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Bubbles: Science or Fun?
Learners learn through bubbles. In this science lesson plan, students test the effect of four differently shape wands and three geometric figures in a bubble mixture.
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Classifying Shapes
In this math worksheet, students investigate simple geometric shapes in the world around them. Students examine 3 detailed pictures which contain many shapes, then answer 7 questions about the picture. Then students complete a rebus...
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Graphics Integrates Fun
Students take digital pictures of themselves before using a stylus pen on to trace their facial features on a graphic pad. Using an Internet gallery of body drawings they complete a caricature of themselves. In two other activities, they...
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Everyone Has Interesting Stuff Teaching With Objects in the Classroom
Students determine what objects tell about a person. For this historical object lesson, students share an object that they feel tells a lot about themselves. They pass the object around a class circle, while others comment on what they...
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Egg Fun
Students investigate the characteristics of eggs by playing and experimenting with them.
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What Shape is That?
Each country or group of people has created special places of worship. Children read a story about religious buildings and architecture and then make clay models of the buildings they like the best. The lesson has been written to...
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Where Are You?: Prepositions of Place
Examine prepositions of place in this language arts lesson. Learners participate in activities to indicate prepositions and physical actions that demonstrate those prepositions. They create drawings with shapes, play the games "Simon...
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Shapes
Students discuss different shapes each day of the week. Students connect shapes they are learning to shapes they see in the real world.
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Balloon Fun
Students conduct an experiment with balloons and skewers. They speculate the reasons for the balloon's reactions to the skewers and write about their observations.
Scholastic
Study Jams! Properties of Matter
Does matter really matter? Properties of matter are discussed by Sam and RJ: mass, volume, and density. They differentiate between mass and weight. They explain how to measure these properties. Make sure to teach your class about other...
Curated OER
Fun With Fish Forms
Students explore fish adaptations and anatomy. In this science lesson, students discuss various adaptations of fish and how those adaptations help them.
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Fun with Flowers
Students make observations of flowers. In this life science lesson, students look at flowers, then draw and color their favorite flowers. Lesson includes extension activities.
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Geometry Fun
Students learn the basic definitions of a quadrilateral, parallelogram, rectangle and square and explain the relationship/classification process between them.
Freecloud Design
Mathmateer
Three, two, one...liftoff! Elevate math skills to new heights while having a blast. A great resource that combines entertainment and education for children of all ages.
K12 Reader
Color the Halloween Adjectives
Halloween is a great time to review some dark, spooky, and fun describing words! A holiday scene containing a black cat, grinning jack-o-lantern, and foggy sky comes forth when class members color the sections with adjectives yellow.
Perkins School for the Blind
Testing the Strength of a Column
Columns have been used throughout the world because they are good load-bearing structures. Learners with visual impairments conduct an experiment to work through the design process as well as to understand this engineering phenomenon....
K12 Reader
Color the St. Patrick’s Day Adjectives
Who needs luck when you've got grammar skills? Celebrate St. Patrick's Day in language arts class with a fun coloring activity that prompts young readers to color all adjective sections green.
Lincoln Public Schools
Developmental Strokes: Pre-Writing Worksheet
Young writers develop their fine motor skills one stroke at a time with this simple tracing worksheet. Looking at pictures of eight basic figures ranging from horizontal and vertical lines to circles and triangles, children practice...
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Torn Insect Art
Sometimes the best way to drive home a concept is through an art project. Here is a quick and easy activity that can help learners remember or become more familiar with the parts on an insect's body. They tear brightly colored paper into...
Illustrative Mathematics
Sort and Count II
Capture the engagement of young mathematicians with this hands-on sorting activity. Given a bag of objects, learners work independently sorting the items based on their physical attributes, counting to determine the size of each group....
Grand Erie District School Board
Model Cell Project
If you're finishing up a unit on cells, here's a great project to get kids collaborating and recalling what they've learned in a fun and tangible way. Small groups create plant or animal cells out of materials they have at home. They use...
Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds
Valentine’s Counting and Color Sorting Activity
Reinforce the concept of one-to-one correspondence with a Valentine's Day-themed counting and color sorting activity. Scholars sort foam hearts by color—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple—then count and place them on a number...
Exploratorium
Bird in the Cage
When your life science class is learning about the eye and how it works, you can add this activity as a demonstration of how the retina holds an afterimage. After staring at a red, green, or blue bird shape, pupils glance at a cage and...