Showing Results for lesson-plan

Plan ahead for summer, by constructing a holiday calendar with your child. A great way to teach kids about time!

Use the holiday gift giving season as an excuse to give your fourth grader a valuable lesson in making and keeping a budget!

Liven up a lesson about graphing by helping your third grader compile a bar graph from his classmates' birthday data.

Let your child lend a helping hand while decorating the Christmas tree this year! This festive activity doubles as a lesson focusing on the number five.

Whatever is stacked in your cupboard can be used to help your child learn how to compare fractions and decimals. A great hands-on math lesson!

Help your child sharpen time skills by creating a special day and charting each part in a detailed schedule.

Help your child apply his math skills the next time you cook a family meal similar to one you'd buy at a restaurant.

Make your own marshmallows and mix up some very interesting third grade chemistry lessons while you're at it!

Have your student draft a blueprint for a haunted house, and trick (or treat) them into learning about geometry in the process.

Make a lei and bring a touch of the tropical lifestyle into your home!

A food groups plate shows your child what category her foods belong in. Make a food groups plate with your child before dinnertime.

Learning to identify and categorize different geometric shapes is a big goal for early learners. And your neighborhood is the perfect place to start!

This game provides your child with the opportunity to create, write, and read numbers.

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

A hands-on guessing game that teaches kids to recognize different coins. First graders will learn their money and their math at the same time!

Teach your young academic about counting and clocks with a tasty treat!

Introduce your child to science with something they see everyday--their shadow!

This pyramid card game is a fun way to help your child learn addition and subtraction. Best of all, itâs quick to set up and easy to play.

Reuse old cardboard boxes and popsicle sticks to create a miniature sled that is perfect for pretend play with dolls or action figures.

Playing the Number Sentence Game with your child gives him the opportunity to practice ordering and comparing numbers using symbols.

Celebrate the 100th day of school by creating a geometric, math-inspired mural in the style of Henri Matisse in this creative kindergarten grade art activity.

From Canada's flag, to the Toronto Maple Leafs, to classic maple syrup cookies, the maple tree is very much a part of Canadian heritage.

Is your third grader bombing around on a bike these days? Here's a way to put all that fun time together with some math learning, too.

Regale your kindergartener with the beloved story of Rudolph, and then segue into a Christmas craft project in which he makes his own reindeer creation!

In this insulation experiment, you'll learn which clothes keep you warm in the cold, and which make you shiver.

Making candles from old candles is easy. Recycle old candle stubs to make a "new" candle, and teach your child about recycling at the same time!

Think you need a special dehydrator to make your own fruit leather? You can actually make a delicious version of this popular kid's snack in your own oven.

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

In this hands-on craft project, kids will make an analog clock of their own, and then use it to learn how to tell time.