Level 1: Describing Shapes
Activity 1: Describing Shapes
Skills: Language Arts: Using visual discrimination in word recognition; Mathematics: Completing similarity and congruence exercises, distinguishing between arithmetic problems by operational signs; Science: Comparing shapes of leaves, insects, or shells; Social Studies: Describing artifacts, ornaments, tools, buildings, costumes, or implements of various cultures
Questions: 22
Activity 2: Describing Position
Skills: Language Arts: Diagramming sentences; placing words in sentences according to function or slot; following directions for formatting written materials; proofreading and editing; Mathematics: Plotting graph coordinates, constructing geometric shapes by following directions, constructing bar graphs; Science: Plotting or reading a plot of an archaeological dig or ecological study area, seeing and describing strata in natural formations; Social Studies: Interpreting and constructing maps, graphs, time lines, or diagrams; locating details in pictures or diagrams
Questions: 6

Level 2: Matching Shapes
Activity 1: Matching Figures
Skills: Language Arts: Using visual discrimination in word recognition, reading, discriminating between punctuation marks; Mathematics: Completing similarity and congruence exercises, distinguishing between arithmetic problems by operational signs, distinguishing between geometric shapes; Science: Comparing shapes of leaves, shells, or insects; choosing proper laboratory equipment by size or shape; Social Studies: Matching puzzle sections to geographic features on map puzzles; using legends to locate map features
Questions: 45
Activity 2: Finding Shapes
Skills: Language Arts: Recognizing phonemes and/or syllables; recognizing component parts of compound words; identifying position of topics and subtopics in outlines, finding hidden words in larger words, finding repeated letter patterns in words; Mathematics: Distinguishing between geometric shapes; finding patterns or other shapes within geometric figures; Science: Tracing the path of blood or any system through the body; recognizing patterns in soil stratification or cloud formations; recognizing parts of trees, plants, insects, and animals; Social Studies: Using legends to locate map features; recognizing graphic variations in charts or graphs; recognizing components of continents, counties, states, and countries; following or indicating a historical trip on a map
Questions: 15
Activity 3: Dividing Shapes into Equal Parts & Symmetry
Skills: Language Arts: Dividing a long poem into parts; doing word search puzzles; recognizing sound or letter patterns; Mathematics: Comparing similarity and congruence of geometric shapes; representing fractions pictorially; using visual perceptual skills; drawing geometric shapes to form patterns; Science: Recognizing symmetry in natural objects; Social Studies: Applying legends to perceive distances on a map; making or interpreting charts and graphs; dividing historical time lines into intervals; predicting appearance or position
Questions: 48
Activity 4: Drawing, Comparing, and Completing Shapes
Skills: Language Arts: Deciding which letter correctly completes a word; preparing visual aids for oral presentation; recognizing sentences that do not support a topic; Mathematics: distinguishing between types of arithmetic problems; recognizing numerical or geometrical properties; reducing and copying geometric shapes using correct proportions; Science: Naming and recognizing plants or animals that do no belong in a particular phyla; classifying foods into basic food groups or determining nutritional values; reducing charts, graphs, or maps; deciding which bones completes a skeletal part; Social Studies: Drawing maps; deciding which fragments complete an archaeological artifact; government divisions
Questions: 34
Activity 5: Paper Folding
Skills: Language Arts: Doing word search puzzles; recognizing sound or letter patterns; Mathematics: Doing symmetry exercises, using visual perceptual skills; drawing geometric shapes to form patterns; Science: Determining symmetry in natural forms; reproducing crystal or snowflake patterns; predicting appearance or position; Social Studies: Seeing patterns in charts, graphs, or schedules;
Questions: 15

