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Mail carrier moves: a 15-minute gross motor game for preschoolers
What it is: a preschool gross motor game where students are mail carriers. Each "letter" is a card with a color and a picture of a way to move. Students…
Coin feely bag: a 15-minute Pre-K money activity
What it is: a Pre-K money game where students reach into a cloth bag, feel one coin without looking and decide whether its edge is smooth or bumpy. It…
Jingle writing for kids: a 20-minute K–2 musical ad activity
What it is: a K–2 music and language activity where small groups write a short jingle, a catchy song that advertises a pretend product, to a tune…
Rock collection activity: an egg carton rock museum for K–2
What it is: a K–2 earth science activity where students collect small rocks, look at them closely, sort them by color, texture and size, and display them…
Me on the map: a nested circles geography activity for Pre-K and K
What it is: a first geography activity where students build a set of nested circles, from a tiny circle with their own picture out to a big circle for…
How to play four square: a 25-minute PE lesson for 3rd grade
What it is: a 3rd grade PE lesson that teaches four square, the playground game where four players hit a bouncing ball into each other's squares…
Next best choice: a 3rd grade opportunity cost card game
What it is: a 3rd grade economics game where students rank three choices and learn that the opportunity cost of a decision is the most valued thing they…
Business name ideas for kids: a 30-minute naming and memory test
What it is: a grades 3–5 game where teams brainstorm names for a pretend business, then run a simple memory test: after 10 minutes of other work, how…
Mineral hardness test: a 4th grade scratch lab with household tools
What it is: a 4th grade lab where students test mineral samples with a fingernail, a copper coin and a steel washer, then place each mineral on the Mohs…
Map scale activity: draw the classroom to scale in grades 3–5
What it is: a hands-on map skills activity for grades 3–5 where students measure a real room, shrink it with a scale such as 1 inch for every 2 feet, and…
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Reaction time ruler drop: a 25-minute PE and science lab for 6th grade
What it is: a 6th grade PE and science lab where partners measure reaction time by catching a falling ruler, convert the distance into seconds, and test…
Inflation basket: a 6th grade lesson on rising prices
What it is: a 6th grade math and economics activity where students build a pretend basket of 5 things, price it this year and next year, and compute the…
Pet sitting business for students: a 40-minute startup cost list, 6–8
What it is: a grades 6–8 mini-project where teams list everything a pretend pet sitting business needs before its first customer and sort each cost as…
Map real earthquakes: a plate boundaries activity for grades 6–8
What it is: a middle school activity where students use the U.S. Geological Survey's free Latest Earthquakes map to see where earthquakes happened in the…
Map projection activity: peel an orange to see why maps stretch
What it is: a hands-on activity for grades 6–8 that shows why no flat map can show the round Earth perfectly. Students draw rough continents on an…
Bubble pop: a 15-minute outdoor movement game for preschoolers
What it is: an outdoor preschool movement game where an adult blows bubbles and students chase and pop them with the body part you call out: hands…
Is it money? A Pre-K sorting game about what money is
What it is: a Pre-K social studies game where students look at everyday objects and decide whether each one is money that people can use to buy things.…
Pretend bakery order game: a customer service activity for Pre-K to 2
What it is: a pretend play game where a "customer" orders paper treats, a "baker" fills the tray, and a "checker" makes sure the order is right before it…
What is in soil? A 25-minute soil sifting activity for K–2
What it is: a K–2 activity where small groups sift a cup of garden soil through a colander and a screen, then sort what they find: tiny rocks, sand, bits…
Where does our fruit come from? A produce label map for K–2
What it is: a K–2 geography activity where students read the country of origin on fruit and vegetable labels and put a dot for each country on a world map…
Doña Blanca: juego de ronda de 15 minutos para preescolar
Qué es: un juego de ronda tradicional de México para preescolar. Los estudiantes se toman de las manos en círculo y cantan mientras giran; una estudiante…
No ponga todos los huevos en una canasta: diversificar en 7.º
Qué es: un juego de matemáticas para séptimo grado sobre la diversificación: repartir el dinero entre varias opciones para bajar el riesgo. Cada…
El repartidor: juego de entregas a domicilio para kínder a 2.º
Qué es: un juego de movimiento en el que los estudiantes hacen de repartidores: leen un pedido con dibujos y un número de casa, llevan el paquete al…
Semáforo de alerta volcánica para niños: juego de kínder a 2.º
Qué es: un juego de movimiento para kínder a 2.º grado basado en el semáforo de alerta volcánica que usa Protección Civil en México, por ejemplo para el…
Alimentos que nacieron en América: actividad para kínder a 2.º
Qué es: una actividad de kínder a 2.º grado en la que los estudiantes clasifican alimentos según su origen: los que se cultivaron primero en América, como…
Morto-vivo com variações: brincadeira para a educação infantil
O que é: uma brincadeira tradicional brasileira de atenção e reação para a educação infantil. Quando o adulto diz "morto", todos se agacham; quando diz…
Consertar ou comprar novo? Economia e consumo no 4º ano
O que é: uma atividade para o 4º ano em que os alunos analisam objetos quebrados inventados (uma mochila com o zíper estragado, um tênis descolado, um…
Vende-se por dúzia: brincadeira de quitanda para o 1º e 2º ano
O que é: uma brincadeira de quitanda em que os alunos vendem frutas e ovos de faz de conta por dúzia e meia dúzia, como nas feiras e quitandas do Brasil…
Experiência com areia: castelo seco, úmido ou encharcado no 1º ano
O que é: uma experiência para o 1º e o 2º ano em que os alunos tentam montar torres de areia com um copo como forma, usando areia seca, areia úmida e…
Trabalhos do campo e da cidade: jogo de mímica para o 1º e 2º ano
O que é: um jogo para o 1º e 2º ano em que os alunos fazem mímica de trabalhos (agricultor, pescador, motorista, padeiro, feirante, costureira, entregador)…
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