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The Spirits of Toys Past, Present and Future

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the evolution of toys and explore how the toy industry has adapted their products in response to advances in technology and changing customer expectations.
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Worksheet
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Sorting Toys

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
Do your kindergartners love playing with toys? Bring that passion to this matching activity, where they draw a line from illustrations of toys to matching toys. For extra fun, have them do the same activity with actual toys and hula hoops.
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Lesson Plan
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The Physics of Toys

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore physics by experimenting with classic toys. In this physical science lesson, students utilize gliders, energy balls, bouncing balls, marbles and other toys to explore how they work. Students explore each toy at a work...
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Lesson Plan
ESL Kid Stuff

Toys

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
The world is a rainbow of colors in a set of lessons for English learners. Kids review colors with matching games and hide-and-seek, before singing songs about colors and reading a class story.
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Lesson Plan
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Teachers.Net Toy Parade (Elementary, Reading/Writing

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Children bring in a toy, favorite or otherwise, and describe it using adjectives and adverbs. They fold a piece of paper into two columns, and list the adjectives on one side, and the adverbs on the other.
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Worksheet
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Toys Word Search

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this Toys word Search worksheet, students find 22 words related to toys in a bicycle-shaped word search. An example of the words include chess, crayons, and doll.
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Lesson Plan
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Playing With Science

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scientists investigate the scientific concepts and principles that help make common toys such as hula hoops, yo-yos, slinkies, and silly putty work. As a class, they read "Backyard Rocket Science, Served Wet" to get a look behind...
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Techno Toys for Trendy Tots

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students reflect on their favorite childhood toys and assess their continued appeal. They work in pairs to redesign classic toys and create posters to represent their new models.
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Lesson Plan
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Zero Tolerance and Toy Guns

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders write a short reaction to the "Zero Tolerance" policy in regards to students and play guns. They read several news articles about the problems associated with the zero tolerance and students with play guns. They write a...
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Worksheet
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Toys - How Many Are There?

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this ESL toys worksheet, students respond to the question "What is there?" using the 9 picture clues and answer bank to assist them. Students answer using complete sentences.
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Lesson Plan
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Play With a Purpose

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students consider toys as more than items for playing, compare and contrast inventors and toys they created, and discuss purpose of specific toys, including whether toy was created for education, financial success, or both.
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Interactive
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Toys Exercise

For Students Pre-K - 6th
In this English instructional activity, students are tested on their reading comprehension. They match the names of toys to pictures of the toys.
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Interactive
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Toys Multiple Choice Exercise

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this toys activity, students look at pictures of different toys and choose the correct name for each toy. Students complete 4 multiple choice problems.
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Unit Plan
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Toys

For Teachers K - 1st
Students complete a variety of activities as they explore toys. They categorize toys; they play games with toys; they bring in toys to show and tell; they discuss the history of some toys; etc.
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Organizer
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My Favorite Toy - Graphic Organizer

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this graphic organizer activity, learners fill in the spaces in an organizer in which they draw and describe their favorite toy. They draw their favorite toys in the center, and fill in the spaces by describing the toy, how it works,...
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Adventures in Toyland

For Teachers K - 5th
There are many ways to tell a story; Richard Patterson's three-dimensional painting If serves as the inspiration for some creative storytelling for elementary school writers. They watch a clip from Toy Story (you'll need to bring this),...
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Worksheet
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DeNelian Printing: Toys

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this printing practice worksheet, learners learn to write the names of 6 common toys in DeNelian style printing. Students trace the dotted examples before forming their own words on the lines.
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Worksheet
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Choose Your Toy

For Students 5th - 7th
In this decision-making instructional activity, students choose 1 out of 6 toys for a young boy. Students match 7 vocabulary terms to their proper definitions. Students fill in 3 blanks in 2 sentences. Students complete a variety of...
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Worksheet
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Mad Lib: The Great New Toy!

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this filling in the blanks story completion worksheet, students read an incomplete story about The Great New Toy and fill in the blanks with appropriate answers. Students fill in 17 blanks to complete the mad lib.
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Interactive
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Toy Cupboard Prepositions

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this online/interactive recognizing correct preposition usage worksheet, students observe toys on shelves and choose the correct prepositions to complete the locations of specific toys. Students choose 18 answers. 
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Missing Toy Writing Activity

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students listen to Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, by Mo Willems. In this listening and writing instructional activity, students listen to the story and create a poster for their favorite toy if it were to go missing. They work...
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Southern Poverty Law Center

Analyzing Gender Stereotypes in Media

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Why might toy advertisers use gender stereotypes to sell their products? Young people think critically about media messages and its role in gender stereotyping with a thought-provoking lesson plan.
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Writing
Starfall

My Toy

For Students K - 2nd
In this language arts worksheet, students write about a personal story of sharing toys. They recall the story and then draw an illustration of it.
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Lesson Plan
Institute for Humane Education

Selling "Boy" and "Girl"

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th Standards
Monster trucks, action figures, and video games. Are these toys designed for boys or girls? Scholars work in small groups to find and categorize examples of boy and girl toys from catalogs. Next, learners analyze the two sets of pictures...

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