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Curated OER

Making Predictions

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students collect and classify items. In this making predictions lesson plan, students go outside and collect specimens of plants, insects and minerals. They classify each item and place them in a Venn Diagram. Students compare and...
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Curated OER

Venn Diagram with Blocks

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders classify blocks according to their attributes. In this math lesson, 5th graders will identify attributes of blocks, sort them, then form the groups into a Venn Diagram, and write ratios using the attributes.
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Curated OER

Venn Diagram Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners use Venn diagrams in order to classify different objects and numbers. They then use "Venn Diagram Shape sorter" applets on the computer.
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National Security Agency

Are You Game? A Lesson Connecting Fractions and Probability

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Exactly how fair are the board games children grow up playing? Young mathematicians investigate this questions as they work their way through this five-lesson series on basic probability. 
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Strawberry Girl: Outdoors in Florida

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students explore nature by researching the state of Florida. In this animal identification lesson, students read a children' story and research the Internet to discover the difference in animal life between the early 1900's and present...
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Growing Minds

Potato Exploration: Projects All About Potatoes!

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
How many potatoes tall are you? Unearth this rich resource! A reading of John Coy’s Two Old Potatoes begins a cross-curricular exploration of potatoes. Class members read, write, weigh, measure, and experiment with potatoes. Additional...
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Curated OER

Tantalizing Tangrams

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students construct a set of tangrams. In this geometry lesson, students read the book, Grandfather Tang's Story and retell the story using tangrams. Students construct their own set of tangrams using the included worksheets.
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Curated OER

Quilting Geometry

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Study geometry through the concept of quilt design. High schoolers examine the geometric shapes in various quilts and then create their own quilts using geometric shapes that fit together. In the end, they write a paragraph to describe...
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Curated OER

Learning About Our World

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Learners explore their world using the book "This is the Way We Go to School." They predict information about the story based on the title and pictures. Students label a world map with the names of continents and oceans. They write a set...
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Give and Take

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders are introduced to the differences between goods and services. In groups, they discover whether a given occupation offers a good, service or both. To end the lesson, they pick one occupation that interest them, draws a...
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Curated OER

Pumpkin Circuit

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students complete a variety of activities using pumpkins. They visit various stations with various pumpkin activities.
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Curated OER

Families and Communities

For Teachers 1st
Here is a week-long lesson on the roles of family members designed for first graders. In it, learners share stories of their families, listen to books about families read to them by their teacher, complete homework assignments and...
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Curated OER

Native American Blocks

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students research information about a Native American tribe and document their knowledge by creating a block (cube) containing pictures about the homes, tools, food, clothing, and transportation for this tribe.
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America's Civil Rights Movement, Activity Five

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students read and write poems for two voices about the Civil Rights Movement.