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Spring Egg
First graders create a spring egg out of pastels, construction paper and glue, create and continue a pattern, and experience a different type of art media.
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Multiplicative Sequences
Learners investigate the concepts related to the practice of multiplication facts. They look for number patterns in order to create an algorithm in order to find the correct sequencing of number patterning. The solutions are then...
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Jo's Table
Second graders work on the problem with a partner. They examine what they are supposed to be doing. They share the students's solutions making sure than they are looking for patterns along the diagonals.
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Timed Math Competition
In this timed math competition worksheet, students add, subtract, multiply, divide, find the pattern, add fractions and measure angles in a timed game.
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Valentine Heart Game
First graders clap a rhythm pattern notated on a board, and then make up their own patterns on percussion instruments. They answer addition and subtraction problems.
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Rows of Numbers
Students generate patterns from a structured situation, find a rule for the general term, and express it in words and symbols. They also devise and use problem solving strategies in a systematic way.
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Sunrise/Sunset
Students apply data from a weather-related website to predict patterns in the sunrise and sunset.
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Sunspot Graphing
Young scholars, using 15 years of sunspot data, plot data on a classroom graph. They discuss why the pattern from their individual sheets did not and could not match the class graph.
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Parachute - Land and Weather
Students use different parachute activities to study weather and land patterns and formations. Tornados and hurricanes can be discussed as students make large waves (move from very high to very low) that mimmick these two weather...
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Adding Decimals with Hundredths
In this worksheet, students learn to add decimal numbers to the hundredths. Students first compare adding and subtracting decimals with the corresponding fractions in 6 problems. Then students add 35 decimal numbers mentally, filling out...
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"The Rajah's Rice: A Mathematical Folktale from India" adapted by David Barry
Middle schoolers use large numbers and learn exponential representation and explain patterns and relations of powers of 2.
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Irregular Fractals
Students study and research irregular fractals and construct a few based on their research. Students practice pattern recognition skills and plane geometry skills calculating dimensions on the Fractured Pictures activity.
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I Give You My Heart
Second graders create hearts using stencils, pastels, construction paper, and tracing and cutting techniques in this Art lesson for the 2nd grade classroom. Emphasis is placed on the concept of repeating patterns. An ideal lesson for...
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Coconut-Shell Cup
Students research and discuss the social ritual of drinking chocolate in viceregal Mexico. They explain its cultural and historical and geographical roots. Students create their own "drinking" vessel from papier-mache. They experiment...
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Tangrams
Students construct the tangram pieces from a square paper by following directions to fold and cut. They make observations on the pieces formed and compare how they are related to each other. They explore patterns and shapes with the...
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Sea Floor Spreading
Young scholars recreate sea-floor spreading and the pattern of magnetic stripes that are created by different configurations of plate boundaries. They see how transform faults work.
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Bird Populations
students study bird migratory patterns and the methods that researchers use to study them. Students are introduced to the concepts of the study of bird movements.The skill of scientific questioning is used to find results.
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Writing a Cooperative Class Story (3+)
Learners write a beginning of a story, or as much as they can in 5 minutes. They pass their papers in a given order, then read the other student story and continue it for another 5 minutes.
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Voter Turnout
Students solve problems using math. They complete a graph, using data from the 2000 presidential election results. Students predict and calculate the outcome of the election based upon the voting patterns.
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Color Quilt Squares
Students investigate how to mix different colors in patterns. They use the patterns in order to design a quilt. Students create a design for one square. They use computer software to display and practice the creation of quilt squares...
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Can Diseases be Prevented?
Students write a research paper on a disease based on their internet or library research. They are asked to create a Public Service Announcement. Students must comprehend as much as possible about diseases that have affected society in...
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Natural Hazards Research Paper and Oral Presenation
High schoolers use the internet and look at a list of the world's countries and the natural hazards that impact them. They comprehend that it is sometimes called "Nature's Fury," each natural hazard has a heartbeat, a locational pattern,...
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Estuaries Live Charlotte Harbor, Florida
Young scholars reorganize sentence strips into paragraphs to learn about seagrasses. They learn vocabulary and facts about sea grasses using the paragraphs once they are reconstructed. They continue their study with a number of...
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Jackson's Consecutive Numbers
Young scholars generate patterns from a structured problem, finding a rule for the general term, and expresses it in words and symbols. They then devise and use problem solving strategies to explore situations mathematically.