🏆 This Month™ Top Performers
Most Popular & Highest Engagement Activities
Celebrating Excellence in the Year of the Snake
As the Year of the Snake draws to a close, we’re showcasing the activities that captivated K-5 classrooms nationwide. These top performers represent thousands of teachers who chose This Month™ to bring engaging, standards-aligned learning to their students. From interactive STEM simulations posted to Google Classroom to cultural celebrations and hands-on maker projects, these activities demonstrate what happens when educational technology meets authentic classroom needs. Each one earned its place through measurable impact: highest engagement times, most classroom shares, deepest teacher investment, and genuine student excitement.
Extensively used in classrooms with links added to Google Classroom
Interactive exploration of historical events through engaging multimedia content. Students connect with the past through immersive, curriculum-aligned activities.
Longest per-pupil engagement times recorded
Students explore the science of tsunami waves through interactive simulations. Understand natural disasters, wave mechanics, and geography concepts through hands-on learning.
High traffic from search engines – teachers love this one
Learn about polar ecosystems by matching animals to their correct habitats. Interactive activity builds understanding of Arctic vs Antarctic environments and adaptations.
High search engine visibility and classroom adoption
Journey through different eras while mastering clock reading and time concepts. Engaging game format makes learning time fun and memorable for early elementary students.
Top data literacy resource for elementary classrooms
Learn data interpretation and measurement skills through real-world temperature analysis. Seasonal relevance makes abstract math concepts concrete and meaningful.
Deepest engagement times registered – teachers spend quality time here
Comprehensive teaching guide presents Dr. King as an exemplar of lifelong learning. Includes discussion questions, activities, and culturally responsive teaching strategies.
Complete lesson with interactive game embedded
Full lesson plan exploring solid, liquid, and gas states with embedded interactive game. Standards-aligned content makes complex physics accessible to elementary learners.
Features craft instructions, template, and video by resident artist Nikita Lai Jing Tse
Celebrate the Year of the Snake with hands-on puppet making! Combines cultural learning about the Chinese Zodiac with STEAM skills through an engaging craft project perfect for World Snake Day.
Students love this real-world application of math skills
Interactive budgeting game teaches financial literacy through shopping scenarios. Students practice addition, subtraction, and money management while making purchasing decisions within a budget.
Students explore Brazilian culture through creative art
Celebrate Brazil’s vibrant Carnival tradition through coloring and cultural learning. Students engage with world cultures while developing fine motor skills and creative expression.
Part of our interactive Instant Science Guides series
Comprehensive guide combining tsunami science with critical safety information. Perfect for awareness day instruction, this interactive guide helps students understand natural disasters and emergency preparedness.
Three engaging games in one activity package
Triple-threat learning experience combines vocabulary building, memory skills, and Spanish language practice. Sports-themed activities engage students while building literacy and language skills across multiple formats.
As the Year of the Snake draws to a close, we are highlighting the K-5 educational activities that captivated elementary classrooms and homeschool families throughout this transformative year.
These top performing resources represent the best of This Month, activities that teachers returned to again and again, shared widely through Google Classroom, and where students spent the most time deeply engaged in standards-aligned learning. From interactive STEM simulations and cultural celebrations to hands-on maker projects and financial literacy games, each activity earned its place through measurable impact: longest student engagement times, highest returning teacher views, most classroom shares, and authentic educational value.
These zero-prep teaching resources helped elementary educators reclaim planning time while giving K-5 students memorable learning experiences that sparked curiosity, built essential skills in math, literacy, science, and cultural awareness, and aligned with Common Core standards. Whether you teach kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, fourth grade, or fifth grade, these proven classroom activities deliver the engaging, curriculum-aligned content that supports both traditional classroom teachers and homeschool parents in creating effective, time-saving lesson plans.
