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The Hundred Penny Box

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students compare how people save money in financial institutions, after reading the story, The Hundred Penny Box. They analyze the advantages of regular saving and how savings grow with compounding.
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Cooking Cranberry Pudding

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore colonial cooking.  In this cross curriculum George Washington and colonial America history lesson, students follow a recipe for cranberry pudding, a possible favorite of George and Martha Washington. Students...
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Don't Be a Square

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners analyze the relationship between radius and diameter.  Students read Sir Cumference and the First Round Table then take measurements of circular items from around the room.  Learners compute the radius, diameter...
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Meet Molly An American Girl

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners examine concepts of personal finance. In this personal finance lesson, students use Valerie Tripp's, Meet Molly, An American Girl, to learn about saving and spending after World War II. They compare financial decisions after...
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Beginning Graphs in MS Excel

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice creating graphs in Microsoft Excel. In this technology lesson, students conduct a random survey and collect data. Students use the Microsoft Excel program to create a bar graph of the data.
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Excel for Beginners

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this Excel lesson, students set a formula to check their homework. Students also use clipart, work in groups, and learn to use the tools in the drop-down list.
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Name Game

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students practice writing names using a Scrabble type activity.  For this letter writing lesson, students participate in a name writing game in which they must utilize other student names to spell their own on the same grid....
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What Does Average Look Like?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the concepts of range, median, mode, and mean through the use of graphs drawn from models. They use manipulatives to represent data they have collected within their groups, and compare the differences between mode,...
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Around the Town

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars explore reading maps. In this map reading lesson, students compare distances fom place to place. Young scholars work in groups and predict the distance then find the actual distance using string or rulers.
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Keep Track of time by watching the clock

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Learners answer questions about the clock.  In this time lesson, students answer questions using intervals of five minutes. Learners solve problems about how long to the next activity, how much longer, and whether or not we have...
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Build a Cardboard Bridge That Can Hold Potatoes

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students identify the characteristics of a bridge and build with junk materials.  In this bridge building activity, students use cereal boxes, paper towel or toilet paper tubes and tape to create their bridges.  Bridges...
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Estimation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students estimate the cost of individual items found on a typical grocery list. They participte in a teacher-led demonstration, solve word problems, and estimate the cost of ten items placed into their group's grocery basket.
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Order of Operations Treasure Hunt

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this algebra instructional activity, students work in groups to design a treasure map in which algebraic equations must be solved using the correct order of operations. Students decide where treasure is hidden, then create and follow...
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Mapping the Transcontinental Journey

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students develop their geography skills. In this Lewis and Clark lesson, students collaborate to calculate the time and distance of different segments of the expedition. Students compare their estimate to Lewis and Clark's.
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Mr. Lincoln's Hat

For Teachers K - 5th
Bring out the inner artist with this Abraham Lincoln lesson plan. Elementary students work on a home project creating a hat similar to Abraham Lincoln's hat. They will use geometry and measurement to create the scale of the hat, then...
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Gateway

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Learners practice listening to math problems in a foreign language.  In this number sentence activity, students listen to the teacher ask them a question in a foreign language that has some type of number combination for an answer....
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Add or Subtract Part 2

For Students 4th - 5th
In this addition and subtraction learning exercise, students write and solve 6 number sentences to find the answers to each word problem. Students write their answers in a sentence format.
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Subtraction Word Problems

For Students 5th - 8th
In this subtraction problem solving learning exercise, students read and solve four word problems. Each word problem involves regrouping to the thousands place. There is an area on the learning exercise for students to show their work.
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Dividing with Decimals

For Students 5th
In this decimal division worksheet, 5th graders answer 6 questions with word problems related to decimal division and multiplication. 
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"Sir Cumference and the First Round Table" by Cindy Neuschwander

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars analyze characteristics of various 2 dimensional shapes and explore their properties and use various vocabulary terms to discuss geometric relationships.
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Geoboard Area

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars explore the basic geometric shapes and geometric shape vocabulary through the use of geoboards and virtual geoboards. They create a variety of shapes with a partner, build ten different rectangles on their geoboards, and...
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Hot shots 1

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students recognize the simple percentages equivalent to ?? or ?? etc, and their equivalent value as decimals. They work independently of the teacher to practice number properties. Answer key included.
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If the Shape Fits

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
Geometers juggle the idea of polygons. Using a game and manipulatives, they make trapezoids and irregular polygons. They review the algorithms for finding the areas of squares and rectangles. On day one, they find the area of trapezoids,...
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Captain Invincible and the Space Shapes

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students recognize the features of geometric shapes.  In this geometric shapes lesson, students listen to Captain Invincible and the Space Shapes. Students create solid figures with marshmallows and toothpicks.  Students create...

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