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Missing Addends
In this missing addends worksheet, students solve 6 word problems where they are given 1 addend and the sum and must find the missing addend in order to solve each problem.
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Comprehension of Word Problems
Students demonstrate how to solve multiplication word problems. In this problem solving lesson, students read examples of multiplication word problems and are taught how to use repeated addition to solve the problems. This strategy is...
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Johnny Appleseed Origami
Second graders make an origami Johnny Appleseed. In this geometry instructional activity students follow folding instructions. They find different geometric shapes while they are folding. They create Johnny Appleseed's body and attach a...
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Adjective Monster
Explore descriptive writing and visual art. Listen to the story Go Away Big, Green Monster by Ed Emberley and generate a list of adjectives used in the book. Name familiar shapes and create a shapes list. Choose an adjective and shape to...
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Let's Make Play Dough
Students create their own play dough to use for art projects. In this art lesson, students measure, pour and mix the ingredients to make their own play dough. Then, students use the clay to create their own sculptures.
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This Is My Home
Students listen to a read aloud of Mary Ann Hoberman's A House Is a House for Me before discussing the meaning of habitats and the different types of homes that people live in. Next, they pretend to be architects and design a home for...
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Johnny Appleseed Walkabout
Second graders calculate mileage for a journey. In this place value and measurement lesson, 2nd graders read Johnny Appleseed, work in groups to locate his birthplace on a map, locate the other states he stopped in, and measure the...
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Counting With Colors
In this reading and following directions worksheet, students count and color the illustrations of books. Students color 5 books.
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Write in Vertical Form
In this addition worksheet, students solve 6 word problems where they write addition equations in a vertical format in order to find the sum. Students must identify extra information in some problems and subtract in some problems.
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Geometry Straws
Students create different angles and shapes by using different lengths of straws. In this geometry straws lesson plan, students glue straws onto paper and define what they have made.
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Flat Stanley Vocabulary Word Unscramble
For this reading literature response worksheet, students answer questions and write responses to show their understanding of Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown.
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Hundredths
In this decimal and fractions worksheet, students read 6 story problems in which a fraction and a decimal is written to represent the answer.
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Coordinate Plane
Tenth graders plot points on a coordinate plane. In this geometry lesson, 10th graders identify the different quadrants, plots points on a number line and coordinate plane and solve for the midpoint of line segments.
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Calculator Clues
In this math worksheet, students solve 10 problems using a calculator. Students turn the calculator upside down and match the words they see with 10 clues.
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Calculator Code Words 2
In this calculator code words worksheet, students practice solving twenty equations utilizing a calculator. Students then turn the calculator upside down and match the word they see with one of the clues given to each of them.
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Financial Wizard
Students determine the best way to earn money. In this financial wizard lesson, students read a story. They compare different jobs, the rate of pay for each job and the number of hours required to do the job. Students...
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Making Mittens with The Mitten Book
Students read and discuss the different animals in The Mitten book and then try to make mittens that are alike.
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Growth and Change as it Occurs in Plants and Flowers
Students work together to observe plants and flowers through their life cycle. In groups, they make predictions and record changes in a journal. Using this information, they create their own original artwork and discuss the plants life...
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Poisonous Snake
In this snake learning exercise, students read the descriptions of the snake and the cage and choose the correct cage and finish the snake picture. Students complete 2 activities.
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All About Me
Students answer short answer questions, state their likes and dislikes, say what roles they have, and more about themselves. In this all about me lesson plan, students read books about how we are all different and the same.
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Lost in Translation
Students reflect on the uses of mathematics in their daily lives and work in pairs to design brochures that make specific mathematical concepts clear and interesting to a popular audience.
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Discovering Plants
Students construct a small greenhouse and plant lima beans. They read books about plants, tend the lima bean seedlings, observe and record plant growth, taste a variety of plants and maintain plant journals.
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Money as a Means of Exchange
First graders discover the term bartering as used to pay for wanted items. They play a bartering game to discover exchanging goods for wanted items and play the computer money game on the "Show-Me Economics" web site.
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Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
Students participate in various activities which address Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. In this holiday lesson, students are exposed to Hebrew songs and construct Haiku poems about Yom Kippur.