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Stay at Home Educator: Colors and Shapes Sorting Activities for Preschoolers
Sorting activities are the perfect way to help children learn to classify their world from the start. This article explains why this skill is so important in the "real world" and contains a list of sorting activities for preschoolers.
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Teach Net: Brain Binders
Brain binders are great teacher sources for problem solving and critical thinking with geometry. Students fold sheets of paper to create solid colors on each side. Various levels are included starting with two folds through five folds.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Do Different Colors Absorb Heat Better?
Students test whether the color of a material affects how much heat it absorbs. Students will place an ice cube in a box made of colored paper (one box per color; white, yellow, red and black), which they will place in the sun. The...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Images of the Sun
We think of the sun as being bright yellow, however, the sun is actually different colors based on whether the sun is in an active stage. Scientists used telescopes and satellite cameras to take these stunning photographs of the sun....
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: French Theme Page
Learn the French of everyday objects using these "Label Me" printouts for everything from colors to clothes, from the life cycle of a butterfly to the rooms in a house.
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Dltk's Color Buddies Crafts for Kids
Includes several activities for young learners, particularly allowing them to learn concepts such as the alphabet through the use of colors. Provides activities and exercises.
TES Global
Tes: Designing Nativity Costumes
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a lesson on designing nativity costumes including details on using fabrics, colors, and decorations; it includes a downloadable PowerPoint and a Costume Designing Frame worksheet.
TES Global
Tes: Ppt on Costume Design
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a PowerPoint presentation on Costume Design including its bases in text and vision, colors, and line and silhouette. A worksheet for students is also provided.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Power Point Tool Tips
Printable directions on how to work within PowerPoint to do things like change the template, change slide colors, add and manipulate clip art, add animations, set transitions between slides, and change text on action buttons. Directions...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: People (La Gente)
Great tool for teaching Spanish-speaking English Language Learners (ELL). This vocabulary lesson focuses on: opposites, colors, words for describing people. A variety of interactive, self-correcting exercises are provided to reinforce...
Read Works
Read Works:classify/categorize Kindergarten Unit: Sorting to Predetermined Groups
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using the book My Big World Book by Roger Priddy in which students learn to sort items into predetermined categories. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are included....
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Read Works: Classify/categorize Kindergarten Unit: Creating Groups and Sorting
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan using the book My Big Truck Book by Roger Priddy in which students learn to sort items into categories they create for themselves. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent...
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Read Works: Classify and Categorize Kindergarten Unit: Adding to Sorted Groups
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using the book My Big Animal Book by Roger Priddy in which students learn to sort items into predetermined categories. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are...
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: Henri Rousseau Fantasy Jungle (Lesson Plan)
KinderArt provides a site with information on how to teach young scholars art techniques. Students learn to recognize and identify foreground, midground and background. They also create a stylized drawing using simple shapes as well as...
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Abcteach: Coloring Pages
[Free Registration/Login Required] Generate 3 blackline pages of a bear, a butterfly and a turkey to color with the instructions and color key in Spanish. These can be used to teach Spanish, or with your ELL students.
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Abcteach: Color Flash Cards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Help your students learn colors with printable color or blackline flash cards. Bright color pictures go with each color name. Sample sight word nouns with picture flash cards are also printable....
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Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Pet Tech: Animal Training
Research color awareness in animals. Design a set of experiments to determine if animals see colors by using a computer-based paint program to create specific color characteristics, based on their "gray values".
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Over the Rainbow
Students review and conclude our color unit. Students graph their favorite colors.
Teachnology
Teachnology: A Variety of Printable Handwriting Worksheets
Use this resource to print activities and worksheets for handwriting.
TES Global
Tes: Vocabulary Sorting Activity
[Free Registration/Login Required] Beginning readers or ELL/ESL/EL students. This reproducible tool can used to sort new vocabulary words into different categories.
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Clothes (La Ropa) Vocabulary
Great tool from Ingles Mundial for teaching the English words for articles of clothing, colors, and common verbs and descriptors to Spanish-speaking English language learners (ELL). Uses a variety of interactive, self-correcting...
Starfall
Starfall: Label the Magician
These games use the magic theme to teach young readers vocabulary. It offers four games: click on stars to change colors of the magician's clothes, labeling his clothes by clicking and dragging, picking up the wand and clicking on...