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Check Out Your Change!
Students examine a coin and write down details about the coin. They use appropriate tools and techniques to gather information. They employ logic to determine differences between the coins.
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Common Knowledge 3
For this basic skills worksheet, 1st graders write their name, social security and parents name. Students write the months of the year. Students define a month in days and a year in days. Students write the values of the coins and the...
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Laws of Exponents, Radicals
In this Algebra II worksheet, 11th graders solve problems involving the laws of exponents, including fractional exponents, solve radical equations, and graph radical functions. The ten page worksheet contains fifty-seven...
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Introduction To Earning Interest
Students engage in a lesson on interest and bank savings accounts. They see why people deposit money at banks and other financial institutions and explain that interest is paid on an annual, monthly or quarterly basis.
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Addition - Counting On
Second graders solve addition problems without using a calculator. In this addition lesson plan, 2nd graders solve addition problems by "counting on." Students are taught this specific strategy and given the opportunity to practice.
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ESL Holiday Lessons: Plan on Buy Nothing Day
In this ESL holiday lesson worksheet, learners read a passage about Buy Nothing Day, then complete a variety of comprehension and vocabulary activities.
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Nicotine Why is it so hard to quit smoking?
Students interview both smokers and nonsmokers to get their point of view on the topic. They prepare bar graphs based on the data accumulated by the class during the interviews.
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Journey to America
Students explain how life changed drastically for many families. They recognize the hardships involved in emigrating and immigrating and explain the concept of being a victim
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Utamoro Prints
Young scholars discuss the art work of Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamoro and investigate the term "commercialization" and its affect on societies. The lesson concludes with individuals presenting their own findings and examples of...
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Aluminum Altruism
Students explore the value of recycling. They consider the importance of giving back to their school community. They calculate their earnings using multiplication and addition.
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Slick Moves: Exploring the Controversial Plan to Drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Young scholars recount their knowledge of natural resources and articulate their understanding of the multi- faceted debate that surrounds drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. They then examine the complexity of drilling in...
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Coin Conversions
Fifth graders engage in the study of conversions from decimals to percents while examining monetary values. They explain the relationships between the equivalency interchanging decimals with percents. Then students write about the...
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What Drives the Stock Prices?
Students see that earnings drive stock prices. More importantly, students look for earnings growth from the continuing operations of a business.
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Variables
In this variables practice worksheet, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems. Students solve 6 problems.
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More Bait for Your Buck!
Students determine where to buy the heaviest earthworms as they study invertebrates. They create a double bar graph of the results of the weight data.
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What Drives the Stock Prices?
Students discover that earnings drive stock prices. They look for earnings growth from the continuing operations of a business. They also use price-to-earnings ratio as one of the tools in choosing stocks for the Global Stock Game.
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Exploring the Controversial Plan to Drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Students examine the Bush Administration's plan to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from varying points of view. They work in small groups in order to perform their research, but they compose individual journal writes...
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Illustrating Equations Worksheet
Represent 10 algebraic equations using algebra tiles using this hands-on activity sheet. Your class will solve 10 algebraic equations using the algebra tiles.
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Subtract from Numbers to 100
In this subtraction worksheet, learn to solve the subtraction word problems that have numbers that range to one hundred. Students solve six word problems that subtract cents from 100.
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"Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday" by Judith Viorst
Students figure out the probability that the penny's sixth toss be heads also. They figure the probability of having six coin tosses in a row all end on the same side.
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Max's Math Adventures: Beekman's Ice Cream Shop
In this math activity, students read a rhyming poem, take notes in a provided space, then solve a coin puzzle problem based on information given in the poem.
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Time Flies When Math Is Fun
Third graders pracdtice telling time with a demonstration clock.
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Traveling the Tokaido Road
Learners investigate the significance of the Tokaido Road by studying Ando Hiroshige's woodblock illustrations of The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido. This lesson includes a list of possible extensions.
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Numeracy Assessment
In this math worksheet, students solve the basic problems using math facts that have been previously taught as part of a formal assessment for the 13 questions.