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Noyce Foundation

Once Upon a Time

For Students K - 12th Standards
Examine the relationship between time and geometry. A series of five lessons provides a grade-appropriate problem from elementary through high school. Each problem asks learners to compare the movement of the hands on a clock to an angle...
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Noyce Foundation

Miles of Tiles

For Students K - 12th Standards
Create number sentences and equations to solve geometric problems. Each activity in the series of five asks young mathematicians to consider different-sized tiles to build structures according to specific criteria. The first activities,...
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Noyce Foundation

Movin 'n Groovin

For Students K - 12th Standards
Examine the consequences of varying speed.  An engaging set of five problem sets challenges young mathematicians by targeting a different grade level from K-12. In the initial lesson, scholars make conclusions about the time it...
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Curated OER

Bowling

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Looking for a good gross motor skills instructional activity? Here's one that is sure to delight your little ones. They get to go bowling! You use milk cartons that have the numbers 1 - 10 on them. Kids set up the "pins" in a triangle...
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Curated OER

Numbers You Can Count On

For Teachers K - 1st
Students engage in a lesson plan that is concerned with the concept of recognizing numbers. They use Crayola Coils to imitate a number that is made from a ball. The activity is especially suitable for students who are kinesthetic.
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Curated OER

Crayon Resist

For Teachers K - 6th
Kids usually love crayon resist projects. It is so fascinating for them to see how the dark paint accentuates and resists the waxy crayon. Here are instructions for executing a crayon resist project of your own. Tip: Make the project fit...
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Curated OER

Pumpkin Time

For Teachers K - 2nd
In these two lessons, science learners participate in various activities involving pumpkins. They investigate and research the life cycle of a pumpkin. They observe pumpkin growth and decomposition. Finally, they estimate and measure...
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Curated OER

Paint Palette Mixing

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
New math? Sure. Squirt, mix, and match. They may make a mess, but kids are sure to enjoy squirting primary colors on their pallette, following the visual formula indicated, and presenting their solutions to these color problems.
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Curated OER

Classroom Christmas Tree

For Teachers K
Students practice their addition by participating in a Christmas Tree activity.  In this holiday math lesson, students complete math problems at their desk and match their answers with ornaments on a tree.  Students are given...
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Curated OER

Identify, Sort, Classify

For Teachers K
Pupils identify, sort, and classify. In this kindergarten math lesson, students explore visual examples of sorting with 1 or more attributes. Pupils also practice solving problems that their instructors model.
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Curated OER

Story Problems - Math

For Teachers K
Students participate in hands-on, computer activities to demonstrate the addition and subtraction of mathematical situations. Given a story problem, students determine when to add or subtract. Using word processing technology, students...
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Curated OER

Hula Hoop Math

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students move about the area doing the teacher-directed locomotor action. When the music stops the teacher holds up a card with a problem. As soon as they come up with an answer they form into a group in a hoop with the number of...
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Curated OER

Shapes

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify attributes of different geometric shapes. In this geometry instructional activity, students view a  PowerPoint presentation on shapes and use attribute blocks to examine the corners and edges of each shape....
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Curated OER

Patterns

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students explore simple patterns.  In this mathematical thinking geometry lesson, students repeat clapping and snapping patterns, and determine what comes next in sound and movement patterns.  Students recite "Hey, Diddle,...
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Curated OER

Measurement

For Teachers K - 1st
Students investigate non-standard linear measurement.  In this cross curriculum measurement instructional activity, students listen to the book Measuring Penny by Loreen Leedy, and identify pages in which non-standard measurement is...
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SF Environment

Sort and Color!

For Teachers K - 1st
Sorting is a very important skill that can be used in math and even science. Learners get familiar with some environmentally friendly vocabulary terms as they practice separating objects that can be recycled from those that can't. They...
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August House

The Ogre Bully

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
English language arts, math, science, dramatic arts, and cooking; this lesson has it all! In this multidisciplinary resource, your scholars will take part in a read aloud of The Ogre Bully by A.B. Hoffmire and have a grand...
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Baylor College

Fungus Among Us

For Teachers K - 6th
In order to learn that mold spores can be found in the air, observers grow bread mold and make observations for a few days. Afterward, they participate in a class discussion to arrive at the knowledge that bread spores are present in the...
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Baylor College

How Do We Use Water?

For Teachers K - 5th
Send youngsters home to survey how they use water in their homes. Then bring them together to discuss which uses are essential for our health and which are not. A helpful video offers teaching tips for this lesson plan, and a...
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Baylor College

Air and Breathing

For Teachers K - 3rd
Blow some bubbles and learn how living things need air in the eighth instructional activity of this series. Young scientists investigate this important gas by observing bubbles and monitoring their own breathing. A simple and fun...
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Curriculum Corner

Guest Teacher Plans: Kindergarten

For Teachers K Standards
Emergencies happen. Be prepared the next time you have to call in a substitute with a lesson plan designed to meet the needs of a kindergarten class. Throughout the day, class members work with number and alphabet cards, identify numbers...
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National Autistic Society

Autism Awareness

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th
Planning activities for Autism Awareness Month? Check out the ideas in a packet designed to raise awareness of autism. Suggestions include plans for an assembly to launch a school-wide focus, lesson plans for classroom activities,...
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August House

The Stolen Smell

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Some smells are better than others! Explore your sense of smell with a series of activities based on the Peruvian folktale, The Stolen Smell. With exercises about phonics, counting, cooking, art, and drama, the lesson is a...
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August House

Anansi Goes to Lunch - Kindergarten

For Teachers K Standards
Greed is the theme of the West African folktale, Anansi Goes to Lunch and this multidisciplinary collection of lessons. First, scholars listen to a read aloud and participate in a grand conversation about the book's key details and...

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