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Games on Echolocation

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Get a little batty with life science! This fun simulation game replicates how bats use echolocation to hunt moths in their native Hawaiian habitat. After creating blind folds and discussing some basic principles of echolocation, students...
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Fractions and Rectangles

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Visual models are excellent teaching tools when explaining equivalent fractions. Looking at a rectangle cut into twelfths, students first identify the shaded fraction, and then explain whether the fraction is equal to one-fourth....
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Exploring Equivalent Fractions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
An extensive lesson explores equivalent fractions and is intended for three 60-minute periods. Young mathematicians compare and order fractions with like and unlike denominators. Included are worksheets, assessments, and answer sheets;...
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It's All in the Pattern

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Here is a fantastic, nine-page, multi-session lesson plan on the Zia Sun Symbol (found on the New Mexico state flag), and the seasons of the Earth. Everything you need to implement the lesson is here, and the many engaging activities are...
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Creating a Three sisters Garden

For Teachers K - 5th
Students understand that a three sisters garden is comprised of corn, beans and squash. For this three sisters garden lesson, students understand that Native Americans planted three sisters gardens and grow a three sisters garden....
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Symmetrical Geometry Paintings

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Here is a clever, cross-curricular lesson that combines art and geometry. Learners design a painting that uses geometrical shapes and is symmetrical. Sponge-shaped geometrical figures are used to design half a page and fold them to...
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Playing the Cards of Place Value

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Third graders explore place value to the ten-thousands place. In this amazing, 21-page place value lesson, learners represent numbers in standard and expanded form, and use technology to represent numbers to 9,999.
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Marshmallow Design Challenge

For Teachers K - 12th
How tall is your marshmallow structure? With limited supplies (including uncooked spaghetti noodles, masking tape, and one marshmallow), teams endeavor to support the marshmallow atop the tallest spaghetti structure they can build....
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Tiling Tessellations

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore tessellations. In this shapes and geometry lesson, students describe the attributes of many of the shapes displayed on an Elmo. Students create examples of tessellations using pattern blocks.
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The Square Counting Shortcut

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
An excellent instructional activity that encourages students to discover how complex figures can be broken into simpler shapes when measuring area. Working with block letters, learners are given the freedom to develop their own...
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Snow Day

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
It's a snow day, and two brothers attending schools with different schedules each got a late start to the day. But who had the shorter school day? That's what your class will find out as they apply their knowledge of fractions to this...
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Multiplication Word Problems One Version 2

For Students 2nd - 3rd
Our friends Kimberly, Ronald, and Gerald all go to the store. Miniature mathematicians multiply to find out how many items each of our friends bought. These straightforward word problems all involve multiplying numbers between one...
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Math, Sweet Math

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use candy to explore whole numbers one to hundred thousand. They place candy on a place value chart and explore how sweet math can be.
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Geo Jammin' - Day 3, Lesson 11: Poly Doodles All Day

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore geometric vocabulary through creation of shapes on a geoboard. They present design attributes, transfer of design, and color-coding components mix to create a fun and exciting lesson plan that stretches student thinking.
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Weather Math Student Worksheet

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this weather math worksheet, students will use weather.com to find the forecasted temperatures for their home town. Using data from the website, students will find the average highs and lows for their selected cities. Then students...
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Math on a Roll

For Teachers Pre-K - 8th
Learners practice various math skills using a polyhedral die. In this dice game lesson, students practice multiplication, addition, place value, and money using games. Standard dice may be used instead of a polyhedral die with...
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Math for the Frontier

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the concept of inflation. In this inflation activity, students compile a list of necessities they would need to take with them if they were moving to a new state next month. Students compare their list with that of a...
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Paws in Jobland: Lesson Plan 35 - Catch of the Day

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students study information for fish farm workers given in the form of a chart, in order to practice interpreting data while learning about the career of a fisherman. In this data interpretation lesson, students read the chart to find out...
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Using Math Vocabulary

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students discover the vocabulary of math. They compare numbers using the symbols greater than (>) and less than (<) and use ordinal numbers to determine place or location. They use worksheets imbedded in this lesson to practice.
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Chocolate Math

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students utilize chocolate to identify parts of a whole.  In this fractions lesson, students discover the vocabulary associated with fractions and practice dividing a chocolate bar into pieces based on fraction problems....
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Tic Tac Toe Math Addition 8

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this tic-tac-toe math game worksheet, students practice their three digit addition skills as they play two rounds of the math game with a partner.
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M&M Math

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students research number values by participating in a candy exercise. In this math function lesson, students utilize baking ingredients to create cookies and multiply how many M&M's will go into the batch if you want a certain amount...
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Writing Scripts For Math Podcast

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create podcasts of student-created review questions using iPod, iTalk, iTunes, GarageBand, and Keynote. This lesson is intended for as a mathematics review but could be adapted to fit any subject across many different levels.
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Multiplication Lesson Plan

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students demonstrate multiplication facts using an interactive whiteboard. For this multiplication lesson, students use an online activity on a whiteboard to master multiplication facts. Students complete an online quiz as a follow-up.

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