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Light Plants and Dark Plants, Wet Plants and Dry Ones
Students plant sunflower seeds in plastic cups, and once germinated, these are exposed to different conditions of light levels and/or soil moisture contents. Students measure growth of the seedlings every few days using non-standard...
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Traveling Sound
Young scholars explore how sound waves move through liquids, solids and gases in a series of simple sound energy experiments. They describe how sound needs molecules to move and that changing the medium that it travels through changes...
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Not So Snappy 4
In this order of operations (i.e., addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) worksheet, students solve 4 word problems demonstrating their understanding of the concept.
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Pattern Block Polygons
Sixth graders create polygons. In this shapes activity, 6th graders explore prefixes such as oct, tri, quad, pent, etc. and share their findings. Students use pattern blocks to create two different polygons and label them.
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Permutations and Combinations
In this Probability instructional activity, students solve problems involving permutations and combinations. The one page instructional activity contains 10 questions. Answers are not included.
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Heart to Heart
Students predict the outcome of a question and conduct a survey and record their findings on a bar graph.
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Weather Graphing
Every morning pupils complete the weather chart. They use colors to reflect the cloud cover and symbols for rain, snow, etc.
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Skittles Lab
Students use Skittles as manipulatives to practice computing decimals from fractions, computing decimals into percentages, and creating bar graphs from gathered data.
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Science: Comparing Beer and Bread
Students compare and contrast cellular respiration in yeast and plant and animal cells. After discovering the role of yeast in making beer and bread, they describe the short and long term effects of alcohol on the nervous and digestive...
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Getting it Right!
Students investigate error. As shown in earlier activities from navigation lessons 1 through 3, without an understanding of how errors can affect position, one cannot navigate well. Students explore how computers can help in navigation....
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Growing and Graphing
Students visit a 2nd and a 4th grade class to measure the heights of older students using large building blocks as a non-standard unit of measure. They can also measure adults in the school community. Results are displayed in...
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GPS Art
Students design their own logo or picture and use a handheld GPS receiver to map it out. They write out a word or graphic on a field or playground, walk the path, and log GPS data. The results display their "art" on their GPS receiver...
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Science: Coral Reef Food Pyramid
Students construct numbers pyramids using fictional data from a coral reef. they tally the numbers of carnivores, herbivores, and producers. Students next build a pyramid shape in which they put their numbers of producers, herbivores,...
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Geometry: Practical Applications of the Distance Formula
Students, working independently and in groups, apply the distance formula to practical situations. After solving various problems, students in pairs design coordinate planes from the school blue print to measure the distance from the...
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Butterflies and Flowers
Students observe and demonstrate the concepts of over, under, and on. Using a cutout of a flower and a butterfly, they identify if the butterfly is over, under, or on the flower. Students complete a worksheet along with the teacher, and...
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Probability as a Decimal
In this probability as a decimal worksheet, students determine the probability of a number as a decimal. They draw a marble at random from a jar and calculate the probability given. Then, students roll a die numbered from 1 to 6 and...
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Colors and Geometric Shapes
In this color and geometric shapes instructional activity, students examine a chart with 16 figures with their color words printed underneath each one. Students answer the 6 questions using the information on the chart.
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Favourite Colours
In this colors worksheet, learners survey 20 people on what their favorite color is. They mark the results using tallies. Students then take their data and put the totals in a frequency table.
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If You Give A Pig A Party
Students read If You Give A Pig A Party and participate in visual arts activities based on the book. In this visual arts lesson plan, students read the given book and do visual arts activities that include matching words to pictures,...
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Finding Multiples
In this multiples worksheet, students underline multiples of 2, 5, 10, 3, 4 and 6 with various given colors. Some numbers given are multiples of more than 1 number.
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Counting Money in a Purse
In this counting money learning exercise, students solve four problems in which the amount of money in four purses is counted and the amount recorded. Note: All four purses are empty.
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Can You Guess The Flavor?
Second graders conduct a tasting experiment. In this senses lesson, 2nd graders read The Five Senses and brainstorm different tastes. They work in pairs, one blindfolded and the other recording. The blindfolded student eats one skittle...
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Same Shapes
For this same shapes activity, students color shapes in rows that match the 1st one shown in each row, then trace a set of shapes twice and draw once.
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Initial Fraction Ideas Lesson 1: Overview
Students use the colors in their fraction circles to answer short answer questions about fractions. In this fractions lesson plan, students count the colors of their fraction circles and add them together to make fractions.