Examine how pollution makes its way into an ocean with help from a model watershed. Scholars use household items to recreate a mini-watershed, equipped with pollutants, that when mixed with rain drain into a model's body of...

Challenge your classes to design and market a new product. Collaborative groups use geometry skills to create packaging for their products. Finally, they plan a marketing strategy to present to a marketing specialist.

James Jamerson. You probably heard him but may not have heard of him. But fans of Motown Records will certainly recognize his contributions to the sound that desegregated popular music during the 1960s. Challenge young history...

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...

Nothing says Christmas like a decorated tree! Little learners choose their tree, decorate with garlands, lights, and ornaments, and select a cute gift to go underneath. They can create an entire forest of lovely Christmas trees!

Students design a car with two motors and then program the car to accomplish specific tasks within Pilot 4. They work in teams in order to program their own car in order to accomplish specific tasks outlined by the teacher. They write...

Students collaborate with their classmates to create a sculpture with the provided materials in order to cultivate fine motor and social skills. In this collaborative art lesson, students work in small groups to design the pedestal and...

In this clown maze worksheet, 1st graders find their way through the maze of the clown's bow tie. Students then draw a tie on the clown. The objective is to enhance students' fine motor and visual interpretation skills.

In this color recognition worksheet, 1st graders color the ornaments according to the given colors. Students enhance their color recognition skills.

In this English vocabulary skills worksheet, learners respond to 9 multiple choice questions that require them to fill in the blanks in sentences with the appropriate prepositions.

Fourth graders use motor imaging to remember the definitions of words. In this vocabulary lesson, 4th graders work in groups to make a pantomime to help them remember a word. Students document the experience in their notebooks.

Students create a scale model of a motor neuron that is two hundred times larger than the actual neuron. They identify the structures of a neuron and observe neurons under the microscope then use a worksheet to convert actual sizes into...

Students create recycled art. In this visual art lesson, students use recycled products to assemble robotic pieces of art. Students also write stories about their robots.

Students are introduced to cursive handwriting as a symbolic language system. In this cursive handwriting lesson, students apply the Peterson sequence approach and practice gross motor patterning and action word rhythm. Students...

In this early childhood practice tracing lines worksheet, learners practice drawing straight lines as they help the balloons rise by tracking the dashed lines from the bottom to the top.

Students construct a "feeling cube" for the purpose of exploring and discussing feelings. Students read "The Hungry Caterpillar" discussing life cycle and making a sock puppet, discussing the feelings explored during the activity and the...

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...

Students gain a better understanding of the Arctic, its biology as well as the inhabitants. They then perform activities necessary to develop motor skills, listening and cognitive skills.

Students follow this recipe for fun clay creations. In this early childhood art and science lesson, students develop creative-thinking skills, fine-motor skills, and sensory awareness while they make, mold, and decorate salt dough.

In this math worksheet, students develop their cognitive and motor skills through constructing the geometric solid of a rhombicuboctahedron

In this printing instructional activity, students will focus on fine motor skills. Students will trace four dotted, curved lines for pre printing practice.

In this coloring worksheet designed for preschoolers, students color a picture of a bat. Picture provides opportunity for practicing a combination of fine and larger motor skills.

In this shapes learning exercise, students practice tracing 5 different sizes of squares and then draw 5 on their own in the space provided. A good, basic learning exercise for working on fine motor skills.

Students build on what they know to make new discoveries. In this early childhood lesson plan, students engage in a block-building activity to develop language, math, and fine-motor skills.