Reinforce the concept of one-to-one correspondence with a Valentine's Day-themed counting and color sorting activity. Scholars sort foam hearts by color—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple—then count and place them on a number...

Middle schoolers have a bushel of fun as they engage in activities and research core facts about apples. Packed with suggestions for in-class activities and out-of-class research, the colorful 6-page packet is sure to satisfy hungry...

Get creative juices flowing when you allow groups to figure out a procedure for how to find the area of squares and rectangles. They may use the individual patchwork blocks, or they may design one using the Design Template.

High schoolers consider the effects of color on moods and feelings. They participate in a variety of demonstrations to explore the role of illusion and suggestion in human perception. They consider which color best represents their...

Students are introduced to the primary, secondary and tertiary colors. Individually, they are to create a color wheel with all three levels of colors in a creative way. To end the activity, they present their wheel to the class and...

Students visit a web page that gives a brief introduction to two color models and experiment with mixing different color intensities to create different colors. They visit links that give more detailed information on color.

In this butterfly coloring worksheet, students color the picture featuring circles, hearts, ovals, and triangles according to the instructions at the bottom of the worksheet.

Young artists divide a piece of graph paper into sections using rectangles, squares, and triangles. They then fill each section with patterns of shape and color. Elementary graders describe how their patterns are organized. Secondary...

In this shape-themed coloring worksheet, students use crayons and markers to color the word triangle as well as the picture of a triangle.

Students research number values by participating in a candy exercise. In this math function lesson plan, students utilize baking ingredients to create cookies and multiply how many M&M's will go into the batch if you want a certain...

Sixth graders explore the scientific method by conducting an in class experiment. In this scientific averages lesson, 6th graders discuss the concept of the scientific method, and define the different mathematical averages, mean, median...

Kids create a clown out of shapes. They work to show emotions while practicing their drawing skills. Pupils use circles, triangles, squares, oil pastels, and their imagination to draw, color, and decorate a sad or happy clown. Tip: Have...

The Golden Ratio. The Divine Proportion. Yup. It's math and art blended into one colorful activity. Young artists combine colored tissue paper circles and parts of circles to create geometric patterns. As a bonus, kids get to figure out...

Mitch Weiss and Martha Hamilton's Rooster's Night Out, a retelling of a classic Cuba folktale, launches a cross-curricular study of Cuban cultural traditions. Class members draw the characters from the book, participate in math and...

In this Pilgrims coloring page worksheet, students help a pair of Pilgrims work their way through a maze to find their way home and then color the page with appropriate colors for illustration.

Learners investigate color diversity by experimenting with jelly beans.  In this color spectrum lesson, students observe colored jelly beans through different filters and light sources to change the existing look of the bean....

Students recreate the order of animals they read about in a book. In this relative positions lesson plan, students color and cut out pictures of animals in the book. Sudents glue these onto construction paper and line up like the...

Fourth graders engage in a lesson in which problem solving is set to music - like musical chairs. They listen to classical music to set a thought-provoking atmosphere. This is also an excellent method of reinforcement or review.

Students demonstrate an understanding of colors. In this visual arts lesson, students read the text Hot, Spicy Colors and name their favorite colors. Students complete a bar graph to show the data. Students discuss how each color can...

In this rectangles learning exercise, students color the rectangles that they can see on teach box with a different color. Students then write the total number of rectangles they can see in each group of boxes.

Students practice making patterns with paint and stamps.  In this arts and crafts lesson, students utilize the floor of their classroom to create a giant pattern on the floor using different colored paints and foam stamps....

Students practice handling money by examining different world currency.  In this economics lesson, students utilize a coin booklet to trace individual coins and draw bills, later coloring them in their traditional colors....

For this fractions activity, learners study the images in each set and color the given fraction from the images. students color 8 sets.

Here is a clever, cross-curricular lesson that combines art and geometry. Learners design a painting that uses geometrical shapes and is symmetrical. Sponge-shaped geometrical figures are used to design half a page and fold them to...