Pennsylvania Department of Education
Dividing with Fractions
Fifth graders explore the strategies to solve word problems using multiplication and division. In this problem solving lesson plan, 5th graders recognize the relationship between multiplication and division to solve problems....
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Volume of Compound Figures
Fifth graders use patterns, models and relationships to solve equations. In this equations lesson, 5th graders define vocabulary for equations and complete worksheets explaining variables and solving problems.
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Multisensory Sight-word Strategies
High schoolers engage in a lesson that uses sight word strategies in order to increase reading comprehension. The skills are applicable to rote skill, math facts, formulas, etc... The lesson includes sample exercises for the teacher to...
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Geography Game
Second graders, in groups, selects a letter as a starting point and announces the direction in which he intends to move on a map. The team that closes a square takes possession of the square and marks it with their symbol.
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Puzzles With Partners
Students work together to complete puzzles. They practice their critical thinking skills and cooperative learning. They share their puzzles once they are complete.
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Strange Attractor
Learners explore magnetism. In this magnet lesson, students assemble a magnet pendulum. Learners observe the pendulum noting the location of the magnetic poles as they construct the pendulum so that the free-swinging magnet comes as...
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Follow the Pattern
Students survey patterns and relationships and then predict outcomes in real-world situations.
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Busy, Busy Bees
Students role play bees finding nectar. they put on bee tails and antenna. Then 3 or 4 students at a time performed the dances bees do when one is communicating to the others that he has found nectar and the when they are close the...
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Area, Perimeter Word Puzzle
Students measure planes and solids. In this geometry instructional activity, students find the area and perimeter of different polygons.They complete a word puzzle to review their vocabulary words.
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Facial Tattoos or Face Painting
Students use a grid-like method to create a life-size self-portrait from a 3X5 black and white photo. They explore the different customs and rituals surrounding face painting from ancient through modern civilizations. Students create a...
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Linking Civilizations and Personal Heritage Through Multimedia and Art
Young scholars explore images, symbols, and the relationship they establish with their own personal heritage. They discuss Aztec, Inca, and Maya civilizations. Students interview their family about their own personal heritage. Additional...
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Rooster's Night Out
First graders complete interdisciplinary activities associated with a folktale from Cuba. In this Cuban folktale lesson, 1st graders read the Rooster's Night Out, before completing comprehension worksheets, make recipes, and...
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Pronunciation Practice: /th/ sound
In this th sound worksheet, students read words, read sentences, categorize words, write words they hear, and more. Students complete 4 activities.
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How Big Is It?
Fifth graders look at the Garrison flag and estimate how big it is. For this measurement lesson plan, 5th graders then calculate the area and perimeter of the flag.
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Angles and Arcs
Students discuss the sum of central angles and use string to create them on circles. They find the measure and length of both minor and major arcs.
Students give examples of concentric, similar, and congruent circles and congruent arcs.
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Introducing Polygons
In this polygons activity, students name the 6 different colored shapes, choose any 3 polygons to draw and color on a grid, while adding a right angled triangle and a rhombus.
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Stocking Up
Eighth graders are trained to be brokers and to buy and sell stocks. Each group is allotted $1000. Team members work together within their groups to build a stock market portfolio and track the stocks they own.
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Guess My Number
Learners use their knowledge of numbers from one through one hundred to try and identify the teacher's hidden number. They ask questions about the number to narrow down their guess. (Is is a multiple of ten? Is it in the twenties? Is...
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Tukutuku Patterns
Students complete a series of lessons involving Tukutuku patterns, their rotations and area formulae. They determine the algebraic formulae for sequences. They use images as they work through the lessons to find the number of crosses in...
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Mapping The Iditarod
Fourth graders watch a video about mapping distances and then calculate the distance their individual mushers travel each day. This occurs each Monday through Friday until each musher has crossed the finish line in Nome Alaska.
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The Gingerbread Man
In this unit students use the traditional tale of the gingerbread man as a context for ordering and comparing lengths. They compare the length of two objects directly, order three or more objects by length and select objects that are...
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"The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton
Students estimate the distance in miles between Tulsa, Oklahoma and Manhattan, Kansas. They gather and graph data on gangs in both areas.
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Compatible Numbers To Ten
Students solve both addition and subtraction facts and discover the relationship between adding and subtracting equations. Students read real life word problems, extrapolate needed information, and write equations to solve the story...
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Adding in Parts
Third graders are able to split whole numbers into parts. They make numbers up to a tidy number. Students add and subtract tenths to make a decimals number into a whole number. They are able to add whole numbers up to three digits.