Task Cards for Teachers
Explore hundreds of task cards created by teachers for your primary classroom! This collection of curriculum-aligned teaching resources touches on every subject from English to maths, science to social studies and beyond.
This collection of printable task cards can help stimulate curiosity and motivate your students to participate actively in their learning!
Not familiar with task cards, or just looking for fresh ways to use them in the classroom? Read on for a primer from our teacher team!
What Are Task Cards?
A task card is a small card or piece of paper that presents students with a specific learning task or activity to complete.
Perfect for adding to your learning stations or rotations, the cards typically contain a question, problem or activity that requires them to apply their knowledge and skills to solve or respond. The idea is to promote independent learning and allow kids to work at their own pace.
They're also invaluable for differentiating instruction as you can provide different levels of challenge or content to meet individual student needs. You'll notice many of the Teach Starter sets of task cards have varying difficulty levels.
Best Ways to Store Task Cards
We know task cards are invaluable tools for teachers — it's why our teacher team invests time in creating cards that will get your students engaged in learning! But we also know you end up with a LOT of task cards as the school year goes on. So how do you store them all?
Here are some tips from our teacher team to keep track of all those task cards!
- Punch a hole in each pack of task cards, and use binder rings. This makes it easy for students to flip through the cards in your centers without losing any along the way. The one drawback to this solution is that the cards can get frayed quickly, so you might want to laminate the cardstock before adding them to the ring.
- Use photo storage boxes. Most task cards are sized similarly to small photos, making photo storage boxes perfectly sized for your cards! Don't forget to label each box with the type of task card so you can find them easily next school year when it's time for this particular unit!
- Use note card holders. Did you print your task cards to fit on note or index cards? There are storage holders designed just for those items that will double as simple task card storage!
- Plastic zipper bags. Store individual sets of task cards in plastic zipper bags or sandwich bags, and use a permanent marker to label each bag with what the card is all about or use different coloured bags so that kids know exactly which bag takes which card set. You could even bring the binder ring into the mix by punching a hole in each bag, then looping the bags on the binder ring.
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Block Beasties - Task Cards
Create fabulous block beasties with this set of differentiated construction task cards.
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Multiplication or Division? Working Cards
20 multiplication and division problem solving cards.
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Editable Word Processing Template
An editable template for students to consolidate word processing skills.
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Fast Finisher Health and Physical Education Task Cards - Year 3
A set of 10 Health and Physical Education task cards.
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Fast Finisher The Arts Task Cards - Year 3
A set of 10 The Arts task cards.
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Fast Finisher The Arts Task Cards - Year 2
A set of 10 The Arts task cards.
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Fast Finisher Science Task Cards - Year 6
A set of 12 Science task cards.
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Fast Finisher Humanities and Social Sciences Task Cards - Year 5
A set of 12 Humanities and Social Sciences task cards.
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Maths Sentence Stems Task Cards
Inspire mathematical talk with maths sentence stems in a handy task card format.
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Bullying Role Play Cards
Equip students with anti-bullying strategies with printable role play cards that will help them recognise and respond to different types of bullying.
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Classroom Contract Task Cards
A set of 12 task cards that encourage upper years students to think about what a positive learning environment looks like, sounds like and feels like.
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Nutty Nursery Rhymes Speaking and Listening Activity
A set of eight nursery rhyme cards which have been modified for a speaking activity.
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Who Lives Here? Animal Habitat Task Cards
Identify producers, consumers, and decomposers in different habitats with our Who Lives Here? Animal Habitat Task Cards.
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Animals and Their Young - Spot the Difference Activity
Observe and identify the differences between adult and baby animals with an engaging Spot the Difference Game for the classroom.
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Lab Safety Slip Ups - Making Predictions Task Cards (4-6)
Help your upper-years science students develop safe lab habits with this interactive set of printable Lab Safety Task Cards.
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Asking Testable Questions Activity Cards
Boost science inquiry skills and teach students how to ask scientific questions with an engaging Asking Investigable Questions Activity Pack.
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STEM Thinking Prompts - Higher Order Thinking Skills Questions
Use our printable STEM Higher Order Thinking Question cards to improve scientific conversation and critical thinking skills in your students.
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What Happens Next? Predicting Outcomes Activity Cards
Introduce your students to scientific thinking and predicting steps in a sequence with printable Predicting Outcomes Activity Cards.
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Sorting Senses Card Game
Help your little learners observe the world with their five senses with a printable 5 Senses Card Game.
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Christmas Picture Inferencing Task Cards
Use this festive image of Santa to engage your students with picture inferencing this Christmas, helping them build critical thinking skills through fun, visual clues.
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Sing and Share - Printable Icebreaker Cards for Music Class
Use our Sing and Share Printable Icebreaker Cards for Music Class to get your music students up, sharing, and singing to learn more about their classmates.
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End-of-Year Reflect and Write Task Cards
Reflect on the amazing school year with End-of-Year Reflect and Write Task Cards.
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Year 1 Magazine – "What's Buzzing?" (Issue 3) Task Cards
A set of five literacy rotation task cards to be used in conjunction with Issue 3 of Teach Starter’s Year 1 magazine.
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Dot Day STEM Activities - Building Tasks
Implement Dot Day STEM Activities with a set of fun DOT-based structure-building task cards.
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Back to School Icebreaker Jokes - Task Cards
Start each day with funny icebreaker jokes with a set of printable Back to School Joke cards for kids.
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Environmental Print Activities
Use these Environmental Print Activities to introduce early readers to the power of everyday words and logos.
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Online Text Features Task Cards
Teach online text features with ease using these multiple-choice task cards designed to strengthen students' digital reading and navigation skills.
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Word Problems for Volume Task Cards
Present these word problems for volume task cards to your students to give them practice solving volume problems with real-world context!
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Character Interview Task Cards
Use these book character interview questions to extend your students' learning about the narrative elements.
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Observing Matter Picture Zoom Task Cards
Challenge your students to observe the properties of matter with an engaging Matter Observation Picture Zoom Activity.
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Rock Detective Task Cards - Classifying Types of Rocks
Practise classifying rocks based on their properties with a set of printable Rock Detective Task Cards.
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100th Day STEM Challenge Cards - Early Years
Count to 100 while fostering critical thinking and problem-solving skills with this set of 11 Early Years STEM Challenge task cards.