Relative Size - Wide and Narrow

Students arrange containers by their capacity. In this volume activity, students place containers in order by increasing capacity. Students discuss how the tallest container doesn't necessarily hold the largest amount.

Assess your learners' math skills with a mathematics development rubric. It addresses counting, grouping, recognizing and sequencing, printing numbers, sorting and putting shapes in size order, making patterns, and recognizing shapes.

Students explore measurement using whales. In this measurement lesson, students are given facts about the lives of whales. Students color several pictures of  whales that are 1 foot long. Students go the playground and stand side by side...

Have your young reporters research contributions of the ancient Egyptians, draft scripts, and broadcast their stories live on the Nile Network News. Depending on class size and age, topics may be brainstormed or assigned. The detailed...

After reading the book "Ten Apples Up On Top" by Dr. Seuss. you can have fun with your students as they practice balancing bean bags on their head! To continue the theme of apples, your class can print apple shapes on paper strips and...

Young elementary students will discover there are patterns all around them in their daily lives. In groups, they sort pattern blocks by size and color. Using the internet, they create their own type of patterns and share them with the...

Explore beginning drawing with youngsters. They will brainstorm objects that are long and tall. Given long strips of paper, they draw a familiar object as long and tall as the strips of paper. The idea is to fill the whole paper. Motor...

Young scholars utilize photographs to practice identifying shapes.  In this geometry instructional activity, students view a slide show of many images representing geometric shapes and designs.  Young scholars practice classifying the...

Students describe a wide variety of classification schemes and patterns related to physical characteristics and sensory attributes of people. They recognize, extend and create a wide variety of those patterns and relations.

Student matches the initial letter of his/her name with the corresponding letter on the clothesline. They then participate in the classroom discussions by offering information relevant to the topic and answering or asking questions...