Elementary
A collection of ready-to-use lessons and activities from Inspired Teaching® to help foster engaging learning with students at all grade levels, in all subject areas.
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Do Just One Thing – The Power of Presence
The following activity is part of a series we’re creating to support students, teachers, and caregivers, during this unprecedented time. Read more about the project here. If you try this activity with your student(s), we’d love to see what you do. Share your journey...
How Long is Six Feet?
Learners start to internalize our new norms about appropriate social distance by finding objects and spaces that are six feet long.
Watch it Grow – Exercising Patience
In this activity, learners choose something to observe, and collect data over a period of days or weeks on how it changes and grows, and perhaps transforms.
How vigorous is my heart?
Why do we take pulses using arteries? Why is a person’s pulse considered a useful measure of health? In this activity students find the answers!
10 Ways to Make a Walk around the Block a Learning Experience
Even if your local park is off limits, a walk down the street can be good for the intellect and imagination. This activity offers ways to turn that walk into a learning experience.
What would you see in a museum of Me?
This activity is designed to fuel conversation and creative thought about what objects represent, how we elevate them to the level of treasured artifacts, and what particular items best represent our own particular persona.
What floats? What sinks?
This activity can be as simple as sticking things in water to see if they sink and as complicated as building contraptions to make things that normally sink stay afloat (or make things that normally stay afloat sink).
