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Grab a Handful and Count

For Teachers K - 1st
Let's use Fruit Loops to teach counting skills! Students practice counting one-to-one correspondence using Fruit Loops with a partner and then compare them to see who has more or less.
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Curated OER

Teddy Bear Picnic

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students sit in a circle with their bears from home, each child introduces their bear, then students examine all the bears and think of one way that they can be sorted.
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Brown Bear Pudding Style!

For Teachers K
Students are read the story "Brown Bear, Brown Bear". They create their own bear painting out of chocolate pudding. They are allowed to bring in their own stuffed animal to make the first day better for them.
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Curated OER

Rainbow Fish: The Copycat Fish Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore the concept of copying one another. In this early childhood lesson plan, students discuss what a copycat is and why people copy one another. Students then discuss the story Rainbow Fish: The Copycat Fish, recording...
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A Beary Good Beginning

For Teachers K
Students complete first day of school activities. Through instructor modeling and demonstration, they become acquainted with the rules and procedures for the classroom and school. Students create a book of their first day experience.
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Numbers Activity

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice identifying quantities of items and materials using numbers.  In this counting activity, students read The Gummi Bear Counting Book by Lindley Boegehold, and utilize a bag of gummy bears as a counting tool....
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Connect-the-Dots Activity: Beary Special Surprise

For Teachers K - 1st
In this counting worksheet, students connect the dots from 1 to 35 to discover a picture of a teddy bear inside a gift box. Students color the picture.
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Bears Odd Bears Even

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students listen to a read aloud of Harriet Ziefert's Bears Odd Bears Even. They count cubes and counters to classify and show numbers as odd or even.
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Counting Fun with Gummi Bears

For Teachers K
Students count the numbers one through ten out loud and show the numbers using manipulatives.
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Estimation Skills

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students use a balance scale with beans or seeds to estimate how many of them would weigh as much as a teddy bear counter. In this estimation lesson plan, students hold items to estimate.
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How Many Bears in the Forest?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders model the tag and recapture of bears and use proportions to estimate the population of the bears in their forest. This is a statistical sampling method used by scientists and naturalists to determine population numbers.
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Buttons and Bears

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students read the problem and then identify the important information in the problem and highlight. They then brainstorm for ways to solve the problem by drawing a picture and working in pairs.
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Birthday Party

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners help plan a party for Q-Bear and think about some of the different ways people celebrate their birthdays. They then demonstrate knowledge and understanding of customs and traditions associated with participation in cultural...
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Bean There, Done Plant

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explain that events in nature follow an orderly progression when they plant seeds and observe the development of the seeds. They count seeds and find the likenesses and the differences of many seeds.
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Classroom Olympics

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Here is a an awesome, 17-page lesson plan on a simulated Olympic Games for your young athletes. After learning about the history of the Olympics, the whole class takes part in events such as The Cotton Ball Shot Put, The Paper Plate...
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ESL Kid Stuff

Toys

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
The world is a rainbow of colors in a set of lessons for English learners. Kids review colors with matching games and hide-and-seek, before singing songs about colors and reading a class story.
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AIMS Education Foundation

Classroom Olympics

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
As the Summer Olympics are approaching, incorporate Olympic-type games into the classroom. From straw javelin to cotton ball shot put, these games are sure to keep leaners engaged. The best part is that there is math involved! Pupils...
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Christmas Word Problems

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th
Here's a little holiday-oriented math review/challenge. Three-up on a single sheet for copying, each set consists of five problems that range from three- and four-digit subtraction to multiplication and division to four and five. Typo...
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Kindergarten Exploration Tubs

For Teachers K
Students identify their names as a symbol for themselves. They describe characteristics of organisms. They utilize tools to gather data and compare size.
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Even and Odd Numbers

For Teachers 1st
First graders use patterns in order to identify and recognize even and odd numbers.
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Percent of a Number

For Teachers 4th - 8th
In this percent worksheet, learners complete problems such as changing percents to decimals, filling in percentage charts, and more. Students complete 8 problems.
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Celebrating 100

For Teachers 1st
First graders listen to story "The Pentathlon," discuss importance of number zero, create 100 badge to wear, look for and circle 100 sight words in newspaper, create pictures made with 100 squares of paper, and use interactive writing to...
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Store Wide Sale

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students practice figuring percentages by solving written shopping problems.  In this consumer math lesson, students read several scenarios dealing with items on sale and must figure out the new price.  Students check their...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Roll a Problem (Part 1)

For Teachers K Standards
SWBAT identify a addition or subtraction sign and set up, record and solve an equation by rolling a set of dice.