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Build a Watershed

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
What's the best way to learn how watersheds work? Build one! Combining engineering, the water cycle, and ecology concerns, the activity is the perfect fit for an interdisciplinary unit. Teams construct a model watershed with simple...
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Smiling at Two Digit Multiplication!

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
How do I solve a two-digit multiplication problem? Your class tackles this question by walking through problem solving methods. They first investigates and applies traditional multiplication methods, and they then compare those with...
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On Target: Strategies to Help Readers Make Meaning through Inferences

For Students 4th - 12th Standards
Here's a resource that explicitly teaches, models, and provides readers with opportunities to practice the process of drawing inferences from text. Packed with strategies elementary, middle, and high school teachers can use, the resource...
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Introducing Models to Elementary School Students

For Teachers K - 8th
Students explore the concept of models. In this model lesson, students examine 3-dimensional models of various objects and body parts to better understand the natural world.
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Making a Model Lung

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners explain the parts of the body that are involved in breathing and explore lung function.  In this model lung activity students make a model of a lung then interpret and explain it. 
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Modeling Fourths [E]

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this modeling fourths worksheet, learners color or shade in give parts of fractions, all with the denominator of 4. Answers included on page 2.
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Building And Launching a Model Rocket

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners are introduced to the basic parts of rockets and the physical forces at work in the flight of rockets. They build and launch a model rocket and discuss the challenges of launching a real rocket.
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Model Division: Reteach

For Students 4th - 5th
In this division with models worksheet, learners review two steps to help them divide with fractions. Students then match each question with the correct model and complete the division sentence. Learners then complete each division and...
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Model Division: Homework

For Students 4th - 5th
In this division with models activity, students learn how to use models to solve division problems that contain fractions. Students then solve thirteen model division equations.
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Modeling Fifths [C]

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this modeling fifths worksheet, students write the correct numerator for colored parts of fractions, all with the denominator of 5. Answers included on page 2.
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Modeling Fifths [E]

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this modeling fifths worksheet, students write the correct numerator for the shaded parts of fractions with a denominator of five. Answers included on page 2.
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Word Problems and Bar Models

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this word problems worksheet, learners solve word problems using bar models about money, days on a farm, and more. Students complete 6 problems total.
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Problem Solving: Make a Model Practice

For Students 4th - 6th
In this problem solving worksheet, students make models to solve 5 word problems, showing their work. Houghton Mifflin text referenced.
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Hundredths Models

For Students 1st - 5th
In this math worksheet, students use the hundredths models by counting the blocks as directed by the custom assignment. This could also be used to count to 100.
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Decimal Models

For Students 4th
In this mathematical decimal models worksheet, 4th graders view, distinguish the differences between each one and problem solve a variety of decimal equations involving each one.
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Hands On: Model Percent

For Students 4th - 7th
In this model percents practice worksheet, learners sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems.
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Comparison Model and Stacking Approach

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this addition and subtraction worksheet, students complete word problems containing the comparison model and stacking approach. Students complete 20 problems.
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Space Awareness

Meet Our Home: Earth

For Students 1st - 6th
Earth is a complex structure. Learners explore their home, the earth, using a fun hands-on activity. They create tactile models of the earth using ordinary household materials that represent some common features: land, polar caps,...
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Space Awareness

Living in the Milky Way

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
Get to know our galaxy with an astronomy-themed, hands-on activity. Scholars watch an informative video, answer questions, and construct a model of the Milky Way in order to examine its contents and the distance inside it.  
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Designing Highway Interchanges

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
How do engineers determine the most efficient highway designs? Introduce young scientists to the world of topology, the branch of mathematics that examines how things are connected. Teams use model highways to create the most...
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What’s a Square Foot Anyway? Laying Out the Design Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 12th Standards
Clever! Participants don square-foot cardboard shoes to mark out the rain garden plot that they have spent the last few weeks designing. In this way, they are practicing scale modeling as well! Note that this lesson is part of a unit,...
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Looking Inside The Earth

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the location of structures inside the earth. They conduct research using a variety of resources and use the information to create a model of the Earth that focuses upon the location of...
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Mapping World Explorers

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars research early explorers from selected nations, routes, or time periods. After finding maps of exploration routes over water and land, they create a time line. Presentations are created in the form of three-dimensional...
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Multiplying in Any Order

For Students 3rd - 4th
Learners use an array model of multiplication to solve four fill in the blank multiplication problems. A very nice math learning exercise.

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