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Mayor Puts City on Diet to Lose a Million Pounds
Students read a story called Mayor Puts City on Diet to Lose a Million Pounds and answer vocabulary and comprehension questions about it. For this current event Lose a Million Pounds lesson plan, students respond to literature by...
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Characteristics and Functions of Money
Fourth graders discuss the function and characteristics of money. In this financial education lesson plan, 4th graders read the book The Go-Around Dollar by Johnston Adams. This book sparks a conversation on how money is used and the...
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Less Than Zero
Learners keep track of money. In this money management lesson, students read Less Than Zero by Stuart J. Murphy and manipulate a number line to keep track of spending and borrowing in the story.
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Matter
Second graders read the book The Mitten and discuss the changing weather and appropriate clothes to wear in certain kinds of weather. In this weather lesson plan, 2nd graders also have a literature, writing, and math component to the...
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Crispy Cookie Class Fundraiser
Seventh graders see the relationship of math and the real world application by manufacturing a product for making a profit. They create a food product from a recipe, record their sales and analyze and report their gross profit.
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Mental Money
Students access prior knowledge to round numbers and add decimals. For this mental math lesson, students share the book Betcha and calculate estimates for three jars based on the book. Students calculate money answers based on coins...
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Creating a Universally Designed Lesson Plan
Young scholars investigate plant cells. In this multiple intelligences instructional activity, students engage in a variety of activities to foster an understanding of plant cells and how they work. Young scholars read, write, observe,...
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Finding Percentages 6A
A list of 20 two to three-digit numbers asks math whizzes to determine specified percentages for each. The publisher has linked the assignment to CCSS.Math.Content.6RP.3, and it is targeted at the discreet skill of finding a percent of a...
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The Catastrophe Clan
Students participate in a financial project and identify the three c's of credit. In this credit card instructional activity, students define and understand how to use credit wisely. Students become familiar with banking...
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Inflation: Taking Prices Higher
Students examine the definition of inflation and its impact through history. They read and discuss online text, discuss examples of inflation, calculate the prices of various items for different years using an inflation rate of 3%, and...
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Public Land
Young scholars examine the needs of their community for public space and determine the solutions to math problems related to planning landscape designs. They read and discuss an article from the New York Times, create their own designs...
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It's Greek to Me!
Students explore Greek Mythology. In this Greek Mythology unit, students read myths, pantomime vocabulary words, practice research skills, create city-states, and demonstrate knowledge of ratios and proportions. This unit includes many...
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First Rhythmic Composition
Students apply fractions to counting rhythm in music. In this algebra lesson, students interrelate the concept of math into music as they fill out a chart identifying the names and symbols of music notes and their equivalent values in...
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Curriculum Connections with Keiko Kasza
Learners read books by the author Keiko Kasza and complete critical thinking skills, and connections to different subjects. In this language lesson plan, students connect the books to language arts, social studies, science, math, health,...
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Sums
In this addition word problems worksheet, students read the problems, use mental math, and find the sums. Students solve five problems.
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Exploring Area and Perimeter
Two students are blindfolded and each receives a cardboard square, one with pompoms glued around the edge and one with pompoms glued all over the surface. They identify what they feel. The class discusses perimeter and area of polygons....
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Dividing by 4's
Third graders explore math functions by completing problem solving activities. In this division instructional activity, 3rd graders utilize the division strategies acquired earlier to divide multiple digit numbers by 4's. Students...
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Count the Autumn Leaves
In this autumn math worksheet, students analyze a large picture of a tree that is dropping leaves. Students count the total leaves in the picture.
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Solve Word Problems
In this problem solving worksheet, students solve word problems. Students determine how to solve four word problems, solve them, and show their steps.
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Baseball Statistics
Students read "Casey at the Bat" and then use individual player statistics (found through internet research)to determine if their players could be considered baseball "heroes". They must justify their choices for "hero" by creating...
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March of the Dividing Ant
Students inspect divisibility rules. In this divisibility rules instructional activity, students study the relationship between factorization and the divisibility rules for 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, and 10. Students read One Hundred Hungry Ants and...
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Nutrients by the Numbers
Students read and discuss an article on the amount of sugar in various food products. They compare the nutritional values of food products, calculate their daily intake of nutrients, analyze serving sizes, and compare/contrast their own...
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Measured Opinions
Students read "Public Is Wary but Supportive on Rights Curbs," at the New York Times online. They explore how opinion polls are created and conducted, focusing on the wording of questions and the methods of sampling a population.
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Time Changes Everything
Students analyze census data from 1915, 1967 and 2006. They read an article about how the world's population is growing at an alarming rate. They use primary source documents to create a timeline on the information they gathered. They...