TeacherLists Learning Library

Free, easy enrichment activities for elementary and middle school teachers! Support your classroom goals with these convenient, age-appropriate activities that help you keep your students engaged in learning (whether you’re virtual or in the classroom).

Social-Emotional Competence

Mindful Moments Challenge Cards

Hone social-emotional skills by completing mindful moments challenge cards.

Best for: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4 and Grade 5

How Words Make People Feel

Students create and use two-sided masks to explore how their words and the words of others make people feel.

Best for: Prekindergarten, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2

Our Voices—Our Leadership

Students consider leadership roles in their school and community and then collaboratively create art to document what they’ve learned.

Best for: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Helping Hands

Build children’s awareness of the many ways they can help others in school, home, and community.

Best for: Prekindergarten, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2

Look At Me Inside and Out

Build students’ self- and social-awareness skills as they represent themselves visually and write about who they are inside.

Best for: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Math

Track your students’ growth–in hands!

Let your students measure themselves in hands, not feet, by tracing and cutting out their hands to use as rulers!

Best for: Pre-K, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Social Studies

US History Scavenger Hunt

Send your students on a hunt for historical facts around the classroom utilizing textbooks or the internet.

Best for: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Looking at Me in the Future

Students write and illustrate autobiographies on 3D boxes with their experiences so far and their predictions for the future.

Best for: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Paper Lanterns for Chinese New Year

Make your own festive paper lantern from construction paper to celebrate the Lunar New Year.

Best for: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2

Science

Or is It?

Students observe their learning environment through exploration of shapes and this part-to-whole perception activity.

Best for: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3

Science Fair Investigation: Grades K-2

Introduce younger elementary school students to the process of planning and conducting a science fair project about germs and the spread of disease.

Best for: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2

Science Fair Investigation: Grades 3-5

Introduce older elementary school students to the process of planning and conducting a science fair project about germs and the spread of disease.

Best for: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

STEM Scavenger Hunt

Develop an understanding of tools commonly used in STEM fields, then find items that represent them.

Best for: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Mini Upcycled Potted Plants

Plant miniature succulents in these cute, crafty and scientific pots.

Best for: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

How Big Is Your Carbon Footprint?

Figure out the size of your family’s carbon footprint to learn how much impact you have on the environment.

Best for: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Health

Dial Hand Washing Lesson Plan

Model the importance of handwashing to students using black pepper and Dial^® Antibacterial Foaming Hand Soap.

The Usual Suspects

Have students research and report on how to prevent becoming sick because of germs.

Best for: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

The Case of the Invisible Invaders

Introduce students to the idea that microscopic creatures called microbes, or germs, can cause illness.

Best for: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2

English/Language Arts

I MUSTACHE You a Question

Practice listening comprehension and asking/responding to questions with this simple gameplay that prepares your students for a variety of social interactions and presentation speaking.

Best for: Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9

Conversations With Crayons

Students construct a crayon character stick puppet and write original dialogue to dramatize a story they create about a favorite crayon color, integrating writing, drama, social-emotional learning, and visual arts.

Best for: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5