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Magnet Lessons - Opposites Do Attract

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students can discover how opposites attract using magnet lesson plans that will engage the curious and active learner.
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Warm Up to Weaving With the Right Lesson Plans

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Explore the process of creating the fabrics, cloths, blankets, and rugs that warm the chilly months of winter with weaving lesson plans.
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Watermelon Graphing

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners discover bar graphs. In this primary math lesson plan, students identify the parts of watermelon seeds and other seeds. Learners learn the proper names and common names which refer to the parts of the seeds as they create a bar...
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Count On It!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars investigate money. In this consumer math lesson, students use coins, identify their value, then group them in various ways to equal a dollar.
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Young Engineers: Understanding Engineering Through Cooking

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore different engineering careers. In this math lesson, 2nd graders create a winning cooking recipe. They role play a mock cookie sale during the culminating event.
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Math & Science

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars are introduced to techniques to help with with math and science. In groups, they use a worksheet to discover how to count money. As a class, they watch a PowerPoint to define terms associated with science. To end the...
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Gingerbread Math

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice addition facts. In this addition lesson, students get an addition problem to solve. If they get it correct, they open up a door on a gingerbread house which gives a decoration to add to a gingerbread man. 
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Pea+Nut = Math

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students utilize peanuts to practice fractions.  In this math model instructional activity, students solve multiplication problems and fractions with real peanuts.  Students use drawing software to graph data from the math...
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A Tongue-Twisting Language Arts Lesson

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students discover enunciation and alliteration by reading tongue twisters in class.  In this language arts lesson, students listen and repeat some of the classic childhood tongue twisters along with their teacher.  Students...
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Play Ball: A Major League Review Game

For Teachers K - 12th
Apply the game of baseball to a fun review activity. Pupils earn a "base" for each subject question that they answer correctly. This activity can be modified and used for any subject area, including math, social studies, and language arts.
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Doughnut Race

For Teachers K - 5th
Pupils will practice math facts in this fast-paced and fun "Doughnut Race." This fun activity has learners practice their math facts in a face paced game environment. It can be adapted to all mathematical operations by using a poster...
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Place Value Review

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Here is a fast-paced addition game which reinforces the concept of place values. Learners view a PowerPoint on place value, then engage in the game using a whole-class format. This is a stimulating, and interesting math game activity.
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Introduction to Division

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Examine how addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division relate to and are separate from each other. As they listen to the book, The Doorbell Rang, they demonstrate the math described in the story by cutting up paper cookies...
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Sunflower Measuring and Counting

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Youngsters improve their measuring and counting skills using sunflowers. They view pictures painted by Van Gogh. Everyone works in groups to measure sunflowers and record their findings, and they all use sunflower seeds to create...
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Butterflies and Bugs

For Teachers 2nd
Symmetry, line, shape, art, and math are all connected through a fun hands-on craft. Included are instructions to a classic activity, where learners create butterflies to show symmetry in nature and then discuss symmetry in math. It is...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Comparing Numbers

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Young mathematicians spin their way to a deeper number sense with this fun, collaborative activity. Using two spinners, one with the numbers 0-9 and the other with the decades 00-90, pairs of students take turns building and comparing...
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Cuisenaire Chefs

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Favorite family recipes and cuisenaire rods are used to help learners understand fractions. They bring in recipes from home and then use their cuisenaire rods to model the fractional values needed to prepare various dishes. A great way...
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Vocabulary Cards 2nd Grade M-Z

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Math vocabulary has never been easier to understand! Use vocabulary cards to bring word walls to your classroom, helping kids make the connection between important math terms and easy-to-understand illustrations.
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Triple Addition Shuffle

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Get those kids practicing basic math skills. They practice adding 3 numbers together by playing the game "Triple Addition Shuffle." Each pair of learners shuffles number cards together, places them face down, then flips them over to...
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Exploring and Using Shapes to Make a Dance

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use their bodies to create various shapes to make a dance when given various music and beats. In this shapes and dance lesson plan, 2nd graders create lines, curves, twists, and angles with their bodies.
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George's Place

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Here is another in the interesting series of lessons that uses money as a learning tool. This one is especially clever! During the instructional activity, pupils pretend they are eating at "George's Place" diner. Small groups are given...
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Be a Problem Solving Star

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Encourage scholars to problem solve everyday frustrations using the STAR method. Using the acronym, learners remember to stop, think, act, and review. Participants begin with a math analogy in which they problem-solve to find the correct...
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Yummy Gummy Subtraction

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students practice subtraction facts using gummy bears. In this subtraction lesson, students use the gummy bears as a manipulative to solve simple subtraction facts.
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Are You Full of Hot Air?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
Explore the concept of measuring and recording circumference. In this physical science and measurement lesson, young learners blow up balloons, measure the circumference, and record the data on an interactive graphing website.

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