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How Big Is Your House?
Students create a scale drawing of their own homes. They use geometric formulas to find the area of each room and the total area of the home.
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Flips, Slides, and Turns
Fifth graders manipulate and draw shapes to demonstrate the concept of flips, slides, and turns using letters and arrows on graph paper.
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Finding Perimeter and Area
Third graders understand the perimeter by units and now find perimeter by addition. In this perimeter lesson plan, 3rd graders relate their prior knowledge to adding the sides of the perimeter by answering a series of questions.
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Funding the Arts: Art from the Heart
Students explore means by which community arts might be supported. In this "community" social studies lesson, students research various local non-profit organizations. Students role-play as members of the board of a philanthropic...
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Adjusting the Quotient
Fourth graders use number facts to estimate quotients. In this division lesson, 4th graders examine long division problems to determine which multiple of ten will help them determine a number that is close to a quotient. They adjust the...
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Drugs And The Law Opinion Poll
Learners are given statements about the war on drugs and they are to decide if they agree or disagree with them.
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Translations
Students perform translations on different polygons. In this geometry lesson, students create figures that will be used as an assessment to represent transformation. They perform hands on creation and relate it to the real world.
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Using Arrays to Show Multiplication Concepts
Students draw arrays. In this multiplication lesson, students draw arrays, write multiplication sentences for arrays and discuss how changing the order of the factors affects the product.
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Adjective Fun
In this grammar worksheet, students create sentences by using the adjectives they chose on cards from a game card grid that is provided. They get points for correct adjective use.
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Range and Mode
Fifth graders interpret data. For this mode and range lesson, 5th graders define mode and range and practice finding them given a set of data.
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Simple Machines, Odd Machine
Young scholars investigate simple machines. In this simple machines lesson, students identify the six simple machines from an object or drawing. Young scholars also use various objects to identify the simple machines found in a compound...
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Easy and Artistic Printmaking Using Mixed Media Materials
Students explore printmaking which began with the ancient Chinese who carved seals from stone, inked them and used the seals as identification symbols. They produce a print in this instructional activity.
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Simple Machines, Odd Machines
Middle schoolers explore simple machines. In this physical science lesson, students identify six simple machines, illustrate each and identify how these machines function or can be combined to create a compound machine.
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Coordinate Addition Game
For this addition game worksheet, students call out answers to simple addition problems using coordinates that correspond with problems. A website reference is given for additional activities.
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Coordinates Multiplication Game
In this division and multiplication worksheet, learners play a game where they solve a division problem and turn it into a multiplication problem using coordinates. Students complete 16 problems.
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Causation-Exploration and World Trade
Students investigate spice trade. In this world history lesson, students identify various spices in jars and their places of origin. Students listen to a lecture on how spices came to countries in Europe. Students complete a source...
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Conversations
Eighth graders explore the art of conversation. In this giving instructions lesson, 8th graders discuss and respond to rules, play a game, and practice giving instructions to one another. Students are preparing for communicating in English.
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Exploring Altitudes in Math
Students draw and calculate altitudes. They draw the altitude of acute, right and obtuse triangles and calculate the altitude of a triangle using the Pythagorean theorem.
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Units 'R Us
Second graders, using one inch grid paper, create a foot long and a yard measuring tool.
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Lots of Squares
Students work in pairs, to make a square on the geoboards with a rubber band (or draw one on the dot paper). It can be any size and in any location and share their answers with the class.
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Simple Machines, Odd Machine
Students explore six simple machines and locate them operating in a compound machine. The simple machines are identified at a variety of stations set up in the classroom and continued by identifying the machines in their homes.
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Electronic Mapping
Young scholars identify countries, oceans, and capitals by building an electronic map.
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Pythagorean Theorem
Students explore how the Pythagorean Theorem works and how to apply it.
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Pythagorean Theorem
Students are introduced to the Pythagorean theorem. They use three different activities that give students the opportuntiy to observe triangles, and use the Pythagorean theorem and practice different ways of determining areas of...