Students complete a variety of Earth Day activities. In this recycling and the environment lesson, students listen to Earth friendly music, create a car out of juice boxes, use soda cans and bottle caps to create a Halloween...

Students explore global geography by participating in an atlas activity. In this countries of the world instructional activity, students collaborate in small groups and analyze an atlas while researching continents, countries and...

Students select a severe weather pattern of interest (tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, lightning, hail, and thunderstorms) and research these patterns to collect data for a report they write in the next lesson.

Students research the culture, geography, music, myths and legends of the Caribbean coast of Colombia using online tools. They determine how these factors influenced the writing style of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. They design and write a...

In this hydrocarbon worksheet, learners answer 13 questions about different types of organic molecules categorized as hydrocarbons. They explain the different hydrocarbons, they draw structural diagrams for different hydrocarbons and...

Students create their own illustrated book. In this illustration lesson, students review books given the Caldecott award. They create their own illustrations for a book and digitally scan them to a computer to make their pages. 

In this current events learning exercise, students analyze a political cartoon about racial epithets and respond to 3 talking point questions.

Students add and subtract plays on a football field to practice working with negative and positive integers on the number line.

A set of seven short tutorials on addition. Begins with a basic introduction to how addition works, and covers topics such as using a number line, place value, and regrouping.

This site is provided for by Visual Fractions. Add mixed numbers with like denominators using circles. Click on the "Explain" button to understand the answer.

In this interactive, students add and subtract plays on a football field to practice working with negative and positive integers on the number line. Each set of randomized drives consists of seven to nine plays and ends with a touchdown....

On this interactive site students practice with basic multiplication skills including counting forward by two's, skip counting to find the total number, and using a number line to solve multiplication problems.

Students will complete a series of learning games to practice addition with standard algorithms.

This animated Math Shorts video from the Utah Education Network explains the term additive inverse and provides several examples that demonstrate the concept. In the accompanying classroom activity, students create equations and solve...

The purpose of this task is for students to reason about base-ten numbers on the number line in a way that will require them to use what they know about place value. Students first represent addition and subtraction on the number line in...

Students take a quiz over the concept of integer opposites, also known as additive inverses. After answering each question they are given feedback. Hints are available but affect the score. If students are still struggling with the...

A guide to support parents as they work with their students addition and subtraction of length units.

Learners will solve problems using a number line. Students will work collaboratively to create a "Town" with the main street consisting of a number line diagram. They will practice counting forwards and backwards, measuring and...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The resource begins with a video that describes and shows the process of adding money by lining them up in columns. The pictures included in the video and the...

An interesting lesson plan is presented here for teachers instructing students on how to multiply two-digit numbers by three-digit numbers. The site refers to the process as "line dancing," and presents a worked-through example. At the...

Practice solving challenging negative number addition and subtraction problems. Number line models, variables, and absolute value come together to push your knowledge of negative numbers even deeper (maybe even below zero!). Students...

Second graders demonstrate comfort with addition, but show less ease with subtraction. Repeated practice with subtraction is necessary to build fluency.

This website explains and defines basic subtraction. There are practice problems at the very end of this lesson.