Lessons for all learners, for educators by an educator. Ready-to-use lesson plans for classrooms and homeschools. Featuring engaging, low-prep activities for the busy teacher.
Lessons for all learners, for educators by an educator. Ready-to-use lesson plans for classrooms and homeschools. Featuring engaging, low-prep activities for the busy teacher.
Building Fraction Models Task Cards
These hands on fraction activities are the perfect way to start learning about modeling fractions. Although many children can correctly identify a fraction when it is shown to them, they have trouble representing specific fractions on their own. Use these math task cards to teach students how to model and develop a deeper understanding of fractions. I have found this activity extremely useful in my math intervention classes. The cards ask students to use 1, 2, or 3 primary colors. You can use any primary-colored objects such as LEGO, pattern blocks, Unifix cubes, etc. Differentiate by limiting the number of blocks students are given or requiring them to use equivalent fractions. Supports skills from CCSS 3.NF.A.1, TEKS 3.3.A, VA SOL 3.2b, and KS2 Year 3.
This Resource Includes
• 40 unique task cards in both color and print-friendly versions
Materials Needed
• Primary color (red, yellow, blue, green) objects
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Minecraft Building Ideas for the United States Task Cards
Learn about the symbols and landmarks of the United States with these Minecraft building challenges. Students are challenged to build objects related to America such as the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, and much more! The task cards are designed to be used with the Minecraft game, but the challenges can also be completed using blocks (LEGO, DUPLO, etc.) or any craft items. Use as a starter activity or as a challenge in your classroom. They are a great addition to history units, country studies, or to get your students using STEM skills.
This Resource Includes
28 challenges in four versions:
• Color with picture
• Print-friendly with picture
• Color without picture
• Print-friendly without picture
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Activities Bundle for the Country of France Unit
Dive deeper into your unit study of France with this bundle of activities. It includes printables as well as STEM activities. The three sets of flashcards can be used in multiple ways and allow you to differentiate for varying abilities and ages. Use the worksheet for additional practice or as an assessment, Children will love using their knowledge of French symbols and landmarks to build items in the game of Minecraft. The Minecraft challenges will improve their STEM skills and add a creative aspect to your unit. You can also use the building challenges without technology by giving students craft materials or blocks such as LEGO to complete the challenges. A fun and educational way to introduce children to different countries.
This Resource Includes
• 78 flashcards
o 26 color pictures
o 26 item names
o 26 item descriptions
• 28 building challenges in four versions
o Color with picture
o Print-friendly with picture
o Color without picture
o Print-friendly without picture
• Worksheet
• Word Bank
• “Did You Know?” fact sheet
• Answer keys for flashcards and worksheet
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Properties of Waves Hands-on Exploration Activities
Looking for a fun way to introduce waves to your students? This wave activity resource gives students several hands-on activities to explore different types of waves to learn about their properties. The explorations include activities covering both mechanical waves and electromagnetic waves. It is the perfect resource for the “Explore” portion of 5E lessons. Two versions of the activities are provided to allow them to be done as rotating stations or at-home activities. Both color and print-friendly student pages are included. Supports NGSS Standards 4-PS4-1 and MS-PS4-2.
This Resource Includes
• 4 Lab Station Cards
• 2 Exploration Questions Sheets (for rotating stations)
• 3 Exploring Waves Lab Sheets (for non-rotating stations or at-home use)
• 3 Teacher Information Sheets including materials and setup instructions.
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Minecraft Building Challenges for Medieval Times Task Cards
Vikings and knights and inventors, oh my! The Medieval world saw many exciting developments in history. Have your students use these Minecraft building challenges to dig deeper into this period of history. This set includes objects from the Middle Ages (AD 500-1500) such as castles, cathedrals, inventions, and much more! The building challenges range from easy to complex which allows you to use this resource with children of all ages and abilities. You can also complete the challenges by using blocks (LEGO, DUPLO, etc.) or any craft items for the building materials. Use for history units, STEM centers, early finishers, or just for fun!
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28 challenges in four versions:
• Color with picture
• Print-friendly with picture
• Color without picture
• Print-friendly without picture
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Minecraft Building Challenges for Ancient Greece and Rome Task Cards
Add some fun and engaging activities to your study of Ancient Greece and Rome with these Minecraft building challenges. Creating the events and highlights from this time period will help make history come alive! This set covers objects from Ancient Greek and Roman civilization such as the Parthenon, Colosseum, battle formations and much more. The building challenges range from easy to complex which allows you to use this resource with children of all ages and abilities. You can also complete the challenges by using blocks (LEGO, DUPLO, etc.) or any craft items for the building materials. Use for history units, STEM centers, early finishers, or just for fun!
