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The Shape of Things

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars create shape booklets. In this interdisciplinary lesson, students practice shape recognition as they participate in a scavenger hunt and create a shape booklet.
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Witches Brew

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students reinforce AB patterns taught in the classroom and practice locomotor movements. They cut out and laminate 20 of each of the following Halloween items: bats, ghosts, Frankenstein faces, spiders, Jack-O¿¿¿-Lanterns, witches...
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Cultural Calendar

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students design their own cultural calendar.  In this calendar making lesson, students decide on a culture for a calendar theme and discuss how calendars differ from the US calendar.  Students create their own calendar using a...
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Investigation: Shape Balance

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore geometry by utilizing pattern blocks. In this shape identification lesson, 2nd graders view the characteristics for several different geometric shapes and create them using building blocks and other classroom...
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Does Santa Claus use the Coriolis Force to Travel East?

For Teachers K - 9th
Students are given a visual demonstration of the Coriolis Force in the Northern Hemisphere. They are encouraged to find locations around the globe and try to predict what the weather circulation patterns might be like.
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Making Pictures from Smaller Shapes

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students investigate shapes. In this dimension and orientation of shapes lesson, students identify and color shapes, use shape stamps to form animals, glue shapes together to make other objects and describe how shapes are used.
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Calendar Art

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students assemble and decorate a calendar. This is a lesson to be used at the beginning of each month to make a calendar for the month. Math concepts for this lesson consist of each student writing numbers on the calendar.
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Graphing Family Reading Habits

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders collect data from their families about their reading habits and graph them. In this graphing family reading habits instructional activity, 2nd graders interview family members about their reading habits. They then use a...
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Compare 2-D Shapes

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore and analyze plane shapes. In this plane shapes lesson, 2nd graders evaluate shape attributes to classify shapes correctly. Students work in groups to create different shapes.
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Folding to Make Shapes

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify different polygons and their attributes. In this geometry lesson, 2nd graders get to know polygons by studying the vocabulary and finding polygons in their classroom. They create these shapes and then find their...
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Fact-O!

For Teachers K - 12th
Students practice math facts as they play a game of chance and skill. They correctly create and calculate mathematical equations, using the numbers rolled on three dice, and earn points for marking adjacent numbers on the game sheet.
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Algebra: What's My Rule?

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students apply higher level thinking skills to determine rules for sorting and classification. In this pre-algebra lesson, students nominate classmates who they think satisfy the unspoken "rule" established by the leader. As students are...
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Compare 2-D Shapes

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine the attributes of two-dimensional shapes. In this geometry lesson plan, 2nd graders play a game in order to identify two-dimensional shapes and to name them.
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Addends with Spiffy

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars solve single variable equations. In this missing addend lesson, students solve problems with missing addends. Young scholars create a function box to help study numerical reasoning.
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Triangles and Quadrilaterals

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore triangles and quadrilaterals. They rotate to various centers in the room to identify and examine triangles and quadrilaterals. After presenting a picture to the class, 2nd graders locate right angles, triangles...
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Shape Search

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders draw a model using correctly formed geometric shapes. In this geometric shapes lesson, 2nd graders notice geometric shapes in the world around them and accurately draw these shapes.
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Tantalizing Tangrams

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students construct a set of tangrams. In this geometry activity, students read the book, Grandfather Tang's Story and retell the story using tangrams. Students construct their own set of tangrams using the included worksheets.
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The Weight of Things

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Learners explore weight. In this math lesson, students predict which item weighs more and discuss how they arrived at their decision. Learners weigh several items to determine which weighs more.
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Counting Using Money

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders count fake money by grouping like coins together. In this counting lesson plan, 2nd graders complete worksheets provided in this lesson.
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Connect the Dots

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this connecting dots worksheet, students see a specific number of dots in a box. Kids connect as many dots as possible and on a table, record the number of lines used. Students see a pattern.
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Primary Geometry

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identity simple geometric shapes. In this early geometry lesson, the teacher introduces students to triangles, squares, and rectangles, then students identify and classify the shapes as they are found in the classroom. To...
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Grandfather Tang's Story

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students construct tangram patters. In this geometry lesson, students read the book Grandfather Tang's Story and visit various websites to practice covering figures with tangrams. Students attempt to construct animal shapes using puzzles.
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Choose the Best Name

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this subtraction facts worksheet, students fill in the missing numbers in 4 subtraction equations. Students then discover the pattern and cross out the number sentence that does not belong.
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Shapes in Our World

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Help your students explore shapes. They classify shapes and identify them in their everyday world. Plane shapes are explored, and they classify and identify the plane shapes.