Level 3: Which Color Comes Next?
Activity 1: Sequence of Figures
Skills: Language Arts: Repeating patterns can be seen in decoding unfamiliar words and in recognizing alliteration; flipping is connected to letter discrimination or to invert letter order in words; rotation is an important skill in developing letter discrimination abilities, adding and subtracting detail is used in forming new words by adding or subtracting prefixes or suffixes; Mathematics: Repeating patterns can be used as a memorization technique for mathematical tables; flips can be shown in methods of checking basic mathematics problems; rotation is used in arranging basic problems differently; adding and subtracting detail is used in making charts or graphs; Science: Repeating patterns can be seen in leaves, shells, and life cycles; flips can be used to show symmetry in plants or animals and in mirror-image exercises; rotation is an important concept in understanding the operation of gears, wheels, motors, and for recognizing the rotation of plants; Social Studies: Repeating patterns are used to show geographic changes or types of topography on maps; flips can be seen when using or making graphs that show negative and positive changes; rotations are used when orienting maps, adding and subtracting detail an be illustrated by comparing different types of maps that show the same geographic area or when comparing photographs to maps
Questions: 9
Activity 2: Sequence of Figures & Tumbling Objects
Skills: Language Arts: Choosing the right picture to fill in or complete a story sequence; recognizing mirror-imaged words; Mathematics: Supplying missing shapes in a sequence; completing a mathematical table; rotating geometric shapes; reversing processes to check accuracy; Science: Recording biological stages in the development of animals or plants; duplicating order of steps in experiments; explaining rotation of the earth and solar system; Social Studies: Reading and interpreting maps; developing a time-line pattern; redrawing charts or graphs
Questions: 18
Activity 3: Tumbling (Rotating) Objects
Skills: Language Arts: Mirror-image words (mom, wow, dad, pop); Mathematics: Rotating geometric shapes; Science: Explaining rotation of the earth, experiments with mirrors or gears; Social Studies: Map orientation, redrawing charts or graphs
Questions: 4
Activity 4: Pattern Folding
Skills: Language Arts: Visualizing a complex sequence of directions; Mathematics: Doing visual perceptual exercises; completing surface area problems; Science: Building or drawing models of crystals; Socials Studies: Modeling globes or other three-dimensional maps
Questions: 13
Activity 5: Stacking Shapes
Skills: Language Arts: Following directions in formatting outlines, letters, memos, or layouts; Mathematics: Solving a multi-step problem; recognizing order or position of numbers or shapes in a sequence; following geometric constructions and proofs; Science: Following multi-step directions for experiments and recognizing that they have been followed correctly; recognizing, following or explaining the sequence of systems; Social Studies: Reading or constructing charts, graphs, or maps
Questions: 8

Level 4: Figural Classifications
Activity 1: Describing and Matching Classes
Skills: Language Arts: Describing the way things or people look; writing, or giving directions for constructing something or going somewhere; Mathematics: Describing and/or reproducing geometric shapes; Science: Matching items to classification statements based on appearance; describing the results of an experiment or demonstration; Social Studies: Interpreting charts and graphs,; drawing inferences from pictures or artifacts
Questions: 34
Activity 2: Changing Characteristics
Skills: Language Arts: Differentiating between proper and common nouns or adjectives; identifying singular, plural,and possessive forms of words; Mathematics: Reading graphs; doing rotation, reflection, similarity, and congruence exercises; differentiating between specialized geometric shapes; Science: Observing life cycles of living organisms; describing changes in cloud formations; observing effects of different elements of the earth; observing physical changes caused by forest fires; describing changes in science experiments; Social Studies: Observing changes in artifacts, architectural styles, dress, and social, political, or judicial systems over a period of time;
Questions: 13
Activity 3: Classifying by Shape and Pattern
Skills: Language Arts: Grouping lists of words according to configuration rather than meaning; Mathematics: Placing numerical information onto charts or graphs; Science: Classifying groups of objects or items into given categories; Social Studies: Placing events or dates on a given time line; deciding which information to include and how to arrange it on a chart, map, or graph
Questions: 9
Activity 4: Classifying More Than One Way
Skills: Language Arts: Grouping lists of words according to configuration rather than meaning; Mathematics: Placing numerical information onto charts or graphs; Science: Classifying groups of objects or items into given categories; Social Studies: Placing events or dates on a given time line; deciding which information to include and how to arrange it on a chart, map, or graph
Questions: 8
Activity 5: Overlapping Classes
Skills: Language Arts: Classifying words by configuration rather than meaning; choosing appropriate illustrations for an original story or book; Mathematics: Reading addition, subtraction, doing set theory exercises and attribute block exercises; sorting geometric shapes; Science: Sorting natural objects into overlapping classes; indexing days according to different parameters; Social Studies: Interpreting graphic information; using a legend to read a map; understanding the concept of classes and subclasses; using matrices to depict data
Questions: 43
Activity 6: Deduce the Class
Skills: Language Arts: Classifying spelling words according to general rules; Mathematics: Classifying geometric shapes and irregular polygons; Science: Describing given classes of plants or animals; Social Studies: Making deductions about geographical features using given information; identifying the culture to which artifacts belong based on knowledge about similar artifacts
Questions: 9