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28 challenges in four versions:
• Color with picture
• Print-friendly with picture
• Color without picture
• Print-friendly without picture
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Three different games that allow children to practice various Kindergarten math skills. Use for math centers, additional practice, homeschool or just for fun! Each sheet has the list of needed materials as well as the instructions of how to play the game. Activities require minimal preparation and use only cards, dice, and counters.
The “Count Up Game” reinforces CCSS K.CC.2, “Tower Addition/Subtraction Game CCSS.K.OA.1 and More Than, Less Than, Same Game CCSS.K.CC.6. Can be used by advanced preschoolers and as a review in first grade.
Includes:
• 3 game sheets with material list and instructions (color and print-friendly version)
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Multiplying Three-digit Numbers Christmas-Themed Task Cards
Add a little holiday cheer to your classroom with these Christmas themed multiplication task cards. There are 40 three digit by one digit multiplication problems with half of the problems requiring regrouping of the ones place and the other half requiring students to regroup both the ones and tens place. Supports skills from the following standards: CCSS 4.NBT.B.5; TEKS 4.4D; VA SOL 4.4d; and KS2 Year 4.
This Resource Includes
• 40 unique task cards in both color and print-friendly versions
• 2 types of student recording sheets
• 2 matching answer sheets for easy grading
• Blank recording sheet for differentiation
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A quick hands-on camouflage modeling activity that gets students up and out of the classroom. Students will discover the reasons that camouflage is important for animals by using different colored toothpicks and collecting data on which color is easier to find in the grass. Small colored blocks such as LEGO can also be used. I use this as an “Explore” activity in my 5E lesson cycle. Easily incorporate math into this activity by having students graph their results. Supports NGSS 3 LS4-2 and TEKS SCI.3.10.A
Includes:
• Teacher lesson instructions
• Student data collection sheet
• Student lab question sheet
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Get ready for spring with the butterfly and moth activities in this set! Children will be introduced to facts about butterflies and moths in the 14-page book with color photographs. They will apply this knowledge in three different activities: identifying parts of a butterfly, completing a butterfly life cycle and answering comprehension questions. Great as an introduction to butterflies and moths or metamorphosis. Print the pages out landscape and staple the book together. Extend these activities by looking for caterpillars, butterflies and moths, making a butterfly life cycle mobile, or reading additional books such as “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle.
This is one of my low-prep “Print, Cut, Learn” activities. Print out, cut apart and let the learning and fun begin!
Includes:
14-page book with color photographs
1 cut and paste life cycle activity
1 cut and paste identifying parts of a butterfly
1 set of comprehension questions
Answer sheets for all three activities
Minecraft Building Challenges for Ancient History Task Cards
Looking for some STEM activities to add to your study of history? These fun Minecraft challenges are perfect! Children will learn and remember more about events and highlights from ancient history while building different items in Minecraft. This set covers history from about 5000 BC to AD 400 from a wide variety of areas including Babylon, Egypt, China and more. It does NOT include challenges for ancient Greece or Rome. The building challenges range from easy to complex which allows you to use this resource with children of all ages and abilities. You can also complete the challenges by using blocks (LEGO, DUPLO, etc.) or any craft items for the building materials. Use for history units, STEM centers, early finishers, or just for fun!
This Resource Includes
28 challenges in four versions:
• Color with picture
• Print-friendly with picture
• Color without picture
• Print-friendly without picture
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Measuring Length Task Cards
Looking for ways to help students practice reading rulers and measure length? These math task cards include 32 problems measuring inches and centimeters. Twelve problems have students measuring inches to the nearest whole or half-inch and twelve problems have them measuring centimeters. There are eight extension cards for differentiation which ask for ¼ or ¾ inches or .5 cm. Multiple recording sheets allow for a variety of uses from individual practice to around the room games. Supports skills from the following standards: CCSS 2.MD.A.1; TEKS 1.7a; VA SOL 2.11; and KS1 Year 1.
