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Exploring Biomes Lesson 3: Endangered Biomes
Future environmental scientists compare data from two different conservation strategies. Alone this lesson is sufficient, but as part of the Exploring Biomes unit produced by the Arizona Fish and Game Department, it becomes top-notch.
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Graphing and the Coordinate Plane
Ready to introduce your class to the coordinate plane? This website includes a detailed lesson plan that includes two interactive games to help learners practice graphing ordered pairs. The scripted discussion is a little cheesy and a...
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Measuring Time in Minutes
Telling time is all about practical application; use these real-life scenarios (with a few analog clocks thrown in) to help scholars place this skill into a useful context. They read two word problems to determine how much time each...
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Statistics and Shopping
Explore how statistics are used in everyday life. Your soon-to-be savvy consumers use the Internet to find consumer-related statistical information and learn to make wise consumer decisions. Includes links to a practice sheet about data...
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Investigation - Patterns/Functions
Students explore one-to-one correspondence. Through activities, students examine rhythm and patterns. From the patterns discovered, students create a visual representation of the pattern with blocks.
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Number Writing 0 - 20
A straightforward tool for practicing writing numbers 1 through 20. Young scribes trace each number once, then write it independently. Ideas for games to make practice more fun and to extend understanding of the sequence of numbers...
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Number Lines, Variables, Solving for One Variable
Review basic algebraic rules of addition of integers. Then have the class define a variable and explore methods of solving equations with one variable. They observe solving expressions using inverse operations and simplifying solutions....
Illustrative Mathematics
Shape Hunt Part 1
The hunt is on! Send young mathematicians on a search for shapes in the first lesson of this two-part series. Each time a child finds a hidden shape, he draws it on his paper, and continues searching for the rest. Perform this activity...
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The Price is Right
Students, through various activities, explore online databases. Using the internet, students explore the distributors websites. They collect specific information on selected products. An spreadsheet with price comparisons is developed....
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What is Good Use of Time?
Students analyze the best uses of time in other cultures. In this time use lesson, students read the poem 'Soccer Into Dusk' and 'The Meaning of Time' as analysis of time usage in other culttures. Students complete a discussion, journal...
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Pick a Number, Counting On
This is a quick learning game that can be played on a daily basis during transitions or as a part of the morning meeting. Using number cards or numbers placed on sticks, pick a number at random. Read the number to the class and then ask...
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Numbers and Operations- 24
Pupils construct number sentences. In this computation lesson, students participate in a game using four numbers to make the number 24.
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Fraction Dominoes
Fourth graders participate in a math game that involves practicing their equivalent fraction skills in the advanced multiplication stage seven. They assess their ability skills of equivalent fractions to match twenty seven dominoes on...
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Target 15.287
Fourth graders participate in a math game in adding numbers from one up to ones of thousands or decimal numbers from thousandths to ones with the roll of a pair of dice in advanced additive to advanced proportional stages six and eight....
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Cooperation and Conflict Resolution
Fourth graders participate in a variety of activities designed to promote cooperation and positive conflict resolution. In cooperative groups, they create a comic strip or poster, play cooperative musical chairs, write a journal entry...
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Diophantus II
Learners use an ancient math game to establish the context for solving problems by investigating them in a systematic and mathematical way. They also need to have the ability to solve various types of equations.
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Basic Geometry Vocabulary
In this geometry worksheet, 10th graders match basic vocabulary words relating to angles, circles, quadrilaterals, and transformations in a drag and drop game format. The one page interactive worksheet contains twenty matching...
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Promote Precalculus
Use projects, real-world activities, and games to bring precalculus to life for students.
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Roaming Robot
Look up! Turn left! This activity on giving and following verbal directions will excite your learners. A "finder" leaves the room while you and the class hides an object. When they return, students must use words on the cue cards...
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Can You Find Me?
Fourth graders participate in a parachute math game. They run under the parachute after it has been lifted, looking for a card that has an equivalent fraction or decimal on it to match the one they were given by the teacher.
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Dragon Connect-the-Dots Game
In this math worksheet, students practice counting to 50 as they connect the dots to create a fantasy picture of a dragon. Students color the picture.
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Hands On Math Lessons with Technology
Learners explore a variety of math concepts. In this integrating technology lesson plan, students visit online webtools such as Max's Math Adventure, I Know That Math, Hands on Banking, and more. A description of each website is...
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Mental Addition and Subtraction
Students play the online game ArithmAttack to practice mental math skills. They play the game to as many additions or subtractions as possible in sixty seconds. Afterward, they complete a paper based follow up exercise.
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Acting Like a Hog
Learners explore game theory. In this secondary mathematics lesson, students plat the game of HOG using dice and explore the optimal strategies. Learners play the game three ways: any number of dice, a fixed number of...