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Poke Assassin

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Check out this game to play in the classroom with a PE class on a rainy day, or just for fun with some extra class time! Participants must be cunning, sneaky, and observant as their classmates move around the room. There's even an...
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Public Schools of North Carolina

Math Stars: A Problem-Solving Newsletter Grade 5

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Looking for a way to challenge the problem-solving abilities of your young mathematicians? Then look no further. This collect of newsletter worksheets engages learners with a variety of interesting word problems that cover topics ranging...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Comparing Freezing Points

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
Subtracting negative numbers can be confusing to your middle schoolers. Here, they are able to draw a number line and put their answer in sentence form to check their understanding of negative numbers. 
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K12 Reader

Animal Proverbs and Adages

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
What will play when the cat's away? Practice figurative language with a list of proverbs about animals. Kids use the word bank at the top of the page to fill in the blanks based on their knowledge of common phrases.
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Curated OER

M&M Science and Math

For Teachers 6th - 12th
A series of math and science activities feature M&M's® as manipulatives to help kids work through equations. The resource includes exercises on finding averages, percent of compositions, moles in chemical reactions, genotypes and...
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Lynette

Prefix, Suffix, and Root Word Worksheets

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Words are kind of like a train, with affixes as the added cars. Practice prefixes, suffixes, and root words with these worksheets. Learners add words on to the beginning and end of words, practice with some roots, and use the words in...
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Bowland

Design the Mascot

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Explore how resizing an object affects its area. The set of lessons challenges young mathematicians to design a mascot for electronic devices. These designs undergo resizing to determine how scale factors of dilation affect area.
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PBS

Heart to Heart

For Students 3rd - 7th
Study heart health and math in one activity. After measuring their resting heart rates by finding the pulse in their wrists, learners build a stethoscope to listen to their heart rate, and note the differences between the two methods.
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Colorado State University

How Far Away Is Space?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Outer space may be a lot closer than you think! Science scholars model the layers of the atmosphere using transparencies to gain insight into the scale of space. The resource includes ideas to tailor the activity to the skill level of...
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Curated OER

Calendar Art

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars assemble and decorate a calendar. This is a lesson to be used at the beginning of each month to make a calendar for the month. Math concepts for this lesson consist of each student writing numbers on the calendar.
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Curated OER

How Much for Your Name?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create different coin combinations for a single amount, practice counting, demonstrate their knowledge of the value of coins and demonstrate their knowledge of coin combinations.
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Curated OER

Temperature: Fahrenheit Reteach 18.5

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this thermometer worksheet, students analyze the temperature on two thermometers and from two choices, circle the temperatures.
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Curated OER

Ridgerunner

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students jog at the beginning of the class while learning about the Appalachian Trail. They integrate math into the lesson by adding up how many miles they have run, and comparing it to distances on a real trail map.
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Curated OER

The Right Chemistry

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students see that chemistry is the study of matter, how matter reacts and combines to create new chemicals, the changes that take place in matter and what makes up matter. This instructional activity provides many good ideas across the...
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Curated OER

Book Title: 12 Ways to Get to 11 by Eve Merriam

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students complete activities to explore number sequence. In this number arrangements lesson, students play a game of finger flash and then read the book 12 Ways to Get to 11. Students count and track the amounts in the book to make an...
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Curated OER

Circle the Wagons a Number is Missing

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders have an opportunity to work in pairs as they search for the missing addend to complete a mathematical sentence. They identify and demonstrate the ability to change the order of the addends and still produce the same sum....
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Curated OER

Cooking with Math

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders practice multiplication and division with cooking recipes. In this math lesson, 4th graders look at a recipe and change it so that it works for twice as many people or half as many people. 
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Curated OER

Hurray for Arrays and Multiplication

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders begin learning about multiplication using arrays. In this multiplication with arrays instructional activity, 3rd graders interact with tiles on the overhead as they follow the teacher in making arrays. They write...
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Curated OER

Pop Clock

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students review the Census Bureau's Homepage, gather information regarding population trends in order to make predictions on future populations.
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Curated OER

Sun Seeking Plants

For Teachers K - 1st
Students investigate the story "The Tiny Seed" by Eric Carle. This story is used to introduce the children to the concept that seeds change and grow into plants when conditions in the environment including temperature, light, water and...
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Curated OER

The Human Line Plot

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders collect data and use charts and line plots to graph data. Through class surveys, 5th graders collect data concerning a particular subject. They graph their data using a line graph. Students make inferences and predictions...
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Curated OER

Trail Mix

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders, given the price of different ingredients, make a trail mix of five different items without exceeding their budget of five dollars. They choose between pretzels, M&M's, twizzlers, popcorn, etc,. Each student practices...
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Curated OER

Math -- Money

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students identify a penny, nickel, dime, quarter and a half dollar. They examine the value of each coin and its equivalents (to quarter/dollar). After pairing up with a classmate, each one drills the other one on each coin.
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Curated OER

Approximating Pi

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Pupils approximate Pi using the lower and upper bound for the constant. In this algebra lesson, students work in groups of two to graph a circle and approximate Pi using the circumference. They repeat their estimation until they come up...