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Hatching Egg Lesson

For Teachers K
What a great way to introduce life cycles in your classroom! Kindergartners learn about chickens using visual aids, vocabulary lists, and more. If possible, you can have your class watch the process up close and personal by bringing in...
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Addition And Subtraction of Decimals

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners participate in a instructional activity of adding and subtracting decimals. They should review place values with decimals before beginning the instructional activity. The lesson plan also includes sample problems for the teacher...
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Applying the Pythagorean Theorem

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners use the Pythagorean Theorem to find the distances between two points. Use this Pythagorean Theorem lesson plan to have learners find the distances on a coordinate plane in small groups.
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Using Recipes to Add Fractions and Convert Improper Fractions to Proper Fractions or Mixed Numbers

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students use recipes to add fractions and convert improper fractions to proper fractions and mixed numbers. In this fraction lesson plan, students watch a video on someone making a recipe and compare and change the recipes to fit the...
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Introducing the Concept: Triangles and Quadrilaterals

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Guide your geometers through the process of constructing polygons. They learn how to draw triangles, squares, parallelograms, rectangles, rhombuses, and trapezoids with specified angles using a protractor and a ruler. The lesson plan...
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Money - Using R & R to Teach Mathematics

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders count up coins of money that add up to one dollar. In this money lesson plan, 2nd graders also spend money and keep track of how much they have spent.
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Problem Solving with the Wilderness Classroom

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students complete 45 multiple choice math word problems. For this math word problems lesson plan, students solve word problems on time, graphing, all four operations, money, and more.
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Tessellation Lesson Plans

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students in second through eighth grades can fill their imaginations with repeating shapes!
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Baseball Math Lesson Plans - Batter Up!

For Teachers 4th - 8th
The game of baseball provides many opportunities for mathematical learning.
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students engage in activities that extend Eric Carle's story The Very Hungry Caterpillar. In this The Very Hungry Caterpillar lesson plan, students use felt boards, dramatic play, calendars and egg carton creations, to expand on the...
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Summer Activities: Super Sand & Water!

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars use funnels and create tunnels. In this early childhood lesson plan, students begin to understand science and math concepts such as flow, force, gravity, and volume and develop skills in areas such as problem solving and...
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Balloons: Math with the Montgolfier Balloon

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars discover the history of hot air balloons by watching one ascent.  In this physics lesson, students utilize a Montgolfier Hot Air Balloon from an earlier lesson and record the temperature, rate of ascent and the...
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Planning a Trip for Christopher Columbus

For Teachers 1st
First graders plan a trip for Christopher Columbus. They use their math skills to construct a ship for Columbus' voyage. They show their ship and calculations to their classmates and build graphs to show the amount of supplies needed to...
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Summer Fun Activity: Have a Picnic

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students celebrate the summer by preparing a picnic together. In this early childhood lesson plan, students word together to prepare a picnic and develop fine motor and cooperative skills.
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Measuring Lesson Plans and Metric System Conversions

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students may review measurement, and metric system conversions by measuring one another and the world around them.
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Mr. Gallon Lesson Plans

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Using Mr. Gallon to teach liquid capacity equivalents and conversions can provide a fun way to get students thinking about measurement.
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Dinosaur Math

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars read How to Train with a T.Rex and Win 8 Gold Medals and solve math problems.  In this dinosaur math instructional activity, students write a math story to go with the dinosaur story.  Young scholars discuss the...
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Quilts and Math

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a pattern. In this patterns lesson, students review the meaning of symmetry and explore using pattern blocks. Students look for patterns in real quilts, photographs and pictures. Students work independently to plan a...
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Incorporating Literature While Teaching Math

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders solve story word problems based on the story Twas the Night Before Christmas. In this word problems lesson plan, 3rd graders incorporate literature with math.
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Teaching Students to Tell Time: Three Resources for Busy Teachers

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Elementary schoolers develop time-telling skills, one skill at a time. They examine the connection between time on digital and analog (clock-face) clocks. An excellent lesson on teaching how to tell time!
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Just a Minute!

For Teachers K - 12th
Students put the standard measure of clock time -- the minute -- in perspective. This lesson can be modified for virtually any grade level. They write about what they learned about a minute as a result of the activities.
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Come Into my Parlor

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
An interesting cross-curricular lesson on dairy farming awaits your students. Elements of language arts, math, social studies, and agriculture are all present. Many excellent worksheets and a good article on dairy farming are included in...
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Introduction to Earning Interest: Middle School

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Does your bank pay you for allowing them to hold your money? Class members research three different ways they can earn money using money already in the bank. Topics include certificates of deposit, statement savings accounts, and...
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Water: From Neglect to Respect

For Teachers 5th - 8th
The goal of this collection of lessons is to make middle schoolers more aware of the ways in which they are dependent upon water to maintain their standard of living. Learners compare water use in Lesotho to water use in the United...

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