While short, this presentation would provide a interesting and creative way to discuss common and proper nouns. This is a concept that students have difficulty understanding. In order to be able to write properly, students need to master...

A fact is a true statement and an opinion is what someone thinks, that's what your students will learn when they view this presentation. This resource provides definitions and examples of what facts and opinions are, then tests students...

Students practice naming furniture in this Home Game. Students also use prepositions of place to describe where the furniture is.

Fourth graders increase their comprehension of science terms by playing a vocabulary matching game. In small groups, they take turns trying to match vocabulary terms with the correct definitions. Missed words are added to the students'...

Pupils play The Dictionary Game--also called Balderdash as a way to learn new vocabulary words.

Learners identify major concepts related to the Arctic region and take scientific information and convert it into a usable form. They then gather data from a variety of resources and create an Arctic Scavenger Hunt Game.

Young scholars play a new version of tag on snowshoes. Students are able to discover advantages and disadvantages of wearing snowshoes based on their performance in the game of tag.

Young scholars participate in a game in which they trade chocoloate. In groups, they discover the difficulties in trading fairly in the chocoloate business. They highlight the benefits of fair trade.

Fourth graders explore Illinois state history by finding six historical photos and then putting them in sequential order.

High schoolers study vocabulary words and explore persuasive speaking. In groups, they support a given argument and generate ideas for a a persuasive speech. They discuss powerful words and strategies for persuasion. Students write a...

In this icebreaker activity worksheet, learners examine 30 descriptions and find classmates who fit the descriptions. Students should record the names of classmates next to the descriptions they match.

Learners participate in Olympic events. In this Olympic Games lesson, students research information about countries involved in the Olympic Games and prepare to participate in a closing ceremony for their school Olympics.

In this icebreaker activity worksheet, students examine 30 descriptions and find classmates who fit the descriptions. Students should record the names of classmates next to the descriptions they match.

High schoolers participate in a history game. In this State of the Union activity, students follow the provided instructions and use the provided materials to play a Bingo game based in the President's annual address to Congress.

In this maze worksheet, students find their way through the maze in order to find their way back home from the park. There are 2 ways home, and the students are instructed to find both ways.

Tunnel tag requires players to form some kind of tunnel when they are tagged. In order to become unfrozen from being tagged, another player has to go through the tunnel they formed. There are several examples of tunnels that a player can...

Double tunnel tag is just the same as tunnel tag but the players are now with a partner. This poses it's own challenges when running around and trying to avoid being tagged. The only difference from tunnel tag is that when a player is...

Take a look at this cooperative learning activity. The goal of the activity is to transport nuclear waste (a cup of water) from point A to point B without spilling the toxic waste. There are several ideas given here for things to use to...

A jury must decide: are the names of two businesses so similar that one is hurt by customer confusion? Learners play the role of a juror who must decide—and convince others—whether Trio Taco and Trio Pizza are too similar. Using...

Learners take on the roles of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of government in the United States and work to develop public policy issues and ideas into laws in this engaging and well-designed online interactive.

Sketch graphs with the Graph Sketcher. Scholars graph functions on a coordinate plane. An interactive makes it as easy as inputting the function and clicking a button.

Switch, change, rotate! Players are in groups of three scattered around the playing area. Switch means the lead and back players change positions. Change means the entire group turns and goes in the opposite direction. Rotate means the...

Build counting fluency in your kindergartners with this counting and grouping timed learning game. Provide various groups of objects to count such as a clear plastic bag filled with 7 beans or a cup with 5 pennies. There are many other...

An entertaining and educationally sound instructional activity on sentence structure is here for you. Young readers play an online game called "The Patchwork Game" where they must patch together a series of words in order to create a...