PreKinders
Pre-K Assessment Forms
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
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
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!
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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The Many Faces of Ants
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.