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Halloween Math Lesson Plan
Students practice their multiplication and division by creating a Witches Brew. In this holiday math lesson, students utilize Halloween style ingredients to create a fun edible treat for themselves. Students practice their...
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Pumpkins... Not Just For Halloween
Celebrate fall with four pumpkin themed hands-on activities! After learning about pumpkins, scholars complete two activity sheets that reinforce estimation and word problems. They then plant pumpkin seeds and bake a pie in...
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Multiplication Mysteries
Arithmetic apprentices practice problem solving and multiplication with a lift-the-flap pair of reproducibles. In this Halloween mathematics lesson, math monsters practice multiplication by making candy corn calculations. They practice...
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Halloween Graphitti
Students complete multi-curricular activities in a Halloween themed lesson. In this Halloween lesson, students examine newspaper ads to find prices of pumpkins and use them to complete a stem and leaf plot. Students find the diameter,...
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Pumpkins . . . Not Just Part of Halloween
Students study the pumpkin. In this pumpkin lesson, students participate in different activities that explain the history of pumpkins and how pumpkins develop and grow, read "The Great Pumpkin Story" and answer comprehensive questions...
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M&M Math
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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M&M Math
Young scholars plan and make the M&M cookies, tally M&M's by color while eating cookie, and completing worksheet using math skills.
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Halloween Creative Writing Project
Students write a creative essay from a pumpkin's point of view. They role play that they are pumpkin in a patch and need to convince a visitor to the patch that they are the best choice for a Halloween pumpkin. They focus on using...
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Strategies for Dividing Numerically
Learners watch a video clip and complete activities to learn about division. In this division lesson, students watch a quick-time video about a Halloween candy division problem. Learners use candies to create a solution to the video...
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M&M Cookie Math
Students munch their way through a cookie keeping a tally of how many M&M's are found of each color.
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Teaching fractions & ratios with M&Ms
Students collect data using M&Ms, fill in charts, and write ratios and fractions for each color M&M.
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Meet Molly An American Girl
Young scholars examine concepts of personal finance. In this personal finance lesson, students use Valerie Tripp's, Meet Molly, An American Girl, to learn about saving and spending after World War II. They compare financial decisions...
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Pumpkin Properties are a Smash!
Students receive a miniature pumpkin and proceed through several stations to measure a variety of physical properties. The data is entered into a data sheet and the mass and volume measurements are used to calculate density. They also...
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Human Body Lessons
Students read "The Magic School Bus in the Human Body" and discuss the importance of maintaining a healthy body. They create a hinge and joint paper skeleton, follow the journey of a hamburger through the digestive tract, jump rope and...
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The Laser Spider Web
Students create a supersized spider web using yarn. They weave the yarn over and under an existing web to create a new design.