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Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
Students participate in various activities which address Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. In this holiday lesson, students are exposed to Hebrew songs and construct Haiku poems about Yom Kippur.
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Animal Shelters - Sharing Our Knowledge
Young scholars arrange a service project for a local animal shelter. For this animal shelter lesson, students collect items to be given to a local shelter. They learn how to estimate the monetary value of the donated items. They can do...
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History of Famous Women
Students discover the famous women who changed society by setting positive examples. In this equality instructional activity, students research a female person who had a positive effect on the world by fighting for her equal...
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Burs in Your Furs
Young scholars explore the concept of animal welfare. In this wild animal habitats lesson, students discover the work of wild animals in sustaining their habitats as they participate in a classroom simulation. Young scholars discuss how...
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Your Own Fresh Water Aquarium in the Classroom
Students explore aquariums. In this fish and ecosystems lessons, students establish a freshwater aquarium environment using materials provided. Students read about and care for the classroom fish.
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Layering the Air
Students study the layer of the atmosphere. In this lesson on the atmosphere, students discuss the composition of the air around us and how the atmosphere was formed. Students create a scale model of the layers of the atmosphere.
Scholastic
Test-Taking Strategies for Three Subject Areas
Sometimes a test page loaded with text can make a student's face go blank. Help them decipher what a text question is asking with a series of tips focused on reading comprehension, vocabulary, and language arts mechanics.
Baylor College
Breathing Machine
Take a deep breath and have your class construct working models of a lung! Using 500ml plastic bottles as the chest cavity, and balloons for the lung and the diaphragm, learners work in groups to make a model. The models help them to...
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He Said, She Said, So: What's the Point?
Not by the hair on my chinny chin chin! Upper graders and middle schoolers read the story The Three Little Pigs and other tales related to the story from various points of view. They use the Internet to find more stories...
Roald Dahl
Matilda - Arithmetic
Mr. Wormwood, one of the characters in Roald Dahl's Matilda, is not the most trustworthy of characters. Have student groups take on the roles of car salespeople and play a game to see who can make the most profit by selling...
Baylor College
Lungometer
Life science learners construct lung-o-meters from gallon-sized milk jugs and then measure their lung capacities. For older students, have them graph the vital lung capacities of each person in the class. Cross-curricular pieces are...
K5 Learning
The Best Vacation Ever
Hang ten with a fun reading activity about a family vacation on a cruise. Fifth graders read along as Scott transfers his snowboarding skills to surfing in an engaging reading activity that includes six comprehension questions.
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Fibonacci Numbers
Students calculate the Fibonacci sequence of numbers. Through the use of Fibonacci numbers in flowers, leaves, fruits, vegetables, pine cones, and other forms of nature; students explore how Fibonacci numbers occur in nature. Then they...
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Fractions, Decimals and Percents
Fifth graders describe parts of a whole as a fraction, decimal and a percent. In this math lesson plan, 5th graders practice converting fractions to decimals by dividing. Additionally, students explain how decimals are converted to...
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Rename to Subtract
In this subtraction of fractions practice activity, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems that require renaming.
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Solve Multiplication and Division Equations
In this solving multiplication and division equations practice worksheet, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems.
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Polygon Mobiles
Students explore a variety of shapes and angles and create mobiles with information about a selected polygon. Both common and "not-so common" polygons are examined.
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Multiply by 10
In this multiply by 10 worksheet, students use the illustrations in the first two problems to help them multiply by 10. Students solve six word problems that multiply by 10.
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Patterns and Pentominoes
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.
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Multiply in Any Order
For this multiplication worksheet, students use the models in the first two problems to help them multiply the numbers. In all problems, students learn to multiply in any order.
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Tangram Tantrums
Students discuss tangram vocabulary, and act out slide, flip, and turn. They observe tangram puzzles on a web page, and solve their own tangram puzzles.
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Fraction Fun With Food
Learners use candy and pizza to identify concepts associated with fractions. They work together in groups to create fractions. They complete a worksheet individually to complete the activity.
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Square Arrays
In this multiplication practice worksheet, students review their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems pertaining to square arrays.
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Problem Solving: Find an Average
In this finding the average word problem instructional activity, students problem solve and explain why the average is reasonable or not reasonable. Students solve six problems.