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Math, Sweet Math
Third graders use candy to explore whole numbers one to hundred thousand. They place candy on a place value chart and explore how sweet math can be.
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Bite Sized Core Sampling
Young scholars define the origin of rock samples and how surface core samples can tell us about the history and make-up of Mars. Candies are used as a Martian surface sample. Students study the samples and make a hypothesis about the...
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Junk Food Math
Students use Skittles candies as they explore estimation and percentages. For this math lesson plan, students sort, count, and chart Skittles candies to learn about estimation and study percentages.
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A slope or not a slope? That is the question.
Eighth graders investigate concepts related to Cartesian Coordinates. They use a creative game at the beginning of the lesson to identify quadrants by passing candy to one another. The rest of the lesson is using vocabulary and problem...
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Making Predictions
First graders write with his or her pencil on a worksheet created by the teacher his or her prediction of whether each part of a pumpkin will sink or float. They drop each of five objects in the water one at a time allowing enough time...
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Make A Pinata
Pupils work cooperatively to create pinatas using balloons, old newspapers, flour, water, tempera paints, string, scissors, and candy in this excellent lesson for the Elementary classroom. This can be ties into a unit of study on Latin...
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Introduction To Acrylic Painting and the Work of Wayne Thiebaud
Seventh graders explore the basics of composition, acrylic painting techniques, and color theory, examine works of the American painter Wayne Thiebaud, and create still lifes using three pieces of candy.
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Teaching Percentages
Students calculate percentages using the Percent Tricks method. They multiply and divide whole numbers. They count total number of candies in a bag and calculate the percent of each color.
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Show Me the Money
Students study the monetary value of a penny, nickel, and dime. They simulate a candy store by calculating the proper amount of money needed to purchase candy. After viewing a video, they complete the "Handful of Coins" pictograph .
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Making Lightening: In Your Mouth
Students look at a lightening demonstration. In this lightening lesson plan, students bite into a wintergreen candy while looking in the mirror in a dark room. They see sparks in their mouths if they perform the task correctly.
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Lesson Six
Students examine the ocean and its vast resources. In this oceans lesson students complete a "seaweed candy" activity then eat their creation.
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M&M Math
Students research number values by participating in a candy exercise. In this math function lesson, students utilize baking ingredients to create cookies and multiply how many M&M's will go into the batch if you want a certain amount...
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Maximize Your Product
Learners complete multiplication problems in real life situations. For this multiplication lesson plan, students complete 2 digit problems in a "Carnival Candy" problem.
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Flying Through the Solar System
Students create a model of the solar system out of candy. They write a book about their travels through the Solar System, beginning at age ten and reaching Pluto at age seventy.
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Edible DNA
Students use multicolored soft candies (gumdrops and candy orange slices) and toothpicks to create models of DNA structures. They discuss the fact that DNA must copy itself before splitting into two cells. Students demonstrate this by...
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Attentive Listening
Students explore the concept of what it really means to listen. They play the "Candy Game" and complete a discussion. They develop basic business skills and explore a variety of business careers while increasing their listening skills.
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Natural Selection
Students comprehend that natural selectionis the tool for adaptation and evolution of populations. They pick three M&M's and no candy corns. Students tally the number of different color M&M's chosen. They discuss why colors...
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M&M Math
Students develop mathematical awareness. For this early math lesson, students predict the number of M&M candies in a bag, sort them into colors, and count them.
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Ratio and Proportion
Students explore ratios and proportions. In this ratios lesson, students work in groups to identify the ratio of boys to girls, as well as the ratio of vowels to consonants in their names. Given a bag of candy, students work in groups to...
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The Statistics of M&Ms
Pupils explore the topic of statistics with M and Ms. In this math lesson plan, students use candy pieces to sort and gather information needed to create a bar graph. This lesson can be adapted to accommodate pupils in grades 1-12.
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A Mars Bar Fraction Hunt Lesson for Grades 3-5
Students use their knowledge of fractions to decipher word puzzles. In this fraction instructional activity, students use common fractional parts to divide words into the letters needed to make a new word. They complete 28 examples to...
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Centimeter Slinkies
Third graders estimate and measure the length of a whole color-segmented, candy gummy worm. Then, as students bite off each segment, they estimate, measure and record findings in an activity log.
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Fraction Fun With Food
Students use candy and pizza to identify concepts associated with fractions. They work together in groups to create fractions. They complete a worksheet individually to complete the activity.
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Growing Crystals
Students explore the different types, visual appearance and creation of crystals. They grow an edible crystal - rock candy.
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