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Creating Comic Strips
Students recognize the elements needed to create a comic strip. In this comic strip instructional activity, student understand that comic strips need words and pictures. Students find differences and similarities in comic strips....
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Counting Crows
Young scholars discuss the fable, The Crow and the Pitcher. In this literature instructional activity, students read the fable and create a crow sock puppet. Young scholars use their puppets to dramatize the fable.
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Let's Make Play Dough
Students create their own play dough to use for art projects. In this art lesson, students measure, pour and mix the ingredients to make their own play dough. Then, students use the clay to create their own sculptures.
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Light Reflection and Absorption
Young scholars discover what types of objects reflect and absorb light. In this science inquiry activity, students use flashlights to determine whether different objects absorb or reflect light.
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Lesson Plans That Meet The Needs of All Students
Differentiated lesson plans are an excellent tool for meeting students' needs in the mixed ability classroom.
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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 7, Lesson 36: DeSign Sampler
Second graders, in groups, write quilt reports.
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An Apple A Day
Students create a graph that showcases their pick for favorite kind of apple. Students are given samples of a variety of apples to determine their favorite in a taste test. They a create a tally chart of favorite kinds apples and use a...
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Fairy Tales Unit Ideas
Learners listen to children's fairy tales and watch them on a video. Afterward, they list the heroes from each story. Students write a short paragraph about a typical day for the hero. Learners dress up like their character and give a...
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Interactive Fractions
Young scholars determine the common denominator of two unlike fractions. They practice adding fractions and finding equivalent fractions of numbers. They compare and contrast different types of equations involving fractions and construct...
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Calculators
Young scholars investigate the four basic operations of mathematics that are addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The use of a technology game is part of the lesson. They demonstrate the proper use of a calculator as part...
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Learning About Volume
Learners explore the concept of volume. They develop formulas for volume of prisms. Then use their formulas to find missing dimensions of various prisms such as height, length, width, radius, and diameter.
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Little Pigs with Big Problems
First graders solve one problem per day regarding the story of Three Little Pigs. In this math journals instructional activity, 1st graders solve problems on a daily basis using the story of the Three Little Pigs.
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Finding Satisfactory Solutions
Students explore the creative aspects of problem-solving and practice creative problem-solving strategies in the context of a story problem. They decide where to locate ice cream stands in a town so that no one has to travel too far to...
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A Snap at Geometry
Students study geometric images and polyhedrons. In this geometry instructional activity, students complete several activities to learn about geometric shapes and classify polyhedrons from polygons. Students watch a video, complete a...
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Maximizing Lumber Cuts
Students examine how lumber companies use each tree to the fullest extent. They practice using a saw blade in which they cut a piece of wood in different configurations to see which cut can waste the least.
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TE Activity: The Boxes Go Mobile
Students create a mobile of boxes and cubes that they made in a previous lesson that can be accessed from this page. They design the mobile using method that an engineer would use to balance the items based on surface areas and volumes.
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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 1, Lesson 5: Do You Hear What I Hear?
Students listen to a poem that includes directions to use geometric figures to complete a creative task.
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IS A BLUE WHALE THE BIGGEST THING THERE IS?
First graders explore measurement in relation to size of objects.
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Circle Shapes
In this shape activity instructional activity, learners trace the circles on the tree and color them red. Students then trace the 3 large circles at the bottom of the page.
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Grape Circles
In this coloring shapes instructional activity, students trace the circles in the grapes and color them purple. Students then trace the circles and triangles at the bottom of the sheet.
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Circles and Triangles: Sun
For this coloring shape worksheet, students trace the circles and color them yellow. Kids trace the triangles and color them orange. Students then trace the circle and triangle at the bottom of the page.
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Circles and Ovals: Flower
In this coloring shapes worksheet, students trace the circles and color them yellow. Students trace the ovals and color them pink. Students then trace the ovals and circles at the bottom of the page.
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Shapes and Colors: Blue Rectangles
In this shapes worksheet, students trace and color blue all rectangles found in a set of 10 shapes that include circles, triangles, squares and rectangles. Students also trace and color a "curtain" made of rectangles.
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Shapes and Colors: Triangles and Rectangles
In this shape and color worksheet, students trace all triangles in a set of 4 different shapes and color each one green, then trace all rectangles, coloring them brown. Students trace and color 5 triangle "trees."