Play a memory game with science vocabulary words to prepare for an upcoming test! Build  both understanding and retention of new vocabulary words by setting up a matching game for your learners to play in small groups of three to...

Learning about factors and multiples is all fun and games with this simple math activity. The instructional activity begins with the teacher and class playing the Factor Game together as students figure out the rules and...

Home sweet home. Humans, birds, beavers, ants, we all need a place place to rest and keep us safe. In the ninth instructional activity of this series, the importance of shelter is discussed as the teacher reads aloud the book Tillena...

Involve your readers in finding works of literary genius. Have each individual write down compelling sentences that they read or hear, whether in a newspaper, advertisement, book, movie, song, or any other place! Once each person has a...

Help your primary learners develop an understanding of the concept of one more and one less using two sets of number cards. The first set of cards, all in one color, is the "one less" deck. The second set, again all in one specific...

Students listen to the book "Cool Cats Counting" and demonstrate how to count from one through ten in English and Spanish. They count objects in bags, then place the bags in numerical order, and play a memory matching game using images...

Fourth graders show that they can follow directions by successfully making "The Worm" with a string. They reate a string game that they can share with students in Africa.

Guide multiplication lesson plan instruction with a formative assessment. Mathematicians are given two multiplication problems to solve and represent using the area model, equal groups, repeated addition, and word problems. Following the...

Students familiarize themselves with the interconnectedness of species within an ecosystem, and to use this knowledge to evaluate how the removal or decimation of one species can have far reaching effects.

Students explore Latin and Greek roots. In this vocabulary lesson plan, students create a board game featuring Greek and Latin roots.

Discuss wants and needs with your elementary ecologists and get them to consider what would happen to our natural resources if we all got everything that we want. Learners play a card sorting game and take an ecological footprint quiz on...

Introduce your class to the concept of creating phylogenetic trees by playing a game of Telephone. Participants create a mixed-up message and through the use of distance matrices, the evolution of the message is recreated. 

Young scholars play a game in order to memorize any set of facts. In this memorization activity, students play an adaptation of the game Deal or No Deal to help them review and memorize factual information. Young scholars also work on...

Students explore the concept of rhyming words.  For this rhyming word lesson, students decorate eggs and place words inside the eggs.  Students use the eggs to play a rhyming word concentration game. 

In this memory game worksheet, pupils cut apart 16 animal cards. There are 4 each of 4 different kinds of cartoon style animals. Students play a concentration card game with these cards.

In this memory game worksheet, young scholars cut apart 8 pairs of Halloween picture cards. Students place them face down and play a memory game in which the pairs are matched.

In this memory game worksheet, learners cut apart 10 pairs of picture cards which depict beach scenes. Students place them face down and play a memory game in which the cards are matched.

In this memory game worksheet, learners cut apart 8 pairs of cards depicting favorite summer foods. Students play a memory game in which they try to match up cards by remembering their placement.

Develop study skills and improve spelling at the same time. Every time I teach this mnemonic device, the kids thank me. It makes memorizing more manageable, and fun. To remember how to spell difficult words, make up a sentence using...

Students practice counting, measuring, and predicting. In this early childhood lesson plan, students identify numbers 1-101, rhyming words, and repetitive words using Long Train by Sam Williams. Students build their recall skills by...

Students have a rubber kickball that is passed around in a circle. A letter name is called and anyone with that letter sound that begins their name raises their hand. The ball is passed to them and they say, " K is for Kara." and then...

Students create a memory game featuring the Arctic and, more particularly, the Arctic hare. They examine a few pictures on a website embedded in this plan in order to get an idea of the Arctic landscape and the activities of the Arctic...

Students explore earth science by completing several environment activities. In this desert lesson, students identify where the U.S. deserts are and what types of wild life inhabit them. Students utilize arts and crafts to create a...

Students read a story by Dr. Seuss and create characters from the story. For this lesson about reading a story, students will read I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! And Other Stories. Students make a tiger tail with a felt strip, attach it to...