Students plan an ecotour of the Australian rainforest. They prepare fact sheets about animals, create a mural, prepare a advertising brochure and a guided tour of the rainforest.

Student explore estimation and measurement. In this measurement lesson, 2nd graders measure french fries, graph their data, and determine the size of french fries that is the best value. Students practice how to add prices and calculate ...

Students differentiate between expenditure and income. In this algebra instructional activity, students create a spreadsheet labeling the date, item and amount as they track their expenses. They format the cells of the spreadsheet to do...

Learners examine how much money they can save by not smoking.

Students examine the level of energy usage on a local and national level. Using the internet, they discover ways to conserve energy every day and how over-consumption of energy negatively affects the environment. In groups, they...

Students explore the value of recycling. They consider the importance of giving back to their school community. They calculate their earnings using multiplication and addition.

Students play logic and strategy games with pennies. In this pennies worksheet, students play one game called 'From counting to arithmetic', and one called 'Counting and mental math'.

Third graders add merchandise up to find total cost and line up numbers correctly to the decimal point.

Students develop a budget spreadsheet to manage finances for their business.  For this finance lesson, students use a spreadsheet program to create a budget with credit and debit columns.  There are step-by-step directions for...

Fifth graders read and write equations. For this equation writing lesson, 5th graders use real life scenarios to write equations. Students use manipulatives, draw pictures and make tables to understand how to write equations. Students...

Using the touch math system, learners engage in activities to practice adding numbers. While the lesson is laid out in an explicit manner, there isn't a guide explaining the touch math system.

Students examine the financial committment to running a campaign. They discuss the difference between electroal and popular votes. They realize how involved a political campaign is!

Students watch the video Alexander Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday.

Sixth graders use dominos and plastic chips to study common denominators and fractions. They describe how these operations are related to each other.

Help your learners get practice with operations involving decimals. They will follow prescribed steps that require them to use mixed operations to solve problems with decimals. Great for practice after pupils have had comprehensive...

Third graders pracdtice telling time with a demonstration clock.

Pupils investigate the ways companies target the teenage demographic. In this advertising instructional activity, students discuss in focus groups what they like to buy. Pupils also complete a related worksheet.

Third graders create addition and subtraction word problems for a partner to solve using marbles. They explain whether the problem is an addition, subtraction, "take away", "have and need", compare or "what is the rest" type problem.

Students calculate costs and determine change in scenarios where they buy 2002 Olympic Winter Game memorabilia for themselves, family and friends.

Second graders will be given set amount of money to add, and identify how many tens and ones.