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Comparison Shopping
Elementary schoolers explore the concepts associated with comparison shopping, and the concept of need versus want. They also look closely at the power of advertising and become more aware of the messages that ads present. After taking...
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Tracking the Salt Front
Using the Hudson River as the focus, learners discuss the difference between salt water and fresh water environments, analyze maps and graphs, and complete addition and subtraction problems. This lesson comes with a wealth of...
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Cruise the News
Young scholars utilize newspapers as a resource to complete various tasks. They read articles, write summaries, investigate the classified section, write commercials, and circle spelling words.
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Jr. Chef Club Making Brainy Breakfasts
Students identify the benefits of eating a nutritious breakfast. In this nutrition lesson plan, students read food labels to identify foods that are low in sugar. Students create a healthy breakfast by using eggs and low-fat cheese.
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Delicious Dinners by Jr. Chefs
Students create a protein-rich dinner. For this nutrition lesson, students brainstorm foods that are rich in protein. Students make burritos and identify the color of meat when it is cooked thoroughly.
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Teaching Measurement Through Science
Use these lesson plans to give your students real world practice with measuring distance, mass, and volume.
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Creative Homework Assignments Can Motivate Students
Teachers can make homework more meaningful by giving students interesting and motivating assignments.
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A Place in Time
Students become familiar with an eruptive history and related world events and impart a sense of the immensity of geological time. They explore timelines by creating their own, then are introduced to major eruptive periods of Mount St....
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Splash Learn: Add Decimals Using Models
[Free Registration/Login Required] This fun decimal addition worksheet introduces students to the world of operations with decimal numbers. Fifth graders use models to visualize the addition of numbers in the tenths and hundredths places...
PBS
Pbs Mathline Lesson Plan: Sidewalk Capers [Pdf]
The objective of this lesson is for students to, "explore spatial relationships by determining the area of various shapes and creating tessellation patterns." Using a variety of hands-on activities, students apply concepts of geometry,...