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Bubble Activities
Students participate in a variety of activities that involve bubbles. In this bubbles lesson plan, students make bubbles out of a soap solution, make bubble domes, make bubbles with their hands, and more.
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Looking at shapes, colours and patterns in Flowers and Butterflies
Students study patterns, lines, shapes, and colors in both flowers and butterfly wings. They create their own flower and butterfly drawings and/or models to reinforce the concept.
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Shape Sandwich
Students create sandwiches with an adult. In this shapes lesson, students are familiarized with shapes while making their sandwich.
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Activity Two--Psyching Out the System (Student Page) Asking Questions, Using Clues
Students observe two-dimensional shapes and work on the challenge that what is observed is as important as what is not observed.
Students determine constructions, rules and connections.
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Patterns
In this shape patterns instructional activity, students identify the shapes within each set and draw the missing shapes to complete the 11 patterns.
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Read and Draw Shapes to Number 10
In this read and draw instructional activity, students read a number at the beginning of a row, then draw that many of the shapes given, circles or triangles. Numbers 1-10 are used.
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Heart Shaped Mice
Students create mice using heart shapes, construction paper, yarn, markers, scissors, and glue in this Art lesson for the early-elementary classroom. The activity is an excellent alternative for use during the Valentine's Day season.
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Six Number Pattern and Sequence Activities
In this numbers and sequences worksheet, students solve problems presented in six different activities. Extension problems are also provided.
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Fun Crystal Activities
Students complete a variety of activities to learn about crystals. In this crystals lesson plan, students paint with a crystal solution, pan for crystals, grow crystals, and more.
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Paper Airplane Activity
Ninth graders select and build one of five different paper airplane designs and test them for distance and for time aloft. Part of this activity is designed to explore NASA developed software, FoilSim, with respect to the lift of an...
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Lines and Shapes
First graders identify different kinds of lines found in common shapes. They discover ways in which an artist utilizes lines in a painting.
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Find the Shape
Students identify points on the coordinate plane using ordered pairs and also plot the ordered pairs on the coordinate plane. They also use properties of shapes to identify polygons such as triangles and quadrilaterals
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Help Santa's Elf Wrap Presents Worksheet
For this Christmas present wrapping worksheet, students cut out the 4 presents and glue them in the correct box that matches their shape. The presents are the following shapes: circle, square, triangle and rectangle.
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Shaping the Land
In this shaping the land activity, students will match 7 vocabulary words relating to the movement of sediments to its definition. Kids will read 10 statements about how water and glaciers impact sediment movement and answer true or...
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Cookies
In this language arts activity, learners participate in a reader's theater about cookies and five subtraction problems and examine words in a word bank that fit into word shape grids. Students then trace a sentence using those words.
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Fractions
In this fractions learning exercise, learners complete several activities that help them learn fractions. Students identify fractions of 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4.
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Counting Shapes-1-6
In this counting worksheet, students count sets of shapes, writing the total number next to each set. numbers 1-6 are used. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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First Grade Mathematics Quiz
In this math quiz activity, student complete multiple choice problems about money, shapes, patterns, and more. Students complete 15 problems total.
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What do they want? Critical Perspectives on the 1960's in the United States
Students determine that history is a field of study that can help them understand themselves and the people around them. By reading sources by and about people with many of the same interests and concerns that they have and learning to...
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Preschool Activity Centers
Students brainstorm uses for common objects. Preschool students handle everyday items and identify their uses. Student teachers plan the activity and demonstrate it for the class.
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Pattern Coloring Activity
In this pattern worksheet, students color the last 3 figures in a row of shapes, continuing the color pattern shown. Answers are included on page 2.
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Closure Activity for Square Numbers
In this closure activity for square numbers activity, 9th graders evaluate if numbers are square numbers by determining if it can be modeled by a square (the shape) for 13 tasks.
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Preservation Through Education: Activities and Programs
Students participate in different activities to help them discover the need for preservation. They pretend they are underwater archaeologists and create a sketch of a mock shipwreck in their classroom. They label the parts of the ship as...
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Map Projections: The Grapefruit Activity
Students partcipate in activities in which they examine different map projections. They discover the positives and negatives of each type. They use grapefruits to help them with the different types of map projections.