Art Educators of New Jersey
Exploring Eric Carle’s Painted Collage
Where does inspiration come from? Where do writers get their ideas? What about visual artists? A PowerPoint and a video introduce middle schoolers to children's author and illustrator Eric Carle and how he found inspiration in the work...
Kids Can Have Fun
Cut and Paste Sea Creatures
Beautiful sea creatures help teach young children about colors in a simple cut-and-paste activity. After looking at fun illustrations of fish, dolphins, crabs, and octopi, youngsters must cut out and match a series of colored...
National Center for Families Learning
The Summer Fun Summer Learning Music Unit
Take note. Soul music. Gospel music. Country music. Summer comes alive with the sounds of music as program participants learn about various genres of music, create instruments, and write and perform songs about the facts and traditions...
Jazz Academy
Let Freedom Swing
Three lessons in the Let Freedom Swing concert tour resource guide packed with information, materials, and activities that provide the context for any study of American history.
Council for Economic Education
Teaching Economics Using Children's Literature
Introduce young learners to the subject of economics using their favorite stories and books. Including 24 separate lessons, this guide covers economic principles such as trade, scarcity, consumer goods and services, renewable and...
Sparkles, Smiles, and Successful Students
End of the Year Scavenger Hunt
After months of hard work it's time to relax and have some fun with this end-of-the-year activity. Provided with a series of eight color-coded clue cards, students must search the classroom for different colored objects as...
Core Knowledge Foundation
Ray Charles
Introduce young learners to the read-aloud process with a short biographical passage about Ray Charles. After listening to the passage, class members respond to factual, inferential, and evaluative questions, and then create a timeline...
Smithsonian Institution
Songs, Sounds and Stories from the Georgia Sea Islands
American music is the result of the influence of many cultures, including the traditions brought by the African slaves. Young scholars study the polyrhythms, the call-and-response format, and the vocal improvisations of the Gullah...
Curated OER
Printing Practice - Tracing Words
In this printing practice learning exercise, 1st graders trace dotted lines to write 6 words that name black line pictures of items such as a shirt, a crayon, a bird and a balloon. They complete the sentence, "A ____ is blue."
Curated OER
Building a Bird's Nest
Students identify local birds and their habitats. In this wildlife lesson, students list various birds that live in their area and match the descriptions of the birds to the photos. Students build a diorama of a birds nest.
Curated OER
Getting the Point!
Learners explore the American cattle industry history. In this United States history and reading comprehension cross curriculum activity, students read an article about the history of longhorn cattle, then answer comprehension questions...
Curated OER
Applying Proportionality in Scale Drawings
Sixth graders examine a blue print and discuss the reasoning behind using blue prints. In this proportionality lesson, students collaborate with their teammates to create a scale drawing. Once that is complete, 6th graders write a...
Curated OER
Bob Dylan: No Direction Home
Students hold panel discussions on selected topics about the 1960s and their impact on modern-day events. As visual reinforcement, they watch the film about Bob Dylan and research the music of the period as well as his musical...
Curated OER
Sea Turtles Underwater
Students discuss different types of sea turtles. They talk a about the characteristics of sea turtle anatomy. Students pretend to look over the edge of a boat in the ocean. They pretend to see a sea turtle. Students create their artwork...
Curated OER
Jazz Talk
Middle schoolers analyze the origins of jazz music by examining work songs, spirituals, blues, and gospel songs as well as works of poetry from African American artists. They create their own poems from either the narrative, dramatic,...
Curated OER
State Facts
In this state fact chart worksheet, students are provided with a chart showing all 50 states, their abbreviations, state bird, flower, animal, and the year of statehood. There are also basic facts about each state. The worksheet...
Curated OER
Color the Bubbles
In this long and short vowel worksheet, students decide if each word in one of 12 bubbles has a long or short vowel U. Students color the long vowel words blue, and the short vowel words green.
Curated OER
Present Glyph
In this Present Glyph learning exercise, students color in a picture of a present according to the directions. An example direction includes, "If you have already celebrated your birthday this year, draw ten blue circles in the box."
Curated OER
Color The Shapes In The Shape House
In this color the shapes in the shape house worksheet, learners utilize the primary colors red, blue, green and yellow to color the shape house as directed.
Curated OER
Taronga Zoo
In this online Taronga Zoo worksheet, students click on the underlined blue word or words to find the answers to twelve questions associated with the Taronga Zoo in Asia.
Curated OER
Volcanoes
In this volcanoes learning exercise, learners click on the links in blue to find the answers to fourteen facts about volcanoes. Students answer each question with a short answer response.
Curated OER
Pythagorean Theorem
In this Pythagorean theorem worksheet, 9th graders solve and complete 8 different types of problems. First, they go to the given website and copy the picture shown. Then, students draw a right triangle using the straight line between the...
Curated OER
Do Some Research
In this research learning exercise, middle schoolers read the question, "A very small particle that revolves around the nucleus of an atom is called?" They use the library or Internet to find the answer, write the answer on the blue...
Curated OER
Do Some Research
For this science research worksheet, students read the question about space with no matter and research the answer to the question. Students write the answer on the blue line provided and then write a short report about space matter on...