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Way to Go Bananas
Fifth graders explore bananas. In this interdisciplinary lesson, 5th graders discover the dietary benefits of bananas, complete a fruits word search, write banana myths, research banana recipes, and use their problem solving skills to...
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It's Greek to Me!
Students explore Greek Mythology. In this Greek Mythology unit, students read myths, pantomime vocabulary words, practice research skills, create city-states, and demonstrate knowledge of ratios and proportions. This unit includes many...
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Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas
You can keep this printable idea sheet and use when you're in a tight spot. It contains cross-curricular ideas that span every subject while relating to the African tale, "Anasazi the Spider." Learners will act, write, move, count,...
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How To Identify Figurative Language
Pupils investigate writing techniques by analyzing a chart. In this figurative language lesson, students define similes, metaphors and identify the difference between them and personification. Pupils demonstrate their understanding by...
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Quilting Geometry
Study geometry through the concept of quilt design. High schoolers examine the geometric shapes in various quilts and then create their own quilts using geometric shapes that fit together. In the end, they write a paragraph to...
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Math Games Students Like to Play
These may not all be your cup of tea, but you'll likely find some gold in this math games packet. Find brief, easy-to-execute games (like Integer Football) and that are perfect for review or even a substitute teacher plan.
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The Ancient Maya
Students explore the culture of the Mayans through a variety of activities. In this lesson about Maya, students analyze pictures in books and on websites, produce scale models of Maya architecture, and create Maya mosaics. Students study...
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Counting Items 1-7
In this lower elementary worksheet, students count the number of items they see in each of four boxes and write the number below the pictures. They see pictures of musical instruments such as drum and flutes in the boxes.
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Funerals and Burial Rites
Ninth graders research burial practices that originated in West Africa and then migrated to the South Carolina and Ohio. They compare and contrast burial practices in both places. As students collect information and data, they organize...
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Find the Shapes in a Picture
Use coloring to remind young learners that geometry is all around them! A simple image of a house, sun, and tree becomes the format for several basic shapes. The instructions direct scholars to trace and color each shape using a...
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Crossroads Blues
The crossroads, and the decisions made and entities met there, are a common theme in literature, pushing readers to examine the choices and encounters that shape life experience. The theme has also been explored in blues music, most...
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All About Triangles
In this triangles worksheet, students recognize triangles in a picture. Students find all the triangles in the picture, trace them and color them black.
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Triangles and Circles
In this colors and shapes worksheet, learners recognize the circles and triangles and the colors yellow and orange. Students trace the circles and color them yellow and trace the triangles and color them orange.
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Mystify with the Mathematics of Ancient Egypt
Hieroglyphics, surveying, and the pyramids may all be explored with mathematics.
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Shapes and Colors: Rectangles
In this rectangle shape and color worksheet, students trace a set of six rectangles and color each a different color. Students also color a picture of a train made from rectangles.
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Predicting Temperature: An Internet/Excel Learning Experience
Third graders use the Internet (www.weather.com) to find the high temperature for our locale and the high temperature for another city around the world. They keep track of the temperature in these two locations for 10 days.
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Grade 4 Geometry
In this grade four geometry instructional activity, 4th graders calculate the perimeter of a square. Students explore how the area of a square can be found by multiplying the length of the square by its width.
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Counting the Groups of Items 1-9
In this lower elementary worksheet, students count the items in each of four groups. They circle the number between 1-9 which are below the group of items. They color in the groups of slippers, socks, bathrobes, and night caps.
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Patterns
In this patterning learning exercise, students study shape patterns and decide which shape will come next in the given sequence. Students complete 5 questions, circling the correct shape for each.
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Patterns
In this patterning instructional activity, students study shape patterns and decide which shape will come next in the given sequence. Students complete 5 questions, circling the correct shape for each.
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Caterpillar Circles
In this shape recognition activity, students trace the circles in the caterpillar and color them each a different color. Students then trace the 6 circles at the bottom of the page.
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Shapes: Triangles
In this learning shapes worksheet, students practice their fine motor skills as they trace the triangle shape and trace the word "triangle."
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Shapes and Colors
In this shapes and colors worksheet, students analyze a picture of a house that is made with squares, rectangles and triangles. Students follow the directions to trace and color each of the geometric shapes they find in the picture.
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Triangles and Rectangles
In this geometric shapes learning exercise, students study five pictures of trees made out of triangles and rectangles. Students follow the directions to trace and color the shapes they find in the picture.