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Flower Dissection
Students dissect three different flowers and compare and contrast them. In this flowers lesson plan, students learn about the flower anatomy and then dissect their own flowers.
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Vocabulary Review: Government Terms
As your English language pupils learn about the government and vocabulary words commonly used when talking about the government, present them with this activity. There are eight multiple choice questions, and each vocabulary word is...
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Color My World
Second graders experiment mixing primary colors to form other colors using frosting.
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Making Pretzels
Students explore how people use plants for food. They use pretzels to see how wheat can be turned into food.
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Relating Fractions and Decimals
For this fractions and decimals worksheet, students solve 11 problems. Students convert fractions to decimals and write shaded grids as fractions and decimals to the hundredth place.
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Big Magic Squares
Students discover that magic squares are interesting objects in both mathematics proper and in recreational mathematics. So they are objects that students should have heard about and experienced.
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Why Are Thinning Trees Important?
Students investigate thinning trees and why they are important to the forest. In this sustainable environment activity, students role-play as if they are trees in the forest and simulate the overcrowding and inability to move...
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Rock'n Robin
Students wall line dance given specific steps given to them by the teacher.
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Bravo!!
Second graders study and experiment with rhythm and sound. In pairs, they practice reading and performing simple melodies from sheet music. Individually, they choose one piece to perform for the class.
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Comparing and Ordering Fractions
Third graders create fractions from concrete materials, then use paper fractions.
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Sentence Transformations Worksheet 5
In this advanced ESL sentence completion worksheet, students read one sentence followed by another that is incomplete. Students may use up to 5 words in the space to make it mean the same as the first. Students must use the word in bold...
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Real Life Challenge
Ninth graders read and examine narratives, review chronologies, consider ideas, and analyze trends in order to understand the past and present. In this American History lesson, 9th graders examine cause and effect, review...
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Kindness Compliments
Young scholars write compliments for the staff at their school. For this compliments lesson plan, students demonstrate kindness by anonymously writing and taping compliments to people's doors around the school.
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Getting Percentible
This unit explores the connections between percentages, decimals, and fractions. It focuses on strategies for solving problems involving percentages and applies these strategies to real life contexts.
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But That's Not FAIR!
Third graders solve problems using fractions through hands-on activities and appropriate literature.
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Aboriginal Physical Education
Students engage in p.e. activities that have roots in native Indian, Metis, and Inuit cultures. They practice the skill involved and listen to the significance behind the skill. They read relevant books and define new terminology.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Fraction of a Whole
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video and attempt practice problems on determining what part of a whole has been shaded.
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Better Lesson: North of the Dungeon
Using castles and treasure maps, 2nd graders will learn how fractions are parts of a whole.
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Better Lesson: I Would Like to Be a Part of the Group!
Fourth graders will work in teams to discover how to read and write fractions that name a part of a group. The lesson will use a fraction pad so students can see how a number names a part of a whole or a part of a group. This website...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Fraction of a Whole
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video describes how to determine the fraction from a model of partially shaded whole. The video is followed by a series of practice questions to assess student...
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Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting Fractions
Understanding that when the total number of parts of a whole are the same, fractions can be added.
Visual Fractions
Visual Fractions: Cookies for Grampy
The learning game explores fractional parts. Students make whole cookies using fractional pieces.