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K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

hands-on activities

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Tennis skills
Students will refine their basic tennis skills by participating in a variety of activities for the beginner.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 )
By Larry Siers.
Sorting again and again!
Students will discover that beans have many attributes and they will sort them accordingly.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)
By Melanie Kush.
Classroom food web
This lesson is to demonstrate which organisms feed on one another and how food webs are created.
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Science)
By Kurt Oswald.
Domino fun!
Students will use a domino turned vertically and count the dots in the top section and the dots in the bottom section and add the 2 numbers together and write an equation. Students can make a domino to eat.
Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)
By Lydia Wilson.
Making change to $1.00.
In this lesson students will work in small groups making change to $1.00 using coins and pictures of items priced from Sunday fliers. In advance the teacher will cut out pictures of items costing less than $1.00.
Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Mathematics)
By Julie Hohns.

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Instructional activity in which students actively work with and manuipulate materials and objects in order to study a concept or solve problems.

See also experiential education.

Examples and resources

See NCREL’s Question and Answer page on “What is hands-on learning, and is it just a fad?” for an exploration of the history of hands-on learning, as well as perspectives from teachers, developers, and the research literature.