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Sensory Boxes - Letter Boxes
A hands-on center activity for teaching recognition of uppercase and lowercase letters using a sensory tracing box.
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Family Sensory Table
Sets up a hands-on sensory table activity where students build a house/home using sensory filler and family-themed manipulatives, paired with printable literacy materials.
Science & discovery
Science Action Labs Science Puzzlers: Solving Science Mysteries
A collection of 31 hands-on science 'puzzler' activities and demonstrations covering physics concepts (gravity, magnetism, balance, motion, light) framed as mysteries for students to solve.
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5 Senses Activity Booklet, printable for kids, Tasting, hearing, smelling, touching, seeing, Activity printable, Girl Scout Badge Resource
A hands-on activity booklet that lets children explore each of the five senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch) through structured group games and worksheets, designed with Girl Scout troop meetings in mind.
Science & discovery
Science Projects for Preschoolers: Volume 2
A set of three hands-on preschool science activities introducing sound/vibration, weather observation and tracking, and static electricity through play-based experiments and crafts.
Science & discovery
Volcanoes: A Comprehensive Hands-On Science Unit
Provide a comprehensive hands-on unit teaching the science of volcanoes - their types, eruption mechanics, and hazards - for grades 4-8, going beyond a basic baking-soda-and-vinegar model.
Reading & writing
Farm Sensory Table
Provide a hands-on farm-themed sensory table activity that integrates reading, singing, and writing for early learners
Science & discovery
Fluids Unit
A 9-presentation science unit teaching the properties, behavior, and real-world applications of fluids (liquids and gases) as part of a matter-and-energy course.
Reading & writing
"Millions of Cats" | Picture Book Study
A picture-book study kit for the book 'Millions of Cats,' providing classroom discussion questions and related hands-on activities/crafts to accompany a read-aloud.
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Science & discovery
Scientific Method Unit
Two-week mini-unit introducing the scientific method and science process skills to upper-elementary students through notes, vocabulary, hands-on experiments, a study guide, and a quiz.
Science & discovery
Simple and Fun Science E - Science Simplified
A full science workbook (Book E of the 'Simple and Fun Science' series, ages 9-11) teaching life science concepts (cells, osmosis, plant/animal classification, plant responses to environment and light, tree age) through hands-on investigations.
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Practical Science: Earth and Beyond Activities for 10-12 year olds
A 24-page photocopiable hands-on science activity book (Ready-Ed Publications, RED4034) covering the 'Earth and Beyond' topic for 10-12 year olds, with 8 lessons each pairing teacher notes with a student activity sheet.
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Space Science Center
Provide a science center with reference posters and hands-on sorting/observation stations that introduce space concepts (gravity, planets, moon phases, day and night) to young learners.
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Simple and Fun Science A - Science Simplified
A full science workbook (Book A of the 'Simple and Fun Science' series, ages 4-6) teaching science process skills (observing, sorting, comparing, recording, classifying) through hands-on activities across life science, plants, animals, the human body, and weather topics.
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Plants Science Center
A 7-activity classroom science center for a plants/farm/spring unit, developing visual discrimination, sorting, observation, nonstandard measurement, and drawing/writing skills through hands-on work with plant parts, plant needs, and the bean life cycle.
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Weather Mobile | Paper Meteorology Craft | Earth Science
A hands-on paper craft that helps students visualize and reinforce different types of precipitation and weather as part of an earth science/meteorology lesson.
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3rd Grade Food Web Project – NGSS 3-LS4-4
Teach how animals in an ecosystem (woodland habitat, featuring an eagle) form a balanced food web made of producers, consumers, and decomposers, aligned to NGSS standard 3-LS4-4, through a learning-pages lesson and a hands-on cut-and-paste/coloring/drawing project.
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NGSS Third Grade Adaptations Project - Hands-on Activities for 3-LS3-2
Teach how animal (fox) physical adaptations help survival in different environments, aligned to NGSS standard 3-LS3-2, through a fact-based lesson, true/false check, and a hands-on cut-and-paste/coloring/drawing project.
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"A Night Divided" S.T.E.A.M. Activities Packet
A cross-curricular S.T.E.A.M. activity packet inspired by the novel 'A Night Divided', pairing hands-on science/engineering/art projects (mural art, structural design, tunneling, simple machines, rocket building) with the book's historical themes (Berlin Wall, Cold War, Space Race, Keith Haring's art).
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The War That Saved My Life | STEAM Activities & Project-Based Learning
A five-project STEAM/project-based-learning packet connecting the novel 'The War That Saved My Life' to WWII history through hands-on engineering, art, math, and science activities.
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Kid Concoctions, Creations & Contraptions
a hands-on activity book of science, art-material, and simple-invention projects for young children, compiling three previously published Teaching & Learning Company titles
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Hurricanes and Tornadoes: A Comprehensive Hands-On Science Unit
A published earth-science unit book teaching the causes, characteristics, and effects of hurricanes and tornadoes through informational readings, diagrams, hands-on experiments, and vocabulary/research activities.
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Mission to Space Rocket Straws Project
Multi-day group project/activity plan for teaching about the planets and solar system through research and a hands-on straw-rocket launch relay.
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Inherited Traits, Variation of Traits, and Mutations in a Third Grade Science Project
Stop avoiding teaching heredity and genetics. Grab this NGSS Inherited Traits Project instead!
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