Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Segmenting, Phoneme Closed Sort

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Build phonological awareness with an activity that challenges learners to sort picture cards based on the number of phonemes each has.
Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Segmenting, The Phoneme Game

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Early readers play a board game to practice segmenting phonemes. Players determine how many spaces to move by choosing a picture, saying the object's name on the card, then counting the phonemes they say.
Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonemic Awareness: Phoneme Segmenting and Blending, Break and Make

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young learners build phonemic awareness and strong phoneme blending skills. Pairs guess the image on the card based on the word segment sounds given by blending what they hear.
Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Final Phoneme Memory

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Try to match the final sounds in this memory game! Learners place all 24 cards upside down and take turns flipping them to see if the final phonemes match. If they do, remove them; if not, put them back. Partners play until all cards...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Matching, Vowel Picture Sort

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Sound sorting can be a fun way to get little ones phonologically prepared for a life of reading. In this activity, learners sort picture cards based on the long or short vowel sound they make when said aloud.
Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Manipulating, Word Change

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Once your scholars know their letter sounds and recognize them in words, have them try making new words by manipulating phonemes. Pupils are given a word change picture board and a stack of word pictures. They pick a card and place it...
Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Phoneme Manipulating, What's Left?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Scholars subtract initial phonemes from given picture word cards to create new words. Feet becomes eat, and shelf becomes elf.
Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Onset and Rime, Word Swat

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
With a fly swatter in hand, learners swat the rime-flys with their onset swatter to make, read, and write words by blending the onset with the rime-fly. Scholars blend words, make and write words, and also work to determine if the words...
Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Onset and Rime, Change-A-Word

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Kids use their phonological know-how to identify and segment onset and rime blends. Double rime picture cards (cat and hat) are chosen, then matched to onset cards that make each word, such as the k sound for a cat and the h sound for a...
Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Encoding and Decoding, A Digraph A Word

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Learners view a series of images, then choose digraphs, consonants, and vowels to spell out the object's name on each card.
Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Fluency: Words, Word Climb

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Just like climbing a mountain, little learners read to reach the top. They take turns picking high-frequency word cards, reading them, then matching them to the words on their mountain worksheet. They race to reach the top of the...
Worksheet
K12 Reader

The Louisiana Purchase

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Readers are asked to identify the main idea and two supporting ideas in a brief passage about the Louisiana Purchase.
Lesson Plan
Santa Cruz School District

Black Tiger Academy Martial Arts Fitness Unit – Lesson 1

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Build unity in the dojo or the gym with an activity that not only teaches the importance of stretching and flexibility but also offers class members an opportunity to get to know one another. After warming up and engaging in a Medicine...
Lesson Plan
American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture

Shapes in Agriculture

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
It's time to get crafty with shapes! Your future farmers demonstrate their geometric ability by building a farm using triangles, circles, rectangles, and squares. But first, scholars take part in a brainstorm session inspired by their...
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Curated OER

Star Wars: Rays and Angles Edition

For Teachers 4th Standards
Rays and angles and Star Wars? It sounds strange, but it's actually a fun game to help fourth graders get good at measuring and identifying angles and rays with a protractor. Each pair of children chooses which Star Wars character they'd...
Lesson Plan
California Academy of Science

Natural Resources Bingo

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Bingo isn't just a silly game, it's a great way to practice all types of skills. After reviewing that the earth is composed of natural resources, what those natural resources are, and sustainability, the class plays a game of bingo. The...
Printables
Curated OER

Earth Day Contractions

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
If you want to make learning fun, turn it into a game. Grammar gets an Earth Day make-over with a fun themed matching activity and contraction worksheet. The resource includes several sheets of cards, each containing the contraction and...
Printables
Curated OER

Prime Numbers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Remembering which numbers are prime can be a snap if you have a graphic to help you out. As this printable 8x11 image will tell you, a prime is a number which can only be divided by one and itself. Number 1-100 are enclosed in pretty...
Printables
Curated OER

Colors Poster Series

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Teaching pre-school or kindergarten? If so, you will enjoy this vibrant color poster series.
Activity
South Gloucestershire Council

Animal Classification: A Collaborative Sorting Activity for Key Stages 2 & 3

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Introduce the logic behind a dichotomous key or administer a group performance assessment with a fun and challenging classification lesson. With explicit instructions for the teacher and for collaborative groups, as well as engaging...
Printables
Center for Innovation in Education

Unifix Cubes

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Support young mathematicians with building a strong foundational number-sense using this series of printable Unifix® cube strips. Adaptable to the teaching of a variety of different concepts, from basic counting and cardinality, to...
Lesson Plan
National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network

What’s the Smallest Thing You Know?

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Elementary learners listen to a story, then sort objects from largest to smallest at six different stations around the classroom. Adaptable for a large range of age and ability groups. 
Lesson Plan
National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network

Is Measuring an Art or a Science?

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Not only do future engineers learn the difference between accuracy and precision, they also get some hands-on experience using different measuring tools. 
Printables
K-5 Math Teaching Resources

Large Ten Frame 11-20 (With Numbers)

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
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...