Students identify various sources of income and discern between needs and wants as they also learn to create a personal budget.  In this personal budget lesson, student understand financial scenarios as they relate to different ways...

Second graders, using a minimum of four space figures, create a mobile. They use a "Draw" program to first plan out their figure.

Third graders create a box big enough to hold a million dollars. This is a project fun to do near the winter holidays with inexpensive gifts included in the boxes. This hands-on lesson plan very effectively demonstrates the concept of...

Students analyze the multiplication facts from zero to ten in the ten lessons of this unit. The concepts of mental multiplication and solving word problems are important components of this unit.

Students complete a word problem to determine the cost of gasoline per mile of their virtual field trip. They determine the travel time and gasoline costs for two routes and record the information on a data sheet. They check their work...

Students graph ordered pairs to model the relationship between numbers. After observing the patterns in ordered pairs, they describe the relationship, and create graphs from a data table. Students describe intervals in the graph, and...

For this central tendency and dispersion worksheet, students find the mean, median and mode of a set of numbers. The set of numbers is not included on this worksheet. They complete a frequency distribution and find the modal interval.

Students explore and complete a variety of activities demonstration probability. They make observations about the results of the activities. Students complete and discuss conditional probability. Also, students draw conclusions about...

Students use a sponge and water model to explore the concept of relative humidity and create a percent scale. They define humidity and saturation, build a simple humidity/saturation model, collect, predict and interpret data, and create...

Third graders pictorially represent tenths place with decimal bars and add decimals in the tenths place; students use decimal bars to represent tenths and solve simple addition problems with the tenths place.

Students compare prices then and now. They use the calculated rate of inflation to figure out the equivalent prices today for items sold at the fair and money earned in 1864. They calculate the actual value of a bowl of soup, a dinner,...

Students experiment in small groups to answer the question, "Is there a relationship between ramps and speed?" They apply a formula to calculate the speed of the cars used in the experiment, complete the associate lab report, and...

Third graders create a butterfly drawing that includes the elements of art and principles of design. They create artwork that can be made into ceramic tiles to be installed around the classroom doorways in our new addition.

Third graders develop an appreciate for the various cultures that are present in their local community. Through reading and research, they explain how various culture came to live in their area. At the conclusion of the unit, 3rd...

Students view butterflies and participate in a butterfly activity to learn needed vocabulary. In this butterfly life cycle lesson plan, students access prior knowledge of butterflies.  Students listen to a butterfly life cycle book....

Pupils explore addition and subtraction of positive and negative numbers using a number line. In this number line lesson, students observe the teacher moving a magnet on a magnetic number line according to the operation being performed....

High schoolers predict what computers, games, or products be like in 2030. They think about and design futuristic products.

Fourth graders add and subtract decimals as they use a table to solve budget based problems.

Second graders use manipulatives, drawings, and story problems to learn the two's multiplication tables. After learning how to find answers, they participate in a memory game to match facts and answers.

In this multiplying decimals worksheet, students solve 24 multiplication problems. Each problem has a decimal being multiplied by a two or three-digit number.

In this multiplying decimals worksheet, 5th graders solve 24 multiplication problems. In each problem students must multiply two decimals together.

In this finding the products worksheet, students multiply tenths, hundredths, and thousandths with and without whole numbers. Students solve 24 problems.

For this decimal division worksheet, students solve 18 division problems. Each problem includes decimals as the dividend, divisor, or both.

Third graders explore vocabulary associated with three dimensional figures.  In this transformations lesson, 3rd graders create two dimensional nets for three dimensional figures.  Students become familiar with describing two...