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Crayograph Quilts
Students create a quilt-like fabric swatches using Crayograph crayons, emery paper and rubbing plates.
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Guess My Piece -working with Legos
Students participate in guessing their partners' hidden Lego pieces from their verbal clues. They work in partners to accomplish their goals. They are meeting a variety of math standards by completing this instructional activity.
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Numbers Up
Students use Legos to build representations of a variety of numbers. They then sort and order their representations and pair them with the written number.
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Trash Pizza
Students identify items commonly sent to landfills and summarize percentages/fractions of different items in landfills Students create a pizza pie graph of landfill components
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Needs Math in Life at All?
Students think and talk about the ways in which they use math throughout the day. They add each way to a "math in real life" bulletin board and reflect in writing on the ways they use math.
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Graphing Galore!
Students practice sorting and counting different objects. Using this information, they create graphs on a worksheet given to them. They describe and analyze the results and discuss them as a class to end the instructional activity. ...
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How Much Does a Bear Weigh?
Students estimate how many children in their class it would take to equal the mass of one adult bear. They then weigh and record their measurement on a chart to check their estimate.
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Computer Doubles
Students practice doubling the numbers one through five while viewing a projected computer activity using MathKeys software. They stamp numbers onto an activity sheet that corresponds to the number of objects on the screen and then write...
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Fourths of Sets
Students create a set of cards that represent factors of four and use these cards to play a game in which they practice separating numbers into fourths. They first practice separating numbers into fourths with a projected computer...
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Ordering Objects By Length
Students compare and describe objects of differing lengths that are presented in a Mathkeys software compare mat. Working in pairs, one student is the chooser who sets up the objects while the other student is the sizer who puts the...
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Patterns
Students explore the concept of linear patterns by moving into different body poses. They also use MathKeys software to create linear patterns across a computer screen. In groups of three they take turns adding to the pattern.
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Comparing Sizes And Shapes
Students compare, resize, and check various shapes by size using a comparison mat from the MathKeys program. Working in pairs, they place three similar shapes on the screen and state which is the largest and smallest in area. They also...
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Symmetrical Journals
Students examine the concept of symmetry by studying the symmetry of symbols in a wall painting and creating journals with a symmetrical design. After a class review of symmetry and identifying the line of symmetry in several objects in...
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Water and Ice
Students explore what happens to water as it goes from solid to liquid and back. For this state of matter lesson, students observe, measure, and describe water as it changes state.
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What Time is It?
Students explore time by completing worksheets. In this time-telling lesson plan, students utilize images of clocks and determine what time they read. Students answer more clock questions with a Smart Board and complete a clock worksheet...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Which Weighs More? Which Weighs Less?
Students will use a block to compare with other objects to decide which is heavier/lighter. They will fill in a chart by drawing a picture of it under "Heavier" or "Lighter" depending which applies.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Module K: Shapes
In this series of STEAM activities, students will discover the concepts of geometry through shape exploration and the creation of choreographic sequences. Another activity in this module will allow students to identify shapes by applying...
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Maths Zone
A huge collection of math online games for all ages. Access different types of math such as: use and apply, count and understand, addition and subtraction number facts, multiplication and division number facts, shapes, measuring, and...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Shape "Monsters" at Night
Using Melanie Watt's book entitled Scaredy Squirrel at Night, this multi-day activity allows students to apply information about Scaredy Squirrel's night time experiences and its fears as their final product model. Students will create...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Fact Families
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this activity, students use the visual cues from a fact family triangle, manipulatives and numbers to understand and apply the concepts and procedures of mathematics including addition, subtraction,...
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Ncsc Gseg: Instructional Resource Guide
Looking for best practice instruction for students with cognitive disabilities? This site has an Instructional Resource Guide that provides instructional strategies and evidence-based prompting.