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Teaching Fractions-Thirds

For Teachers 2nd Standards
If you have The Hershey Chocolate Candy Bar book, reading it makes an alluring anticipatory activity for a lesson on fractions. Learners use paper cutouts to consider the concept of thirds. The lesson concludes with a Bingo-style...
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SkittleGraphs

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discover how to make a bar graph. Each student receives a bag of Skittles candy. They make a bar graph which documents the colors found in the bag. At the end of the lesson, the Skittles are eaten. Fun!
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Sense of Touch

For Teachers K
Students explore the sense of touch. They listen to and discuss the book, I Can Tell By Touching, observe a demonstration of cold, and create a touch book using candy buttons, pine needles, cotton, burlap, and wax paper.
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Chocolate: From Cocoa Bean to Bar

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Young scholars examine how a cocoa bean becomes chocolate by matching captions with photos. They trace the journey of a cocoa bean from a village in Ghana to the final product of a chocolate candy bar. They compare life in Ghana with...
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Models for Dividing Fractions

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders represent division of fractions using manipulatives, such as freezer pops, candy bars, and models such as drawings squares. They develop an algorithm from these examples and solve problems using fractions.
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Skeeter Populations and Exponential Growth

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students perform investigations on the growth of populations and use exponential functions to represent that growth. They watch a video clip of growth patterns. Students work in groups to determine the "population" of each color of...
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What's Inside a Pumpkin?

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore the properties of a pumpkin. In this What's Inside a Pumpkin lesson plan, students use a real pumpkin to investigate pumpkin facts, sing a song "Five Little Pumpkins", paint pumpkin patch artwork, participate in a...
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If You Bit A Rock

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Young scholars describe the physical characteristics of a familiar model and apply it to an unfamiliar one.  In this investigative lesson students become familiar with rock characteristics by participating in a candy bar...
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Math by M&M's

For Teachers 1st
First graders review math skills with M&M's. In this math instructional activity, 1st graders practice addition and subtraction skills with M&M candies.
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I Am Special and You Are Special Too #7

For Teachers K
Students determine characteristics that make each of them special. In this personal characteristics instructional activity, students complete activities that help them determine that each person has special characteristics and that...
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Halloween Graphitti

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners complete multi-curricular activities in a Halloween themed lesson. In this Halloween lesson, students examine newspaper ads to find prices of pumpkins and use them to complete a stem and leaf plot. Learners find the diameter,...
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Skittles, Taste the Rainbow

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders learn and then demonstrate their knowledge of a bar and a circle graph using the classroom data. Students are given a pack of skittles candy. Students create a bar and circle graph indicating the results of the contents of...
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Division

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars complete division activities using the concept of sharing equally. In this division lesson, students discuss division using equal piles. Young scholars receive sets of candy and determine if the example were fair. Students...
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Fractions and Fact Families: Jump Kangaroo Jump!

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice with fractions and fact families. In this fractions and fact families instructional activity, 2nd graders participate in a series of activities to assist them with understanding fractions.  Activities include...
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Using Spreadsheets and Graphs

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore mathematics by utilizing computers. In this graphing lesson, 3rd graders gather class data based on a particular topic such as the "favorite candy" of the class. Students utilize this information and computers to...
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Finding Fractional Parts Using an Area Model

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore math functions by completing a problem solving worksheet in class. For this division lesson, students utilize visual aides such as marshmallows and candy to visualize the act of division. Students complete a division...
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M & M Math

For Teachers 4th - 8th
In this M & M math worksheet, students count the number of Valentine M & Ms they have in their personal bags and then answer ten equation word problems.
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Radioactive Decay/Half Life

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students demonstrate radioactive decay using candy corns. In this Physics lesson, students make predictions, collect data and form conclusions about patterns in radioactive decay.
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Twix-n-Tween

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
Yummy! Use Twix candy bars to teach a lesson in comparing length! Learners will love this lesson and you will be addressing Common Core standards at the same time!
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Melt in Your Mouth Subtraction

For Teachers K
Pupils engage in a lesson which involves role-play and the use of manipulatives to solve subtraction problems. After a lecture/demo, students utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to gain subtraction practice. They get to eat the...
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Flavorful Spreadsheets

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students create a spreadsheet which includes a bar graph. They sort and classify information and use the average function on a spreadsheet. They research Skittles candy and summarize their findings on a spreadsheet.
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Biology: Creative Cells

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students use various snacks to make large models of human cells. Items such as gumballs, gummy worms, and jelly beans represent the nucleus, golgi bodies, and mitochondria. As each piece of candy is added, the teacher explains what it...
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Shapes in Spanish

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students express different shapes, sizes, and numbers in Spanish by using candies.
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Put Your Heart Into It

For Teachers 1st
First graders sort Valentine candies according to kind. Data is inserted into a spreadsheet and displayed in various graphic formats.

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