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Get your students excited for Spring with the Easter Peep Parachute Activity! Design a parachute that will slow down the rate a cup falls after being dropped and allow the Peep to land safely into a target zone. This a perfect activity to do before a holiday and/ or vacation when students NEED to be engaged! STEM: Students plan, design, build and test their ideas. Students then evaluate what worked and what did not in their designs (and use this information to improve the design!)

Do your kids love those plastic Easter eggs? Mine sure do! Can you launch a plastic Easter egg rocket the farthest combined distance in two tries?Materials Needed: (per student)- plastic Easter egg- cardboard toilet paper tube- one Alka Seltzer tablet (cut in half)- water- tape measure- masking tapeThis a really fun STEM Challenge that gets kids working to complete a fun and difficult challenge, students must launch the top of a plastic Easter egg using a chemical reaction!This challenge...

These counting clouds are the perfect addition to your weather theme! Either use blue gems or blue chain links to make it rain with this weather counting activity. Choose to have students count with gems or hook on linking chains to add in those fine motor skills as a counting activity. For advanced students, add raindrops on the bottom of the chain to create number bonds, working on number sense and fact families. Or use these clouds for a non-standard measurement activity by blowing clouds...

Math Center: Build a Storm Weather ThemeAre you looking for a fun math center during a spring or weather theme? This is an interactive hands-on activity which is sure to keep young learners engaged. Students will identify numbers to 20 and count objects to 20 to build a storm. How to use? Students pick a cloud number. Students identify the number on the cloudStudents put that many lightning bolts and raindrops on the mat. Option: Use yellow pipe cleaners for lightning bolts and pom pom balls...

Ready to learn addition facts? These math games for kindergarten and first grade are perfect for building fluency. Addition worksheets and printable play cards are ready to go. Try it with your kids today!

Spring Craft Number Sense Numbers Counting Activity includes craft templates (plus blackline), recording pages that can be used during water cycle or weather unit. Math included is representing numbers, making 5, making 10, making 20, one more one less, ten more ten less, composing numbers, and decomposing numbers to create a rain or storm cloud. It was created to use in a Homeschool, PreK, Kindergarten, or 1st grade classroom and could also be used in numbers math center or station...

Are you looking for fun activities to use with your kindergarten students to teach weather and climate? Look no further! This NGSS unit is full of fun, hands-on activities to help you cover the standards!

Weather Preschool Activities. Great for homeschool or the preschool classroom. Activities include books, math, science, language arts, arts & crafts and so much more.

This "Kindergarten Weather Math" allows students to use their math skills to create a thunder cloud craft. This resource features options to explore multiple math concepts. These concepts include: addition up to 10, subtraction within 10, and teen numbers. Students will get to use their creativity to create their thundercloud. They will then get to apply the chosen math concept to complete the corresponding math recording sheet. This resource has the option to include number bonds if...

Meteorologists Anchor Chart

Positional Words Lesson

Making observations! Hands-on science lessons to help teach kids about making observations. Experiments, science activities, and great resources for Kindergarten and 1st grade. #scienceactivities #anchorcharts