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Make Your own Treasure Hunt!
Students participate in a variety of treasure hunts to promote critical thinking skills. In these problem solving lessons, students go on a photo hunt, scavenger hunt, clue hunt, and map hunt, looking for specific treasures.
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The Cheeto Walk
Students walk around numbered tiles on the floor as music plays. When the music stops, a number is drawn and if they are on that number they win reward (Cheetos or other snack.)
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Whistle While You Work
Learners are broken into groups and depending on the cycle if the color of their group shows on that day, that group is to help with the set up and take down of equipment.
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Whistle While You Work
Students participate in methods to become organized and involved in clean-up and set-up of equipment at the beginning and end of each class. After being grouped in teams of colors, students observe their group's duties for the beginning...
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The Gingerbread Man
Students tour their school meeting all of the staff members and taking their pictures. They use the pictures to make cut outs that describe the person's job and other facts about them. They listen the Gingerbread Man, and retell the...
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Push and Pull Factors: Tug O' War
Learners analyze the factors that led to migration in the 19th century including the forces that drew people to resettle as well as to return a place where they previously lived.
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Remember the Egg!
Students investigate how to see, describe and draw faint or subtle features on an object which is thought of by most people as having a smooth, featureless surface. The exercise is important to reinforce skills in making observations...
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Lewis and Clark
Fourth graders research the Lewis and Clark expedition and the Corps of Discovery. They explore a variety of websites and complete a WebQuest, analyze maps, and answer comprehension questions. Students also write journal entries and...
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Forces in Fluids
In this forces in fluids worksheet, learners answer questions as they relate to forces in fluids. Students complete a chart about atmospheric pressure.
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James McCune Smith: A Model of Resistance
Learners discuss examples of resistance. In this anti-slavery instructional activity, students analyze a portrait of James McCune Smith and listen to a lecture about his life and involvement in abolition. Learners analyze his actions and...
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3-D Figures Part 2
Students work with three dimensional objects. In this geometry instructional activity, students examine models of spheres, cones, cubes, prisms, and pyramids, and identify them by their edges, vertices, and faces.
PBS
Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Shape Hunt Activity Plan
Calling all Shape Detectives! In this weeklong adventure, the children will explore and search for basic shapes as they go on a shape hunt. They will describe, match, sort and compose a variety of two-dimensional shapes, and create a...
Other
Giraffian Kid's Stuff: Shapes and Colours
Students can mix and match shapes and colors in this simple learning activity.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Match Me!
In this activity, students move in a specific way in front of the motion detector to create motion plots that match a given Distance versus Time plot. They make connections between types of movements and characteristics of Distance-Time...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Shape Naming Activity
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a short activity designed as a starter for math class. Students are asked to match a shape to its name. Hints are provided that define each shape.
Other
Ez School: Match and Extend the Pattern Using Basic Shapes
An interactive activity where students choose the next shape in a simple pattern. Two levels of difficulty. Includes option of printing a worksheet.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Two Dimensional Shapes Identify and Match
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps students to analyze and compare various two-dimensional shapes according to the vertices, sides and parallel lines. It features "containers" created in Version 3 (can be used with...
Other
Global Classroom: Kidspiration Math Templates
Download the Kidspiration templates to be used as supplemental math resources. Templates include the following elementary math topics: fractional parts, ordering fractions, multiplication, place value, matching shapes, ordering numbers,...
PBS
Pbs Mathline Lesson: Geometry, It's a Perfect Fit [Pdf]
This two-part geometry lesson plan has learners identify, describe, and classify two-dimensional shapes. Students engage in hands-on activities including identifying shapes in the classroom, creating patterns with shapes, identifying...
Scholastic
Scholastic: I Spy
These interactive matching games for elementary age students combine visuals of familiar objects and rhyming riddles to create brain-teasing puzzles.
Other
Pitara
This site from India provides a small collection of stories, poems, and activities that students can listen to online. In the activities section, students match animals with their shadows, answer vocabulary-related questions, and...
US National Archives
National Archives: Benjamin Franklin: Politician and Diplomat
Benjamin Franklin was the only man to help shape all the major documents that established the United States. Students will review those documents and match the correct document to its description. Upon completion, students will choose...
PBS
Pbs: Oops! A Game for Dealing With Embarrassment
Explore feelings of embarrassment and discuss ways to cope with those feelings. Match halves of patterned paper in the shape of pants and hang them on a "clothesline."