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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Youth Exposure to Advertising and E-Cigarette Use

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Vaping is increasingly popular with young people. Small wonder given the marketing strategies used by the companies that produce E-cigarettes and vaping flavors like menthol, chocolate, and candy. Check out an infographic that identifies...
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Pace University

Grades 7-8 Mean, Median, and Mode

For Teachers 7th - 8th Standards
Take a central look at data. The differentiated lesson provides activities for pupils to calculate central tendencies. Scholars begin choosing three central tendency activities from a Tic-Tac-Toe board. Learners then choose from sports,...
Interactive
ABCya

Make a Gingerbread House

For Students Pre-K - 3rd
Festive learners use virtual candy, windows, doors, and fun extras to build an interactive gingerbread house. The only downside of this resource is that you can't eat it when you're finished!
Interactive
ABCya

Super Santa

For Students 2nd - 5th
Forget Rudolph—Santa's flight pattern depends on you! Holiday gamers click their mouses to collect presents and keep Santa aloft through giant candy canes.
Interactive
ABCya

Super Santa Junior

For Students Pre-K - 3rd
Can you help Santa collect all the presents in time for Christmas Eve? A fun, clicky game prompts players to get Santa through the dangerous candy canes and into the safe path of floating gifts and stars.
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American Chemical Society

Fizz Bizz

For Students K - 5th
Bubbles seem to come from nowhere. Pupils investigate the formation of carbon dioxide bubbles in sodas. By placing different objects, including candies, in the soda, learners observe the formation of tiny bubbles on the surface of the...
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Curated OER

Valentine's Day Math

For Teachers 1st
First graders sort their candy hearts into piles according to color and record a tally mark under the color for each candy heart that they have on the worksheet. They then record the total amount of tally marks for each color of candy...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Trick-or-Treat

For Students K - 1st
Who has the most candy? Kids often have candy on the brain, so get them to learn in the process! Here is a great counting worksheet for Halloween week. Learners compare candy stashes between four pairs of kids. They count each stash,...
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Curated OER

Sweet Treats...Even or Odd?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners work in pairs during this activity to explore even and odd numbers. Each pair is given a bag of candy which they have to count and divide up. If each partner has the same amount the number is even, if one is left over then the...
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Curated OER

Probability using M & M's

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Using M & M's candies, young statisticians predict the color distribution in a packet of candies and test their predictions against their group and the larger class. A review of converting between fractions, decimals, and percents...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Comparing Fractions with Like Numerators or Denominators

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Who has more candy? Learners start by examining a word problem and its visual illustration to determine how Joel's candy numbers compare to Toby's. They fill in the appropriate symbol. Next, mathematicians compare fractions and two...
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Curated OER

My Brother Martin

For Teachers 5th
Class members experience discrimination first hand. As pupils enter the room, some are given a piece of candy. Then the entire group listens to a reading of Christine Farris King's, My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers, and discusses...
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Curated OER

Physical Education Lesson: Winter Station Activities

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students experience and participate in a variety of four winter station games. They assess the winter stations of Get the Candy Cane, What is in Your Stocking, Jingle Bell Basketball and Candy Cane Lane. Each student also experiences a...
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Curated OER

Mars Landing Site

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students, through the use of candy bars at room temperature, explore the problems selecting a landing site on Mars.
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Virginia Department of Education

Spring Fling Carnival

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Think critically — and linearly by applying linear equations to solve real-world problems. Young mathematicians write equations to model the profit on popcorn and cotton candy at a carnival and solve problems using these equations.
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Curated OER

Heart to Heart

For Teachers 5th
Candy conversation hearts make writing a sweet pastime. Fifth graders write narratives demonstrating a complete thought and correct punctuation. The trick here is that they must use the words on five candy conversation hearts as part of...
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Curated OER

Cat in the Hat

For Teachers K - 5th
Explore the book The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss with your class. They will design a pattern for the cat's hat. They will create color pattern designs with candy and frosting. In the end, they will describe their pattern.
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Curated OER

Conversation Heart Bingo

For Teachers K - 2nd
Primary learners play conversation heart bingo in order to write common phrases. They will create a bingo card with common phrases from conversation heart candy. The teacher calls out phrases and the learners cover them with conversation...
Worksheet
K5 Learning

The Parade

For Students 1st Standards
Parades are a joy to watch and learn about. Class members read about a child who attended a parade with her mother and brother, match past tense verbs from the reading, identify and fill in blanks for sight words candy,...
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Curated OER

Fractions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students determine that a fraction is a part of a whole or part of a group. They write and read fractions and solve various fraction problems. They create their own fraction problem using colored candies for their classmate to solve.
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Curated OER

Solving Fractions with Manipulatives

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use candy bars, beef jerky, and brownies to represent different fractions. Students also use colored multi-link cubes or blocks to illustrate the same representations of fractions. Students work with a partner to create diagrams...
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Curated OER

Mars Fraction Hunt

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils use fractions and words to find a coded message and the first student to solve the message wins a candy bar.
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Curated OER

Statistics with M&Ms

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore estimation, measurement, and probability. Students conduct surveys and create charts & graphs. They study the history of chocolate. Students design their own magazine advertisement or create a script for a...
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Curated OER

Sweet Data

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Young scholars input data about the colors of their serving of M&M candies onto a spreadsheet. They create charts and graphs based on this information.

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