Pennsylvania Department of Education
Some Special Sums
Students study addition. In this math lesson plan, students solve doubles and doubles plus one addition facts. Students roll dice and use the numbers to create addition problems.
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The Escape
Young scholars find strategies for investigating number problems. They find a common multiple of a group numbers. The teacher introduces the problem and students read and think about it. In groups, young scholars discuss the problem...
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Hula Hoop Together
Students use hula hoops and music to develop a motor skill. When the music stops students should find a blue hoop. This is also a good lesson for socializaiton.
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Group Initiatives
Students explore the names and qualities about members in the group. They each say their name and something about themselves. Students gather around in a circle. They listen to the teacher as he or she says the name of someone and throws...
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Beat the Clock
Students discuss the importance of working together. After forming groups, they perform the movement based on their teacher's instructions. When asked to stop, they must sit down and form their groups immediately. If not, the game is over.
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Mathematics Within: Algebraic Processes and Its Connections to Geometry
Fifth graders discover the connections between algebra and geometry. With a focus on arrays and factors, they are introduced to multiplication. They develop an array for multiples of 2 through 10 and identify the factors of each row....
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Happy New Year
Pupils play a game sing poly spots, balloons, beach balls, volleyball trainers, foam balls, and music that requires them to develop locomotor movement skills.
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Moving-Math Hopscotch
Students engage in a hopscotch game where each square represents a number. In this mental math and movement lesson plan, students take turns playing traditional hopscotch, but add a mental math component where they add or subtract...
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Compass Rose Directions
Second graders use cardinal and intermediate directions to locate places on maps and places in the classroom, school, and community. They draw a setting map of "Little Red Riding Hood." Students give five steps of cardinal or...
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Hoop Trip To The Planets
Students practice locomotor patterns already introduced while reinforcing facts about each planet.
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Pedometer Play
Second graders use pedometers to record and graph various activities. Students discuss various activities that can be done during recess and the types of movements that are associated with each activity. They predict which activities...
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Locomotor Hello's
Students play a musical movement game in order to explore self space and general space using a variety of locomotor movements.
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Across the Generations: Grandparents and Grandchildren
Students examine the relationships between grandparents and their grandchildren. In this sociology lesson, students analyze and discuss grandparent-grandchild relationships in contemporary times in in recent history.
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Math Computation
Second graders complete math computation word problems. In this word problems lesson, 2nd graders read the math computation word problems and solve them.
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Presidential Race
Students explain the way in which a candidate wins an electorial race and the number of votes necessary to win in the electoral college through movement.
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Fluency Station Directions
In this fluency station directions worksheet, students discover their expressive reading score through timing one another and calculating their words they read per minute.