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Nhs: Sense Able Ideas: Activities to Improve Oral Motor Skills

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This booklet is to give you ideas and activities to help support your child / young person to improve the awareness and co-ordination of their oral motor skills.
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Round and Round With Simple Motors

For Teachers 9th - 10th
After developing a hypothesis on how a motor works, students investigate this by building a simple electric motor, using the scientific method as they proceed. Includes handouts and worksheets, as well as a vocabulary list with...
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Museum of Science

Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Build an Electric Motor

For Students 3rd - 8th
Step-by-step illustrated instructions show how to build a simple electric motor using everyday materials to make a wire coil spin. An explanation of the science involved is given at the end, as well as tips on troubleshooting any...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: How to Make a Homopolar Motor

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this quick activity, you will make a simple motor using nothing but a battery, magnet, and a piece of wire.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Keep It Moving! From Electrons to Electric Motors

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students act as engineers to apply what they know about how circuits work in electrical/motorized devices to design their own battery-operated model motor vehicles with specific paramaters. They calculate the work done by the vehicles...
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Pbs Learning Media: Peg + Cat: Printable Games and Activities

For Students Pre-K - K
Move and play with these activities from Peg + Cat! From playing hide and seek and imagining pirate stories to dancing like Misty Copeland, you will find a treasure of fun ideas in these five printable activities.
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Pbs Learning Media: Active Deck of Cards: Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st
Read playing cards so the suit determines the type of physical activity, and the face value determines the number of repetitions.
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Science Museum, London

Science Museum: Pocket Motor

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Teacher directed activity shows students how flowing electrical current produces a magnetic field by building a simple motor.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Get Your Motor Running

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate motors and electromagnets as they construct their own simple electric motors using batteries, magnets, paper clips and wire.
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Stripped Down Motor

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to make an electric motor in this simple activity.
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Motor Effect

For Students 9th - 10th
Create a simple device to see how a force is exerted on a current by a magnetic field. This activity shows how an electric motor can be made with this force.
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Active for Life: Jumping, Hopping & Skipping

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A series of activities to practice motor skills using jump ropes, cones, and hula hoops.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Motorized Car (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
Hands-on challenge to make a car that uses a battery-operated motor. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to design, build, test, and redesign it if necessary. Also, includes ideas for taking your design to the next level....
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Serc: Investigating Motors and Magnetism

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will build a simple DC motor out of metal coat hangers, a 24-guage wire armature and field magnet, 14-guage wire brushes, and build the motor so that it rotates when connected to a 10-volt DC power supply. Students will...
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Pbs: Lace Cards to Strengthen Fine Motor Skills

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Get little wrists and fingers ready for writing with this fun activity! Lacing cards help children perfect their pincer grip, which is necessary to hold a pencil properly.
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Pocket of Preschool: Favorite Fine Motor Tools and Toys for Preschool

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Fine motor skills take practice but it can be FUN. Students may not get the time they need to perfect this skill, so let's make sure they have the opportunity to improve with the help of some toys, tools, and games through PLAY.
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Empowered Parents: 19 Kids' Activities & Games to Improve Hand Eye Coordination

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Eye-hand coordination is an important gross motor skill children develop during the early years. Find out what it is, why it is important to develop and how you can help your children build their coordination with simple games and...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Letter Writing Activities

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This invaluable site helps instructors teach students how to handwrite each letter of the alphabet. It includes the amsti sequence to introduce letters, followed by fluency-building activities and accuracy-building activities. Additional...
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Pre K Pages: Sorting Activities for Preschool

For Teachers Pre-K
This article contains activities and ideas for teaching sorting skills in preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classrooms. Teach children to sort using various attributes.
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Museum of Science

Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Activities: Build a Wind Turbine

For Students 3rd - 8th
Step-by-step instructions, with photos, of how to construct and test a wind turbine that produces energy. This experiment does require preparation as it uses PVC pipes, a small motor, and a multimeter, for example.
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Naeyc: Help Your Child Build Fine Motor Skills

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
There are lots of activities that can increase muscle strength and coordination, preparing children for more advanced skills, from writing with a pencil, using a computer mouse, or playing a musical instrument. Help your child build fine...
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A to Z Teacher Stuff

A to Z Teacher Stuff: Beginning Handwriting (Activity)

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This is a handwriting activity for first graders. The students learn the importance of their name and learn to properly write their name in a fun activity.
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Kid Sense: Strength and Endurance

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Strength and endurance are important to enable children to perform every day functions such as fine motor skills, gross motor skills, playground skills, and sporting skills. This article explains how to tell if your child has problems...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: A Simple Solution for the Circus

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students are challenged to design a contraption using simple machines to move a circus elephant into a rail car. After students consider their audience and constraints, they work in groups to brainstorm ideas and select...

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