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Background, teaching suggestions, and ready-to-use ideas for the free activities in this hub. Each article opens on the TCEA TechNotes Blog; each activity link stays here in the Learning Activities Hub.

Science & math

Grades 6–12 · Lab safety

Get Students Lab-Ready with Free Safety Certification Activities

Use the Ranger and Specialist certification tracks, mastery checks, posters, and standards support to prepare students for the lab.

PreK–K · Mathematics

Five New Digital Math Tools for PreKinder and Kinder

Classroom routines and hands-on follow-ups for counting, operations, shapes, measurement, sorting, and graphing.

Grades K–2 · Science CTOBs

Science Detectives for Your K–2 Classroom

An introduction to the primary science breakouts, their reasoning routines, and their paired STEM supports.

Grades 3–5 · Science CTOBs

Science Detectives for Your 3–5 Classroom

Connect evidence-based space, circuits, and shadows breakouts with models and hands-on investigations.

Grades 6–8 · Science CTOBs

Science Detectives for Your 6–8 Classroom

Pair misconception-focused breakouts on density, motion, heat, mass, forces, and waves with STEM challenges.

Critical thinking & social studies

Grades 3–8 · CLEAR

Crack the Case with CLEAR, Smart Thinking, Part 1

Introduce the Claim, Lens, Evidence, Alternatives, Response process and the CLEAR Crew detective game.

Grades 3–12 · CLEAR

Three Critical Thinking Online Breakouts, Part 2

Put evidence sorting and claim checking into practice with three real-world reasoning escapes across grade bands.

Grades 3–12 · U.S. history

Celebrate America’s 250th Birthday with Fourth of July CTOBs

Explore the founding story, evidence, arguments, symbols, and unfinished promises through twelve multilingual breakouts.