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Buying Stickers
In this buying stickers worksheet, 2nd graders look over 4 rows of various stickers and circle three or more stickers from each row. Students add the amount for all their stickers on each line and write their total amount for each row on...
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Groovy DNA Beads
Learners create models of DNA and RNA using string and beads. They use beads representing the four nitrogenous bases of DNA to create a portion of a strand of DNA, and it's corresponding RNA. Then, learners examine how many of their...
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Consecutive Integers, Sum of 100
In this secondary mathematics worksheet, students determine the number of sets of consecutive positive integers who have a sum of 100. The one page worksheet contains one problem with the solution.
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The Drug Dope Show
In small groups, students research an assigned drug category including its physical effects, addiction treatments and the societal, academic and economic impacts of drug abuse. They engage in a "talk show" and discussion about drug...
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Roy G. Biv Has Feelings Too
Students test their memory recall and discuss its association to color. After reading an article, they discuss the natural and psycho-sociological significance of the color red. As a class, they participate in a mood-color association...
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Today's Brainstorming Problems
In this mind puzzle activity, students collaborate in a group to solve 4 problems involving math and vocabulary. The questions should be answered without much difficulty by group consensus.
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Profit From Pumpkins
Third graders cut open a pumpkin. In this math activity, 3rd graders complete the worksheet "From Seed to Pumpkin" and then clean out their pumpkins to see how many seeds are in it.
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The Gift of Life - Day 2: "Cell & Organelle Time to Tell" and "World in Color" (Chapters 2-4)
Students complete a cell biology lesson and a color lesson based on The Giver. In this biology and reading comprehension lesson set, students examine cells using microscopes. They look at the organelles and listen to How Much is a...
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A Day to Remember!
Students study math. For this real-life problem solving lesson, students work on their skills dealing with time and money. They work in small groups on various time and money word problems and by the final day they have a final problem...
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Relating Fractions, Decimals and Percents
Young scholars convert numbers to fractions, decimals and percents. In this conversion lesson, students convert fractions, decimals and percents to a specified form. Groups of young scholars play a conversion index card...
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The Spider's Life Cycle
Students see that spiders have a life cycle, and reproduce by laying many eggs. We can count by ones, twos, fives, or as many as we want. They make two lists of animals on a chart.
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Reading and Responding -- Lesson 15
Fourth graders work independently or in a small group to (1) read a poem, (2) identify unfamiliar words, (3) connect text to real-life situations, and (4) respond to poetry. Reading passage, comprehension questions, and teacher script...
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Arianna Travels the Orient Express
Fourth graders discuss how they eat when they travel. They resequence a letter that has been separated into pieces. They read the letter aloud, discuss the foods eaten by the writer and analyze whether she ate the right amount of food...
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Math Assessment - Kindergarten
Students recall number words in sequence and correctly associate them with a specific set of objects (rational counting). They play a game such as Race to Twenty.
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Points
Students listen to Gill's story and determine how many number points she has. They then find the number of points their own name has and get into groups where all the name points are the same.
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Beetle Wheels
Second graders link the development of skip-counting patterns to bars on a relationship graph. They also plot our skip-counting patterns on a hundred's board, counting by 2's and also by 4's.
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The News Spreads
Students examine ethnicity and the Gold Rush. In this instructional activity on the Gold Rush, students research the different ethnic groups present at the Gold Rush. Students will work in groups to answer questions concerning ethnicity...
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Math: Musical Patterns
Students employ their five senses to interpret and duplicate instrumental patterns. Following the teacher's patterns, students clap their hands and later use instruments such as bells, triangles, or cymbals to create their own "songs."
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Water, Water Everywhere
For this water worksheet, students complete a five question multiple choice online interactive quiz about water. This is a more advanced quiz that includes chemistry questions.
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Vroom, Vroom, Vroom! Off We Go!
Students practice sentences and short books to improve their fluency. They read practice sentences to model fluent reading. They review decoding strategies for unknown words including cross-checking. They read with their partner and...
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Ones and Tens
Students identify the relationship between ones and tens in place value. They use place value mats and straws to identify tens and ones and group the ones to represent tens. After writing and discussing the numbers 10 and 20 they...
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Doubles Plus One
In this early childhood addition and subtraction activity, students solve 6 math story problems that require them to add doubles plus 1.
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Race to 50/100
Second graders practice utilizing multiple tens frames and dice to race to fifty or one hundred. They calculate tens and ones to find out how many counters they have on their grid and how many more they need to get to fifty or one...
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Moving-Math Hopscotch
Young scholars engage in a hopscotch game where each square represents a number. In this mental math and movement lesson, students take turns playing traditional hopscotch, but add a mental math component where they add or subtract...