Calendar Lesson Plans

Students create patterns using objects.  In this pattern lesson, students participate in several activities including sorting buttons, finding the one button that is described in <i>Frog and Toad Are Friends</i>, and playing the game "Guess My Rule."  They also make patterns where one attribute changes at a time.

Sixth graders analyze the Aztec calendar and create their own examples of them. They determine the meaning of the symbols used in the calendars and record their ideas in journals. Students host a parent breakfast for them to observe their QuickTime Virtual Reality projects.

First graders use a copy of a December calendar. Put a special holiday sticker on the 25th box. Write numbers in the boxes and cross off each day as they go to bed for a countdown calendar.

Students decipher number patterns by using algebraic equations to calculate numbers. They the sum of four numbers to find dates on a calendar that form a square.

Students explore math equations using addition and subtraction.

Students investigate the mathematical patterns of the Fibonacci Sequence. They determine how math is connected to music, specifically looking at music the uses the pattern sequence found in the Fibonacci Sequence.

Students study an ancient culture in Mexico whose people were called the Mayans. They compare certain aspects of Mayan culture with Ancient Egypt. They discuss why some other ancient cultures (Egypt and China) were able to survive for so long versus others (Maya).

Students explore the different methods used in celestial Navigation and astronavigation. In this math lesson, students construct a sextant and demonstrate how it works.

Students explore geometry by utilizing Hindu creations. In this cultural math activity, students define mandalas, the Indian design meditation circle. Students discuss how mandalas have been used in the past and draw their own with a compass, protractor and straight edge.

Students explore a calendar. In this calendar lesson, students sequence the 12 months of the year using posters with guidance from the teacher. Students recite the days of the week.