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Curated OER

Morning Math

For Students 3rd - 4th
Good morning, math scholars! There are 10 warm-ups here to get your class recalling past concepts and staying sharp on newer ones. Skills include writing an even and odd number sequence, subtracting money amounts, dividing shapes in...
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Curated OER

Lead Up Skills fo Tchoukball

For Teachers 6th - 10th
A simple lesson to practice the throwing and catching skills for the game of Tchoukball. There are several warm-up activities to have the class practice tossing a ball around. Then the main drill is organized much like a basketball...
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Curated OER

Draw What You Feel in the Bag: Art Game

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Here is a great game to play on a rainy day or as a warm up. Kids feel an object in a paper bag, they do not attempt to identify it, they simply draw what they feel. This results in a contour drawing based on line, feeling, and texture....
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Curated OER

Home Music Practice Checklists

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Music is great, but in order to play really well, you have to practice. Here is a printable checklist that will help your music students remember to practice playing their instruments everyday. The daily practice reminder includes a...
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Curated OER

Peanut Butter Song

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Break the ice or warm up your class with the very interesting Peanut Butter Song. Students will sing about all of the silly places they like to put peanut butter. For instance, on their shoes, socks, shirt, and head. Note: Having fun...
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Curated OER

Money Alphabet

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Warm up your math class with this interesting game idea. This single slide contains the letters of the alphabet, each letter has an assigned value, kids write out the name of their favorite football team and use the monetary values to...
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Curated OER

Calculator Trick 3

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Calculator tricks are a fun way to warm up the class while building interest in math. Kids enter a four-digit number into their calculator twice, then divide by 137. The answer will amaze the class and make you a math magician!
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Curated OER

Doubling Starter

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
It is really important to teach kids basic math facts so they can solve more complicated problems later if life. They can practice building number sense and automaticity with this doubling and halving warm up. They are shown a series of...
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Curated OER

Geography A to Z: The Letters W,X,Y and Z

For Students 6th - 8th
Warm up the class with a fun geography quiz. They'll use the letters W, X, Y, and Z to answer seven geography-based questions. Y for Yangtze, Z  for Zimbabwe, or Y for Yugoslavia. 
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Lakeshore Learning

Winter Bear Warm-Up

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Don't be left out in the cold, ensure young learners are prepared for the winter weather with this clothing activity. After introducing them to different clothing items using the provided picture cards, students sing a song before...
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Pearson

Performance Based Assessment Practice Test (Geometry)

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
The incredibly broad topic base of a geometry class makes full-length practice tests like this one, especially ones that include a number of open response questions, invaluable.  Here the class can really get that hands-on experience...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Shirt Sale

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
Everyone loves a good deal, and your mathematician's job is to calculate the original price when given the discount. A different type of problem than the traditional "find the percent change" has your learners working backwards to...
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West Contra Costa Unified School District

Simplifying Fractions Activity

For Teachers 6th Standards
Warm-up pupils' fraction muscles with a four-question quiz, then delve into a learning game designed to reinforce the concept of simplifying fractions. Based on the "I do, We do, You do" method of teaching, the instructional...
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West Contra Costa Unified School District

Discovering Slope of a Line in Standard Form

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
From start to finish this skills practice resource provides a way for individuals to explore the standard form equation of a line. Begin with a warm-up, work through the problems, and then discover the relationship between the equation...
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Carolina K-12

The Twenty-Sixth Amendment and the Power of Youth

For Teachers 8th Standards
Empower teenagers to take political matters into their own hands! After completing an engaging warm-up activity, class members discuss both sides of the youth voting issue, learn about the connection between military history and the...
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Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation

Moving to the Poems of Angel Island

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
A poem carved on Angel Island's walls is the guiding text of a lesson that challenges scholars to put movement into a written piece of art. After warm up-activities, learners play a game of "Pass the Clap" and "Pass the Line," in which...
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Academy of American Poets

Teach This Poem: "Violin" by Nikki Wallschlaeger

For Teachers 3rd - 12th Standards
Nikki Wallschlaeger's Violin is the featured poem in a lesson that uses music and multiple readings to delve deep into its analysis. After a writing warm-up, learners watch and listen to a video that showcases Regina Carter Quintet's...
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Academy of American Poets

Teach This Poem: "Spring is like a perhaps hand" by E. E. Cummings

For Teachers 6th - 12th
E. E. Cummings' "Spring is like a perhaps hand" offers young scholars an opportunity to try their hands at analyzing a simile. After a warm-up activity and a close reading of the poem, class members discuss what they think the poem is...
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PBS

Explore Art and Movement Inspired by Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Panel 58 from Jacob Lawrence's "Migration Series" of paintings provides middle schoolers with an opportunity to sharpen their observation and analytical skills. After engaging in a warm-up activity that introduces the concepts of...
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US Environmental Protection Agency

Sea Level: On the Rise

For Teachers 6th - 10th Standards
With the global temperature on the rise, the effects of climate change are starting to be seen. However, many people have a difficult time conceptualizing the long-term effects, such as sea levels rising. Given an easy and effective...
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Curated OER

Art Class Warm Up

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students complete warm up activities for art class. In this art activity lesson plan, students complete open ended questions, scribble, draw for a fantasy trip, read a poem about art, complete a KWL chart, discuss an important piece of...
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Curated OER

Addition Word Problems Up to 20

For Students K - 1st
Because this addition word problem has the answer written on the same page, consider using it as a warm-up and projecting it. Simply cover up the answer until you're ready. The problem has beginners adding up two single-digit numbers for...
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Math Worksheets Land

Add up to Four Two-Digit Numbers - Step-by-Step Lessons

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Okay, so your scholars are excelling at two-addend addition problems, but what about three or four? Here are some practice problems to stretch their math skills. They find the sums of six equations: two with two addends, two with three...
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Curated OER

Warm Up: When Modern Human Behavior Appeared in Early Hominids

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
Upper graders or entry college level learners use the provided article links to answer three questions regarding early modern human behavior. They compose short essay responses that accommodate each part of the overarching question,...

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