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PhysEdGames

Freeze and Melt

For Students K - 3rd
Freeze tag! Have the class spread out around the playing area. Select some players to be freezers and un-freezers. Give freezers a blue ball and un-freezers a red ball. If a runner gets tagged with a blue ball, then they become a...
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Purdue University

Can You Make an Ultra Violet (UV) Light Detector?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Light the way to a better understanding of UV radiation. After exploring how UV beads work, future engineers design investigations to answer questions about UV radiation. They then create and test prototypes of a device that detects UV...
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Ashoka

A Toolkit for Promoting Empathy in Schools

For Teachers K - 12th Standards
Instill kindness with a unit all about empathy. Lessons and activities follow a prepare, engage, reflect, and action sequence. Learning experiences include making the classroom a safe environment, peer-invented handshakes, discussions...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Wildlife Federation

Songbird Survey

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Serenade your classes with a selection of bird songs. Scholars learn to identify birds by their songs with practice and then take their skills to the outdoors. They identify mating pairs while on a nature walk and repeat their walk over...
Performance
Radford University

Filling Up a Swimming Pool Task

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Swimming pools are no fun without water. For a pool in the shape of a trapezoidal prism, scholars first calculate the amount of water needed to fill the pool. They use experimental data on water flow to determine whether to haul water...
Professional Doc
National Education Association

Racial Justice in Education Resource Guide

For Teachers K - 12th
Strive for racial justice within your classroom community with help from an 80-page resource guide. Five modules move scholars through thoughtful, and reflective grand conversations to making a plan, then taking action. Learners write...
Interactive
Arcademics

Koala Karts

For Students 1st Standards
A koala-themed learning game challenges scholars to count a ten frame and identify its number, racing against other players, naming their way to the finish line.
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Lions Clubs International Foundation

Introduction to Mindful Breathing

For Parents 3rd - 5th
The first of eight lessons introduces learners to Breath Awareness—an exercise that brings focus and thoughtfulness through breathing before engaging in other activities.
Handout
Education World

Remembering Jackie Robinson

For Students 2nd - 6th Standards
A four-paragraph informational text details the life of the famous baseball player, Jackie Robinson. A prompt challenges scholars to write or discuss a time in their life when they were not included and how that made them feel. 
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Teaching Tolerance

Spotlight on Change Agents

For Teachers 6th - 12th
A thought-provoking resource guides learners as they interview agents of social change and share their findings. Scholars select an individual, create questions, conduct the interview, and create a profile of the person they selected....
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Candidate Flip-Flop or Evolution?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Beware political rhetoric! Connotation is everything! Groups select a presidential candidate and investigate how the candidate's position has changed on a specific issue. After analyzing the situation, the group determines whether they...
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Health Smart Virginia

Social Emotional Skills

For Teachers K
Nine activities boost social-emotional competencies. Read through the list and choose what best fits the needs of your class. Activities include thoughtful discussions, creating posters, listening to a read-aloud, and more! 
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Nebraska Department of Education

Who Am I?

For Teachers 8th
When people look in a mirror, they rarely see themselves as others see them. Tweens and teens can consider the significance of these disparities in a lesson that asks them to reflect on the kind of person they are and how they think...
Interactive
Mr. Nussbaum

Tyrannosaurus Rex

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Eight questions follow an informational reading about the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Questions are multiple-choice and provide instant feedback.
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Kinder Corner

Counting Cards

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Reinforce counting skills with a set of cards that showcase numbers 1–10. Two types of cards are provided—a number card and a card that represents the number with objects. 
Activity
NOAA

Tornado in a Bottle

For Students 3rd - 5th
Studying the science of tornadoes? Make a tornado in a bottle to demonstrate how vortexes are formed in tornadoes. The activity should be used as a way to demonstrate what pupils already know about tornadoes. 
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Hydrogen Bonds: A Special Type of Attraction

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
How does hydrogen bonding explain ice crystals? An engaging interactive answers just that. Scholars explore how polar molecules interact and observe the changes as temperature fluctuates as well as the hydrogen bond attraction.
Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Four Corners: Taking a Stand in To Kill a Mockingbird (Chapters 24-26 Plus Synthesis of Scenes in Previous Chapters)

For Teachers 8th Standards
Think outside the box! Scholars work on the Frayer Model, completing boxes for the word integrity. They turn and talk with partners to discuss real-life examples and some from To Kill A Mockingbird. Readers then discuss integrity, taking...
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Museum of Science

Elephant Toothpaste

For Teachers K - 6th
Get a surprised reaction from trying out the chemical reaction. Scholars conduct a chemical experiment by adding yeast to hydrogen peroxide and dish soap in a plastic bottle. They learn that yeast contains a catalase enzyme that releases...
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Museum of Science

Stomp Rocket

For Teachers K - 6th
It doesn't take rocket science to launch a rocket. A fun activity has pupils build a rocket that launches when they stomp on a plastic bottle. They learn how the escaping compressed gas from the bottle causes the rocket to fly.
Interactive
Arcademics

Elephant Feed

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Four elephants race to snatch up all the peanuts in a synonym learning game. Players turn into peanut hungry elephants in a synonym learning game. Opponents read a word and race to locate its synonym earning points till the time...
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Nemours KidsHealth

Screen Time: Grades K-2

For Teachers K - 2nd
Two lessons encourage class members to go screen-free. The first lesson plan challenges two teams to create a list of screen-free games. The team with the most ideas wins. Individuals then draw a picture of themselves doing one of...
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Nemours KidsHealth

Drugs: Grades 3-5

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Two lessons take a close look at drug prevention. The first lesson, split into two sessions, challenges learners to gather information from an article, answer questions, then create a poster that encourages others to stay away from...
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Flipped Math

Secants and Tangents

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Put the vertex in, put the vertex out. Pupils explore theorems about the relationships of lengths of segments and angles of line segments that intersect inside or outside the circle. Learners use the theorems to solve problems involving...

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