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Charting Animal Life Spans
Second graders research animal life spans and complete related math activities. In this life span lesson, 2nd graders read How Many Candles and discuss life spans. Students arrange animal cards based on their life spans. Students find...
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Computer Olympics
Students compete to achieve excellence in math facts, writing terms, problem solving, and writing skills on the computer. In this Computer Olympics lesson plan, students practice the skill of drill and practice in order to succeed and...
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Battle to the Death: Adding Integers
Young scholars explore the concept of adding integers. In this adding integers lesson, students simulate the battle of the 300 spartans at Thermopylae. Young scholars use colored game pieces to represent positive and negative...
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Let's Play Some Ball!
Pupils review horizontal and vertical shifts of a parabola and how they effect a specific quadratic formula. They play a basketball review game in which they try to find the right quadratic equation for a given problem in order to earn...
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Senses -- The Touching Game
Students practice making educated guesses about objects in their hands. They guess what the object is without looking at it and choose a word that describes it. They practice using new vocabulary as well.
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The Numbers Game
Students examine how to calculate the part-per-million and part-per-billion units used to measure contaminant concentrations in the environment. They calculate ratios, take a quiz, analyze a sample chemical spill, and determine if...
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Math All Around Us
Students identify real world problems from given story problems. In this story problem lesson, students find places, events or items in the school environment that can be used to create story problems. Students take a picture of the...
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Perfection on Ice!: Math, Geometry, Fibonacci Numbers, Olympics
Students use the human body as a foundation for gaining practice in measuring angles and calculating ratios and proportions.
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Moving On Up!
Students complete a game-like simulation to determine a career and salary. In groups, they collect information and decide what is the "best" city in which to live. They create a monthly budget for their "best" city based on salary from...
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Time/Elapsed Time
Young mathematicians complete various activities to demonstrate proficiency in telling time and identifying elapsed time. They analyze and discuss television schedules, create a booklet about their daily activities, produce a TV. guide,...
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Grouping Buttons
Looking for a good lesson on counting and sorting? This lesson is worth a look! In this classification lesson, learners sort buttons by color, shape, shiny verses not shiny, or number of holes.
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Many Paths
Students explore the composition and practical application of parallel circuitry, compared to series circuitry. They design and build parallel circuits and investigate their characteristics, and apply Ohm's law. They recognize that...
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NUMB3RS - Season 2 - "Convergence" - Air Hockey
Learn how to use a matrix to organize data to solve a problem. This activity uses wins and losses to rank players for an air hockey tournament they wish to have. After practicing some basic matrix operations the class could do the...
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Exploration of "Pillbugs"
Fifth graders define vocabulary terms, identify the characteristics of a pillbug, and create a dichotomous key. Then they examine the pillbugs and make observations and record these observations. Finally, 5th graders observe specific...
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Smart Cookie Factors
Learners examine the concept of finding the greatest common factor. They complete number of activities as they practice identifying prime and composite numbers. Pupils apply rules of divisibility and find the greatest common factor while...
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Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas-Hanukkah Lights, Hanukkah Nights
Learners read Hanukkah Lights, Hanukkah Nights by Leslie Himmelman. They complete a variety of cross-curricular activities surrounding the study of Hanukkah. Included are reading, art, math, science, writing, social studies, and library...
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My Many Colored Days
Students explore feelings. In this mental health cross-curriculum lesson, students listen to My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss and discuss their own moods and feelings. Students sing related songs, write about feelings, and...
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Reasonable Estimates
Help pupils explore estimation. They will make estimates and discuss when you might use an estimate. Then they discuss if their estimates are reasonable.
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Probability: the Study of Chance
Students experiment to determine if a game is fair, collect data, interpret data, display data, and state and apply the rule for probability. Students use a simple game for this experiment.
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Alice Computer Programming
Middle schoolers explore multimedia components. In this science inquiry lesson, students read "Invitation to the Game" by Monica Hughes and they use the Alice Computer Programming System to better understand population dynamics.
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A Wet Welcome Home
Students investigate data collection and analysis. In this Algebra I activity, students create a scatter plot and find the equation of best fit in a simulation of a leaking water pipe.
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Triangles
Students identify triangles in the real world and construct their own triangle using drinking straws. They explore abstract triangles and find additional geometric shapes such as trapezoids. Students discuss similar shapes and examine...
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Games for Culminating Activity
Young scholars need to be creative in developing an activity that will help other students review the information studied in the past four weeks. They will work effectively in groups to develop a culminating activity and to play other...
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The Art and Science of Fractals
Students explore the world of fractal images and the mathematics behind them. They explore fractal sites on the Internet. They create their own fractal designs. They publish a calendar displaying their favorite fractal art.