Florida Center for Reading Research
Vocabulary: Morphemic Elements, Rooting for Meaning!
Scholars work with root and meaning cards to build vocabulary skills. Playing with a partner, learners read a root, locate its meaning, and cover it with a counter. The first player to cover their board wins.
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Cause and Effect
Students examine the concept of cause and effect. They participate in a class discussion, play matching games, and play a memory/concentration game with cause and effect as the focus. Students complete an evaluation chart as an...
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Who says I can't be Sherlock Holmes?
Students create a "crime scene" in their classroom and have to tell what's out of place. The class is given a set of cards that are all face down and have to play concentration. If they get a matched pair, they get both cards. Whoever...
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Symbols of America
In this symbols of America worksheet, students play a game, cutting out cards of descriptions of symbols and their names and matching, complete a word scramble and visit a link given to play a symbols game.
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Different Ways to Travel
Students use concentration and imagination to show different ways to move. In this body awareness instructional activity, students show different ways to move to music. While the music is played students move around the room changing...
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Picture Your Numbers
Students play a variation of the Concentration game to practice math skills matching numbers with visual pictures. They have 20 cards, ten with pictures of items drawn on them. They other ten are numbered. They try to match correct pairs.
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Moon Lesson Plan # 3
Students learn phases of the moon by sight identification. Names of eight phases are placed on eight and students draw the eight phases of the moon on the remaining cards. They are now ready to play concentration to learn the phases of...
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Reading Comprehension 2: Level 12
Ever heard of CTE? A passage about Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) provides the text for a reading comprehension check. The subject matter is sure to engage your readers and the questions, based on the passage, assess whether high...
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Sensitive Synonyms
Third graders use a variety of hands-on activities to increase their understanding of synonyms. They exchange synonym plates with other groups and complete synonym puzzles by using the dictionary.
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Continents
In this continents instructional activity, students use clues from a song titled "Continents" and match to the correct continent. A link to the song or information for obtaining is not given.
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ESL Activities: Our Paths to Australia - 15 September 2004
Pupils identify their own feelings about coming to a new country. Students understand vocabulary associated with emotions. Pupils recognise that their emotions are not unusual amongst people with similar experiences .
University of Washington
University Washington: Memory and Learning for Kids
This University of Washington site includes interactive java-based games to test your memory. There are also lots of in-class activities for testing concentration and memory.
Quia
Quia: Geography World: Landform Concentration
Play this fun game of Geography Concentration to practice your geography vocabulary and increase learning. After each game the cards change and new words and definitions are introduced. Users must enable JavaScript.
Quia
Quia: What Does the Schwa Sound Mean? Concentration
This is a matching and memory game which requires students to not only match words with their vowel sounds, but also to remember their covered location on the grid of boxes.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Morphemic Elements: Affix Concentration
A lesson plan in which students play a memory game by matching affixes with their meanings. Materials are included.
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: Fun Match Game
Students use memory skills to match different kinds of themed cards, such as dinosaurs, bugs, musical instruments, colors, and animals. Players can choose different levels of difficulty--easy, medium, hard, or extra hard.
NASA
Nasa: Space P Lace: Play Migration Concentration!
View a short clip of migrating geese and discover interesting facts about why geese migrate and animated pictures of the different kinds of geese n the USA. Coupled with this great information is an interactive game of concentration that...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Caillou: Follow the Stars
Develop concentration skills and hand-eye coordination by playing this interactive online game that asks the student to repeat a sequence of blinking stars.
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Base Ten Concentration [Pdf]
Students determine if the base ten picture is the same as the two-digit number in this game of memory.
Quia
Quia: Contractions (Concentration Game)
A similar interactive game for students dealing with contractions. Students must use their memory to find which contractions match with one another. Game includes graphics, motion, and scoring.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Crossing the Decade" Concentration
This game is a version of the traditional memory or concentration game and will help students practice "crossing the decade". A detailed explanation of the rules, materials needed, and variations are included in this lesson.
NumberNut
Number Nut: Division: Ones Memory Game
A concentration game to practice dividing by one, where the player must match a division question with the correct quotient.
NumberNut
Number Nut: Division: Twos Memory Game
A concentration game to practice dividing by two, where the player must match a division question with the correct quotient.
Smithsonian Institution
Inscribing Meaning: Test Your Memory
Introduce yourself to writing symbols of various African people. Then test your skills with this online memory game.