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Origami Ducks: Geometry, Listening, and Following Directions
Make origami ducks with your class to reinforce geometry concepts and vocabulary; develop fine motor and visual translation skills; and enrich study of Japanese culture, the pond habitat, or migration. Create a whole group "worksheet"...
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Train at School
Here is a fantastic compilation of adaptive physical education lesson plans that cover the major concepts of physical fitness, including: aerobic endurance, balance, coordination, flexibility, power, speed and agility, and...
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Copycats
Students practice making prints of their own unique designs. In this printmaking lesson, students create a design with paint on Styrofoam plates. They press their painted picture on paper to create a duplicate print. They then practice...
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Tracing Practice with Curved Lines
In this tracing practice activity, learners practice tracing curved lines. Learners practice tracing 10 curved lines, or you could cut the sheet in half so they trace 5.
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Let's Make a Mural
Young scholars social skills blossom as they work together on this mural-making activity. In this early childhood visual arts lesson, students develop creative-thinking, fine-motor, language, and social skills as they work together to...
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Collaborative Drawings
Students create a collaborative drawing. In this cooperation skills lesson plan, students are divided into small groups and are given art supplies. Students decide on a topic for their illustration and create the drawing on large paper....
Institute for Humane Education
Selling "Boy" and "Girl"
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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Group Turkey Wreath
Students use cutting skills and pencil rolling to create paper curls.
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Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down: Grasping the Idea of Evolution
Students compare their performance of a series of tasks using their thumb and fingers to their performance of the same tasks without the use of their thumb. They discuss the role of fine and gross motor skills and speculate on the role...
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Color, Count, and Add
In this addition coloring activity worksheet, 1st graders color the four girls and four boys. Students then solve the addition number sentence and write the answer in the box. Students enhance their counting and fine motor skills with...
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Targeting an Action
Students explore how the brain how the brain infers the position of a moving target. They investigate how the brain can fine-tune its motor control over the muscle groups that will perform the intended action. Students participate in a...
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Summer Activities: Let's Try Bubble Blowing!
Students observe as the teacher blows bubbles from a large bubble pipe in order to take note of the colors and sizes of the bubbles. In this bubble blowing instructional activity, students experiment with a variety of bubble-blowing...
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Treasure Hunt
Students dribble a ball while moving. In this dribbling lesson, students participate in a game in which they dribble from "poly spot" to "poly spot" gathering basic shapes identified as 'treasure".
Basic Handwriting for Kids
Prewriting Practice: Right Fourth and Half Circles
For this prewriting practice worksheet, learners trace and print right fourth and half circles starting from the top line and the middle line. Students complete three writing activities.
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Class Store
First graders explore economics by participating in a group activity. In this commerce lesson, 1st graders conduct a role-playing activity in which they utilize goods and services to re-enact a general store's daily business. Students...
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Plant Science Activities
Students complete several plant life activities. In this botany lesson, students practice painting images that resemble plants they are familiar with as well as planting seeds outside of class. Students participate in a dramatic...
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Halloween Fun: Wizard Mask
In this Halloween wizard mask template worksheet, students color the picture, cut it out, make holes for the mask ties, and use yarn to complete a Halloween mask that is ready to wear.
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Halloween Spider Mask
In this Halloween spider mask template worksheet, students color the picture, cut it out, make holes for the mask ties, and use yarn to complete a Halloween mask that is ready to wear.
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Read the story, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and complete activities from multiple subjects. Make a mural, create a class graph, discuss the life cycle of a butterfly, research information about butterflies on the Internet and make...
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There Was An Old Lady That Swallowed a Fly
Students complete activities with the book There Was An Old Lady That Swallowed a Fly. For this literature lesson, students hear the story and recognize the animals. They create fly soup and discuss healthy foods and junk...
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Dolphins
Students explore sea life. For this cross curriculum fine arts, science, and P.E. "dolphins" lesson, students sing songs and play games about dolphins, perform water experiments, create mosaics, and use their five senses to explore sand...
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Paper Mache Caterpillar
Students read The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, and practice fine motor skills by using scissors and newsprint strips, and balloons to create paper mache caterpillars.
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When I Was A Baby....
Students engage in book-making and sharing activities that increase their awareness about their own development from baby to child in order to develop language and social/emotional skills. In this development lesson, students select an...
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Color, Cut, and Paste: Halloween
In this Halloween color, cut, and paste worksheet, students color the holiday templates, cut them out, and paste them onto another sheet of paper.