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Get a Leg Up
Traveling through space is an amazing experience, but it definitely takes a toll on the body. After reading an article and watching a brief video, learners perform an experiment that simulates the effects of zero gravity on the...
National Security Agency
Introducing Integers and Their Operations
There's nothing negative about this mini-unit on integers! Engaging young mathematicians in a series of hands-on activities and collaborative learning opportunities, this resource offers an excellent way to introduce your class...
Core Knowledge Foundation
Unit 6: American Revolution
The American Revolution is the theme of a five-week unit that focuses on reading, grammar, morphology, and writing. Scholars read and respond to texts, practice spelling and word work, and write paragraphs. Assessments gauge comprehension.
Rochester Institute of Technology
Chemical Reactions and Electricity
After a discussion of chemical reactions and electricity, scholars break into groups and follow a scripted activity to discover if fruit can power a clock. After a concluding discussion, the class a presented with a challenge.
NOAA
Mud is Mud...or is it?
We know that the type of soil varies by location, but does the seafloor sediment also vary, or is it all the same? Scholars compare photos of the seafloor from two different locations: the Savannah Scarp and the Charleston Bump. Through...
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Count Coins and Bills
Lower graders recognize coins and paper money and understand its value. They participate in a variety of money problems to appreciate the value of money. Young scholars add, subtract, chart and solve money problems.
Education Outside
Brassica Fried Rice
Here's a delicious way to engage fourth graders into working with fractions. Kids chop brassica or cruciferous vegetables, measure the required ingredients, and add them to cooked rice to produce a delicious treat.
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Past Participles
Consider this online resource that includes accurate information about past participles for a reference material for your Spanish language, or as a source of inspiration for your own lesson. Beginning with a definition of past...
Novelinks
Lord of the Flies: Themes and Notetaking
William Golding's Lord of the Flies is a treasure trove of symbolism and literary themes. Help your kids note the richest passages in the book with a instructional activity and graphic organizer. The instructional activity prepares...
University of Wyoming
Free Fall…From SPACE!/Nanotechnology in the Classroom
Provide the details about Felix Baumgartner's sky jump from the far reaches of our atmosphere, 39,045 meters up! Then get your physics free fallers to evaluate the factors that played a role in his acceleration, the time to reach maximum...
Indian Land Tenure Foundation
Maps and Homelands
You are never too young to learn about maps. To better understand the concept of a homeland, learners work together to construct a map of their local area out of paper puzzle pieces. They'll put the maps together and then add details by...
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Fruit Flowers
Make a fun and healthy snack to celebrate Earth Day! Included are the directions for making a flower out of strawberries, kiwi, mint leaves, and raspberry licorice. Just provide your class with the materials and watch them make edible...
PBL Pathways
College Costs 2
What is the financial benefit for attending a community college for the first two years before transferring to a four-year college? The second part of the educational lesson asks young scholars to explore this question through data...
CK-12 Foundation
Simplification of Radical Expressions: Richter Scale Exponents
Shake up your lessons with with a radical resource. Scholars use a slider to view the Richter scale magnitude and amplitude of historical earthquakes. They use powers of 10 to compare the amplitudes of different earthquakes.
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It All Adds Up
Students practice addition and thinking skills by solving number puzzles. They exercise their addition skills in order to fill in missing numbers so that all columns, rows, and diagonals add up to the number in the squares along the...
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Technology Lesson Activity: Fractions
Fifth graders practice using the English measuring system by creating fractions. In this parts of a whole lesson, 5th graders combine math key bars to simulate small parts of a bigger item. Students combine the pieces to...
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It All Adds Up -- Puzzle Matrix #9
In this addition puzzle worksheet, students find the 7 missing numbers that make all of the rows, columns, and diagonals add up to the given numbers.
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It All Adds Up -- Puzzle #30
In this addition matrix puzzle worksheet, students insert 8 numbers that make the puzzle add up horizontally, vertically, and diagonally.
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It All Adds Up -- Puzzle #15
In this addition matrix puzzle worksheet, students insert 8 numbers into the matrix so the numbers add up diagonally, vertically, and horizontally.
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It All Adds Up -- Puzzle #14
In this addition puzzle matrix worksheet, students insert 8 numbers in the puzzle to make the rows, columns, and diagonals add up to the proper numbers.
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It All Adds Up -- Puzzle #16
In this addition matrix puzzle, students insert the proper numbers to make the rows, columns, and diagonals add up to the proper numbers.
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It All Adds Up -- Puzzle #18
In this addition matrix puzzle worksheet, students insert 8 numbers into the matrix so that the numbers add up vertically, horizontally, and diagonally.
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It All Adds Up Puzzle #13
In this addition puzzle worksheet, students complete a 24 square puzzle in which all rows, columns and diagonals must add up to be the sums provided at the end of each.
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Add and Subtract fractions with like denominators
In this add and subtract fractions learning exercise, students add and subtract fractions with like denominators. Students complete 3 problems.