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Geo Jammin By Design: The Important Thing

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students brainstorm what they know about geometric terms and patterns. They identify symmetry, shapes and congruency. They create a book of symmetry.
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Houses in a Row

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this patterns and sequences worksheet, students determine the color of the houses in a row by using the specific color options but never making the houses the same pattern.
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Interpreting Data

For Students 7th - 8th
In this interpreting data activity, students solve and complete 4 different types of problems using different data types. First, they collect raw data from a paragraph shown. Then, students identify the examples of two different types of...
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Best lesson in the whole world!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study the concept of fraction using mathematical reasoning. In this problem solving fraction instructional activity, students use various methods to explain their reasoning in solving fractions. Students use a number of...
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Two By One Multiplication

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use base-ten blocks to find products of two-digits by one-digit by making a model of the problem. They complete a worksheet by multiplying 2-digits by 1-digit with regrouping. They may use the base-ten blocks if needed.
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Word Problem Solving Strategies

For Students 6th - 7th
In this word problem strategy instructional activity, students solve and complete 11 different problems and questions related to growing patterns. First, they identify what they know and what information is important. Then, students...
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Woodcut

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students carve out a design on a block of wood in order to make wood cut prints. They plan their cuts around the gray and black areas to be printed.
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Definition Lists

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Young scholars create a list of items with indented text block definitions in an HTML document. They produce a bibliography with a definition list.
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Piece by Piece

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
What do your pupils know about quilting? Read and discuss the information included here before sending class members off to create their own quilt blocks using construction paper. When they have completed their blocks, provide some time...
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Mathematics: Building Fractions Game

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders improve their fractions skills by playing a game using dice and pattern blocks. Additional resources include several books dealing with fractions, such as "Eating Fractions" and "Gator Pie." Another activity for students...
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Introduction to Decimals

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this math worksheet, students are introduced to decimals by first studying pattern blocks showing a number with tens, ones and tenths. Students locate decimals on number lines and rulers and shade decimal pictures. Students compare...
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Coral Reef Designs

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this coral reef design worksheet, student use pattern blocks, tangrams, or pentominos to make a design that looks like the animals and plants that live in a Coral Reef. They trace the shapes on your paper, color it, and label each...
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Fractions of a Set

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore number sense by completing a number set worksheet. In this fractions lesson, students utilize pattern blocks as a visual reference to the fractions they practice identifying. Students read the book Clean-Sweep Campers...
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Mental Math Blocks 2

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this math worksheet, students solve eleven math problems. The problems include word problems from a variety of topics, such as money and tickets needed for a concert.
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Mental Math Blocks 3

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this math worksheet, students solve eleven math problems. These include finding the missing digits of an addition problem and solving a word problem about picking up pieces of trash.
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Mental Math Blocks 4

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this math worksheet, students solve eleven math problems. These include circling the product in a multiplication problem and writing a seven-digit number into words.
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Mental Math Blocks

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this math worksheet, students solve eleven math problems from a variety of topics. For example, students estimate the product of a multiplication problem.
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Investigation Area of Geometric Shapes

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use triangle paper to design patterns using geometric figures and find the areas of those figures by counting units. Students are assessed by determining which figure has the greatest area and explaining their reasoning.
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Investigation Can You Build This?

For Teachers K
Students work in small groups to explore spatial relationships while building with color cubes. Students must identify positions of blocks to partner, recreate a model, and color a sketch of their structure appropriately.
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COOPERATION BLOCKS

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners follow oral instructions in order to make a pattern with wooden blocks.
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ISM: Bertha Stenge Quilt Collection Activity: Design a Local Quilting Pattern

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students research quilt designs by Bertha Stenge. They make a list of things that they could stylize as a design motif. They create a quilt design based on local history and landmarks and sew it onto a pre-made quilt block or quilt.
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Sorting words (four-block)

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders each receive an index card with a word written on it. They look for spelling patterns such as "oi." Students sort the cards according to spelling pattern, and practice spelling words with the snap, clap, slap hand motions.
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Wallpaper Pattern

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars identify, explain and use the basic elements of design. They find examples of the four different types of patterns by using wallpaper as their medium. They identify the four different types of pattern and find correct...
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Let's Tesselate

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students investigate the geometrical concepts of translation, reflection, and rotation. They make different observations looking for the concepts that are displayed in classroom items like floor tiles, carpet designs, and visuals hung in...

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