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Cook-A-Doodle Doo! Lesson Plan

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars enjoy the excitement in the short story, Cook-A-Doodle-Doo! In this Cook-A-Doodle Doo! lesson plan, students work to tell the difference between fact and fiction, learn vocabulary, and compare and contrast different stories.
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Saving Money Through Mathematics

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discuss light sources and collect data about energy sources. They compare data and create a multiple line graph showing energy used by light sources for each student in the group. They present their graphs and write a...
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Initial Fraction Ideas Lesson 6: Overview

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use fraction circles to observe fractions in smaller parts and to complete charting and word problem activities. In this fraction lesson plan, students complete chart problems, word problems, and fraction comparing problems...
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Subtraction and Addition Word Problems Made Easy

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create addition and subtraction word problems for a partner to solve using marbles. They explain whether the problem is an addition, subtraction, "take away", "have and need", compare or "what is the rest" type problem.
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Simple Angles

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify and construct right, acute and obtuse angles and begin to appreciate the degree and unit of measurement of angle. They know the degree value of angles that are simple fractions of a whole turn know that the angle...
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Identifying Place Value

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders complete math problems.  In this place value instructional activity, 3rd graders solve problems that require them to write the place value of a number in expanded form and identify the place value and expanded form of three...
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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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Learning About Our World

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students explore their world using the book "This is the Way We Go to School." They predict information about the story based on the title and pictures. Students label a world map with the names of continents and oceans. They write a set...
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Math Review

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this math review worksheet, students respond to 16 questions that serve as a review of fractions, decimals, patterns, number sense, properties, story problems, and computation.
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Adding and Subtracting Decimals

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice adding and subtracting numbers with decimals. In this decimals lesson plan, students use grid paper and money to learn how to add and subtract decimals.
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A Fraction of the Cost

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore the concept of fractions with coin denominations. They play a game involving trading equal fraction parts to coin values, and complete a 'Fraction Circles' worksheet.
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Build a Snowplow

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Learners design and build a snowplow using LEGO materials. They compete in an Engineer's Challenge to clear a path through Styrofoam peanuts.
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Measuring Angles

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders describe an amount of turn from a particular position to another using the 'circular' benchmarks of 0, ++, ++, ++, and full turn. Estimation language such as 'just about', 'between', 'not quite', 'just over', and similar...
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Math Mammoth End of the Year Test - Grade 3

For Students 3rd
In this comprehensive diagnostic test worksheet, learners examine, study, calculate and solve 38 math problems. They work with a variety of basic math concepts and word problems.
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Piece of the Sky: Introduction for Making S'COOL Observations

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
Students observe and discuss cloud cover. They identify percent of cloud cover, calculate cloud cover by fraction and convert to a percent, and compare their models with the current real sky cloud cover.
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Marking the Minutes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students mark seconds, minutes, hours, days, etc. on class timetable report to keep track of time spent on Uninterrupted Silent Reading.
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Summer Term Math Assessment

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this math worksheet, students assess their math skills by completing a comprehensive worksheet covering ordering and comparing numbers, place value, fractions, basic operations, word problems, geometry, time and measurement. On the...
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Million Dollar Gift

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create a box big enough to hold a million dollars. This is a project fun to do near the winter holidays with inexpensive gifts included in the boxes. This hands-on lesson plan very effectively demonstrates the concept of...
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Smoking: The Real Cost

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discuss the adverse effects of smoking and predict the financial cost of a smoking habit. They collect data regarding the cost of a pack of cigarettes and average packs smoked a day. They create bar graphs displaying the...
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M&M Ratios

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore ratios. In this probability lesson, 3rd graders sort and count M&M's and identify the ratios of different colors. Students use the attached worksheet as an assessment.
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Scaling the Blues

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Learners identify musical characteristics of blues music and define the term 'scale.' They identify chromatic, major, pentatonic, and blues scales and label each key on a keyboard using letter names, sharps and flats.
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Math is Everywhere!

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this everyday math skills pretest, students answer ten multiple choice questions based on their knowledge of everyday math skills such as estimation, addition, and measurement.
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Math

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students solve addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems that focus on serving size and counting 5 A Day.
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A Thin Slice of Soil

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students examine the importance of soil in the production of what we eat and wear, and analyze the percentages of the earth used for food production. They create their own Pyramids of Life, and construct Dirt Babies out of hosiery, dirt...