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Students develop mathematical skills using measurement in the form of weight. They also perform calculations to find cost and strengthen estimation skills while comparing the actual price. The context for the lesson is in the industry of...
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The 80 Question Oral Quiz- Test Your Listening Skills!
In this dictation quiz instructional activity, students listen and write as the teacher reads the numbers, letters, and words given in the list. They can read the words to each other as an adaptation of this instructional activity. The...
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Crossing Paths
In this completing a chart activity, 3rd graders fill in 22 items or category titles to two charts involving animals and fruit. Students choose their answers from a word bank.
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Colors: Vegetables
In this vegetables worksheet, learners color the vegetables the correct colors. Students color 5 different kinds of vegetables the correct colors.
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Numbers: Dig In
In this numbers activity, students find all the vegetables in the picture and count and color them. The vegetable name and the number of each one in the picture is listed on the side.
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The Key to Word Problems
Pupils learn the key words to look for in multiplication and division word problems, to help them decide which operation to use. They analyze, wrte, and solve multiplication problems.
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Independent Practice: Visual Sums of 3 Numbers
For this addition worksheet students will solve ten addition problems involving the sum of three numbers. Students will look at a picture to help them visualize and solve the problem.
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Pizza Toppings 2
Students explore possible combinations of items. They devise and use problem solving strategies to explore situations mathematically. They examine using linear and quadratic patterns to solve combination problems. From a given...
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Food Ways - Graphing
Sixth graders choose the appropriate graph to display collected data. They interview each other on what foods they eat. They also interview elders and find out what types of food they grew up eating. They create graphs to display the...
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Trash Pizza
Students identify items commonly sent to landfills and summarize percentages/fractions of different items in landfills Students create a pizza pie graph of landfill components
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Ketchup to Collecting Data
First graders collect data for a survey of 3 brands of ketchup and create class charts. They taste test three different brands of ketchup, and use the data to create a presentation. Tasty instructional activity!
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Counting on Good Health
First graders engage in fun activities in order to understand the food pyramid and how to make healthy nutritional choices. The lesson is used in order to help students make healthy lifestyle choices.
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Foamie Fun Stuff
Students use foam pieces for matching games and other activities. In this foamie craft lesson, students make a foam pizza puzzle and other forms. Students use the foam shapes to do the puzzle or create the other forms.
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Acids, Bases, and pH
Students investigate acids, bases,and pH. They test the acidity and basicity of various household items using litmus paper. Using their results, they rank the substances according to pH and identify the contributing chemical on the label.
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Meat Processing
In this meat processing activity, students learn how nitrates are used as curing agents for meat and how tenderizers work. Students compare meat treated with nitrates with meat that has not been treated. Students complete 8 short answer...
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Food Color Chemistry
Students investigate plant pigments in fruits and vegetables. In this plant pigments lesson plan, students observe the effects of pH changes on chlorophyll in one demonstration and they observe the effects pH changes on flavonoids in...
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Sums Greater Than One
In this fractions practice worksheet, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems that have sums greater than 1.
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Build a Burger
Here is an outstanding instructional activity on food groups, nutrition, and diet. In it, learners focus on hamburgers! They take a close look at the products that go into making a hamburger, conduct taste tests on samples, discuss the...
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Finding, Gathering, Saving Seeds
Students understand the importance of saving seeds. For this saving seeds lesson, students dry out seeds for later use planting. Students recognize that one plant may have many seeds.
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Plants are yummy!
Is it a fruit or a vegetable? Youngsters place an F next to each fruit they see and a V next to the vegetables. Corn is tricky. It is a grass, so it's actually not a fruit or a vegetable, but a grain!
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Rooster's Night Out
Students explore folktales. In this folktale lesson, students listen to a story from another country and discuss the characters. Students retell the story using puppets and do coloring sheets. Students do a sequencing cut and paste...
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Spicy, Hot Colors
Students demonstrate an understanding of colors. In this visual arts lesson, students read the text Hot, Spicy Colors and name their favorite colors. Students complete a bar graph to show the data. Students discuss how each color can...
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February Facts Internet Hunt
In this February facts Internet hunt learning exercise, students use search engines and linked websites to answer 30 questions about topics from all subject areas. This page has numerous links to helpful web resources.
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The Ogre Bully Lesson
Students investigate bullies, agriculture and cooking by completing worksheets about a book they read. In this story analysis lesson, students read the story The Ogre Bully, and discuss bullying as well as farming with their classmates....