Plastic math? Have young learners count and name the number of plastic items in their centers. Kindergartners match sight word cards to the number of plastics in a given group, while learning that plastics come in all different shapes,...

Let's practice cutting and pasting! Kindergarteners color four farm animals and then cut out the back half of the animals and paste them on the correct front half. Farm animal names are included to help improve sight word recognition...

A fun activity for learning about the seasons, this instructional activity includes eight pictures which correspond to specific seasons. For example, pictures of a sled and mittens are provided to represent winter. To complete this cut...

Here is a fun way to investigate fruits and vegetables. In this healthy diet and reading lesson, learners read and recite several poems about fruits and vegetables. They sort pictures and word cards with assorted names of fruits and...

Students explore the sense of touch. They investigate unknown solids using the sense of touch. Pupils use their senses of touch to match feely gloves. Students explore body parts, by tracing their hands and feet on paper. They create a...

Students participate in a scavenger hunt using their sense of sight. They bring various texture materials from home and discuss how things feel. Students identify the smells inside five jars. They discuss things they hear and why hearing...

First graders practice oral and silent reading using beginning  comprehension and decoding strategies. In this guided reading lesson, 1st graders take a picture walk and make plot predictions prior to reading the book Rain by Robert...

For this Sun-Earth system worksheet, learners fill in blanks with the proper terms from a given list to complete a summary of the relationship between the Sun and the Earth. A major topic includes how solar storms effect the Earth and...

Students explore Upham Woods at night and investigate about the special adaptations of nocturnal animals. They identify three nocturnal animals and how they are adapted to the night. Students explain what night vision is and how it works.

Young scholars discover the characteristics of living and non living objects without the use of sight.  In this sense of touch lesson, students touch items put in a shoe box and must identify whether the item was once living or not...

In this early childhood senses worksheet, students match the words sight, touch, hear, taste, and smell to the appropriate body parts.

Students study the parts of a crinoid. In this parts of a crinoid instructional activity, students look at pictures of a crinoid fossil or examine an actual fossil if one is available. They match names to pictures of the parts in the...

First graders sing about their body. In this music instructional activity students sing the songs "I Shake My Thumb" and "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes". After they sing the songs and add different body parts to extend the songs they...

Young scholars observe how to distinguish observations form inferences.  In this examining inferences lesson students list observations relating to the activity and discuss the importance of them. 

For this bison worksheet, students read several paragraphs about the American Bison. Students learn about its history and its current status and answer questions about the text.