Curated OER
Our Own City
Students will construct their own functioning city. Each day students will add to the city requiring adjustments and planning. They solve problems caused by increase in human settlement such as stacking houses creating apartments so that...
Curated OER
Money Math Challenge 3
In this finding the total amounts instructional activity, students add the values of pennies, nickels, and dimes to determine the total amounts of the various combinations. Students solve 6 problems.
DLTK
Groundhog Paper Craft
Get crafty this Groundhog's Day with a hands-on activity that combines creativity and making predictions. Scholars color, cut out, and put together a friendly image of a groundhog and showcase whether they feel the weather will be sunny...
Curated OER
Parts of Speech Slide Show
Review the parts of speech. English Langugae Learners use KidPix to create a paint picture for nouns, verbs, and adjectives. They use the KidPix slideshow tool to construct a slideshow of their work.
Curated OER
Making 10
Brilliant! This presentation helps kids discover all the different way they can make 10. Each slide contains 10 balls, as the kids count, each ball blinks, and the number appears under them to show how many. A plus sign pops up and the...
Curated OER
Fraction Lesson 6
Kids learn how to add fractions that have a common denominator. They go over both the correct and incorrect way to add fractions together, discuss which way is wrong and which is right, then complete a series of practice problems. Mixed...
Primary Resources
Number Bonds to 20
Kids can add their way to 20 with this cute bug-themed presentation. Each slide contains an addition sentence that adds up to 20 and various insect images for little learners to count. It's a highly visual resource that can be used...
Curated OER
Addition Drills, part 4
Show kids that addition has real-life applications as they add up measurements and money. There are some examples here demonstrating regrouping and including units in an answer. They complete 20 measurement addition problems, each with...
DK Publishing
Treetop Addition - Count How Many
Help your little monkeys learn to add with a fun worksheet! After counting circles in addition problems, kindergartners write in the total number of circles in the space provided. All answers add up to three through eight. Have kids...
Curated OER
Describing the Planets
Kids love learning about space! In this short plan, your young Spanish speakers read Los Planetas and talk about the nine planets. By the end, they should be able to name and identify each of the planets and add some descriptive words....
Curated OER
Lesson: A Spider's Perspective
A fun way to grow a class of creative thinkers, is to add creative projects to your weekly line up. Kids pretend they are small insects or spiders crawling up the side of a huge building. They use vivid imagery, rich detail, and their...
Curated OER
Reverse a WOW word
Spelling games are a fun way to get kids to think about the words they need to know. This game provides a series of 53 different WOW words (good vocabulary words). Learners must attempt to guess the word as it is spelled in reverse. Add...
K12 Reader
An Adverb Can Tell How
The -ly adverbs are the focus of a activity that asks kids to select adverbs from the provided word bank to add additional information about how the action of the sentence takes place.
Curated OER
Prefixes
Provide an opportunity for scholars to play around with words. They start with 12 root words and add prefixes to them to create new ones. There are five prefixes here, and learners list the new words beside each. Consider reviewing the...
DK Publishing
Addition Practice #2
Encourage young scholars to tap into their inner math-whiz as they add three and four-addend equations. The first 36 problems each have three addends (none over two-digit), and are written horizontally. Next, they complete eight more...
DK Publishing
And 3 More Makes...
Addition is easier to grasp when scholars draw the addends as sets of objects. Add three more teacups to each of these four sets, calculating and recording the totals. There are four equations written out without images, each...
Curated OER
Counting Money
Money is always a source of interest for young mathematicians, so utilize their engagement by adding up coin values. For each set of coins (quarter, dime, nickel, and penny) scholars count up and write the total. The example has them...
Curated OER
Which Coin?
Manage your money with change purses and piggy banks. Once they match different coins to corresponding price tags, first and second graders add the amounts of change in each illustration. For extra practice, bring in small items for kids...
Curated OER
Good Drugs, Bad Drugs
Add a science experiment on medicine and drugs to your health lesson. After reading a paragraph on the difference between helpful and harmful drugs, kids choose which pictures of bottles they could find at a pharmacy. The last activity...
Curated OER
Introduce Vocabulary: Happy Birthday, Moon (Asch)
Can you wish the moon a happy birthday? Beginning readers contemplate this as they listen to Frank Asch's book Happy Birthday, Moon, the context for a vocabulary study. There are three words outlined here: chat,...
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Ideas to Spice up Greek and Latin Roots
Learning Greek and Latin roots is an important way to develop vocabulary, but it does get quite boring. Use this list of ideas to add some fun to your daily lessons. Lots of games are suggested to get your kids up and moving. Note: no...
BioEd Online
Muscle Fibers
What better way to learn about muscle than by dissecting one? Using cow muscle (beef), learners compare bundles of yarn to muscle fibers as they explore each. The supplemental reading about astronauts losing muscle mass in space and what...
Common Sense Media
Digital Citizenship Pledge Poster
How can your class members show their dedication to digital citizenship? Have them read, add to, and sign this poster. Among several speech bubbles filled in with ways to be an excellent digital citizen are two blank bubbles that you can...
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
Large Ten Frame 11-20 (With Numbers)
An excellent way to review math ten frames, this series of posters reminds kids how to mark numbers 11-20. Each pages features a ten frame with the first ten spots filled out to indicate 10, then additional frames to indicate how many...