Activity
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Kids Spring Playtime

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students enjoy going outside. In this performing arts lesson, students blow bubbles or fly a kite enjoying the outdoors.
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THE 1800s EXPERIENCE

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore aspects of life in the 1800's. In this instructional activity on historical life, students move through various outdoor stations and meet with costumed re-enactors (parent volunteers) who lead students in 8 different...
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Curated OER

Summer Safety Activity: Playing with Environmental Print

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students look at the words, symbols, and signs that surround them. In this early childhood lesson plan, students use observational skills as they note the abundance of letters and signs in their world, then apply this awareness to block...
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Summer Camp in the Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students explore wildlife plants and summer activities. For this natural science lesson, students identify plants and animals and create a scrapbook of their findings.
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Places in our School Yard - An "I Spy" Book

For Teachers K - 1st
Students create a class big book using the "I Spy" game format and adding 3 clues to help readers guess the areas of a naturalization project.
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I Spy. What Do You See?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students play "Veo, veo" (I Spy), a game from the oral tradition that incorporates the alphabet.
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Weather Wonders

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders review the weather through a role-playing game.
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Teaching Tips: Team Building Activities for Elementary Students

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students access a variety of team-building related resources on the Internet. They examine cooperative games, collaborative artwork, create me-shirts, develop Venn diagrams, and create a classroom quilt and class welcome book.
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Camouflage

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students decide when people are being fair and unfair. They participate in a game in which teams find different color pieces of wool in a timed situation. They discuss the feelings of those on the winning team, and if the game is fair....
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Winer Survival

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Young scholars study how animals need water, food, shelter, and space to survive. They also study what animals need to survive in the winter. They play the part of animals and winter "threats" in a game of tag to reinforce concepts.
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Burnaby Lake Field Trip

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students identify different organisms found in the lake ecosystem. In this life science instructional activity, students discover the predator-prey relationship through a game. They explain how beavers adapt to the environment over time.
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Predators & Prey

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students discuss what predators and prey are. Students participate in a playground game aimed at simulating predators and prey.
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Introduction to Macroinvertebrates

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate the world of macroinvertebrates and identify the environmental stressors that threaten their existence. Outdoors, they role-play as stressors and invertebrates, with the intolerant species doing pushups, spins,...
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What Did You Say Relay

For Teachers 1st
First graders each write a sentence describing how they want the other students to race. The teacher calls one of students to read his or her instructions. The other students compete as relay teams to complete the instructions.
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Salt Lake City, Utah

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students research the history of the Salt Lake City. In this geography lesson, students select an activity in Salt Lake City to research, such as snow skiing. Students write a research report.
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Welcome to the First Day of School!

For Teachers K - 8th
Classmates participate in a variety of getting-to-know-you activities for the first day of school. They make resolutions, become detectives about their fellow classmates, learn about each other by playing switch, and make...
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Desert Discovery

Leaping Lizards

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Here is a fine biology lesson that introduces youngsters to reptiles. They study their feeding habits, their habitats, and the adaptations they must make to survive in their environments. The outstanding lesson includes two excellent...
Lesson Plan
Arizona Cooperative Extension

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...
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National Association for Sport & Physical Fitness

Indoor Physical Activity Ideas for Kids!

For Teachers K - 8th
Rainy day schedule doesn't mean you can't stay fit! Use a collection of indoor physical activities during periods of inclement weather, substitute teaching days, or for those afternoons when your class just wants to move around!
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Illustrative Mathematics

Shape Hunt Part 2

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Shapes are everywhere in the world around us, from rectangular doors to the circular wheels of a car. The second lesson in this series opens the eyes of young mathematicians to this wonderful world of shapes as they search the classroom,...
Worksheet
Blake Education

Compound Word Snaps

For Students 5th
Two worksheets with five exercises each? What's not to like? Kids practice using and identifying compound words and work on spelling for these activities.
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Vitamin D and Me

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students create a graphic organizer showing the importance of Vitamin D intake. In this Vitamin D instructional activity, Students list problems with Vitamin D deficiency and create poster boards in small groups. Individually, students...
Activity
Wild BC

Maple Trees and Marmots

For Teachers K - 3rd
Kinesthetic activities simulate animal activity as the seasons progress in a lesson that introduces climate change to primary pupils. The kids role-play maple trees collecting what they need to survive, but as each year comes...
Writing
Virginia Department of Education

Grade 8 Writing Prompts

For Students 6th - 8th
Imagine four pages of writing prompts. Although designed specifically for eighth graders, the topics could be used for upper-elementary and high school writers as well.

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