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- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students categorize their private book collections as a precursor to learning the principles of the Dewey Decimal System. They use the Internet to gain a better understanding of the Dewey Decimal System. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students participate in a number of activities in order to reinforce the study of the place value for decimals. They name place values for ones to thousandths. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 7th
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Students convert and sequentially order fractions and decimals. create their own flashcards for homework. The following day, students exchange flashcards and quiz each other just as we did in class. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students use their own words to tell how to change a fraction into a decimal. They then are able to put fractions in order from smallest to largest and can explain how to express the area of a shaded region in fractions, decimals, and percents. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 3rd
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Students investigate the Dewey Decimal System of numbering nonfiction books in the library. They label the type of nonfiction that would be found under each grouping of the system and classify a book based on its subject matter. They go to selected web sites to practice working with the classification system. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students identify the ten main classifications used with nonfiction books in the Dewey Decimal Classification System after watching a teacher lead PowerPoint presentation. They play a game in which they use a variety of books, a spinner, and to identify the classification. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students choose a book from the non-fiction section of the library and write a summary of one paragraph from the book. They illustrate one section of the book and add their drawing to a classroom mural that shows the sections of the Dewey Decimal Classification system. They visit assigned web sites to complete online activities. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students discuss money, decimal points, and place value, view fraction strips, play decimal game to practice writing equivalent decimal values of handfuls of coins, and complete alien worksheet. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th
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Students examine the process of subtracting decimals. They discuss how subtracting decimals is like subtracting money, then in small groups play a decimal subtraction game using Unifix cubes. Students then buy and sell products at a class store, and independently complete a worksheet. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students compare and order fractions and decimals. They represent fractional numbers on a number line. Students use sets of Fraction Tower Equivalency Cubes to help model the fractions and then find the decimal equivalent using the cubes. Full Review »

