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Why We Trade: Exchanging Goods and Services

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students conduct simple bartering and trading activities and consider how product value can be altered by the market.
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Learning about Shapes with Tangrams and the Net

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students use tangrams, student literature, and Websites to explore shapes.
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Estimation Station

For Teachers K - 5th
Students explore estimation and count by tens with Goldfish crackers.
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Graphing Favorite Holidays

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students create spreadsheets and bar graphs based on results of survey of favorite holidays.
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Where Should It Go? Recycle? Compost? Incinerate? Landfill?

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students discuss what happens to trash after it is collected. They sort "clean" trash into groups depending on whether it should be recycled, incinerated, placed in a landfill, composted or if it is something we could avoid using.
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Poems Have Shapes, Too!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners explore the world of geometric shapes by writing poetry. They use the Diamante Poetry worksheet. They select one geometric shape and, using the template, create their own poem.
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Classmate Grid

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Learners interview classmates and record their findings on a coordinate grid using Inspiration or Kidspiration and digital cameras. This lesson is technology-based and includes resource links.
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Number Books

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students construct a book to illustrate number concepts. They write their numbers on a sheet of paper. Students in grade 1 discuss counting to 100 by different numbers. Pupils in grades (2-4) write basic addition or subtraction story...
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OTC Medications

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners sort medications by likeness and use. They compare and contrast using a Venn Diagram, and find the differences and commonalities of over the counter and Rx medications.
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Introduction to Estimation and Making Arrays

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners explore the concept of estimating and organizing a group of objects into an array to count the exact number of items. They create their own arrays and practice elements of estimation.
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Grade 2: Spinning Sums

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders collect data by spinning two spinners and creating sums, organize the data, and make conclusions from the data. Each students makes a spinner. They spin and record the number of the section each time. Students work in...
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Fractions

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders, while in the computer lab discuss Fraction Action by Loreen Leedy, practice solving problems involving fractions. They explore non-unit fractions by describing parts of a set utilizing their attributes to categorize the...
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Shapes, Shapes Everywhere!!!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students set out on a scavenger hunt throughout the school building in search of photos of various shapes to be inserted into a PowerPoint presentation. Students later share their presentations with their peers.
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Food From Trees

For Teachers K - 2nd
Student use online resources to describe and compare food from trees. They take a nature walk, look for trees that give animals or people food and place foods found on a chart. In addition, they visit related sites for information.
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Valentine Dominoes

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
In this Valentine's math game worksheet, learners cut out and shuffle forty-eight paper Valentine dominoes. Students play with a partner to match up and count all the ends of each pair of dominoes.
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There Was An Old Lady...

For Teachers K - 8th
Students participate in various activities using the story There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly. In this reading fluency lesson, students read the story and then practice comprehension, fluency, and writing. An estimation activity...
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Friendship Bracelets

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students create friendship bracelets using a circular pattern. In this friendship lesson, students use visual aides such as Kidspiration and use a problem solving method to learn more each other.
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Addition Worksheet: Totals 19 or Less #1

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
For this addition worksheet, students complete a total of 35 problems, all answers to problems total 19 or less. Worksheet included links to answers and additional worksheets.
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Addition Worksheet: Totals 10 or Less #2

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
In this addition worksheet, students complete a total of 35 problems, all answers to problems total 19 or less. Worksheet included links to answers and additional worksheets.
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Addition: Sums to 18

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
In this addition worksheet, students complete a total of 30 problems, all answers to problems total 18 or less. Worksheet included links to answers and additional worksheets.
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Subtraction Worksheet : Numbers to 19 (1 of 3)

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
In this subtraction worksheet, students find the differences to 53 horizontal and vertical subtraction problems. They work with numbers up to 19 and do not regroup while working.
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Subtraction - Numbers to 19 ( 3 of 3)

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
In this subtraction instructional activity, learners find the differences in 30 vertical problems which use numbers up to nineteen. They do not regroup as they solve the problems in which they subtract a single digit number from a two...
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What Is An Inch?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
Students identify the length of an inch. In this measurement lesson, students read Inch by Inch and predict how many inches long various objects are. Students practice measuring the objects by using an inch ruler.
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It Counts

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students assign numbers to describe objects. In this number lesson, students assign numbers to objects and compare more, less, and equal values. They write down descriptions of plants including the number of leaves and height of the...