Level 5: Analogies with Shapes
Activity 1: Figural Analogies
Skills: Language Arts: Comparing or contrasting pictorial or graphic information; Mathematics: Creating charts or graphs from numeric information; comparing and contrasting angles or polygons; Science: Recognizing the relationship of cloud formations and weather; Social Studies: Recognizing parallel structures of governments; recognizing similar patterns in artifacts
Questions: 14
Activity 2: Figural Analogy Pairs
Skills: Language Arts: Comparing or contrasting pictorial or graphic information; Mathematics: Creating charts or graphs from numeric information; comparing and contrasting angles or polygons; Science: Recognizing the relationship of cloud formations and weather; Social Studies: Recognizing parallel structures of governments; recognizing similar patterns in artifacts
Questions: 9
Activity 3: Figural Analogies - Complete A
Skills: Language Arts: Recognizing correct pronunciation of words by comparing letter patterns; Mathematics: Doing geometry exercises involving similarity, congruence, rotation, or reflection; recognizing equivalent fractional parts, working with ratios, writing and recognizing arithmetic problems in pictorial form; Science: Seeing and stating relationships between different natural phenomena, animal, or plant classes, and/or minerals and rocks; naming analogous body parts of different organisms; comparing and/or contrasting organisms; Social Studies: Recognizing and stating the relationship between people and events, recognizing and stating causal relationships"> Activity 4: Figural Analogies - Complete B
Skills: Language Arts: Recognizing correct pronunciation of unknown words by comparing letter patterns; Mathematics: Recognizing equivalent fractional parts, working with ratios, writing and recognizing arithmetic problems in pictorial form; Science: Seeing and stating relationships between different natural phenomena, animal, or plant classes, and/or minerals and rocks; naming analogous body parts of different organisms; comparing and/or contrasting organisms; Social Studies: Recognizing and stating the relationship between people and events, recognizing and stating causal relationships
Questions: 14

Level 6: Describing Things
Activity 1: Describing Things A
Skills: Language Arts: Dictionary activities, vocabulary development, using precise words, reading comprehension activities using illustrations and context, writing descriptive sentences and paragraphs; Mathematics: Matching terms with operations, recognizing sets; Science: Matching scientific terms with their descriptions; identifying types of plants, animals, etc.; Social Studies: Recognizing and matching topographic or geographic areas with their correct terms, identifying pictures of historical artifacts, describing historical figures and events
Questions: 16
Activity 2: Describing Things B
Skills: Language Arts: Dictionary activities, vocabulary development, using precise words, reading comprehension activities using illustrations and context, writing descriptive sentences and paragraphs; Mathematics: Matching terms with operations, recognizing sets; Science: Matching scientific terms with their descriptions; identifying types of plants, animals, etc.; Social Studies: Recognizing and matching topographic or geographic areas with their correct terms, identifying pictures of historical artifacts, describing historical figures and events
Questions: 16
Activity 3: Name the Thing
Skills: Language Arts: Doing vocabulary enrichment activities; using precise words; Mathematics: Analyzing and solving word problems, recognizing sets and set complements; Science: Identifying processes, types of plants, animals, etc.; Social Studies: Comparing topographic or geographic areas
Questions: 19

