Budding readers will relate to Allison McGhee's story Countdown to Kindergarten in which a young girl is worried about not being able to tie her shoes once she gets to school. This is a fun way to teach vocabulary in...

How many days until summer? Find a special day, and use this activity to determine how many days, weeks, hours, even seconds until it arrives! There are three levels of difficulty, which can provide differentiated instruction with...

In this countdown challenge learning exercise, students find the 10 common elements from the human body, earth's crust, and ancient times and color code them. Students fill the atomic number of the elements in a given periodic table.

You won't find yourself racing the clock on such a great task. Scholars use video information to predict the time left on a crosswalk signal after a pedestrian crosses. The video shows the time left on the counter, and individuals must...

Learners draw Santa's face on white paper, add color construction paper for his hat, and use the beard section for a "countdown calender" until the end of the month in this creative December activity. Each day another cotton ball is...

Young mathematicians solve and complete eight different problems that include writing several equivalent expressions. They determine the number of tiles required to border around a square pool of the given dimensions. This terrific...

In this money worksheet, students complete two tables using the references to money in two pieces of children's literature. They work with Judith Viorst's, Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday and Shel Silverstein's poem, "Smart."

Students make countdown cornucopias. In this Thanksgiving lesson, students use art materials to make cornucopia door decorations. A game, a song, a craft, and a recipe are all included with the lesson.

Fourth graders explore human health by identifying calories in food items. In this healthy eating habits lesson, 4th graders view the USDA food pyramid on the Internet and identify the choices they should be making each day. Students...

Students examine the United States electoral college system as it applies to the 2004 presidential election. They investigate the impact of the twelve battleground states in the 2004 election and develop informative pamphlets on the...

For this multiplication by 10s worksheet, 5th graders solve and complete 30 different problems that include multiples of 10. First, they complete the problems in the first section by multiplying each number given times 10. Then, students...

For this identifying multiples worksheet, students observe lists of numbers and identify certain multiples. In addition, they create their own multiple list and explore patterns in each multiple sequence. This one-page worksheet contains...

For this tricks for finding multiples worksheet, students explore rules of divisibility. They compute the sum of the digits to determine if a number is divisible by three. Additionally, students identify the last two digits of a number...

In this coordinate plane worksheet, students find the coordinates on a graph and discover a word or phrase. They plot 27 ordered pairs on three coordinate planes. This is a one-page worksheet.

In this complementary/supplementary angle activity, learners explore the definition of complementary and supplementary angles. They demonstrate models of a complementary and a supplementary angle. This is a one-page activity.

In this symmetry worksheet, students identify lines of symmetry in given polygons. They discover the correlation between the number of sides and the number of lines of symmetry. Students determine the lines of symmetry in irregular...

In this measuring angles worksheet, students draw hands in clock face to depict a given time. Next, they observe the angles created by the hands and determine the number of degrees. Students write proportions to solve the problem. This...

In this right angle worksheet, learners observe a map of the United States of America. They indicate all right angles on the map by using a right angle symbol. Students list the names of the states and identify the number of right angles...

In this shadow sleuth worksheet, students use proportions and indirect measurement to determine the measurement of given objects. This one-page worksheet contains three problems.

In this geometry worksheet, students identify and draw right angles, acute angles, obtuse angles and straight angles. This one-page worksheet contains 34 problems.

In this triangle inequality worksheet, students test the Triangle Inequality Theorem. They measure the sides of given triangles, identify the type of triangle, and name angles in the triangle. The one-page worksheet contains 36 problems.

In this similarity learning exercise, students observe similar rectangles and determine the length of the diagonal. They use words, symbols and diagrams to solve the problem and explain the results. This one-page learning exercise...

In this similarity instructional activity, students use similar rectangles to find the length of a diagonal. They use symbols and write paragraphs to explain the problem. This one-page instructional activity contains one similar problem...

In this basic shapes worksheet, students use formulas to determine the area of given figures. They compute the area of composite figures and subtract the area of shaded areas. This one-page worksheet contains 12 problems.