This Resource Includes
• 32 unique task cards in both color and print-friendly versions
• 3 types of student recording sheets
• 3 matching answer sheets for easy grading
• Blank recording sheet and extension sheets for differentiation
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Building Ideas for the Month of December Task Cards
Use this set of 32 building task cards with a December theme to help build fine motor and problem-solving skills while encouraging creativity and persistence. Students will increase their STEM skills while building objects related to special days in December such as Cookie Day, Build a Snowman Day, Christmas, and much more. There are a variety of building tasks ranging from easy to complex which allows you to use this set with children of all ages and abilities. You can use many different items to complete the challenges such as craft materials, LEGO blocks, or the game of Minecraft. Extend the activities by having students complete the same challenge again with different materials. Works great in classrooms and homeschools for STEM bins, STEAM centers, enrichment activities, monthly themes, morning baskets or just for fun. Provide children with an assortment of materials, choose a card, and watch them create!
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32 challenges in four versions:
• Color with picture
• Print-friendly with picture
• Color without picture
• Print-friendly without picture
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Minecraft Building Ideas for Mexico Task Cards
Learn about different countries while encouraging creativity and problem-solving with this set of Minecraft building challenges. Students will increase their STEM skills while building objects, symbols, and landmarks relating to Mexico such as sombreros, jaguars, salsa, and more! There are a variety of building activities ranging from easy to complex which allows you to use this resource with all ages and abilities. You can also complete the challenges by using blocks (LEGO, DUPLO, etc.) or any craft items for the building materials. Use for history units, country studies, STEM bins, enrichment activities, or just for fun!
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28 challenges in four versions:
• Color with picture
• Print-friendly with picture
• Color without picture
• Print-friendly without picture
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Human Body Systems Sorting Activity
This low-prep sort activity is the perfect way to have your students learn the levels of organization from smallest to largest in the human body. It includes picture examples of the four levels of organization for six body systems (circulatory, digestive, excretory, muscular, nervous, and respiratory). The pictures come in 3 different sizes, two with labels. Use the category cards and the larger pictures in your science center or station, use the sorting sheets with smaller pictures as notes in interactive notebooks, a homework assignment or formative assessment. You can easily differentiate by changing how many systems or levels you use in the sorting activity. The labeled pictures are a wonderful way to incorporate vocabulary into the lesson (cyte means cell, cardio pertains to the heart, etc.) A quick and easy way to reinforce science concepts and vocabulary.
This Resource Includes
• 24 different color picture cards in 4 formats (3 different sizes, 2 with labels)
o 1 example of a cell, tissue, organ, and body system for 6 systems
Circulatory System
Digestive System
Excretory System
Muscular System
Nervous System
Respiratory System
• Sorting Sheets
• Category cards of systems and levels
• Answer Key
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Landform Examples Card Sort
Many landforms are created by glaciers, gravity, water, or wind through the processes of erosion and deposition. This card sort is a quick and easy way to compare and contrast these processes as well as reinforce science vocabulary. It includes 24 different picture examples of landforms created by erosion or deposition. Cards can be sorted by what process they show (erosion or deposition), what causes the process (glaciers, gravity, water, wind) or both. The pictures come in 3 different sizes, with differentiated sorting sheets and answer keys. Laminate the larger pictures to use as a center or station activity, use the sorting sheets with smaller pictures as notes in interactive notebooks, a homework assignment or formative assessment. Easily differentiate by changing how students sort or which pictures they use. Supports skills from the following standards: NGSS 4-ESS2-1, MS ESS2-2; TEKS SCI.4.7B, 7.8B; and VA SOL.5.8D.
This Resource Includes
• 24 different color picture cards in 4 formats (3 different sizes, 1 with labels)
o 3 glacier erosion examples
o 3 glacier deposition examples
o 2 gravity erosion examples
o 2 gravity deposition examples
o 5 water erosion examples
o 5 water deposition examples
o 2 wind erosion examples
o 2 wind deposition examples
• 3 Differentiated Sorting Sheets
• Category Labels
• Answer Keys
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Layers of the Ocean Card Sort
Did you know that the ocean has five distinct layers and over 250,000 species? Introduce your students to the ocean zones and the creatures that live there with this ocean layers card sort. It includes 19 different picture examples of ocean creatures to sort between the 5 ocean zones. There is also a card for the depth of each zone. The cards come in 3 different sizes, with differentiated sorting sheets and an answer key. This resource can be used in so many ways! Laminate the larger pictures to use as a center or station activity, use the sorting sheets with smaller pictures as notes in interactive notebooks, a homework assignment or formative assessment. Easily differentiate by changing the vocabulary of the zones of the ocean. A quick and easy way to reinforce science concepts and vocabulary. Supports skills from the following standards: NGSS 2 LS4-1, 3 LS4-3, MS LS2-1; TEKS SCI.3.10, 4.10, 7.10; VA SOL.3.5, LS.6, LS.7 and KS1 Year 2, KS2 Year 4 and 6.
