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Brandenburg Studies

The Timeline Project

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
This is a great idea for any social studies classroom to incorporate throughout the year as an ongoing project! Line your walls with a continuous strip of butcher paper to design a large timeline that you can add to as you cover...
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Reading Adventure Pack: Bees

For Parents 3rd Standards
A Reading Adventure pack explores the busy life of bees. After reading a fiction and nonfiction text, scholars complete three hands-on activities. Participants invent a robot that can do the work of bees, cheers to hardworking bees with...
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Curated OER

Math Manipulative: "Fraction Sticks"

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use sets of fraction sticks to color in fractional amounts and determine how to compare pairs of fractions. In this math lesson, 5th graders insert the correct symbol given the fractions they are working with. Instructions...
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Mask Project

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discuss "mime" before playing a game in which they make the body movement and gestures of a large animal while a classmate guesses what they are imitating. Next, they design and make masks of an animal face while studying the...
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Comparing Unit Fractions

For Students 2nd
In this unit fractions activity, 2nd graders utilize fraction strips to determine if 4 unit fractions being compared should be separated by the signs < or >.
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Add and Subtract Fractions with Like Denominators - Reteach

For Students 4th - 6th
In this adding and subtracting fractions instructional activity, students review the steps to add or subtract fractions with like denominators. Students then add or subtract the fractions and may use fraction strips to assist them.
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Concept: Percent ... A Special Fraction

For Teachers 9th - 11th
In this percent worksheet, students review and study what percent means, what percent strips are, making sense of percents and estimating percents. Students complete ten word problems.
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Comparing Fractions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Learners compare three sets of fractions using the greater than, less than, and equal signs. To justify their answers, a drawing is also required that illustrates their reasoning. Including fractions with like and unlike denominators, as...
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Math Worksheets 4 Kids

Fractions into Percent

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
You have just got to do it! Reinforce math skills with an exercise on converting fractions into percentages.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Shirt Sale

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
Everyone loves a good deal, and your mathematician's job is to calculate the original price when given the discount. A different type of problem than the traditional "find the percent change" has your learners working backwards to...
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Introduction to Equivalent Fractions

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Explore equivalent fractions! Youngters measure the crown of their head with adding tape labeled with various fractions and fractional parts, and compare strips to notice numerical relationships. They fold adding tape in half and color...
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Measurement Masterpiece

For Teachers K - 5th
Here is a good, cross-curricular measurement and estimation lesson. Learners practice measuring paper strips to create an art project. This is a great way to introduce the ruler, and how it used, to your students.
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Basketball Notes

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students add the value of various musical notes to win a chance to shoot a basketball. They compete in teams and consider the values of quarter, half and whole notes to complete related math problems.
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Measuring the Lengths Using Rulers

For Students 3rd - 4th
Why are there so many lines on a ruler? Scholars measure length on two rulers, one standard and one metric. They measure in inches, millimeters, and centimeters with the centimeter measurement including a fraction. Because these are the...
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Decimal Blocks

For Students 5th - 6th
In this math worksheet, students cut out different decimals. The decimals range from 1.0 to .083. Each fraction has its own color.
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Place Value

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Practice place value skills with this lesson. Learners put numbers in order from greatest to least, identify the values of particular numbers, and engage in an activity to compare numbers using manipulatives.
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Noyce Foundation

Rabbit Costumes

For Teachers 6th Standards
How many rabbit costumes can be made? This is the focus question of an activity that requires scholars to use multiplication and division of fractions to solve a real-world problem. They determine the amount of fabric necessary for eight...
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I Was Going to Sell My Car...

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
For this ESL conversation worksheet, students work in collaboration with classmates to put halves of sentences together. Students cut apart the strips and circulate through the class and find complete sentences by orally reading their...
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TOTALLY TUBULAR QUILTS

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students should have the ability to sew strips together accurately and use a rotary cutter, fabric should be selected before class, washed, and ironed folded in half selvage-to-selvage.
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Food Chain

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students discuss what makes plants grow and who eats the plants. They are asked where do we get all of our energy? Students are asked to draw and label a picture of the sun in the center of the yellow strip of paper. They are explained...
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Digestive System, a Kinesthetic Lesson

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Young scholars actively act out an aspect of the digestive tract on two parallel strips of tape on the floor 3-4 feet apart and width of classroom which represent the digestive tract.
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Inheritance Patterns in Zorks

For Students 9th - 12th
For this inheritance patterns worksheet, students create a visual of a Zork using chromosome strips to represent alleles from the father and the mother to determine the traits in the offspring. Students translate the genotype to the...
Worksheet
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Who Ate The Cheese?!

For Students 10th - 12th
In this crime scene investigation activity, students simulate DNA sequencing and DNA restriction analysis using paper strips of DNA. Students compare the crime scene DNA to the suspects and determine who is guilty.
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Floating Fishes: Boat Sinking Lab

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Cut milk cartons in half to make boats and let investigators attempt to sink them. They add dividing walls and observe what happens if marbles are put into only one of the newly formed compartments. Vocabulary is provided: buoyant force,...

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