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Favorite Days
Learners collect and organize data about themselves. In this data analysis lesson, students discuss their favorite calendar dates and explore ways to display the data.
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Completing the Circuit
Students use a battery, wires, small light bulb and a light bulb holder to learn the difference between an open circuit and a closed circuit, and understand that electric current only occurs in a closed circuit. They describe the...
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Heads or Tails
Seventh graders compare experimental and theoretical probabilities. In this comparing experimental and theoretical probabilities lesson, 7th graders discuss the theoretical probability of flipping a coin. Students flip a coin...
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Maple Syrup Production
Students make their own maple sugar and learn about how it is made on a grander scale. In this maple sugar lesson, students make their own maple sugar and learn about evaporation and what labor is put into making it.
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Patterns to the Rescue
Students watch "Cyberchase: The Poddleville Case" and analyze patterns. They complete a patterns assignment worksheet and then they make up patterns using numbers, shapes or colors, for their classmates to solve. They use patterns to...
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Telling the Time
Students practice telling time by completing the various activities. In this telling time instructional activity, students view a large clock and discuss the words 'to' and 'past' the hour. Students count in 5s using the clock and then...
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Statistics for Graphing
Students use the Internet to access a variety of websites that present statistics and information for use in graphing. They represent sports statistics, geographical measurements, temperatures and more.
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Reinforcement Lesson in Place Value
Students order digits to create the highest or lowest possible number. They roll a die, and determine where to place the number according to their place value, ordering the numbers to create the highest or lowest number.
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Measuring Elapsed Time
Fifth graders convert units within the same measurement system and be able to determine elapsed time. They are given a start time and an end time of a game. Students determine the amount of elapsed time from the data that is given.
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Numbers: Rounding Off
Students discover the idea of rounding numbers. In this rounding lesson plan, students are given worksheets having to do with rounding whole numbers and fractions. Students participate in an activity with number flashcards....
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Inside Out: An Up-Close Look At Foods We Eat
Fourth graders identify the origins of meats and vegetables consumed by humans on a daily basis. They classify foods (meats, dairy products, grains...) and create a food pyramid.
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Importance of Fresh Vegetables and Fruits in Our Diets
Students explore the importance of fruits and vegetables in our diets. In this science lesson, students discuss various types of fruits and vegetables. Students play the good health=good diet game. Students discuss types of fruits and...
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Ratios
Sixth graders investigate the concept of ratios and how they can be used to represent the comparison of quantities. The lesson is taught using a table or graph to compare two categories of data.
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Decimal War
Pupils practice decimals by playing war. In this decimal lesson plan, students flip over their cards and whoever's card is higher wins those cards. The person with the most cards is the winner.
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Telling Time By the Hour
In this telling time worksheet, students analyze 9 analog clocks. Students write the correct time below each clock. All times are to the nearest hour.
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Telling Time by the Quarter Hour
In this telling time activity, students read the analog clocks and tell the time for each clock by the quarter hour. Students complete 9 problems.
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You Bet!
Students explore the mathematical probabilities involved in gambling and how these factors affect people's behavior. They work in pairs and conduct and experiment pertaining to blackjack. The class creates a graph showing the trends found.
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Ratio Basketball
Students, in teams of four, practice shooting free throws while mentally converting the ratio of shots made to those thrown into a percent. They chart and record the ratio, decimal and actual percentage earned after each round.
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Line and Shape Game
Students create a picture of an actual scene or overlap the called out lines or shapes into a space-breaker. If someone calls out a line or shape a student had not planned to use in the art, they have to figure out some way to use it...
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Celsius Tells Temperature, Too
Second graders become aware that thermometer liquids expand or contract as temperature affects them.
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Double Down
Young scholars shuffle cards identifying different patterns. For this algebra lesson, students investigate the accuracy of the card shufflers in a casino. They discuss out-shuffle, faro shuffle and magicians mixing cards to perform tricks.
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Trivia Tag
Students, as chasers, on teachers signal, move throughout a space trying to tag others with their free hand. When a tag is made, both players stop; chaser reads question from card to student who was tagged. If answer is correct, person...