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Beef Is Good For You
Students discuss as a class the need for a healthy diet. They bring in a food product and analyze the nutrition label. Using the labels, they complete a worksheet and chart the nutrients found in beef. They use a scale to see how...
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Visual Patterns in Tessellations
Students explore tessellations as well as various types of polygon. Students examine tessellating patterns in the world around them. Students examine tessellations by creating their own tessellations and completing the included worksheet.
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Estimation Contest
Young scholars explore the concept of estimation. In this estimation activity, students estimate the number of Cheerios in their cup. Young scholars then determine the number of Cheerios in the entire box using what they know about their...
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Water Shortages
Learners explore natural elements by participating in a bingo activity. For this water usage lesson, students discuss the importance of clean water and complete worksheets based on water shortage statistics. Learners utilize flashcards...
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Basic Sense
Fifth graders add fractions. After a class discussion on real life application of fractions, the teacher uses fractions strips to model adding fractions. In pairs, 5th graders model adding fractions by drawing diagrams. They justify...
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Circles and Clocks, Shapes and Time
Students work in groups to research clocks and practice telling time. In this telling time lesson plan, students use the computer program ProQuest to study circles, including radius and diameter, and practice drawing circles using a...
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A Game of Chance
Students explore probability through cooperative group activities and interactive video technique.
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Downhill Discoveries
Students are involved in hands-on activities to determine how course conditions affect bobsled, luge, and downhill ski races.
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Fish Now or Later
Students describe the effects of over-harvest on a salmon population. They explain the importance of salmon to many communities in Alaska. They manage harvest levels to maintain a sustainable population.
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Donut Dinero
Students set up a classroom currency exchange and explore the idea of bartering to get what they want. They create a monetary unit that is based on fractions and multiples of a standard unit, and compare this system to the U.S. monetary...
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What's A Problem?
Fifth graders utilize strategies to solve a variety of problems and create problems of their own. They write explanations of problem solutions and using a checklist, evaluate themselves.
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Usage and Interpretation of Graphs
Learners review graphing and use processing skills to solve problems.
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The Fourth Quadrant of Proportiona
Students experiment with scale to solve a problem presented in a video clip. They determine the correct size to use when constructing a model and evaluate the use of proportions in real life applications.
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TAKS Quiz-Confusing Words
In this TAKS quiz worksheet, students take an online quiz focused on confusing words. Quiz may be graded online by clicking a link.
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Plan Ahead for Professional Development
You can learn something new this fall and winter by attending a conference or seminar.
Egmont
H.O.R.S.E.
Extend your lesson on Christopher Myers' H.O.R.S.E with a series of activities about basketball. After kids read the book, they match basketball terms with their definitions, find as many words as they can with the letters H, O, R,...
Smithsonian Institution
What's the Code? Coding Robot Movements Using Sound
Tap into the desire to learn about computer codes. Pupils apply the Tap Code and the Polybius Square to send secret codes using sound. They design a code that tells a robot what movements to make and then test out their code using one of...
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Making Felt Bags
Pupils study the history of bags, pouches and purses. Use of these items spans the entire globe and encompasses practically every civilization. The lesson plan culminates with learners creating their own bag from a variety of choices....
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Mineral Scavenger Hunt
Students complete a scavenger hunt worksheet as they find examples in their classroom, at home, etc., of minerals. Excellent worksheet!
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Leaping!
Students properly leap and measure their distance. For this leaping lesson, students practice leaping for accuracy and proper form. Students estimate their leaps and measure with rulers. Students determine distance covered by the entire...
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Compare Human-made Objects with Natural Objects
Students examine and observe how many human-made objects get their basic design from things in nature. They listen to the book "Nature Got There First," compare/contrast hollow bones with drinking straws, bird beaks and tool pliers, and...
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A House for Me- Ocean Environments
Students explore ocean environments. In this ocean environment lesson, students identify the things ocean animals need for survival. Students use KWL charts and search the Internet collecting information about ocean habitats....
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Fossils Footprints Across Time
Students examine fossils to understand how they are formed and how they give information about geological history. In this fossil lesson, students research and write about fossils and make models of different fossil types.The PDF...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Simple Machines
Young scholars watch a video and play a game. In this simple machines lesson, students watch a video on simple machines. They play an interactive game on the Edheads web site and share what they have learned. Throughout the day young...