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Ship Shape

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore shapes. After reading books about shapes, 2nd graders describe the properties of various shapes. They identify shapes if they have been rotated, flipped, or slid. Students create shapes using drawings and geoboards.
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Curated OER

Combining Foods

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students explore addition. For this math lesson, students discover how addition and subtraction are related. Students model related addition and subtraction facts.
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Practice Makes Perfect

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students study fact families. In this math lesson, students use fact families to play a game of concentration. Students identify subtraction facts they need to learn.
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Geoboards

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Learners describe shapes to their classmates using specific properties and practice making triangles on geoboards. In this geoboards lesson plan, students use string on the geoboards.
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Curated OER

Geo-Critters (Geometry Critters)

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students read the book The Math Curse by Jon Scieszka and study geometry. For this geometry lesson, students identify geometric shapes and their properties. Students create a geo-critter.
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Arithmetic Artistry

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners create a classroom quilt that illustrates the many unique ways that students use math skills.
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T. Smith Publishing

Fraction Manipulatives

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Photocopy these coloful disks onto cardstock, laminate, and then cut out to use as manipulatives when teaching your class about wholes, halves, thirds, and fourths. It is always so helpful to practice math concepts with hands-on...
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Three Little Kittens: Addition Booklet

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore math problem solving strategies while reading a nursery rhyme. In this addition lesson, students learn math skills such as solving simple equations, graphing data and extending patterns while reading The Three Little...
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Worksheets Plus

Place Value Worksheets - What Number Am I?

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Practice place value with this resource. The 12 questions consist of riddles. For example, "I have 4 tens and 2 ones. What number am I?" This is a creative approach to thinking about double-digit numbers. Answers are available so...
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Curated OER

The Schoolyard Safari

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Learners engage in a lesson to find out more information about insects. They collect and observe different insects found on school property. They research the insects once they have been classified. Also a video is used to create a...
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Curated OER

Lung Limit

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore one's lung capacity, the human body, displacing volume of water with volume of air and spirometer use. Using simple math, students figure out their lung capacity by breathing into a bottle filled with water and...
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Curated OER

Tally Time

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Learners create a tally chart. In this math and health instructional activity, students discuss healthy foods and create a tally chart showing the number of learners who like to eat healthy foods.
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Curated OER

Finding Sums to 6

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Pupils explore the additive identity property where they add multiple numbers to get to the number 6. In this number 6 lesson plan, students also work on their addition charts.
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Plastic Packaging

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students collect data. In this math instructional activity, students collect data about recyclable materials. Students develop a plan that will help the environment. Recycling plastic containers is discussed.
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Curated OER

Spacemobiles

For Teachers K - 4th Standards
Aspiring astronauts construct a space vehicle using cylinders, cones, spheres, and rectangular prisms. This is an engaging method of learning about three-dimensional shapes. Note that the word cylinder is constantly misspelled in the...
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Curated OER

Multiplication and Division with Arrays

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students practice the commutative property, create and manipulate arrays and multiply and divide numbers.
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Curated OER

Aluminum Boats

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students study buoyancy with an in-class experiment.  In this water properties lesson, students create a boat from aluminum foil and float it in a bucket of water.  Students utilize coins to change the weight of the boat and...
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Curated OER

Developing Strategies for Addition and Subtraction

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Primary graders develop strategies to assist them with addition and subtraction. They discover number combinations and numerical facts which enable them to add and subtract more effectively. Young scholars use these techniques to...
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MENSA Education & Research Foundation

Shapes - Kindergarten

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Extend scholars' learning experience with a unit consisting of five shape lesson plans, an extension activity, assessment, and rubric. Begin by reading a story about shapes, then conduct an overview and assign pupils' their first...
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Curated OER

Tiles, Blocks, Sapphires & Gold: Designing a Treasure Map

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young cartographers in groups hide treasure at school and then create a map to find it using pattern blocks and tiles. They make paintings with clues to create a visual representation of the location of their treasure. Groups present...
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Helping with Math

Addition: Number Bonds to 20

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Pupils fill in the missing addend to an addition problem that adds up to 20. This number could be a one-digit or two-digit number. They complete a total of  41 missing addend problems. Answers are available.
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Add and Subtract

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Like the cubs in A Fair Bear to Share, your 2nd grade class will practice adding and subtracting double-digit numbers by grouping, regrouping, and sorting a collection of objects. This requires many resources, but it is well worth the...
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Curated OER

When Ants Fly

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Here is a great lesson on constructing line graphs. Learners identify common characteristics of birds, ants common needs of all living things. They also write a story from the perspective of an ant or a bird that has lost its home and...
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Can You Name That Shape?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners use materials to build, investigate, and draw two-dimensional shapes (polygons). They combine the shapes they have built and draw from the pile to begin a round-robin activity to name and determine the attributes of a selection...

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