Students listen to the book, Sam Johnson and the Blue Ribbon Quilt and discuss the art of quilting. They examine various symmetrical sewing designs, and identify reflection pieces, slides, and flips.

Students test their knowledge of the Wright Brothers and their aircraft, and compute ratio of two numbers to determine the ratio between wing span and length of aircraft.

Young scholars define an aid to communication, give an example of an aid to communication, and develop an aid to communication. Students also describe the aid's use and applicability

Students discover bodies of water in the United States by investigating the Eerie Canal.  In this U.S. Geography lesson, students discuss Lake Eerie and the canal that was built in order to transport goods.  Students research...

In this graphing calculator instructional activity for the TI-83 calculator, middle schoolers first observe a demonstration for calculating negative numbers. Next, students use their graphing calculator to answer 6 thoughtful T/F and...

Students find percents and unit price using popcorn.

Use manipulatives (film cans and balance scales) to visualize and solve equivalent equations with your math class. After a lecture/demo, they utilize handouts and solve various equations using the methods learned.

Students convert volcano elevation from feet to meters.

Sixth graders work through a two-step equation with their teacher. After reviewing one-step equations, they complete a worksheet using tiles and colored pencils to complete two-step equations. To end the instructional activity, they...

In this simple past tense activity, students use words and phrases given to form positive sentences in the given tense. Answers may be submitted online for review. ESL appropriate but not exclusive.

An 80-page resource provides four lessons and all associated worksheets to teach middle schoolers about expressions and equations. The lessons are hands-on, using games, "integer chips," a balance and cubes, and cut and paste activities....

Enjoy these straightforward and simple worksheet pages that practice with different denominators. The practice starts simple with adding fractions together and then works on a recipe that needs to be tripled. 

Turn young scholars into detectives as they decipher encrypted messages.  Introduce your class to modular arithmetic and have a little fun encrypting and decoding secret messages. The activity does not hit many content standards,...

Students examine two plants that make skateboards. They practice converting fractions to percents in real life applications.

Students find zero pairs and add integers using zero pairs and a number line. They generalize rules for adding integers. Students complete a matching activity on the Internet that helps them practice adding integers.

Sixth graders examine a blue print and discuss the reasoning behind using blue prints. In this proportionality lesson plan,  students collaborate with their teammates to create a scale drawing. Once that is complete, 6th graders...

In this online/interactive vocabulary worksheet, students use the words and phrases bank to fill in the blanks and complete the sentences. Students write 10 answers.

Learners collect data and make a frequency table, change ratios into percents, and analyze data to make predictions.

Students discover how much a movie is worth. They use decimals and percentages greater than 100 to complete this activity.

In this comma exercise worksheet, students must proofread and edit 10 sentences inserting commas where necessary.

Students relate fractions to decimals and find and compare equivalent fractions.

Students examine the Flying Geese quilt pattern, and discuss and identify the pattern. They write a paragraph titled, My Quilt Report, summarizing the information discussed about the quilt patterns.

Students explore tangram vocabulary and tangram designs, creating an art design that contains various geometric parts. They complete a checklist titled, Important Thing About a Quilt Design.

Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of order of operations. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check It" button...