Relative Size - Wide and Narrow

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.

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

Do your students have what it takes to be the king of math? Find out with this fun skills practice game that covers a wide range of topics from counting and basic operations to measurement and fractions.

Students explore measurement using whales. For 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...

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...

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...

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...

Students utilize photographs to practice identifying shapes.  In this geometry activity, students view a slide show of many images representing geometric shapes and designs.  Students practice classifying the shapes by their sides and...

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.