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Children's Books
Students explore daily dilemmas students face. They write and illustrate a story book dealing with one dilemma. Students write reviews of their books. They read their books to second grade students. Additional cross curriculum activities...
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Are You Absolutely Sure of the Value?
Seventh graders develop an examineing of absolute value through real world situations. They develop an examineing of when absolute value can be used in a given situation.
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Miners
Students complete various activities related to mining and mining safety. They write an energy sentence, complete a word puzzle, cut and glue safety equipment on a mining character, solve a math code word puzzle, and complete a maze...
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Creating A Family Tree
Fourth graders explore their ancestral background while they experience genealogy.
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What Interests You?
Fourth graders investigate math in the real world using internet search methods to locate career fields of interest. They select an occupation, and draft brief paragraphs that reflect insight as to why that occupation interests them.
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Geography: Continents
First graders identify basic geographical facts about the world they live in and distinguish between land and water on a globe. They research the continents and information associated with each one focusing on building their map skills.
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Honey ! I Blew Up The Bee!
Second graders complete a variety of bee-themed activities. They consider the importance of honeybees in food production, conduct Internet research, prepare foods using honey, complete puzzles and compile a portfolio of their work.
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SC Populations Along Major Interstates
Students examine the population among the interstates in South Carolina. Using the internet, they identify the counties and roads and compare it with their own drawing.
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Mimics Survive -- Camouflaged Reptiles
Students examine mimicry as a survival strategy in repiles. They examine examples of the Mexican milksnake and the coralsnake in attempt to distinguish the differences in them. They discuss other species that use mimicry.
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Minerals
Students explore the concept of minerals. In this minerals lesson, students discuss how cooling affects the size of crystals. Students discuss how the structure of minerals is a tetrahedron. Students discuss the structure of silicates...
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Investigating Triangles 1
Students independently investigate the Pythagorean Theorem. They are given a set of triangles that involve whole number Pythagorean Triples. The main focus of the lesson is exploration rather than discovering the Pythagorean Theorem.
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Matching Pairs
Learners take turns matching the appropriate shapes (listing coin values) to those with numerical values listed on them. When students are successful, they win a blank shape for their collection.
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Language Arts: Five Senses Walk
First graders take a discovery walk around the school. They use their observations to compose a class book about their school.
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Communities at Work
Students explore how people function together in small communities to reach a common goal.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Patterns in Nature
In this video segment [3:25] from Cyberchase, a plant expert shows Bianca the patterns and symmetry found in nature.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Patterns in Division by 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] For this learning module, students must identify number patterns involving subtraction and relate them to division and multiplication. Includes video demonstrating a...
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Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Investigating Patterns Activity Plan
Patterns are everywhere! For this week-long learning adventure, children will discover what a pattern is and explore patterns in different ways. Children will learn that patterns consist of a "core" or "unit" that repeats as they...
US Department of Education
Helping Your Child Learn Math: Math for the Fun of It
This compilation of math activities engages parents and children in the use of math whenever they are at home. Packed with concise, high interest activities, related illustrations, detailed "parent pointers," and easy to following...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Finding the Number From the Figure Patterns
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] For this learning module, students are asked to identify multiplication patterns and to use their division facts to fill in missing factors. Includes video...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Exploring Patterns & Writing Word Problems
In this lesson plan, young scholars will listen to the book called The Grapes of Math by Greg Tang, but before reading, students will listen for the "different" way to solve the problem on each page. After reading, young scholars will...
University of Waterloo (Canada)
University of Waterloo: Cemc: Math Circles: Patterns [Pdf]
This worksheet provides exercises in working with number patterns. Included are questions related to fractals, patterns in exponents, and perimeter and area.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Relate Number Patterns to Multiplication
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A practice quiz where students identify the multiplication pattern in a sequence and fill in related numbers without using multiplication.