Organizer
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Tally Chart/Pictograph

For Students 1st - 6th
In this graphic organizer worksheet, students can record their own data on this tally chart/pictograph. There are two columns and six rows with room for a title.
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Going the Distance

For Teachers 6th Standards
Estimate the value of one of the most famous irrational numbers. The hands-on lesson instructs classmates to measure the circumference and diameters of circles using yarn. The ratio of these quantities defines pi.
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Planning a Garden Using a Grid

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders plan for a garden. In this garden planning lesson, 3rd graders investigate the use of a grid to accurately map out and plan for a vegetable garden. Students predict the space requirements for different vegetables.
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Indoor Gardening by Building a Simple Hydroponics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the use of hydroponic gardening on the world food supply. For this hydroponic gardening lesson, students make a garden out of a soda bottle, grow a cilantro plant, and compare hydroponics with regular gardening using...
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Trash to Gas

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers experiment with biomass materials as alternative energy sources. In this biomass material lesson, students participate in an experiment with cow manure to determine how it can be used as an energy source. They record...
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When Will We Ever Use This? Predicting Using Graphs

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Here are a set of graphing lessons that have a real-world business focus.  Math skills include creating a scatter plot or line graph, fitting a line to a scatter plot, and making predictions. These lessons are aimed at an algebra 1...
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Virginia Department of Education

Out of the Box

For Teachers 6th Standards
There's no need to think outside the box for this one! Scholars measure the length, width, and height of various boxes. Results help develop the formulas for the surface area and volume of rectangular prisms.
Lesson Plan
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Chicken and Steak, Variation 2

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Many organizations put on barbecues in order to make money. In a real-world math problem, the money allotted to purchase steak and chicken at this barbecue is only one hundred dollars. It is up to your potential chefs to figure out how...
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Synthesizing to Support a Thesis- Big Picture Emphasis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Help your researchers as they begin to develop a topic for research with these worksheets. Included are two nicely designed graphic organizers that assist students in narrowing and researching their topic, and an efficient...
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Advanced Factoring Strategies for Quadratic Expressions (part 2)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What do you do with a difficult-to-factor quadratic expression? This lesson provides the answer. Pupils learn a grouping strategy to help factor trinomials. When guess and check seems too tedious, this method is the "works every...
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Spider "How To" Make a Spider

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young chefs follow the set-by-step instructions of a recipe and use their prior knowledge of the body parts of a spider to make edible spider cookies.  After completing a pre-writing graphic organizer they then write a "how to"...
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Making Math Meaningful in March Madness

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the statistics of March Madness, the college basketball tournament. They watch videotaped basketball games to collect data for further analysis using Word and Excel. They analyze the data in a variety of activities...
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Evaluate Problem-Solving in the Context of Culture and Time-frame

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine literary elements in non-fiction literature. In this problem solving lesson, students read Rosa Parks, My Story and Beyond the Limits. Students make oral presentations based on the causes and effects, conflicts, and...
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Modeling Drug Assimilation in the Human Body

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Young scholars investigate the accumulation of drugs in the body. In this algebra lesson, students collect data on drug retention and assimilation. They use their data to predict the behavior and effects of drugs.
Organizer
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Tic-Tac-Toe Note Organizer

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this organizer worksheet, students divide a sheet of paper into nine tic-tac-toe sections on which to take notes. The worksheet is a generic, blank graphic organizer.
Worksheet
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Math Organizer: Way to Make a Sum

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this sums activity, learners write 5 ways to make a given sum. Worksheet is a generic graphic organizer with a blank space at the top to write the sum being asked for.
Worksheet
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Monster Math

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this math learning exercise, students practice solving the multiplication problems presented in the eight graphic organizers. The answers are found on page two.
Worksheet
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Santa's List Sums (B1)

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this addition practice worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer as they find the sums of 17 boys and girls for each street.
Worksheet
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Santa's List Sums (B2)

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this addition practice worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer as they find the sums of 17 boys and girls for each street. The numbers are 2 digit numbers.
Worksheet
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Santa's List Sums (A3)

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this addition practice worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer as they find the sums of 17 boys and girls for each street. The numbers on the chart are 3 digit numbers.
Worksheet
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Santa's List Sums (A2)

For Students 1st - 3rd
For this addition practice worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer as they find the sums of 17 boys and girls for each street. The numbers are 2 digit numbers.
Worksheet
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Santa's List Sums (B4)

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this addition practice learning exercise, students complete a graphic organizer as they find the sums of 17 boys and girls for each street. The numbers on the chart are 4 digit numbers.
Worksheet
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Santa's List Sums (B3)

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this addition practice worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer as they find the sums of 17 boys and girls for each street. The numbers are 3 digit numbers.
Worksheet
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Facts That Add to 6

For Students K - 1st
In this addition instructional activity, students write addition sentences that equal 6. Students use the 5 spaces surrounding the number four in the center of the graphic organizer and create equations with ;6 as the sum.