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Look Around: Hunt For Sizes, Shapes and Numbers
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In this activity, learners will participate in a scavenger hunt involving sizes, shapes, and numbers. This activity works well with a whole group, individuals, or families.

Earth's Water: A Drop in Your Cup
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This creative lesson plan provides a visual way for learners to gain knowledge about the finite amount of fresh water on Earth and encourages the discussion of the various ways to conserve this resour

Family Math Activity: Measuring with Paper Clips and M&Ms
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In this activity, young learners and their caregivers use non-standard tools, like M&Ms and paper clips, to measure things around their home.

How to Test The Strength of Shapes
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In this activity, learners explore the strength of different shapes. Fold paper into triangles, squares, and other shapes, then experiment with how much weight they can hold.

Prepare for a Construction Zone Field Trip
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In this activity, learners explore work, forces, simple machines, and construction. This lesson guide includes simple ways to demonstrate these principles as well as hands-on activities.

Scytale Messages
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In this activity, learners use a soda can to decode a secret message. Learners wrap scytale (pronounced ski-tally) code around a can and challenge friends to see if they can crack the codes.

Castles Inside and Out
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In this three-day lesson, learners identify two-dimensional shapes used in castle construction, create a castle collage using assorted shapes, and design tapestries using repeated patterns of color, s

Size It Up
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In this artistic activity, learners blow up a smaller picture into a larger one, by using a grid.

Probability
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In this activity, learners will explore probability using dice. They will predict and then roll the dice to observe how many rolls it would take to repeat a matching pair. Learn track predictions vs.

Bike Bling
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In this activity, learners will trick out their bike with crafts and flair. Learners will explore symmetry, cause and effect and design through this activity.

For the Birds
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In this activity, learners will explore nature by creating food for birds. Learners will develop fine motor skills and engage in nature observation through this activity.

Just a Minute
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How much can you do in one minute? In this activity, learners estimate how many times a partner can complete a task (like writing their name or jumping jacks) in one minute.
Odd or Even
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In this math activity, learners play a game and try to collect the most cards by guessing if the next number to appear will be odd or even.

Telephone Talk
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In this math activity, learners find patterns in telephone numbers.

Sand Paper Rankings
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In this activity (2nd activity on the page), learners explore the sensitivity of their sense of touch.

Skewers and Garden Poles
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In this activity, learners build scaled-down structures and cantilevers in a series of "building out" challenges with bamboo skewers and tape.

Sock It To Me!
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In this activity (7th activity on the page), learners use their sense of touch to identify mystery objects hidden in socks.

100 Puzzles
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In this activity, learners find as many combinations of a hundred as they can using various puzzle pieces from a hundred square grid paper.
PomPom Toss
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In this activity, learners play a game that helps young mathematicians recognize how the numbers 0 through 5 are related. Learners toss five pompoms into circle made out of string on the floor.

Fraction Penguin
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In this craft activity, learners will recognize, name, and compare the fractions 1/2, 1/4, and 1/8 by constructing a penguin out of portions of paper circles.