Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: High Frequency Words, Sand Paper Words

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Learners use a stack of words embellished with tactile elements, such as sandpaper, to practice high-frequency words. Pupils trace the tactile surface of each letter in the word, write it on their paper, then find and glue that word from...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Missing Subtraction facts to 12 sheet 1

For Students 1st - 2nd
Pupils subtract numbers 1 through 12 and complete missing addend problems. This worksheet includes a helpful number line and 20 problems to complete. Tip: Hand out unifix cubes or chips to help tactile learners solve each problem.
Lesson Plan
Perkins School for the Blind

Beginning Map Skills

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Maps can be so much fun, they help you understand spatial relationships, distance between objects, and can foster direction skills. Budding cartographers with visual impairments use the Wheatley Tactile Diagramming Kit to create their...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rainbow Spelling: A Kinesthetic Approach to Encoding

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Have your young learners interact with phonemes through this tactile plan! Each learner will have a colored mat where they connect different phonemes to create words. The best part is that they can self-correct easily as they spell! 
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Curated OER

Exploring Magnets and Magnetism

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Here is a very good lesson plan on magnets, magnetism, and magnitic fields that is chock full of great activities for you to implement with your young scientists. Learners discover the properties of magnets, look at the forces of...
Worksheet
Curated OER

School, Unplugged

For Students 8th - 9th
What would school be like if you couldn't teach lessons that require technology? Would it benefit the class? Would it hold them back? Have your learners read this article and answer the basic reading comprehension questions. Then have...
Lesson Plan
Nazareth College

Chronological Order

For Teachers 6th - 8th
First, next, and last, the elements of chronological order. In every story or text one can find a series of events that occur one after the other. To help learners with visual impairments conceptualize chronological order, this...
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Curated OER

Elements Picture Assignment

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students identify the basic structural and decorative designs, create examples of line (horizontal/vertical/curved/diagonal), as well as identify and explain the difference between shape and form. Then, they identify and explain the use...
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Curated OER

The Case of the Crooked Cartoon: Newton's Laws Set the Standard

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students have the opportunity to use higher-level thinking skills and to apply their talents to previously learned material. It provides an opportunity for visual, auditory, and tactile/kinetic learners to utilize their particular...
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Curated OER

Four Learning Styles

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars play a game where they insert the states of the United States onto a map, and discuss the four learning styles as they play. For this learning styles lesson plan, students discuss how each learning style would play and...
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Curated OER

Push and Pull Factors: Tug O' War

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Learners analyze the factors that led to migration in the 19th century including the forces that drew people to resettle as well as to return a place where they previously lived.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Piggies

For Teachers 1st
First graders listen to the book, Piggies, and act out the events of the story with premade puffball pigs.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Energy Audits for the Elderly

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students perform experiments to determine the nature of energy particularly in air, light and water. They conducted an energy audit using the Energy Audit Checklist and by looking at the school's bills for gas and power.