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Outdoor Activities/Problem Solving: Math Goes to the Playground

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students build their math skills outdoors. In this early childhood math lesson, students use comparative language as they chart and graph the items on their playground.
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Activity Plan Mixed Ages: Body Shapes

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore the shape of things as they bend, twist, and turn. For this early childhood lesson plan, students develop social, creative-thinking, and language skills and spatial awareness as they use their bodies to create geometric...
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Activity Plan 5-6: Shape Transformers

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students expand their thinking while investigating shape and design. For this early childhood lesson plan, students transform a geometric shape into another shape or design to develop math and creative-thinking skills.
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Activity Plan 5-6: Book-Character Homes

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students use their creativity to build character homes. In this early childhood lesson plan, students develop creative-thinking, social, language, math, and motor skills as they work together to create buildings for characters from...
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Activity Plan Mixed Ages: Family Math

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students play with math. In this early childhood lesson plan, students create drawings of family members to use for math activities including counting, seriating, sorting, grouping, and sequencing.
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Activity Plan 5-6: Family Banner

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars create family banners. For this early childhood lesson plan, students develop language, creative thinking, and social awareness by creating banners about their families.
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Activity Plan Mixed Ages: Pineapple Investigations

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students use all of their senses to explore a fresh, delicious pineapple. In this early childhood lesson plan, students engage in activities that encourage sensory exploration, problem solving, creative-thinking, language skills, and the...
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Activity Plan Mixed Ages: A Funny Hat Show

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners create unique hats. For this early childhood lesson plan, students engage in a group celebration to foster social skills, creativity, and fine- and gross-motor development as they put on a funny fashion show with the hats they...
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Activity Plan 4-5: Animal Habitats

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students investigate the world around them with this animal habitat activity. In this early childhood lesson plan, students create murals depicting animal habitats to encourage the development of science, geography, creative-thinking,...
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A Room Full of Colors and Shapes

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore their new classroom with this hunting and matching game. In this early childhood problem solving lesson, students use observation and matching skills as they hunt for pre-cut shapes around the classroom.
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Recycled Treasures

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students develop creative-thinking skills that they will use repeatedly throughout their life. In this early childhood art lesson, students develop creative-thinking, social-development, and language skills, and an awareness of the...
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Sand and Water

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students follow this recipe for fun clay creations. In this early childhood art and science activity, students develop creative-thinking skills, fine-motor skills, and sensory awareness while they make, mold, and decorate salt dough.
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Activity Plan 4-5: I'm Graphing to Know You!

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars create graphs about themselves to learn more about one another. In this early childhood math lesson, students record information about one another as they make picture graphs.
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Outdoor Activities/Problem Solving: Nature Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students act as young explorers on this scavenger hunt. In this early childhood lesson plan, students build problem-solving and visual discrimination skills as they search outdoors to find matching nature items.
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Outdoor Activities/Problem Solving: Home Design

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students create with sticks and stones. In this early childhood lesson plan, students use their problem-solving skills to make houses out of items they find outdoors.
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Outdoor Activities: Solve It-Outdoors

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners practice problem solving skills. In this early childhood education lesson, students foster the ability to use creative and critical thinking to turn obstacles into bridges to greater learning as they complete various activities...
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Activity Plan 5-6: Art History 101

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students learn to appreciate art. In this early childhood lesson plan, students read about different artists and imitate their style to develop creative thinking, and language and literacy skills.
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Activity Plan 5-6: Architects at Work

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students build on what they know to make new discoveries. In this early childhood lesson plan, students engage in a block-building activity to develop language, math, and fine-motor skills.
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4-H Performing Arts/Recreation Activity Page

For Teachers 6th - 8th
As part of exploring different activities, students delve into performing arts as part of this activity sheet. Learners also get to share their favorite activities.
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Prairie Voices: Spare Time

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students examine forms of recreation throughout the last 150 years. In this leisure time lesson, students investigate leisure activities in pre- and post-industrial society as they listen to a teacher-led lecture and discuss their...
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Summer Water & Sand Activity: Go with the Flow

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students discover different materials that help to transport water in order to develop their observation and problem solving science skills. In this water instructional activity, students first brainstorm about different ways that water...
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Dance! Having Fun!

For Students 6th - 8th
For this arts worksheet, students find the words related to dancing as a recreational activity. The answers are found by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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Fishing Unit with Field Trip

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students complete a unit on the hobby of fishing. They assemble the line with the necessary equipment (hook, swivel, bobbers, weights, and lures.) They practice casting and discover what to do when they catch a fish. They follow with...
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Geocaching

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Using GPS units, small groups participate in a scavenger hunt to find an object that you have hidden. They use coordinates for stopping points along a pre-planned path to get to the final cache. This is a terrific activity to include in...