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Which container holds a larger amount of popcorn?

For Teachers 6th - 7th
What does popcorn have to do with math?  Seventh grade mathematicians are provided an opportunity to develop a conceptual understanding of the formula for volume and to use it as a tool to solve problems. The instructional activity...
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Pop Around the World

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students study the origin of popcorn. They locate countries where it is grown on a world map. They color the world map and glue kernels of popcorn onto the countries from which popcorn originated. They write the names of common items...
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Decimals

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students review a list of sizes and prices for popcorn sales and then determine the most economical purchase. They rank the bags of popcorn from the most economical to the least.
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Contributions

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine the contributions of the First Nations. In this contributions lesson, 2nd graders discover the origin of popcorn. Students read about popcorn and how popcorn can be used in many ways. Students write a paragraph...
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Pop Secret Information

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners design procedures for increasing the popping rate of a set amount of popcorn kernels. They propose and test a "secret" addition to the corn popping procedure which they expect would increase the popping rate and then write lab...
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Poetry Beyond Words

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Participate in writing poetry as a group. Focused on a given theme, young writers compose a popcorn poem using sensing verbs and adverbs. They write popcorn poems, onomatopoeias, collective poems, and diamond poems. You could introduce...
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Popcorn Is a Gas

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Learners investigate why and how popcorn pops. In this gas lesson plan, students observe and make suggestions as to what causes popcorn to pop after observing popped corn and corn kernels. Learners mass the kernels before and after...
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Popcorn PPPPopping P

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students are introduced to the most popular phonemes to help them with their reading. As a class, they listen to popcorn popping and identify the sound being heard. They practice saying different tongue twisters and drawing the letters...
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Popcorn Science: Pop Goes the Kernel!

For Teachers K - 12th
Students conduct various experiments to determine why popcorn pops. They design tests to determine the effect of water in the kernels on its popping. Once the experiments are completed, they write summaries of them proving or...
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Popcorn Action

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Learners divide one side of paper into three columns: 1) What I see 2) What I smell 3) What I hear. On the other side, have them write two columns: 4) What I feel 5) What I taste. They fill in #1, 2,3 as the teacher pops popcorn.
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Poppin' For Popcorn!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students graph data from different popcorn flavors. In this graphing instructional activity, students make graphs using an assigned web site after collecting data about the flavors of popcorn that fellow classmates prefer.
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Altogether Now, The Five Senses

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students make popcorn to summarize end of five senses unit.
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Baylor College

About Air

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Give your class a colorful and tasty representation of the components of the mixture that we call air. Pop a few batches of popcorn in four different colors, one to represent each gas: nitrogen, oxygen, argon, and carbon dioxide. The...
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Interdisciplinary Approach to Investigating Popcorn

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students conduct a lab experiment using the scientific method. In this interdisciplinary lesson plan, students will test the difference in popping white and yellow corn. Students will write their lab report in their science, math,...
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Popcorn Nutrition

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students read a snack nutrition chart and answer questions. They compare nutrition levels of snack foods. They correctly calculate differences in nutritional value.
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"The Popcorn Book" by Tomie dePaola

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students read "The Popcorn Book" by Tomie dePaola and complete a variety of comprehension exercises. They discuss the text, identify facts presented in the book and the evidence supporting those facts and fill in the blanks of a worksheet.
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Popcorn Neutrino Lab

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students parcticipate in a modeling activity that simulates the cyclical role of experimental and theoretical science. Initially, students measure the mass of popcorn. They also record predictions of the mass of the kernels after they...
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Going to the Movies (Basic Code Sentences)

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Take a pretend trip to the movies with a series of basic code sentences. Images of movie tickets, popcorn buckets, and movie cameras award learners varying amounts of points for each sentence that they can successfully read.
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Discovering Quadratics

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Get to know quadratics from a couple of different perspectives. Classmates work in small groups to determine the optimal cooking time for microwave popcorn. Group members pop bags of popcorn for different times and collect data on the...
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Dating Popcorn

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Young scholars simulate the dating process with popcorn. In this geology activity, students discuss how geologist find the age of rocks by gauging the amount of decay of radioactive elements. They have 6 bags of popcorn and each group...
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What Do You Like on Your Popcorn?-- Class Bar Graph

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this math learning exercise, students participate in a class bar graph activity. Students survey classmates as to their popcorn preferences: nothing, butter or salt. Results are plotted on the graph.
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Baylor College

Food for Kids

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
Immediately capture the attention of your class with the smell of freshly popped popcorn in the sixth lesson of this series on the needs of living things. Young scientists first use their senses to make and record observations of...
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Definitions of Conduction, Convection, and Radiation

For Students 6th - 8th
There's quite a bit in this physical science packet. First, how is heat transferred? Learners read a brief explanation of conduction, convection, and radiation before identifying common occurrences (with pictures) as one of the three....
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Cooking Lesson

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders taste different flavors on their popcorn. In this taste bud lesson, 4th graders make predictions about taste and dip popcorn into four different flavors. They record how the flavors tasted - sweet, salty, bitter, or sour.

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