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Flight Dreams - Folding into Flight
Combine measurement, following directions, physics, and art with one fun activity. Learners read a set of instruction to create three different kinds of paper airplanes. They measure, fold, and fly the planes, and record data and answer...
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Following Instructions
Designed to assess your class's ability to follow directions, this reading activity has learners split into groups, read a series of instructions, read a passage, and answer two lists of questions. Can they remember to raise their hand...
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Co-Operation: Drama
For some schools, character-counts lessons are a big part of the curriculum. This resource focuses on following directions and the importance of being a cooperative team player. Learners role-play a variety of situations by being...
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Counting Dragonflies
In this counting skills activity, students examine 6 pictured dragonflies and color them according to the provided directions.
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Gingerbread Baby
Students explore gingerbread stories. In this poetry lesson, students read the folk tale "The Gingerbread Man" as well as Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett and identify rhyming words. Students also make art projects, dramatize the stories,...
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Funny Thanksgiving Food
In this Thanksgiving music activity worksheet, students follow the instructions provided to color the 7 foods according the piano keys featured.
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Writing and Following Instructions
Young scholars follow directions to put on a jacket. In this following directions lesson, students are given flawed instructions for putting on a jacket and must adjust them so the job can be completed.
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Instructions for How to Make a Slice of Buttered Toast
In this toast instructional worksheet, students gather the listed materials and follow the 9 steps listed in order to make a slice of buttered toast.
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Following Directions Coloring Sheet
In this following directions coloring worksheet, students color the picture of a rabbit using the color code chart that is provided.
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Find and Color
For this early childhood shape recognition worksheet, students find circles, triangles, and rectangles in a picture and color them according to the instructions. Students graph the number of each of the 3 shapes on the provided table.
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School-Home Links: Following Instructions
In this following instructions worksheet, students and their caregivers complete the worksheet as the caregiver reads aloud 3 sentences containing instructions while the child follows the instructions given.
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Change a Digit
In this tens and ones worksheet, 2nd graders add 4 math problems together and write the sums using 10s and 1s models as shown. Students change a digit in 2 math problems from 1 number to another number in the blanks provided.
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Following Multi-Step Directions
Fourth graders demonstrate reading and following multi-step directions. They discuss the importance of following directions when assembling something or when following map directions, then independently read through a list of...
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Physical Interdisciplinary Activity
Pupils discover directions and their motor skills by participating in a physical education activity. In this direction following lesson, students are asked to perform certain physical actions all at once and with the teacher's...
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Snowman Glyph
In this artistic worksheet, students follow the directions to the coloring of a snowman glyph and then show their pictures to their classmates.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build
Do you like to build and create new things? Check out this collection of 48 different engineering activities providing opportunities for creative building using things around the house. These include activities like spinning, rubber band...
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Speedy Shelter
This challenge is to design and build a sturdy emergency shelter that can fit one person and easy to build. Are you up to the challenge?
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Inspector Detector
This challenge requires you to design and build a device that can pass above a surface and detect magnetic fields.
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Headphone Helper
This challenge is to design and build a headphone system to hear a musical instrument (real or homemade) better. Can you do it?
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Down Core
This challenge is to design and build a tool that can take a core sample from the center of a potato. Are you up to it?
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Blimp Jet
Can you build a blimp that hovers, and then modify it to use balloon power to travel in a straight path across the room? Try it!
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Zip Line
Your job is to design and build a ping-pong carrier and send it down a zip line in 4 seconds or less. Are you up to the task?
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Sky Floater
Can you make a balloon hover in one spot and move without you touching it when you create air currents? Give it a try!
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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Roving on the Moon
Your challenge is to design and build a rubber band-powered car that can crawl across the floor like a moon rover travels across the moon. Are you up to the challenge?