Assessment
PreKinders

Pre-K Assessment Forms

For Teachers Pre-K - K
This is a Pre-K teacher's must-have resource for pre-assessing learners at the beginning of the school year! Covering everything from alphabet recognition and sorting objects to social-emotional development and work habits, this...
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Scavenger Hunt: Creature Features

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this animal/science worksheet, students participate in a scavenger hunt to locate a variety of animals with different shapes, sizes and colors found in a zoo.
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Ancient River Valley Civilizations

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
Ziggurats, cuneiform writing, the Tower of Babel, hieroglyphics, pyramids, the Great Wall. Launch a unit on ancient cultures, with a presentation that introduces viewers to ancient Mesopotamia, Babylonia, Sumer, Egypt, Indus, and China....
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Yummy Apples!

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Young learners listen to a read aloud of Gail Gibbons book, Apples and the story A Red House With No Windows and No Doors. They compare characteristics of a number of kinds of apples, graph them and create a apple print picture. Learners...
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Ask a Biologist

The Many Faces of Ants

For Students 4th - 7th
Though they be but little, they are fierce! Young biologists read about eight different species of ants, and discover how the anatomy of their heads can explain the way they live and what they eat.
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Landscape Book

For Teachers K - 6th
Students create a three-dimensional book about landscapes. They must show their understanding of shape, color and balance.
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Birdhouse Shape Match File Folder Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this early childhood math worksheet, students color the birds and birdhouses. Students then match the correct birds to the birdhouses with the matching shapes.
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Shape Find

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this geometric shapes activity, students analyze a full page collage of geometric shapes. Students color the triangles green, the squares red, the rectangles blue and the squares brown. Students count each kind of shape.
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Pot-O-Gold and Shamrock Shape Match

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this early childhood math learning exercise, students color the shamrocks and pot-o-gold with shapes on them, cut them out, and then match them according to the shapes pictured on the cards.
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Patterns Within Shapes and Pictures

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this patterns within shapes and pictures worksheet, students look at the shapes and pictures, then color or draw to complete the pattern.
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Rocks and Minerals

For Teachers 4th - 7th Standards
Take young geologists on an exploration of the collection of rocks and minerals that we call Earth with an upper-elementary science lesson. Through a series of class discussion and hands-on investigations, students learn about the...
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Volcano Models

For Teachers 6th Standards
More than 80 percent of the earth's surface originated from volcanoes. The 16th lesson plan in a 20-part series introduces the shape and development of volcanoes. It begins with a demonstration using a balloon and flour to...
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Shape Matching Worksheet

For Students Pre-K - K
In this geometric shapes worksheet, students draw a line to match each of 4 pairs of geometric shapes. Included shapes are triangle, rectangle, hexagon and oval.
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Size Worksheet: Tall and Short

For Students Pre-K - K
In this size/shape worksheet, students look at shapes on a 4 section grid. Students determine which shape is tall, which is short.
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5 Five

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this early childhood number recognition activity, students explore the number 5 as they practice printing the number, color 5 shapes, identify each 5, and place 5 stickers in the space provided.
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ESL: Shapes, Colors and Sizes Handwriting Practice

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this ESL handwriting worksheet students practice tracing and writing a set of shape, color and sizes words. A reference web site is given for additional information. 
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Symmetry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students examine knightly virtues and will measure Gawain's strength in the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. In this poetry analysis lesson, students identify the bob-and-wheel poetic form and analyze symmetry in the poem. Students...
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Sorting and Classifying Concrete Objects by Varying Attributes

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine how to sort concrete objects by their attributes. In this sorting lesson, 1st graders listen to Gray Rabbit's Odd One Out by Alan Baker, and discuss the actions of the main character. They practice sorting objects...
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Quilts

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore geometric shapes and patterns. They view the provided paper display of a quilt to identify geometric figures it contains. Afterwards, they draw and color their own quilt on a activity sheet.
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Hello My Name is . . . Helvetica

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students play various games to help create a classroom community. In this name recognition instructional activity, students combine their name recognition skills with newly learned art and geometric vocabulary. First students discover...
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Shape Collage Pizza

For Teachers K
Students identify shapes. In this geometry lesson, students cut out various shapes and create a "Shape Collage Pizza." Students glue their shapes onto a pizza template.
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The Sponges

For Students 6th - 9th
In this sponge worksheet, students read about the different parts of a sponge and answer 20 short answer questions that follow. They color and label different sponge drawing.
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Math and Numbers

For Students Pre-K - K
In this number identification worksheet, students write the number four on the given lines. Students also write the digital form of the number four, as well as color in four rectangles.
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The Different Shape

For Students Pre-K - K
In this geometry worksheet, students identify and color the shape that is different in each row. There are ten different shapes shown on the sheet.