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Fighting Obesity with Footsteps
Analyze the influence of culture, media, technology, and other factors in health through the use of pedometers and daily walking/jogging logs with this activity. The key focus is in dealing with obesity and how small steps can help...
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Elephants Enjoy Eating Eggs
Students recognize the short vowel e in written and spoken language. Through listening and matching activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /e/ from other phonemes. Students practice using the phoneme and letter in words by writing...
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Music: Solo and Group vVcal Practice
Fifth graders individually sing and record "Child of the Universe" and play their performances back to the class for evaluation. Next, in groups, they sing "Deck the Hall," and sing the countermelody for evaluation. Then students...
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Through the Day With Frog- Full Color Copy
In this reading worksheet, students create their own simple book by stapling together the 10 colorful pages. The story depicts children enjoying activities which begin with the letter F: fishing, football, floating. It ends with the...
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Terrorists Strike Heart of London
For this English worksheet, students read and complete a variety of exercises associated with the short article, "Terrorists strike heart of London". Students participate with warm-up activities, true/false questions, synonyms and...
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Theme: Rain Forests and Planet Ecology
Young scholars expand their knowledge of rain forests and planet ecology through the use of literature and related activities.
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The Daily News
Learners use headlines to recall and write about important events in the school day. This activity can be done with the whole class at circle time, at the beginning or end of the school day, individually in daily news journals. Students...
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The Case of the Missing Water
Students examine the major concepts related to the water cycle in this instructional activity. They recognize and define evaporation, condensation, precipitation and the natural cycles that occur as weather. They also participate in an...
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Missing
For this missing worksheet, students, with a partner, complete a variety of activities associated with terms and phrases having to do with the term missing.
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Food: Habits and Holidays
In this foods of the world worksheet, students answer true and false questions about their own eating habits, than complete a matching activity where they match foods with countries of the world.
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Reality Check
Students visit MainFunction every Friday for a Reality Check. Students discuss questions or complete an activity about real-world topics.
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Reality Check
High schoolers visit MainFunction every Friday for a Reality Check. Students discuss questions or complete an activity about real-world topics.
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All Change!
In this language arts worksheet, students examine, discuss, and complete a variety of different activities associated with the word "change." Students consider the meaning of many phrases that contain the word "change," such as; "Change...
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Peer Pressure Drug Pushers
Students participate in a role-play activity to determine how easily drug pushers can sway students to do things they normally wouldn't do.
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Three Squirrels and a Pile of Nuts
Students solve word problems using a spreadsheet, strategies, and algebraic variables. They disuss the given problem, which can be printed, write the unknowns, and employ the strategies into a spreadsheet. Students then use Microsoft...
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Winding Up
Students make simple drawings to show how winding machines work. They gain knowledge of what winding mechanisms are and how they work and are assembled. This lesson is divided into whole group, individual and small group activities.
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Easter Folklore Traditions Live on in Slovakia
Students survey an article that discusses Slovakia traditions. In this ESL lesson, students read an article and then complete several activities, including a class discussion on folklore traditions, a vocabulary assignment, a...
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Air Quality and Transportation
Second graders study about air pollution and the effects it has on our Earth. Students tally cars on a sheet that has been categorized as follows: One person in car, two persons in car, or three or more persons in car. Students go to...
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The Old, Creaky Door
Students recognize the short vowel e in written and spoken language. Through matching and handwriting activities, they discriminate the short vowel /e/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation...
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A Cat Nap
First graders recognize the short vowel A in written and spoken language. Through matching activities, they discriminate the short vowel /a/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation and read...
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Thermal Energy Transfer - Conduction
Students examine how heat passes through a pane glass window. In this energy transfer lesson students complete a lab activity.
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Math Word Problem Practice
For this word problem worksheet, students complete a total of 5 simple problems that include all four operations. A reference web site is included for additional activities.
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ESL: Present Forms for the Future
In this ESL present forms for the future worksheet, students choose the correct answers to given questions from a possible 5 answers. Page has a link to additional activities.
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ESL: Time Prepositions
In this ESL time prepositions worksheet, students choose the correct preposition that completes a sentence. Page has a link to additional activities.