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Place Value Build
A hands-on small-group/center STEM activity combining base-ten block building with place value practice up to 99 or 999.
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Exploring Science Through Inquiry: A Comprehensive Scientific Method
Provide a multi-resource bundle teaching the scientific method (the eight steps: questioning, controlling variables, hypothesis, planning, performing, observing, analyzing, discussing) through slide-based lessons and hands-on lab/project activities.
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Reading & writing
Pre-Primer Dolch Words Activity Packet
For the confirmed 'Sight Word Fish' activity: assemble double-sided fish cutouts with a magnetic fishing pole, take turns 'fishing' for word cards, and read aloud the word caught (keeping the fish if read correctly, tossing it back if not). Catalog additionally describes a spatula-flip variant and a flyswatter-swat variant…
Art & making
AG Word Family Flower Craft
A spring-themed flower craft template used to reinforce recognition of AG-family CVC words through a cut-and-assemble hands-on activity.
Social studies
Geography Mystery: Polar Climate Zone with ELA and Art Project
Read three narrative clue passages and answer comprehension questions about direction, wildlife, and temperature; record findings on a Venn diagram (Chart It worksheet) using a Pocket Guide reference; construct a paper craft/art project (pocket guide, landscape pieces, wildlife cutouts) representing the discovered…
Science & discovery
Science Action Labs Environment: Explorations in Environmental Science
Teach environmental science concepts (pollution, water quality, ecosystems, recycling, population, energy conservation) through hands-on labs framed as 'lab team' investigations.
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Math & problem solving
Exploring the Triangle Angle Sum Theorem HANDS-ON ACTIVITY
Cut out a labeled paper triangle, cut its three angles apart, and glue/tape the pieces into boxes on a worksheet to physically show the three angles forming a straight 180-degree line (proof by rearrangement); answer guided class-discussion questions about triangle angle facts; then use a protractor to measure all…
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Reading & writing
Essay Writing Conventions | Interactive Centers for Middle School
Give middle school students hands-on practice with grammar conventions (complete sentences, capitalization, punctuation) through three interactive, hands-on learning centers.
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Art & making
Arts and Crafts for Letter P, I, and N
Six printable craft templates (two per letter) that reinforce phonics/letter recognition for the letters P, I, and N through hands-on making of a popcorn spring pop-up, parrot, image-strip viewer, insect with movable wings, narwhal, and decorated hand/nails.
Science & discovery
Science Action Labs Astronomy
Read chapter content, participate in labs/experiments/demonstrations for each of 14 chapters (e.g., 'Building a Sextant'), answer group-discussion questions, and complete an 'Imagination Time' creative-writing prompt (invent a myth explaining the universe's origin); an answer key is provided.
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Math & problem solving
Counting Boxes: Popsicle Number Search Center
draw a folded card, count the pool inflatables shown, find and trace the matching number on the popsicle with a dry-erase marker, then flip the card to self-check the answer.
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Reading & writing
Essay Writing Focus | Interactive Centers for Middle School
Teach middle school students to keep writing focused on purpose, audience, and task through a narrative-anchored mini-lesson and four hands-on interactive centers.
Art & making
Pumpkin Life Cycle Activities
Nine pumpkin life-cycle vocabulary words — seeds, seedling, sprout, plant, vine, flower, green pumpkin, ripen, and pumpkin — appear across a set of hands-on crafts, with shorter sequences used in some components. Students build a wearable pumpkin-themed crown and a necklace made from printed paper bead pieces, spin a spinner and lift paper flaps to review the sequence, and build the printed vocabulary words with separately supplied Bananagrams or Scrabble tiles. A sliding pumpkin-stage viewer (offered in both color and black-and-white) and a staple-bound lift-a-page booklet give students two more formats for reviewing selected parts of the growth sequence. Two instruction pages explain printing, coloring, cutting and assembly for eight activity formats. The flower stage in this sequence can be explored in more depth with a labeling parts of a flower diagram activity that names the flower's own structures.
Math & problem solving
Counting Boxes: Number Tracing Center
draw a number card, count the gumballs shown, trace the number, and write the number in the box using a dry-erase marker.
Science & discovery
Science Action Labs Air Science
Teach foundational air-science concepts (air is transparent, takes up space, has weight/pressure/resistance, is a mixture of gases, the oxygen-carbon dioxide cycle, smog/pollution) through hands-on experiments and activities.
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Reading & writing
Digraph CH Words Matching Mats
Students read each CH word (e.g. chain, cherry, chess, chick, chin, chop, cheese, chimp, couch, peach, torch, arch, touch, beach, teach, pouch) or CH sentence (e.g. 'I see a chick hatch from its egg.', 'I can chop the log in two.', 'Chad will go to the beach.') on the mat, then cut out and match the corresponding picture cards…
Art & making
Ladybugs on the Grass Art Project | Fine Motor Development
A hands-on cut-and-paste art project where students create a ladybugs-on-the-grass landscape scene using construction paper, building fine motor skills and self-expression.
Science & discovery
Science Action Labs Air Science: Active Science with Air
Teach air-science concepts (air pressure, gas properties, breathing/respiration in humans/animals/plants, Bernoulli's principle, carbon dioxide, barometers, siphons) through hands-on hypothesis-driven experiments framed around Newton's scientific method.
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Math & problem solving
Counting Boxes: Ice Cream Counting Center
draw a number cone card, read the number, and add that many ice cream scoops onto the cone.
Science & discovery
Uniform Acceleration - 7 Engaging Lab Stations
Rotate through numbered lab stations recording answers in a passport packet: run a hands-on ramp experiment measuring acceleration, research gravity/drag, write an opinion paragraph, complete an applicability reading with questions, answer multiple-choice knowledge-check questions, watch a video and answer questions…
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Reading & writing
AGE Word Family Sorting Activities
Sort word or picture cards into AGE-family vs. not-AGE-family columns, and into real-word vs. nonsense-word columns.
Art & making
Preschool Arts & Crafts Volume 1 Activity Book
A hands-on arts and crafts activity book of step-by-step craft projects for young children, plus related art/counting extension ideas.
Math & problem solving
Counting Boxes: Ocean 10 Frame Center
draw a ten-frame card and cover that number on a game board with a counter, mini eraser, or bingo dauber (on the black-and-white boards).
Science & discovery
Projectile Motion – Lab Station Activity
Rotate through numbered stations completing varied tasks: build and launch a paper football to calculate initial velocity (Station 1), research why golf balls are dimpled (Station 2), write an opinion paragraph on projectile motion's real-world relevance (Station 3), read an 'Applicability Reading' article on…
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