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Exploratorium

Thread the Needle

For Teachers 4th - 6th
If you are setting up a rotation lab where learners are investigating vision at different stations, this activity can be used to explore depth perception. Setting up a giant needle eye, students attempt to pass a pencil through it with...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Geography Experience: Low Vision

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
The world is a big and beautiful place; but how do you begin to understand it when you have low vision? Here is a great set of ideas focused on transforming any small room into a sensory paradise, themed to incite understanding about...
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Discovery Education

Market Research and Design: The Headphone Challenge

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Watch augmented reality bring classrooms to life. Scholars work in groups to design, build, and market a new pair of headphones meant for children under three. They use an augmented reality app to show their headphones in action as they...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Our Five Senses

For Teachers K
Students explore the five senses through hands-on and Internet activities.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Five Senses-Introduction

For Teachers K
Students explore the parts of the body that are used to develop the five senses. They conduct a nature walk. Students identify the things they see, hear, smell, and touch. They create a graphic organizer to organize their answers.
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Curated OER

Five Senses: Brave Little Monster

For Teachers K
Students identify which of the five senses is being used at a given time. They read "Brave Little Monster" by Ken Baker and then read the story again as they match student-made cards depicting the five senses to moments in the story.
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Curated OER

All About Me: My Senses

For Teachers K
Students describe the basic senses and then use their senses to describe what they learned.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Reading, Writing and 'Rithmetic in the One-Room Schoolhouse

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students, through historic photographs and stories, discover the world of the one-room schoolhouse and compare it to their school experience.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Altogether, Now

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students apply their five senses to science, math, drama, and writing center activities.
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Poetry4kids

How to Write an Apology Poem

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Put a silly spin on making amends with an apology poem. Budding poets think of a time they were made to apologize although they didn't mean it. They then turn their experience into a poem that offers details and ends with an explanation...
PPT
Curated OER

Number Bonds to 10: Determine the missing addend

For Teachers K - 1st
Each slide contains a group of animals and an equation that adds up to 10. However each equation is missing a number, learners attempt to determine the missing addend to revile the number of animals hiding under the cloud. A fun,...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Tears of Joy Theatre Presents Anansi the Spider

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Accompany the African folktale, Anansi the Spider, with a collection of five lessons, each equipped with supplemental activities. Lessons offer multidisciplinary reinforcement in English language arts, social studies, science,...
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Exploratorium

Blind Spot

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A small card with a dot and an X is held at arm's length and used to show youngsters where their blind spot is. This illuminating little activity is a compact addition to your lesson on the structure of the eye as it explains the part of...
Activity
Exploratorium

Jacques Cousteau in Seashells

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Visionaries create images out of dots to demonstrate the eye-brain connection. Through this activity, they learn that the brain interprets data collected by the eye into recognizable information. Search online for "Jacques Cousteau in...
Worksheet
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Fellowship of the Ring

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Here's a must-have resource for educators who use J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and/or The Lord of the Rings. Packed with materials for both tales, the packet includes both a reader's guide and an educator's guide, lesson plans, vocabulary...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Freddie Feels

For Teachers K
Students become aware of the sense of touch and the body parts effected by touching.  For this five senses lesson, students touch mystery items and create a touch page.  Students discuss the body parts connected to the sense of...
Worksheet
Curated OER

The Human Body

For Students 6th
In this human body worksheet, 6th graders respond to 13 different questions related to parts of the human body. First, they determine how many times the heart beats a minute and the 2 types of blood vessels. Then, students describe the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Counting 1 to 5

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore number sense by participating in a counting activity. For this whole numbers lesson, students identify the first 5 numbers after 0 and practice writing them in class. Students utilize visual aides to assist them and...
PPT
Curated OER

Number Bonds to 10: Word Problems

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young mathematicians work through five story problems that reinforce number bonds to 10. They will read each problems then see the associated addition or subtraction equation for each. 
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Pick Two

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Learning to break apart numbers into smaller pairs is a critical step young mathematicians take as they develop their number sense. To practice this skill, children are provided with sets of three numbers and are asked to pick the two...
Activity
PBS

Reading Adventure Pack: Green Eggs and Ham

For Parents K Standards
A reading of Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss and a nonfiction book of your choice begins a reading adventure pack comprised of three hands-on activities. Following the reading, scholars craft a food mobile made of colorful fruit and...
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abcteach

Community Walk

For Students K - 2nd
Invite your pupils to explore their surroundings with a walk around the neighborhood. Learners use their senses to make observations about their surroundings. 
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Rainforest Alliance

A Rainforest Taste Test

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Take a taste test and chart pupils' favorites with a delicious fruit salad made up of fruit found in the rainforest. Still hungry? Snack on the rainforest inspired trail mix using a recipe of dried fruit and nuts. 
Unit Plan
Differentiation Central

Perimeter and Area

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Leave no student behind with this differentiated geometry unit on perimeter and area. Over the course of five lessons, young mathematicians explore these foundational concepts through a series of self-selected hands-on activities and...

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