In this activity, students investigate textures of various objects. After making texture rubbings, students will choose an appropriate texture adjective to match each rubbing, using alliteration.

In this lesson, students will sort pictures or small plastic animals into groups. Students classify animals as to where they live; whether they have scales, feathers, or hair; and whether they have hands, wings, flippers, or fins.

In this lesson, students will learn about animal coverings and what the coverings do for the animals in their environment.

Students will use different terms of measurements to measure dimensions of their apples. Students will use 5 senses to describe their apples.

This educator guide provides ideas and activities to use when reading the book BEST FOOT FORWARD with students.

In this lesson, students experiment with balls made of different materials and of varying sizes to determine which is the bounciest. First, students observe, discuss, and compare the different balls in terms of size, texture, and material, and weigh them. Next, students conduct an experiment to determine which is the bounciest ball.and create a chart to show their results. Last, students attempt to increase the bounce of the balls and participate in a wrap-up discussion.

Students will create a classification tree based on grouping candy using eight different properties.

Students will sort and classify shoes and relate this to how plants and animals are sorted and classified.

This lesson is designed for students to develop investigational skills using observation and touch. The students will determine the characteristics they wish to use to categorize the rock samples. Because the students are working in small groups they will need to cooperate to decide on the criteria for sorting. Vocabulary words to be used include color, shape, texture, size, group and belong.

In this lesson, students will investigate rocks in an outdoor field trip. Students will be divided into groups and given a bag to collect rocks. After returning to the classroom, students will classify rocks into different groups such as size, shape, color, and texture of the rocks.

While investigating the properties of rocks, students will create a classroom rock collection.

In this interactive activity, students match dinosaur eggs based on color and pattern.

In this interactive activity, students select the megalodon's meal by identifying the food choices by size - small, medium, large.

In this lesson, students explore a variety of recycled mateirals and use them to create and build a 3-D sculpture. Students will compare properties of the materials as they select appropriate ones for their projects.

By allowing children to engage in deep play and messy play, we set the stage for important brain development and healthy interactions with others

Try your hand at a Japanese school children’s traditional pastime molding earth and water to form a basic mud ball (dorodango). Continue the process by polis...

In this 8-11 day investigation, children begin to identify features of specific plants and animals, and to sort them into groups. They describe properties of shells or other objects, and use those characteristics to sort them in various ways. They focus on specific animals and practice observing and describing their characteristics, and are introduced to groups of invertebrates that are sorted according to their features. To review and reinforce what they have learned, the students play a board game that also helps them practice math skills.

After reading various versions of The Three Little Pigs, students will plan and design houses that could protect the little pigs from the Big Bad Wolf (a hair dryer).

In this instructional unit, students will identify an object and material in their surroundings and then determine what its main property is.