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Does One Tree a Forest Make?
Students take a walk around the schoolyard looking at and identifying the trees. One leaf for each tree is collected. A chart is developed that represents the population of trees on the school ground. They keep journals and write an essay.
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Round 4-Digit Numbers
In this rounding numbers practice worksheet, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems that require them to round 4-digit numbers.
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Graphing With Candy
Students gather information and interpret the results using a tally chart, a table, and a bar graph.
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Touch and Discover
Students identify the physical properties of items using the sense of touch. In this touch and discover lesson, students describe items. Students sort items using a Venn diagram.
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Tally Time
Students create a tally chart. In this math and health lesson, students discuss healthy foods and create a tally chart showing the number of students who like to eat healthy foods.
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Meteor or Meteorite
Students differentiate between a meteor and meteorite. They participate in an experiment to discover how the size and weight of an object determines the size of the impact crater. They utilize their math skills by measuring with a ruler...
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Around the World
Young scholars explore ways people from around the world are like them. They discuss how geography affects the way people live and work and how culture affects a person's day to day life. Students give a presentation over a chosen...
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Smarties Investigation
In this math worksheet, learners participate in an investigation of Smarties candy. For example, students estimate how many candies they have in each color, count the actual number, and record the information in a tally chart.
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How Do I Measure Up?
Students measure and record weights and heights and compare to others in the class as they find out more about their bodies.
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Telling Time to 5 Minutes
Students take part in various activities ranging from creating a human clock, to small group problem solving to reinforce the concept of telling time accurately to five minutes on an analog clock.
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Graphing Aquatic Insects
Students identify aquatic insects. In this organism instructional activity, students locate aquatic insects near a local waterway and collect them. Students graph the amount of insects that they collected.
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Foods and Languages of the World
Learners review Mexico's location and language and learn to pronouns 10 new Spanish food words. Students listen as the book, Corn is Maize is read, touching and passing around an ear of Indian corn. Learners discuss the contribution of...
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George Washington Carver and Sharing
Students research George Washington Carver. In this science lesson, students discuss George Washington Carver's contribution to science. Students explain how peanut butter is produced.
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Probability or Ability?
Students use their non-dominant hand to catch candy which they tossed in the air. They estimate how many they catch in a second round. They record and determine how the probability changed the second time.
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Questions for Today: Communities
Students discover how questionnaires help communities to determine the needs of its citizens. They make an analogy between a survey of students about their school and a survey of citizens about their community.
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How Much Do We SPend For Electricity?
Students investigate the concept of energy and focus upon the usage and the cost associated with it. They conduct research using a variety of resources while working in cooperative groups. Students graph the usage of energy as estimates...
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One Square Foot
Students identify, describe, count, tally, and graph life found in one square foot of land.
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Favorite Christmas Carols
Third graders take a survey of friends' and family members' favorite Christmas carols. They illustrate a favorite Christmas carol and have students try to guess the name of the carol based on the picture.
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Usage and Interpretation of Graphs
Students review graphing and use processing skills to solve problems.
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Making Sense of the Census
In this unit of lessons, students make sense of the Census. They examine why a census is taken and participate in activities.
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Do You See What I See?
Students observe and describe different objects seen under a microscope and compare the individual perspectives of what was seen.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Pizza (Italian) Restaurant: Data and Chance
In this interactive site, students practice with bar and picture graphs by helping a pizza place collect and analyze their data.
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Class Flow: Data Analysis Using Graphing
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows students to analyze data using appropriate graphs, including pictographs, histograms, bar graphs, line graphs, circle graphs, and line plots introduced earlier, and using...
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Bbc: Representing Data
This BBC Math Bite tutorial for line graphs, pictograms, and frequency polygons features an exam in which students draw and interpret statistical diagrams.