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Build Your Own Bug
Young scholars create a unique bug. In this instructional activity about bugs, students use their imagination to develop a new kind of bug. Young scholars use construction paper, scissors, glue, and crayons to make their bug. Students...
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Reading, Writing, And Math in Daily Living
Students, in groups, make chocolate chip cookies following a recipe.
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Patterns
Second graders create an ABAB pattern with their name. In this early elementary math lesson, 2nd graders first model their names in an ABAB pattern with unifix cubes. They then recreate the pattern using letter stamps on KidPix.
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Fractions
Fifth graders, after inventorying, add up the numerators of their fractions to see if it is the same number as the denominator. If it is, then they are ready to build whatever they wish, but using only what is in their individual inventory.
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Construction Square Fun
Students identify numbers as prime or composite and complete prime factorization of composite numbers.
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Algebra on the Farm
Students develop algebraic equations to solve problems involving farm animals. They watch a video, use manipulatives to determine the number of birds and pigs on the farm, and create original problems for their classmates to solve.
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Lines and Angles
Students explore Geometry with Twizzlers Candy, pipe cleaners, paper, pencils, and protractors. They manipulate these items to create different angles introduced by the teacher.
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Planets an Introduction
Fourth graders investigate one planet, enter information into a database, and print the database sorting for each of the attributes.
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Fraction Pizza
Pupils, with a partner, examine the relationship of fractions to whole numbers through the use of Fraction Pizza software by Panasonic.
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Hersey'n On Fraction
Students use a Hersey bar to help them practice with fractions. The teacher gives a fraction and they are to create it with the chocolate bars.
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Addition of 2 Digit Plus 1 Digit (No Regrouping)
Students review adding without regrouping the numbers. They are divided into groups and have to write the answer to the problem given on their papers.
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Relationships in Geometry
Pupils show the correlation between quadrilaterals, parallelograms, rectangles and squares.
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Fraction Fun!
Fourth graders play a fraction game removing a fraction of a whole as the spinner dictates.
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Symme"tree"
Students practice drawing lines of symmetry after the teacher draws shapes on the board. They create a class symme"tree" using only symmetrical shapes to decorate it.
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Santa's workshop
Learners are split up into groups of 3-4 kids, they write one story problem for each catagory: Santa's workshop, Reindeer Barn, Mrs. Claus' Kitchen. They read their story probems to the class and award points to the other teams for their...
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Money Matters
Students count, record, and calculate money. They save, as well as to explain the value of jobs and working hard.
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Equivalent Fraction Munch with Pizza Pie
Learners demonstrate fractions and mixed numbers using concrete pictorial models of pizza. They relate symbols to the models.
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Investigating Volume
Students investigate the components of volume and use appropriate units and procedures to calculate the volume of several household boxes.
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Folding Fractions
Students create a set of fraction circles using a paper folding technique. They fold 10 inch circles of paper into the indicated fractions, identify the fractions, and use them to show equivalency.
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Ordinals
Students examine uses for ordinal numbers in calendars, and an ordinal chart. They order ice cream cone cut outs from 1st to 20th and complete a worksheet. (not given)
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Shopping with Money
Students apply their knowledge of addition and subtraction of money into real life situations.
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Symmetry Project
Young scholars explore the concept of symmetry by drawing an the other half of an object. They pick from a stack of magazine pictures and draw it on another piece of paper.