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Virginia Racing Commission

Project Hoofbeat: Incorporating the Horse in the Classroom:

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
It's all about horses in this cross-curricular packet that includes everything equine from United States horse history, breeds, grooming tools, and plenty of new vocabulary terms. Split into 11 lessons, learners complete crossword...
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Curated OER

Crazy for Cubes: Art and Science

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners discuss Sol LeWitt and conceptual art, then analyze the differences in expressing a concept through model-based inquiry and aesthetic art criticism. They develop a geometric, scientific, or mathematical concept, then create an...
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Curated OER

Rational Number Project

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Infuse your unit on fractions, decimals, and operations with a thorough module about rational numbers. With a teaching guide, learner examples, templates for instruction, and lesson rationale, the module is a solid way to...
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Comparing Light Bulbs

For Teachers K - 8th
An average home produces twice as many emissions as an average car. Teach your class how to reduce energy consumption by replacing standard incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent light bulbs. Perform an experiment to compare...
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Candlewick Press

A Classroom Guide to Peter H. Reynolds's Creatrilogy

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Help young readers find, identify, and use their voices with a set of empowering activities based on Peter H. Reynolds' trilogy of books. Sky Color, Ish, and The Dot focus on recognizing moods and treating each other...
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Curated OER

Initial Fraction Ideas Lesson 5: Overview

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students demonstrate fraction symbols. In this fractions lesson, students use paper strips to represent various fractions. Students then use fraction circles to compare various given fractions.
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Initial Fraction Ideas Lesson 19: Overview

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students read different scenarios and discuss how to add fractions. in this addition of fractions lesson plan, students learn how to add unlike fractions and practice 4 problems.
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Design a Recycling Game!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discover that recycling is using a product more than once so that natural resources can be saved and so that we won't need so many garbage dumps and landfills. They see that there are different ways to recycle. Students design a...
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Ways to Extend the Learning With A Fraction Unit

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Here are some ideas for extending the learning beyond traditional fraction lessons.
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Math & Science

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars are introduced to techniques to help with with math and science. In groups, they use a worksheet to discover how to count money. As a class, they watch a PowerPoint to define terms associated with science. To end the...
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Curated OER

Sorting Lids

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Students practice sorting lids in different ways so that each group determines a sorting pattern. They examine how to work in groups while sharing ideas. They establish group work relationships that become apparent to the teacher in this...
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School Yard Waste

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine the types of garbage that they collect on the playground. They collect the information in a spreadsheet and create a graph that displays the number of types of trash found. They design and monitor a playground...
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Everyday Mathematics at Home

For Students 3rd - 4th
Send this information home with your young learners. Adults, siblings, or friends can help youngsters learn how to measure! This gives basic tips and suggests having the child draw a series of lines, and then use their 10-centimeter...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Creating a Reflection

For Teachers 4th - 7th Standards
Investigate geometric reflections in this geometry lesson. Create geometric reflections that show the reflection across the x and y axis of a coordinate graph. Learners watch a teacher demonstration before proceeding on their own. They...
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Energy Conservation

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students investigate energy conservation.  In this energy conservation and analyzing data lesson, students identify and explain several energy sources and research renewable and nonrenewable energy sources. Students use statistics...
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A Year in Arizona

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create a calendar about their state. In this state calendar lesson, 4th graders select a state theme and create a calendar based on that theme. Students write paragraphs for each month related to the theme and design the...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

The Path to Positive

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Students demonstrate how to add positive integers. For this computation instructional activity, students read the book Less Than Zero and use a number line and counters to play an addition game using positive integers.
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Endocrine Excitement!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars are divided into a group of hormones and a group of receptors. The hormones have to find their matching receptors, and the pair, once matched, perform a given action. This activity helps students examine the specificity of...
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Curated OER

Volatile Volcanoes

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students have fun with graphics, graphs and money, simultaneously learning with up-to-the-minute information.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: M&m Math

For Students 3rd - 8th
By using a simple bag of M&Ms, you can conduct an experiment in statistics to determine the frequency of colors in the package. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Wild About Wildcards

For Students 3rd - 5th
The idea of a wildcard allows you to satisfy any condition. The same concept is behind using a wildcard when searching for something with your computer. Do this experiment to find out if using wildcards to conduct a search can help you...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Frequency of Outcomes in a Small Number of Trials

For Students 3rd - 8th
People often draw conclusions from a small number of observations, but how easy is it to draw the wrong conclusion? Here is a simple project that shows the importance of making enough observations before making a prediction.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: The Birthday Paradox

For Students 3rd - 8th
This project shows how mathematical probability sometimes contradicts our intuition. Despite the fact that there are 365 days in a year, if you survey a random group of just 23 people there is a 50:50 chance that two of them will have...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Divide and Conquer: Proving Pick's Theorem for Lattice Polygons

For Students 4th - 8th
If you like to play Tetris then you might like this project. You'll learn something interesting about the mathematics of complex shapes.

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