In this customized handwriting:  soccer is fun worksheet, 1st graders change the style, font and text, then print the worksheet to practice printing and color the picture.

An online interactive quiz that checks reading comprehension for Isabel Allende's young adult novel City of the Beasts. Creator based this quiz on the Spanish language version, so pre-screen for accuracy if your class is using the...

Young scholars read the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and listen to the musical tape. Then they make their own coconut trees, adding their own letters. They express and record their favorite parts. All are displayed on a bulletin board.

Organizing information gathered for a research topic can be a challenge. Read aloud notes you have collected on a topic and use suggestions offer by the class to categorize and sort this information. Partners then follow this pattern,...

Students create sun protection devices by modeling sunglasses invented by native people of the Arctic and study about protecting the body from sun exposure. They write a small paragraph explaining and justifying why they believe a...

Break the ice with a series of silly questions. This slide show asks 10 different, would you rather, questions. Each question has three silly answers to choose from. Great for classroom fun, the first day of school, or as a way to take a...

Timed tests don't have to cause stress, they can be fun. To boost automaticity in solving the 3s times tables, this presentation is set up as a speed game. Learners will write out the answers as each 3s multiplication problem is...

Here is a fun calculator trick, perfect for getting your learners ready for a day of exciting math. They multiply any single-digit number by 12,3456,789 to reveal an amazing result. Teaching notes are included on two of the slides.

Calculator tricks are a fun way to warm up the class while building interest in math. Kids enter a four-digit number into their calculator twice, then divide by 137. The answer will amaze the class and make you a math magician!

Young learners will build confidence with this illustrated worksheet. For each question, they determine whether the word starts or ends with sh. An example given is the word fish. Does it begin or end with the sh sound? 

Write it. Read it. Find it. That's the name of the game here! Elementary learners trace basic words, say them aloud, and find the matching picture. All words on this worksheet end with the letter g. 

Focus on poetry this summer to enhance those comprehension, fluency, and language skills with a set of resources intended to explore different types of poetry, specifically lyric poetry. The daily activities contain differentiation ideas...

Take note. Soul music. Gospel music. Country music. Summer comes alive with the sounds of music as program participants learn about various genres of music, create instruments, and write and perform songs about the facts and traditions...

Celebrate the arrival of winter with a reading of Jack Ezra Keats' book The Snowy Day. Engaging children by asking them about their own experiences in the snow, the teacher goes on to read the story...

Use word shapes to have learners fill in 16 listed words into the correct tall, medium, and low boxes. There are 4 pages with different words.

Here is a decent word search that asks participants to find ten "school words," and also has them place those words in alphabetical order. Additionally, they must unscramble versions of the words. This word search has more educational...

Graphing can be festive! This Easter worksheet has scholars using coordinates to record the location of ten holiday images. The first is done for them, and the grid is large and appealing to younger learners. Consider visualizing this...

After examining three sets of images, young counters determine which represents the desired number. There are six problems total, with numbers between 1 and 5. This would work well for kindergarteners during a day when you have...

After reading about marine engineers and naval architects, it's all hands on deck to design and test a speed boat. This lesson is designed for the Next Generation Science Standards in engineering and can be a centerpiece for a STEM...

Early learners rotate to different classroom centers and participate in six activities based on using marshmallows to review concepts learned. They make: marshmallow sculptures (geometric shapes), the shape of mittens using colored...

Students explore how the innovations in culture and technology influenced the development of a leisure industry in America at the turn of the twentieth century.

Fascinating aspects of electromagnetic radiation and its use in obtaining and transferring information are described here. Learners will find the connections to current technology interesting. Although the slides are text-heavy, they do...

What kinds of things need electricity to work? Kids draw the missing parts to three incomplete circuits in a worksheet about power and electricity. The science exploration asks them to build a circuit to a light bulb, but this might be a...

Round and round and round she goes. Where she stops, nobody knows. This activity uses a common arcade game of chance, the spinning wheel, as a platform for computing expected values, interpreting results, and applying this knowledge to...