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This Is My Home
Young scholars listen to a read aloud of Mary Ann Hoberman's A House Is a House for Me before discussing the meaning of habitats and the different types of homes that people live in. Next, they pretend to be architects and design a home...
CK-12 Foundation
Slope: A-Frame House
This resource on learning about slopes from A-frames is A-okay. A simple interactive has learners adjust the height and width of an A-frame house, and then calculate the slope of the roof for each situation.
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Gingerbread Houses
Students use their knowledge of fractions and ratios to build gingerbread houses. In this fractions and ratios lesson plan, students use graham crackers, milk cartons, icing, and more.
Concord Consortium
Detective Stories
The truth will always come out. A short performance task has learners considering a witness statement given to a detective. They apply special line segments in triangles and Ceva's Theorem to prove that the witness is actually lying.
Seussville
A Classic in 236 Words
Get in the reading spirit on Read Across America Day while celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday with four printable worksheet activities. Included is a word search using story character's names, a quiz to test how many Dr. Seuss titles you've...
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Dream House
Students solve real world problems involving area and perimeter in this unit culminating activity.
Orange Public Schools
Stagecraft
The house lights dim, the curtain parts, lights slowly come up, revealing the stage. Before the actors appear, before a word is spoken, the audience is drawn in by the lighting, by the colors, by lines of the set, by the props, and...
CK-12 Foundation
Multiplying Polynomials: Binomial Cork Board
Cover the cork board with pictures of the house. The interactive provides pictures of a house to duplicate and cover a given area. The pictures' dimensions are expressed as binomials. Pupils determine the area of the cork board based...
CK-12 Foundation
Pythagorean Theorem to Determine Distance: Distance Between Friends
Pupils use an interactive to help visualize the right triangles needed to calculate distances between friends' houses. Individuals solve five problems on how to determine distances and comparing the distances.
CK-12 Foundation
Intersecting and Parallel Lines
Sometimes line segments just refuse to meet. Young mathematicians connect houses on an interactive map using line segments. They must then determine whether these line segment pairs are intersecting or parallel.
CK-12 Foundation
Identify Line Types: Intersecting and Parallel Lines
Navigate your way through a lesson on types of lines. Individuals drag line segments to illustrate paths between pairs of houses on an interactive map. They determine if these line segment pairs are intersecting or
parallel.
Curated OER
Find the Shapes in a Picture
Use coloring to remind young learners that geometry is all around them! A simple image of a house, sun, and tree becomes the format for several basic shapes. The instructions direct scholars to trace and color each shape using a...
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Area & Perimeter Assessment And Practice
Using a pre-test, this lesson starts by establishing differentiated learning groups. Each group practices determining area and perimeter using interactive web sites small groups are then pulled aside and given additional support as...
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Vocabulary Multiple Choice Worksheet 4
In this ESL vocabulary worksheet, students read 10 sentences that have a missing word or phrase. From 4 choices of similar words, students select the best answer to make the sentence correct. This is intended for ESL students but is...
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Brother In The Box
Middle schoolers investigate the concept of finding the area of a parallelogram. The lesson plan uses a story that is told as an illustration to help straighten the confusion associated with the concept. Students could construct...
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Step Into My Shoes
Students order their classmates from smallest to largest foot length. In this ordering their classmates from smallest to largest foot length lesson, students trace each of their classmates foot. Students read a story called,...
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Four Estimating the Area of Small Objects Problems
In this estimating area worksheet, students work with their families to draw four small objects found around their house and estimate the area of each object.
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You Can Bank on Me!
Students identify reasons people choose to donate. In this donating lesson, students contrast the words spend, save, and donate. Students learn a song about donating, brainstorm reasons to give, and make sound choices with their money.
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Home of the Brave
Students use various types of people and the special places they each call home. They discover houses, like the world, are always changing. Students start out by brainstorming what was the one thing that made a house a home. They were...
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Building Homes
Students investigate architecture and construction by building a home from cardboard tubes. In this housing lesson, students collaborate in groups to plan and create buildings they can fit in made from cardboard tubes, newspaper...
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Area of Rectangles and Triangles
Eighth graders practice calculating the perimeter of different shapes. As a class, they work together to calculate the area of rectangles and triangles using the proper formula. To end the lesson plan, they determine how many feet are...
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You're in the Money
In this unique money scenario worksheet, learners are told they are moving into a brand new four bedroom detached house and can spend as much as they like furnishing the house. Students make a list of the items and their cost of what...
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Gingerbread Math
Students practice addition facts. In this addition lesson, students get an addition problem to solve. If they get it correct, they open up a door on a gingerbread house which gives a decoration to add to a gingerbread man.
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Family Activity: Triangles and Quadrilaterals
In this triangles and quadrilaterals worksheet, middle schoolers solve 7 short answer problems. Students find objects around the house that are constructed from triangles, parallelograms, trapezoids, squares, rectangles. Middle schoolers...