This Resource Includes
• 19 different color picture cards in 4 formats (3 different sizes, 1 with labels)
o 4 Examples for Sunlight Zone (Epipelagic)
o 4 Examples for Twilight Zone (Mesopelagic)
o 4 Examples for Midnight Zone (Bathypelagic)
o 4 Examples for Abyss Zone (Abyssopelagic)
o 3 Examples for the Trenches (Hadalpelagic)
• 5 Zone Depth Cards in Three Sizes
• 4 Differentiated Sorting Sheets
• Zone Labels
• Answer Key
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Ocean Activities Bundle
The ocean is a vast, mysterious place, home to more than 250,000 species and an endless supply of questions for curious kids This ocean bundle will engage children in learning about this fascinating ecosystem in several ways. Students will learn about the ocean layers and the species that inhabit them with the Layers of the Ocean Card Sort. It includes 19 different picture examples of ocean creatures to sort between the 5 ocean zones. There is also a card for the depth of each zone. They can then dive deeper into their ocean exploration with the Minecraft Building Challenges for Oceans. Students will learn about the ocean while building their own creations. The building ideas can also be completed without technology using blocks or craft materials. These fun and engaging activities are an excellent way to include both hands-on and STEM activities to your study of the oceans. This resource supports skills from the following standards: NGSS 2 LS4-1, 3 LS4-3, MS LS2-1; TEKS SCI.3.10, 4.10, 7.10; VA SOL.3.5, LS.6, LS.7 and KS1 Year 2, KS2 Year 4 and 6.
Layers of the Ocean Card Sort Includes
• 19 Different Color Pictures in Three Sizes
o 5 Examples for Sunlight Zone (Epipelagic)
o 5 Examples for Twilight Zone (Mesopelagic)
o 5 Examples for Midnight Zone (Bathypelagic)
o 5 Examples for Abyss Zone (Abyssopelagic)
o 4 Examples for the Trenches (Hadalpelagic)
• 5 Zone Depth Cards in Three Sizes
• 4 Differentiated Sorting Sheets
• Answer Keys
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28 challenges in four versions:
• Color with picture
• Print-friendly with picture
• Color without picture
• Print-friendly without picture
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Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources Card Sort
Looking for an engaging and versatile activity to teach your students about renewable and non-renewable resources? Look no further! This Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources Card Sort is the perfect method to reinforce important science vocabulary and concepts in an interactive way.
With 24 different picture examples, this product provides flexibility in sorting options to allow you to tailor the activity to meet the specific needs of your students. They can sort all the cards into renewable and non-renewable categories, focus solely on energy sources, or sort all cards into four distinct categories. This versatility makes it an excellent tool for differentiation.
To accommodate various classroom activities, pictures are included in three different sizes. The larger pictures can be laminated and used as a center or station activity, providing a hands-on experience for students. The sorting sheets with smaller pictures are ideal for note-taking in interactive notebooks, as homework assignments, or as formative assessments.
This activity will provide a multisensory learning experience while strengthening student understanding. It supports concepts from the following standards: NGSS 4-ESS3-1, TEKS 4.7c, VA SOL 6.9.
This Resource Includes
• 24 different color picture cards in 4 formats (3 different sizes, 1 with labels)
o 12 renewable resource examples
9 energy examples
o 12 non renewable resource examples
8 energy examples
• 2 Differentiated Sorting Sheets
• Category Labels
• Answer Keys
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Properties of Waves Card Sort
Looking for a quick, hands-on activity to help your students learn about the different types of waves? This low-prep sorting activity contains 24 photographs for students to classify into electromagnetic vs mechanical waves, as well as transverse vs longitudinal waves. Students can also sort the pictures by both criteria, making it a comprehensive learning tool. The resource offers different formats of pictures and sorting sheets to easily differentiate based on students’ needs and lesson objectives. It’s an effective way to reinforce science concepts and vocabulary, and can be used in science centers, stations, as notes, assignments, or assessments. It is a wonderful resource for reviewing and reinforcing understanding of wave types.
This Resource Includes
• 24 different color picture cards in 4 formats (3 different sizes, 1 with labels)
o 6 Examples of Transverse Mechanical Waves
o 6 Examples of Longitudinal Mechanical Waves
o 12 Examples of Transverse Electromagnetic Waves
• Differentiated Sorting Sheets
• Category Labels
• Answer Keys
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