Get the most Valentine's candy for your money with a fun math activity! After examining three deals for buying candy hearts in bulk, young mathematicians decide which deal is the best and use bar graphs to demonstrate their claim. They...

Candy is a big business! Calculate the amount of money consumers spent on major holidays—Easter, Halloween, Christmas, Hanukkah, and Valentine's Day—based on the total amount of candy sales from 2011 and the percentage of each holiday's...

Students sort Valentine candy and create a bar graph with it.

Fifth graders organize and display information in bar graph form using appropriate labels. Each student receives a box of Valentine heart candies, a worksheet of the tally chart and a worksheet of the bar graph.

Second graders complete math activities with donated seasonal treats. They estimate, count, sort, name and graph bags of treats. They can eat treats when finished.

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...

Students complete multi-curricular activities in a Halloween themed lesson. In this Halloween lesson, students examine newspaper ads to find prices of pumpkins and use them to complete a stem and leaf plot. Students find the diameter,...

Students find out where some of the products in hour homes come from, then become aware of our local trash, landfills and incinerators. They chart and graph data and use maps for different purposes.

Students examine candy preferences to create a plan in order to improve candy sales. In this technobiz activity, students build spreadsheet and organizational skills by graphing and calculating data. Students are introduced to...

Students identify and explain the variables effecting supply and demand in the marketing industry. Then they define the terms supply and demand and graph supply and demand curves on a standard grid. Students also formulate what happens...

Second graders observe the workings of an assembly line. They classify old crayon pieces by color, melt them in candy molds, package them, and produce advertising literature to sell the product. Students share their work with the class.

Use this resource as a basic review of economic principles. There are six questions relating to the factors of production, opportunity costs, wants and needs, tangibles and intangibles, and more.

Eighth graders discuss conflict. Working in pairs, they create lists of skills they have used in conflicts, skills they have seen used successfully but not used themselves, and skills they wish to develop. From their lists they identify...

Students research and plan a Mississippian garden.  In this Native American history lesson, students work in groups to research crops used by Native Americans in the Mississippian Period and use the information to plan and create an...

High schoolers examine the various types of world markets and analyze the differences between developed and developing countries. They watch a PowerPoint presentation and take notes, participate in a role-play that demonstrates supply...

Students demonstrate how to be a philanthropist. In this philanthropy lesson, students read the story The Wartville Wizard and discuss ways to become a philanthropist. Students participate in a good deed by volunteering to clean up trash.