Third graders, after exploring the process of writing poetry through imagery words that go beyond pen and paper, create a Poetry Pop-Up Book. They incorporate the use of the Thesaurus and clip-art/digital photography to assist them in...

Students examine and practice the ability to use basic residential telephones. They practice specific phrases and vocabulary terms to assist them with this task. In addition, they practice writing down each other's phone numbers.

Mix the art of reading comprehension with the skill of telling time. Children in grades two and three will discuss the importance of goats throughout history based on the provided background information. They'll create cute goat...

In this math patterns instructional activity, students use the understand, plan, solve, and look back problem solving strategy to help them find the patterns for the two problems.

Teach your young pups some new tricks with this math facts activity. Using a deck of cards and the included game board, pairs of young mathematicians draw cards and attempt to make products that are larger than their partners'...

With so many math standards to fit into a school year, it can be difficult keeping track of what you have and have not covered. This collection of Common Core checklists allows you to maintain a running record of when each...

Is it possible to add infinitely long decimals? As pupils complete the examples in the ninth lesson of this 25-part series, they determine that adding these decimals cannot be done without error. Their task is then to determine the size...

Sometimes dealing with decimals is so much easier than dealing with fractions. The ninth lesson in a 21-part module has the class consider situations when it might be easier to add or subtract fractions by first converting to...

Show your class how people calculated complex math problems in the old days. Scholars take a trip back to the days without calculators in the 15th installment of a 35-part module. They use logarithms to determine products of numbers and...

Students practice their addition by participating in a Christmas Tree activity.  In this holiday math lesson, students complete math problems at their desk and match their answers with ornaments on a tree.  Students are given...

Learners practice regrouping using the wonderful manipulative - unifix cubes. Once they have a tactile understanding of regrouping, students complete 5 worksheets containing addition problems that require regrouping. The worksheets...

Students participate in a game blending skill with chance to enhance students' understanding of the concept of place value. They explain that the value of a number increases when digits farthest to the left have greatest value.

Third graders review telling time. In this lesson on telling time, 3rd graders discuss various items that show length of time, including clocks, calendars and sand timers. Students review and practice what they already know about telling...

Students play a game to practice concepts and principles that can be adapted to any subject.

First graders practice place value by completing problems that allow them to group 10 items together to create groups of 10 and see what is left over. In this place value lesson plan, 1st graders use cups to put 10 items in them, and...

Students practice basic addition and subtraction facts to twelve. They use high level thinking skills to win at the game of tick tack toe. Students review the rules to the game. They use strategy skills to master the game.

Students practice basic addition and subtration facts to twelve and use thinking skills to win at tick tack toe.

Fourth graders use movie ticket prices and zoo admission prices to practice multiplying money amounts. In this money multiplication lesson, 4th graders use the Internet to find admission prices for amusement prices and movies. Students...

In this place value practice worksheet, students fill in the missing numbers in the 6 place value sequences. In addition, students write 4 expanded form numbers as standard form numbers and write 4 more numbers using words.

Learners practice throwing and catching jacks to improve their hand-eye coordination. In groups, they participate in a variety of games in which they use the jacks to improve their problem solving skills. To end the lesson plan, they...

Students demonstrate regrouping in subtraction. In this math computation lesson, students use popsicle sticks to practice the regrouping strategy. Students practice several examples of regrouping problems in small groups.

Third graders model multiplication problems using Unifix cubes. They compute and solve problems involving addition and subtraction of 3- and 4- digit numbers and basic facts of multiplication and division. They practice mental math...

In this math worksheet, students practice addition of one digit numbers by completing 15 problems. Students then use a number line to solve 6 more addition problems.

Students infer the meanings of unfamiliar words using context clues and knowledge of prefixes and suffixes. They identify vocabulary words as nouns or adjectives using context clues and suffixes. In addition, they decide the meaning of a...