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Shapes Activities and Lessons
A fabulous lesson on identifying circles, triangles, squares, and rectangles awaits your students. They use large motor skills hopping from shape to shape, use visual and kinesthetic skills passing a ball of yarn between three people to...
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Compare Fractions Using Fraction Circles
Fourth graders practice ordering fractions using models and drawings. In this math model instructional activity, 4th graders utilize colored blocks and drawings to show an equal representation of given fractions. Students...
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"Pizza"rama With Fractions!!
Young mathematicians explore number values by utilizing food as a visual aide. They discuss the differences between halves, fourths, and eighths and how they are visually represented by a pizza. Then create their own pizza in class and...
Basic Handwriting for Kids
Prewriting Practice: Right Fourth and Half Circles
For this prewriting practice worksheet, learners trace and print right fourth and half circles starting from the top line and the middle line. Students complete three writing activities.
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Prewriting Practice: Left 1/4 and 1/2 Circles
In this prewriting practice worksheet, students trace and print left fourth and half, lower case and upper case circles. Students complete three printing practice activities.
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Compare and Contrast
Read about the ways that different cultures set up homes with a set of reading activities. Learners read short paragraphs that cover one or more different ideas, and answer four questions about what they have read, including whether or...
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Halves
In this halves worksheet, students circle the shape that shows two halves. Students solve 13 problems for the halves activity.
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A Slice of Pi
Math pupils, by viewing a video, discover the history of pi and some of the applications of its uses in the world today. They conduct an experiment by measuring the diameter and circumference of various circular objects to calculate...
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Fraction Manipulatives
Photocopy these coloful disks onto cardstock, laminate, and then cut out to use as manipulatives when teaching your class about wholes, halves, thirds, and fourths. It is always so helpful to practice math concepts with hands-on...
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Lunar Lollipops
Demonstrate the lunar cycle to youngsters using flashlights and lollipops. The procedure is somewhat vague, so it will need to be modeled for them before turning them loose to try it. The questions that follow the activity are not...
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Malapropisms
What's the difference between an allegory and an alligator? Fifth graders work with malapropisms to determine the meanings of words that sound alike. Five sentences challenge them to find the malapropism and change it to the correct...
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Comprehension: Compare and Contrast Topics in Two Texts
A scripted instructional activity can be a big help for new teachers. This fully scripted three-day learning activity provides teachers with the means to demonstrate how to compare and contrast two topics in two texts. Learners will work...
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Folded Fractions
Second graders, in pairs, use various geometric shapes to represent fractional parts and divide them into equal parts.
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Fractions (Unitary)
In this fraction worksheet, students determine which shape is divided into equal parts and check their answer. Students then look at shaded parts of a whole and circle the correct fraction. Finally, students determine the fraction for...
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Beginning of the Year Activity Using The Rainbow Fish
Students are read "The Rainbow Fish Big Book". They discuss how each one of them are unique in some way. They decorate their own fish to show their characteristics and shares it with the class so they are able to learn about each other.
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The Frienship Fish -- Rainbow Fish Book Activity
Students are read "The Rainbow Fish". They discuss how important friendship is and list qualities they want in a good friend. They create a giant fish with each child's quality for the class to view.
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A Versus An
Provided here are ten example sentences for reviewing and practicing when to use an instead of a. There is no explanation of the rules about when and how to use a and/or an included in the resource. You may want to use this learning...
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My Shape Book
In these shapes worksheets, learners identify, trace, and follow the directions to color numbers of plane and space figures. Students complete activities for twelve shapes and figures.
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Waste Not Want Not
Learners are introduced to the need to save natural resources. Through inquiry, hands-on activities, and problem solving, students increase their understanding of solid waste materials and the need to reduce, recycle, and reuse.
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Recognize Fractions
In this fractions activity, students use the shaded figures and write fractions based on the shaded area to the whole area. Students also learn how to draw pie models. Students divide the circle into fractions and color the right amount...
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Itineraries Three: Guiding on the community trail.
Students become familiar with the vocabulary of various trip activities. In this itineraries lesson plan, students use questioning words such as how long and how far to describe activities on trips. Students practice questions...
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Numbers and Letters
Students engage in a physical activity that helps them to distinguish the difference between numbers and letters.
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World Smiley Day
In this World Smiley Day lesson plan, students complete activities such as reading a passage, matching phrases, fill in the blanks, choose the correct word, multiple choice, unscramble the words, sequencing, unscramble the sentences,...
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Aboriginal Statistics
Fourth graders analyze statistics of Native Americans by creating graphs. For this data analysis lesson, 4th graders define different statistical terms and practice finding those statistics from groups of numerical information...