Students locate and map ten volcanoes in United States, create chart comparing volcanoes by last eruption, type of volcano, location, and interesting fact, and create Powerpoint slide show describing basic information about volcanoes and...

For this fractions and decimals worksheet, students convert 6 fractions into decimals. Students work out their answers in the spaces provided.

Students examine the ways that government works to help improve aquatic habitats. In this water habitats lesson students view a video and plan a school restoration project. 

Fourth graders investigate philosophy by researching the life of Mahatma Gandhi. In this historical biography lesson, 4th graders examine the peaceful philosophy of India's most famous resident. Students participate in role-playing...

Students read a text on digestion and learn new vocabulary as they read. In this digestion lesson plan, students also complete a picture chart to show the digestive process.

Students brainstorm and discuss what they know about oceans and seas, read poem My Ocean Speaks by Olga Cossi, discuss narrator's feelings about ocean, write reflective journal entries about their experience or inexperience with the...

Students participate in a class discussion about how pentominoes figure into the plot of "Chasing Vermeer." They then solve pentominoe puzzles and play interactive games. Resource links are provided for the activities and puzzles.

Students determine how many number cards are needed to display the dates of the month. In this place value notation lesson, students write numbers on blank cards to see how many are needed of each number to makes all the dates...

Students discuss pyrotechnics and what they have noticed about their height and speed. They think about the path which fireworks follow which is a parabola. They follow multiplication patterns to determine the Zero Product Property and...

Fourth graders discover that a polygon is a closed figure formed by line segments, and that the perimeter of a polygon is the sum of the lengths of its sides. They utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to gain lots of practice with...

Students explore the long distances and timescales involved in space travel. They track the progress of the New Horizons spacecraft and access the New Horizons website to discover the distance of the spacecraft from the Sun, and then...

Students practice rounding numbers to ones and tens places, multiplying numbers, and working with simple fractions. They study the placement and distances of planets in the Solar System.

Represent multi-step word problems using equations with a letter standing for the unknown quantity. Equations include addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] For this learning module, students must solve word problems using division where there is a remainder. Includes video demonstrating a sample problem [1:56] and a set...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students practice solving division word problems using illustrations.

Find both the multiplication and division equation that can be used to solve a word problem. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints....

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this learning module, students must solve word problems using division. Includes video demonstrating a sample problem [1:54] and a set of practice questions.

Solve two-step word problems with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Some questions include estimation. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive...

In this lesson students will create basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division word problems using common nursery rhymes. Students will distinguish the key elements of word problems and incorporate those elements into a...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A practice quiz where students use division and subtraction to answer word problems by determining how much more or less is needed to satisfy the given amount.

Practice word problems that involve using the fraction bar as division. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.

The purpose of this task is for students to analyze different contexts in which multiplication is appropriate. CCSS.Math.Content.3.OA.A.3 Use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems

Ten-question quiz that presents word problems and students use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to determine the answer.

Solve multi-step word problems, including estimation. Select the equation that can be used to solve a word problem. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.