Pennsylvania Department of Education
Writing with Beans
Students become familiar with the letters in a word by pasting beans on it. In this Bean writing instructional activity, students make words using navy beans. Students color or paint the beans.
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Nursery Rhymes
Learners recall details of nursery rhyme read by teacher, identify main characters, and demonstrate knowledge of poem by creating concept map about story that includes title, clip art, and changes in font and color.
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Easy Printmaking in the Classroom
Pupils use styrofoam and cardboard to create prints. Students choose a theme and create designs and pictures on styrofoam and cardboard. Pupils also use construction paper, cardboard cylinder sections to make their art.
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Posing for Rembrandt
Students consider the elements of costuming and posing in Rembrandt's work. They collect various costumes and experiment with poses in the theme of the painting "Night Watch". Students take photographs of poses and write accompanying...
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Ready-to-Go! Blank Board Books
Learners create a board book from a blank template. Using a specific theme, they decorate their book to show an idea. They share their creations with the class and receive constructive criticism.
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Nebraska's Wild Weather
Learners examine the weather in Nebraska. Using this information, they describe the cause and effect relationships in the environment based on these changes in weather. They write various types of poems with weather themes and share them...
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PLANT PARTS WE EAT
Students identify an assortment of vegetables and learn how to locate the parts humans use for food. Students identify the plant parts we eat. Students color the pictures on their worksheets as provided. Students match the plants to the...
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Circus Tent
For this circus worksheet, students color in a picture of a circus tent. Students may add details to the picture or write a description of it.
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Clown Picture
In this circus worksheet, students color in a picture of a clown. Students may add details to the picture or write a description of it.
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Desert Similes Bulleting Board Cards
In this language arts and geography learning exercise, students write their favorite similes about the desert on the given cards. They color the desert pictures that will be displayed on a bulletin board.
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Passport
In this artistic instructional activity, students color in with vibrant colors the image of a passport and then make a report on places they would like to travel and visit one day.
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Into the Twenty-First Century Chapter Review
For this United States into the 21st century worksheet, students review a chapter as they write 10 vocabulary words that match 10 descriptions, correct 1 false statement, and identify 2 themes from the new era of opportunity and...
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Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison: Quiz
In this Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison instructional activity, students answer fifteen multiple choice questions about plot, characters, and theme as well as identify quotations.
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Illusions of Depth
Learning to create depth when painting or drawing takes skill and the ability to understand how things should be placed on the canvas. The class will use the Charles Deas painting Long Jakes to learn about composition, sharing...
CK-12 Foundation
Percent of Change: The Pizza Conundrum
Nine questions—multiple choice and fill in the blank—challenge mathematicians to solve money word problems. Looking closely at prices, scholars use a formula to identify percent increases and decreases based on an original and new price....
CK-12 Foundation
Comparison of Unit Rates: Drive Away
Five questions make up an interactive that challenges mathematicians to compare unit rates. Word problems question scholars about two friends going on a road trip. Scholars manipulate two cars on a coordinate plane to help solve word...
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Animals: Bobcats
Students examine the bobcat and its habitat. They color pages and examine photographs and fact sheets to explore the bobcat.
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Christmas Stationary
In this holiday template, students can create a writing sample using the theme of Christmas on the custom stationary page and they color the borders.
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Floating Fishes: Fishing Expedition
A referenced PowerPoint is not included, but this lesson can still make an impact with emerging environmentalists. After introducing them to the facts about overfishing, they experiment with a fishing simulation using colored beads and...
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Speckled Frog (Page 2)
For this counting worksheet, students cut out and color part of a mini book that features the words and pictures of the song Five Green Speckled Frogs. Only part of the book is provided here.
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Speckled Frog Activity
In this counting worksheet, students cut out and color a frog that will be used to make a booklet with the words and pictures from the song Five Green Speckled Frogs. The rest of the song sheets are available on other pages.
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Page 4 of Speckled Frog Activity
In this counting worksheet, students color and cut out part of a mini book with the song lyrics of Five Green Speckled Frogs. The rest of the mini book is available on another page.
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A Day with No Crayons
Colors and crayons are the inspiration for this collection of activities! Kids illustrate the real world, come up with their own names for colors, make their own crayons (with teacher assistance), create artwork they can eat, and more.