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Measuring Mass

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders engage in a lesson that is concerned with the estimate and approximation of different masses. They weigh different objects and compare the different measurements and then use a balance to compare them. Students define the...
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The Hundred Penny Box

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students analyze the advantages of regular saving and how savings grow with compounding. After reading the story "The Hundred Penny Box", students define the terms "interest," "interest rate," and "compounding." Through several...
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Tessellations

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners identify shapes that will tessellate. They construct a tessellation using transformations. Students identify transformations in tessellations. They identify applications of transformations such as tiling and fabric design.
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Introduction to Probability in Seven Exercise Sets and Seventy Problems

For Students 6th - 8th
In this probability worksheet, students use the rules of probability to calculate the likelihood of an event to occur in seven exercise sets and seventy problems. Examples, definitions, and formulas are provided.
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The Berenstain Bears' Mad, Mad, Mad Toy Craze

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore personal finances. In this money management lesson, students read The Berenstain Bears' Mad, Mad, Mad Toy Craze. Students examine the spending habits of Brother Bear and Sister Bear. Students analyze opportunity costs as...
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Getting to Know You

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students create survey questions for their classmates. In this survey instructional activity, students pick a yes or no question and find what fraction of the class responded yes. They discover how the wording of a survey question can...
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the Sound Detective Scientist

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students identify sounds in their environment and acquire listening and inferring skills.
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The Greedy Triangle - Group Activity

For Teachers K
Students explore different shapes and identify them. They make a community map using triangles, rectangles, circles, ovals, squares, pentagons, and hexagons.
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Square Roots, Number Classification, Ordering & Graphing

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders identify numbers as rational or irrational. Using calculators estimation, and factoring methods, 9th graders compute the square root of numbers. They graph numbers in sequential order and round numbers integers to the...
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"Bear Shadow" Activity Card

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this literature and science worksheet, students listen to a family member as they read "Bear Shadow." They conduct experiments that with light, shadows, and measuring tools before recording the date they did the experiment. They...
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The Leaves in October

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students determine whether or not to save or spend and defend a decision.  In this personal finance lesson, students identify opportunity cost of various spending and saving decisions. Students read a story where two girls share...
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Let's Graph It

For Students 4th - 5th
In this let's graph it activity, student interactively answer 10 multiple choice questions about graphing data and types of graphs, then click to check their answers.
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How to Reason

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students practice their logical thinking skills. For this reasoning lesson, students complete tasks involving geometric shapes, place value, and odd/even numbers.
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JFK Assassination

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners write equations of a line. In this algebra lesson, students investigate the assassination of JFK through linear equations. They calculate the length of given line segments.
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Benny's Pennies

For Teachers K
Students read Benny's Pennies and predict what Bennie will buy with each penny based on the illustrations. They locate rhyming words and make a chart of what Benny bought and also for what they would have bought.
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"How Do You Measure Up?"

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore basic measurements by analyzing their own bodies. In this human anatomy activity, 4th graders identify the units used to measure a human body such as centimeters, inches, ounces and pounds. Students complete a...
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Counting Fun with Gummi Bears

For Teachers K
Students count the numbers one through ten out loud and show the numbers using manipulatives.
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My Favorite Thing to Do

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars realize that a paragraph is a short piece of writing that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Every story, essay, article, or book is like a patchwork quilt made of little paragraphs stitched together
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The Long and Short of It - Geometry

For Teachers 1st
First graders use appropriate vocabulary to compare the measurement of the animal he/she is drawing.
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Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas-Sahara, Vanishing Cultures

For Teachers K - 6th
Pupils read Sahara, Vanishing Cultures by Jan Reynolds. They complete a variety of cross-curricular activities surrounding the study nomadic cultures. Included are reading, art, math, science, writing, social studies, and library...
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"BATS on Parade" by Kathi Appelt

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students correctly express and interpret mathematical facts, concepts, and procedures in symbolic, verbal and graphical form. They use a table to organize information.
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Inequality and Simple Interest Review

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students review how to solve and graph an inequality. They also review how to find simple interest from a given problem set. The teacher performs informal assessment through observation of students.
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Tacoma Narrows Bridge Lesson Plans

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners design and construct a suspension bridge. Math is used to compare the actual measurements of the bridge to the student's version.
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Rain

For Teachers 1st
First graders find patterns and draw and describe them