Illustrative Mathematics
3-D Shape Sort
From the apple on your desk and the coffee cup in your hand, to the cabinets along the classroom wall, basic three-dimensional shapes are found everywhere in the world around us. Introduce young mathematicians to the these common figures...
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Coconut and Chocolate Chip Passover Macaroons
Recipies are a natural medium for using fractions in real-world problems. This delicious activity has learners adapting the ingredients for coconut and chocolate chip macaroons, a Passover treat, for fewer and more cookies than the...
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Sports and Hobby Math
Explore math concepts as they relate to real world situations. Young analysts consider a personal hobby or favorite sport and list three ways math is involved in the hobby. They create several related math story problems and write a...
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Cylinder Volume Lesson Plan
Tenth graders define the formula for cylinders and use it to solve real world problems. For this geometry lesson, pupils differentiate between area, perimeters, 2D shapes, 3D shapes, and volume of prisms, cylinders and spheres. They...
Project Food, Land & People
Loco for Cocoa
Students create a time line and map about how chocolate traveled the world. In this chocolate lesson plan, students also create and taste chocolate.
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Cooking Your Favorite Meal - Vocabulary and Discussion Lesson for English Students of All Ages
Here is a great idea that incorporates cooking, recipe reading, content specific vocabulary, and culture. The class defines cooking related vocabulary, discusses the food they eat, then develop a recipe of their own. This is a great way...
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Words in the News Maradona And the 'Hand of God' 24 August 2005
Students study vocabulary about football and the World Cup. They complete word work and read an online article looking for answers to specific questions.
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Soccer Stumper
In this algebra learning exercise, 11th graders calculate who will finish in the top four of the world series. They also calculate the scores for each team. There is an answer key with this problem.
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LESSON 3: The Many Shades of Our World
Students recognize that people have many different types of skin color.
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Engineers for a Sustainable World
Learners experiment with making a water filtration system. In this engineering lesson, students get into groups and are challenged to use only eight items to create a water filter. When finished, learners compare and contrast their results.
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When Dinosaurs Ruled the World
Students create their own fossil. In this fossil lesson, students explore dinosaurs and fossils through reading Fossils Tell of Long Ago by Aliki. Upon completion of the story, students use modeling clay to create a cast.
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Food and Languages of the World
Pupils listen to the story "No Blue Food" in this lesson. They then discuss Allegra, the main character, and her hesitation to try new foods. They participate in a matching game in which they match cards to determine a fruit topping...
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Out of This World
Students are introduced to the solar system and its place in the universe. They begin to grasp the idea of very large numbers by estimating and computing how long it take the class to make a million x's.
DK Publishing
Using Information in Tables
Find out how well can your second or third graders use tables to solve word problems by assigning this single-page worksheet. Two tables with different sets of data prompt learners to solve six problems. An example at the top of the page...
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Mind Your Pints and Quarts: Making Sense of Liquid Measurement
Elementary and middle schoolers identify different units of liquid measurement. They use the online Visual Thesaurus to learn about the relationships between units of liquid measurement.
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Cookie Dough Equivalence
Who doesn't love cookies? In this lesson, learners follow a recipe to make cookies, practicing their ability to compare fractions as they go. This is a wonderful way to motivate your class to practice this important skill.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Water Tower Challenge
Providing clean water to a town is quite a feat... is your class up for the challenge? After a short reading about water towers, groups work together to design a working water delivery system. The water flow must be adjustable (able to...
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Adding and Subtracting Fractions
Fifth graders put their fraction knowledge to work by reading word problems and deciding whether to add or subtract the given fractions. Terms such as combined, total, difference, and left indicate which operation to use.
California Academy of Science
Coral and Chemistry
Using cabbage juice as a pH indicator, future scientists explore the effect of increasing carbon dioxide on the pH of the ocean and relate it to the health of coral reefs. Ideal for an earth or environmental sciences course, this lesson...
Captain Planet Foundation
George Washington Carver and the Sweet Potato
Learn about George Washington Carver's important contributions to agriculture by studying the sweet potato. First graders read about the inventor's observations and prepare sweet potato slips for the class garden. Additionally, they...
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Measurement
First graders listen to a read aloud of Linda Williams, The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything" before discussing Halloween. They measure pumpkins using chains of paper clips to find their length and width. Once they open the...
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Words in the News: Bangkok - A City on the Move
Students brainstorm on what they know about Bangkok. They practice using new vocabulary words. They read an article about the World Cup in Bangkok and answer questions to end the instructional activity.
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Hitler's Lost Sub
Students watch a video clip about German submarines lost during World War II. They work together to create their own submarine out of a plastic bottle. They test the buoyancy of the submarine in different activities.
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Mind Your Pints and Quarts: Making Sense of Liquid Measurement
Learners convert among liquid measurement units. In this measurement lesson plan, students use Visual Thesaurus to gather information about customary units for liquid measure such as cup, pint, and quart, then learners practice...
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