Level 7: Opposites
Activity 1: Opposites
Skills: Language Arts: Doing vocabulary enrichment activities and antonym exercises; using precise words; describing contrasting characteristics in a work of literature; debating or expressing opposite opinion; Mathematics: Recognizing and using inverse operations; recognizing sets; using fractions and reciprocals; Science: Recognizing reversed processes in simple experiments; describing differences between two objects, organisms, or concepts; Social Studies: Contrasting topographic or geographic areas; locating and expressing contrasting details between two or more topics
Questions: 35
Activity 2: Similarities
Skills: Language Arts: Doing synonym exercises and vocabulary enrichment, avoiding overused words and trite expressions in compositions; using knowledge of word parts to determine meaning of compound words; using knowledge of prefixes and suffixes to build or comprehend new words; recognizing denotative and connotative meanings; Mathematics: Recognizing key words that indicate proper function or order in word problems; reading and understanding directions for solving math problems; recognizing face and place value of numbers; recognizing and using equivalent values of money, time, or measurement; Science: Following directions in performing experiments; determining meaning of unfamiliar words by using textual definitions or synonym clues; Social Studies: Building content vocabulary using definition from or synonym clues from text; paraphrasing or summarizing key concepts, identifying parallel or similar functions of different governmental levels
Questions: 47
Activity 3: How Alike?
Skills: Language Arts: Doing synonym exercises and vocabulary enrichment, avoiding overused words and trite expressions in compositions; recognizing denotative and connotative meanings; Mathematics: Recognizing key words that indicate proper function or order in word problems; reading and understanding directions for solving mathematics problems; recognizing face and place values of money, time, or measurement; Science: Following directions in performing experiments; determining meaning of unfamiliar words by using textual definitions or synonym clues; Social Studies: Paraphrasing or summarizing key concepts; building content vocabulary using definition of synonym clues from text; identifying parallel or similar functions of different governmental levels
Questions: 23
Activity 4: Word Web
Skills: Language Arts: Organizing and writing compare and contrast statements or paragraphs, recognizing denotative and connotative words or phrases; Mathematics: Evaluating geometric shapes for type and congruence, interpreting word problems, explaining problem solutions; Science: Describing classes of plants or animals by similar characteristics; Social Studies: Describing historical events, eras, people, or artifacts
Questions: 6

Level 8: Yes-No Rules/True-False Tables
Activity 1: Following Directions
Skills: Language Arts: Reading and following directions in any situation involving order, number, or position; Mathematics: Following correct sequence in solving word problems, geometry proofs, and constructions; Science: Following sequence of instruction in laboratory experiments and demonstrations; Social Studies: Answering questions regarding charts, maps, graphs, or schedules; reading and constructing time lines
Questions: 9
Activity 2: Recognizing Direction & Describing Locations
Skills: Language Arts: Setting an established style for proofing or editing manuscripts; developing formats; creating layout design for text; organizing and presenting a demonstration speech; Mathematics: Solving geometry constructions and proofs; demonstrating and explaining a solution to a math problem; Science: Preparing directions for scientific demonstrations; Social Studies: Reading maps, graphs, or charts
Questions: 33
Activity 3: Time Sequence, Degree of Meaning, & Transitivity
Skills: Language Arts: Relating correct chronological order; relating story plots; selecting adverbs and verbs to express order of time; Mathematics: Solving word problems involving transitivity; Science: Recognizing and predicting frequency variance; following sequential directions; classifying physical phenomena chronologically; Social Studies: Recognizing and using chronological order to place historical events or people
Questions: 61
Activity 4: Deductive Reasoning
Skills: Language Arts: Doing comprehension exercises involving transitive order or process of elimination; determining chronological events in stories or dramatizations; Mathematics: Doing transitivity or inequality exercises; solving word problems; Science: Evaluating experiment results; Social Studies: Comprehending chronological order; comparing statistics
Questions: 10
Activity 5: Yes-No Rules, If-Then Rules, & True-False Tables
Skills: Language Arts: Arranging topics into two- or three-step outline; recognizing the effect of no or not on meaning; interpreting double negatives; following rules of capitalization or punctuation; Mathematics: Recognizing proper multi-step operations in mathematics problems; recognizing or analyzing similarity and congruence in geometry; Science: Recognizing the change of a single variable in science demonstrations or experiments; tracing the path of an electrical circuit; Social Studies: Preparing for deductive reasoning involving truth value; following or creating a chart or mapping a route
Questions: 26

