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Frame Yourself

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Young ratio masters calculate and cut a frame (out of poster board) to accurately create an even frame around a picture of themselves. The frame needs to be proportional to the picture with constraints determined by the instructor. 
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Virtual Field Trip

For Teachers 5th - 7th
This hands-on resource has future trip planners analyze graphs of mileage, gasoline costs, and travel time on different routes. While this was originally designed for a problem-solving exercise using a Michigan map, it could be used as a...
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Growing a Seed

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Seeing how seeds grow into plants is such an enjoyable for students! They plant lima bean seeds and take pictures to record the growth of their plants. Students write in a journal to describe their daily observations of their plants, and...
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The Nifty Fifty-What's Your Size?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore state populations. In this state geography activity, students use a variety of technology tools to research and graph population and area of assigned states.
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Endangered Animals

For Teachers K - 12th
Students listen to a teacher led lecture on jaguars, their habitats, and how they became endangered. Using a specified web site, they choose an endangered animal to research. After gathering information, students participate in...
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Greenhouse Effect ...Building Our Own

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Pupils explore the greenhouse effect. They set up a simplified model of the earth and the greenhouse effect. Students compare temperatures inside a jar to temperatures outside the jar. Pupils collect information and create a line graph....
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Class Presentation on Coal

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Did you know that coal was formed from plants? After being assigned a coal-related topic, groups gather, organize, and present information about this energy source. The presentations should include visuals like graphs, charts, tables,...
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Everybody Needs a Little Sunshine

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Three activities introduce upper elementary ecologists to photosynthesis and food webs. In the first, an experiment is set up to determine how plants respond to different types of light. In the second, they connect organism cards with...
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Fractions and Measurement

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Using a Smart Board, or a plain ol' white board or chalkboard, the teacher pulls up a grid and demonstrates how squares and rectangles can be divided up into equal parts. The class will get their own graph paper to draw shapes and divide...
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Back In The "Old Days"

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders collect data during their worker interviews while in groups to compile job changes. They analyze the data to determine the categories of changes, patterns/trends of change and future projections. Each group then develops a...
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What is Urban Ecology?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Here is a worksheet on Urban Ecology in the state of Arizona. In it, learners answer nine short-answer questions on this topic. The last two questions have them use the reverse side of the paper to create tables and graphs which deal...
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It's Raining Cats and Dogs! Literary Devices and Figurative Language

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Third and fourth graders study literary devices and figurative language. They view a PowerPoint presentation (which you must create) to review hyperbole, idiom, simile, and metaphor. They read and discuss the book There's A Frog in...
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Who Came To Our Bird Table?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this science worksheet, pupils graph the diet of the birds for each day of the week. They sort the meals into the different types of foods categories.
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Grids

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Take your study of coordinates online! Groups of students complete an online graphing introduction, plotting the points of virtual objects. A worksheet is included for extra practice.
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Spiders! Scary or Nice?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students participate in a variety of cross-curriculur activities in order to explore spiders.
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Marvelous Mathematics

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students make a table on the computer, but create fractions and equivalent fractions through the use of color. They are able to manipulate fractions in order to gain a greater understanding of the meaning of whole number that is broken...
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Interpret Pictographs

For Students 4th - 5th
Have your youngsters use a graphic organizer and key to solve the following questions. By learning to interpret the pictographs, they will solve the problems accurately.
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Melissa's Garden

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this math activity, learners identify the location of pictures on a coordinate plane. They write some answers as an ordered pair. They read ordered pairs and identify the picture at a specified location. Six problems are on a page. An...
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Independent Practice 1: Placing Items on a Grid

For Students 4th - 6th
In this placing items on a grid worksheet, students draw specified pictures on a coordinate plane in an instructed location. All locations are identified by an ordered pair. This one-page worksheet contains 20 problems.
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Count and Tally 2

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this counting skills worksheet, students respond to 6 questions that require them to count items pictured and use tally marks to total them.
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Download and Analyze

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
Students download information from a NASA website into a database. They transfer it to a spreadsheet by completing the information and analyze the information. They determine temperature averages, mode, and graph the results. They write...
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Math Stars: A Problem-Solving Newsletter Grade 1

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Keep the skills of your young mathematicians up-to-date with this series of newsletter worksheets. Offering a wide array of basic arithmetic, geometry, and problem solving exercises, this resource is a great way to develop the...
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Multiplying Fractions by Fractions

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
A four-page resource walks learners through the basics of multiplying fractions. The handout is very visual with many diagrams in various colors. By the end of the lesson, learners are given an opportunity to multiply whole numbers with...
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Shapes on a grid #1

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Before learning about the coordinate plane and ordered pairs, have kids get used finding locations on the grid. They are given a simple set of coordinates, which they will locate on the grid. A great way to introduce the concept. 

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