the team goalie catches the ball. The goalies are placed on the opposite ends of where their teamates are.
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Lesson 6 - Our Important Wetlands and Uplands

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students examine the benefits wetlands provide to man and nature. They compare types of wetlands in northeast or east-central Florida. They discover ways that uplands affect wetlands and water bodies.
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Firefighters: Community Helpers

For Teachers K
Students, after reading the book, The Fire Station Book, discuss how a firefighter helps people in a community. They also participate in songs and games about firefighting.
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Crime School Investigations

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students solve a mystery at their school. In this classifying instructional activity, students find suspects who committed the crime. Students categorize them into race, sex, and fingerprint type. Students show their results in graphs.
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Helen Keller: Word Search

For Students 3rd - 4th
in this Helen Keller word search learning exercise, learners find 7 words from Helen Keller's speech in a word search puzzle. Words are hidden horizontally, vertically and diagonally. Speech is not given as part of learning exercise.
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A4 Containers

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders determine which container made from a single sheet of paper has the greatest volume. They look the solutions made by three different students before working on their own examples.
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Habitat Is Home

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students are introduced to the concept and components of a habitat. They discuss the key components of a habitat and describe how certain factors can cause disturbances in a habitat and change its population. Activities are leveled for...
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Squirrel in a Tree

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students develop an awareness of and practice the mobility needed to run around other Students.
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Mesopotamian Tablet, Egyptian Art

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine cuneiform writing from a stone tablet, then write a simple sentence using pictographs. They analyze various examples of Egyptian art, construct a model of an Egyptian boat, and create a class painting using glyphs...
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Make Your Own Shape Puzzles

For Teachers All
Students create their own shape puzzles. They practice putting puzzle pieces together so they fit correctly. They classify and sort the different shapes as they finish the puzzle.
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Neuroscience for Kids - Sidedness

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Pupils participate in a study to determine whether they are ruled more by the left or the right side of their brain.
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Cool, Clear Water - Or Is It?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use a problem solving method to offer a solution to one of the water quality problems within the Kansas Lower Republican River Basin. Groups research a problem area, then produce a skit, poem, song or story to illustrate the...
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Alphabetical Order

For Teachers K
Students participate in a teacher lead teacher activity. They sit in a circle while the teacher places four ABC cards down and has a student identify the missing letter. After the demonstration, they are broken into small groups to...
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Who says I can't be Sherlock Holmes?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners create a "crime scene" in their classroom and have to tell what's out of place. The class is given a set of cards that are all face down and have to play concentration. If they get a matched pair, they get both cards. Whoever...
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Reflecting Culture Through Coins

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students research and recreate coins from ancient civilizations to determine how the imagery reflects the cultures which originally made them.
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Shape Toss

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars get a bounce ball and find a Polyspot. On the teacher's signal, students underhand throw to a target. They keep their own score: one point each time they hit a target.
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Ecosystems

For Students 7th - 12th
In this ecosystems learning exercise, students define the components that make up an ecosystem. Students focus on the forests found in Ireland. This learning exercise has 30 fill in the blank and 7 short answer questions.
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Gold Mine

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils view and discuss a demonstration of how gold is mined and panned. They design and create a tunnel that has reinforcements to withstand collapse.
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My Name is.....

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners utilize available technology to create, produce, and publish an alphabet pattern book. Students use publishing, multimedia and word processing for their writing. They create their own A My Name is Alice Class book based off the...
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It’s Your Trash!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify the different sections of a landfill. In this ecology lesson, students brainstorm ways that they can help in proper trash disposal. They write a reflection journal about their thoughts on the subject.
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Chapter 6 - Objective 3.1 Multiplication

For Students 9th - 10th
In this multiplication worksheet, students multiply algebraic expressions. This one-page worksheet contains ten problems.
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Meiosis

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars study meiosis and how it leads to variation. In this genetic reproduction lesson students complete a lab activity that calculates different genetic possibilities.
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A.P. Calculus Test Covering Limits, Derivatives, and Integrals

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
For this calculus worksheet, students solve ten multiple-choice questions and eleven free-response questions covering limits, derivatives, and integrals.  Students should have covered trig limits prior to this worksheet.
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Bat Ecology

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students, through hands on games and activities, discover how bats live and how bats benefit ecosystems. They play a game designed to show them how echolocation works and another to show how mother bats locate their young through their...