Level 9: Parts of a Whole A
Activity 1: Parts of a Whole
Skills: Language Arts: Identifying parts of speech, parts of a book, and parts of a letter; identifying the topic sentence and its supporting statements from a paragraph; utilizing heads and subheads in outlines; writing specific definitions; Mathematics: Identifying components in arithmetic; Science: Identifying significant parts of living organisms; observing components of constellations, stars, the solar system, or the earth; describing equipment; Social Studies: Examining dwellings, artifacts, costumes, communities, and governments to identify of component parts; using keys or legends to identify component parts or maps
Questions: 19
Activity 2: Class and Members
Skills: Language Arts: Using proper form when defining nouns; using reference books to location information on a topic; Mathematics: Using cue word to determine functions for solving word problems, using set theory; Science: Describing phyla; identifying natural objects in the same manner as nouns; Social Studies: Defining terms; identifying people, events, artifacts, groups, or eras
Questions: 34
Activity 3: How are These Words Alike? A
Skills: Language Arts: Diagramming sentences according to functions of words; choosing proper reference books when researching reports; recognizing parts of speech or types of literature; using an index or table of contents to location information in books; Mathematics: Distinguishing among types of arithmetic problems; recognizing numerical or geometrical properties; grouping numbers according to place or face values; Science: Naming and recognizing attributes of different phyla of plants or animals; naming and recognizing properties of various elements or compounds; Social Studies: Classifying types of architectural structures, governmental divisions, or community institutions according to their functions or other attributes
Questions: 14
Activity 4: How are These Words Alike? B
Skills: Language Arts: Diagramming sentences according to functions of words; choosing proper reference books when researching reports; recognizing parts of speech or types of literature; using an index or table of contents to location information in books; Mathematics: Distinguishing among types of arithmetic problems; recognizing numerical or geometrical properties; grouping numbers according to place or face values; Science: Naming and recognizing attributes of different phyla of plants or animals; naming and recognizing properties of various elements or compounds; Social Studies: Classifying types of architectural structures, governmental divisions, or community institutions according to their functions or other attributes
Questions: 35
Activity 5: Sorting into Classes
Skills: Language Arts: Differentiating among literary genres and types of works within genre; classifying examples of figures of speech, parts of speech, or paragraph types; Mathematics: Differentiating among number properties and problem types; Science: Differentiating among phyla of plants or animals; classifying elements or compounds according to properties; Social Studies: Classifying types of architectural structures, governmental functions, or community institutions according to their functions or other attributes
Questions: 34
Activity 6: Classifying Shapes
Skills: Language Arts: Doing multiple-meaning exercises in reading or spelling; choosing exact words to express meaning in both descriptive and persuasive writing and speaking; using connotation and denotation exercises; understanding, using, and interpreting figures of speech; Mathematics: Recognizing and using cue words to determine processes for solving word problems; Science: Following directions in conducting experiments, writing laboratory reports; Social Studies: Classifying historical documents by type
Questions: 4

Level 10: Describing Shapes
Activity 1: Various Analogies
Skills: Language Arts: Recognizing and using word analogies; using context clues to infer meaning for unfamiliar words; identifying and stating the relationship shown by pairs or groups of words, sentences, passages, or selections; Mathematics: Changing numerical information to graphic or verbal information and vice versa; recognizing and using part-to-whole analogies in measurements of time, weight, size, or volume; identifying the relationship between fractional parts and fractions; Science: Comparing phyla of plants or animals; conducting laboratory experiments and writing reports on them; Social Studies: Recognizing historic, geographical, or cultural parallels
Questions: 37
Activity 2: Antonym or Synonym Analogies
Skills: Language Arts: Recognizing and using word analogies; using context clues to infer meaning for unfamiliar words; identifying and stating the relationship shown by pairs or groups of words, sentences, passages, or selections; Mathematics: Changing numerical information to graphic or verbal information and vice versa; recognizing and using part-to-whole analogies in measurements of time, weight, size, or volume; identifying the relationship between fractional parts and fractions; Science: Comparing phyla of plants or animals; conducting laboratory experiments and writing reports on them; Social Studies: Recognizing historic, geographical, or cultural parallels
Questions: 16
Activity 3: Association Analogies
Skills: Language Arts: Recognizing and using word analogies, using paraphrasing skills; Mathematics: Identifying the relationship between fractional parts and fractions; Science: Conducting laboratory experiments and writing reports on them; Social Studies: Explaining historic or cultural parallels
Questions: 17
Activity 4: Analogies-Select Two
Skills: Language Arts: Recognizing and using word analogies; using context clues to infer meaning of unfamiliar words; identifying and stating relationships shown by words, sentences, or passages; Mathematics: Changing numerical information to graphic or verbal information (and vice versa); recognizing and using "part-to-whole" analogies in measurements of time, weight, size, or volume; identifying the relationship between fractional parts and fractions; Science: Contrasting or comparing phyla of plants or animals; reporting experiment results; Social Studies: Recognizing and explaining historic, geographic, or cultural parallels
Questions: 22