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Circle Recognition

For Teachers K
Students find circles in a classroom. In this circles lesson plan, students find five circles throughout the classroom and learn about basic geometric shapes.
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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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Birthday Presents: How to Give and Receive

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students discuss giving and receiving presents at a birthday party. In this social skills lesson, students practice using manners when giving and receiving gifts. This lesson also has other interdisciplinary activities that can be used...
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Calendar Communication

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify days, dates, and month on a calendar. In this calendar lesson, students use a blank calendar page and fill in the days of the month. Students recall what they learned on specific days and record that information as well.
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Illustrative Mathematics

A Bobbie Bear's Buttons

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Young mathematicians help Bobbie Bear pick colored buttons out of a box as they learn how to decompose numbers less than 10 into pairs of smaller numbers. To support students with the process, consider creating a worksheet or graphic...
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Alike and Different

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students compare and contrast objects and are introduced to a Venn Diagram. In this alike and different lesson plan, students make observations regarding properties of objects. Students classify object and build ideas about variables....
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Wish You Were Here! - Collaborative Literacy Project

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore videos, software and print resources to investigate the concept of community. Students write poems about their town and illustrate them for a collaborative literacy project.
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Calendar and Opening

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students review the days of the week and tell what the current day is by singing a song. They fill in the sentence telling the day of the week it is and then discuss what day yesterday was and the name of the day tomorrow and then talk...
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Some Special Sums

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students study addition. In this math lesson plan, students solve doubles and doubles plus one addition facts. Students roll dice and use the numbers to create addition problems.
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Creating Polygons

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students describe, make and compare polygons. In this creating polygons instructional activity, students identify properties of quadrilaterals and describe common features of two dimensional shapes.
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Which Side Is Which?

For Teachers K
Students study the Louisiana Purchase and the journey of Lewis and Clark. They examine the Peace Medal nickel to differentiate between the heads side and tails side. They participate in a coin flip activity, graph the results and analyze...
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Seeing Doubles

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students work with dominoes to recognize the number of spots on each side as they relate to addition facts. In this seeing doubles lesson plan, students make triangle shaped flash cards for the double facts. Students represent the...
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Are You a Frog?

For Teachers K
Students listen to the book "Ask Me If I'm a Frog, and compare their anatomy and habits to the anatomy and habits of a frog to identify with the characteristics unique to frogs. They respond to teacher-generated questions by writing...
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Multiple Patterns

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Learners explore patterns that involve doubling numbers. In this multiple patterns lesson, students use objects to explore these patterns while recording them using a table. Learners recognize even and odd number patterns while applying...
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Which Has The Most?

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Pupils are part of a class poll where they choose their favorite food and their favorite toy. In this which has the most lesson, students are given a block to represent their choice. Pupils then place the block by the picture of...
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The Voice of the Individual

For Teachers K - 5th
Students examine the role of the individual in society as a whole. Individually, they design and create their own calling card as used in the past. They put together an art kit in which they are able to use outdoors. To end the...
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Computer Doubles

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students practice doubling the numbers one through five while viewing a projected computer activity using MathKeys software. They stamp numbers onto an activity sheet that corresponds to the number of objects on the screen and then write...
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Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas-Sahara, Vanishing Cultures

For Teachers K - 6th
Pupils read Sahara, Vanishing Cultures by Jan Reynolds. They complete a variety of cross-curricular activities surrounding the study nomadic cultures. Included are reading, art, math, science, writing, social studies, and library...
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Investigating: Interpreting Graphs and Analyzing Data

For Teachers K
Students explore statistics by researching class birthday data. For this data analysis lesson, students investigate the different birthdays among their classmates and create data tables based on the given information. Students view bar...
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

How Many Mats?

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners count how many mats are put in a group.  in this counting instructional activity, students are put into groups and count how many mats they have.
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The Whole is More Than Half

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore number sense by completing a food related fraction activity. In this parts of a whole lesson, students utilize a graham cracker to divide and identify what a quarter, third, or half looks like. Students eat their snack...
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Problem-Solving

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students help solve real-life classroom problems. In this problem solving activity, the class sits down as a whole and discusses possible solutions to real problems that they face as a class.
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

What's My Height?

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore geometry by conducing a student measurement activity. In this height instructional activity, students identify their own height by utilizing a tape measure and marking their height on a wall. Students identify their...
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Classroom Idea: Clap Along

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students study patterns. In this math lesson, students repeat a pattern that has been clapped out by the teacher. Actions can be added to increase difficulty level.