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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Round Numbers to Nearest Ten or Hundred

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders review telling time. For this lesson on telling time, 3rd graders discuss various items that show length of time, including clocks, calendars and sand timers. Students review and practice what they already know about...
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Adding and Subtracting Rational Numbers to Solve Problems

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of probability.  In this probability instructional activity, students use area to determine probability.  Students use charts and spinners to help determine the probability of events such as...
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Curated OER

Comparing and Ordering Fractions

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students practice ordering fractions. In this fractions lesson, students determine how to tell when a fraction is close to 1, 1/2 and other various fractions. Students use benchmarks to order fractions.
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Curated OER

Adding Mixed Numbers with Unlike Denominators

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders practice measuring skills as they add mixed fractions. In this fractions lesson, 7th graders measure the distance from their wrist to the tip of their finger, record the measurement, and repeat this procedure with other...
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Curated OER

Comparing and Ordering Fractions

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create fractions from concrete materials, then use paper fractions.
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Curated OER

Finding the Smallest Apple

For Teachers Pre-K - K
In this finding the smallest apple worksheet, pupils look at the pictures in four boxes, then color the smallest apple in each one.
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Curated OER

Comparing Measurements

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore measurements by completing worksheets in class. In this geometry lesson, students identify the basic measurement units in both the English and metric systems. Students analyze 2 and 3 dimensional objects and identify...
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EngageNY

Base 10 and Scientific Notation

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Use a resource on which you can base your lesson on base 10 and scientific notation. The second installment of a 35-part module presents scholars with a review of scientific notation. After getting comfortable with scientific...
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Curriculum Corner

Guest Teacher Plans (Grade 2)

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Be prepared the next time you're in need of a substitute with a daily plan equipped with an assortment of activities covering subjects math, reading, word work, writing, and science. 
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Illustrative Mathematics

Placing a Square Root on the Number Line

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
There are many ways to approach finding the rational approximation of an unknown square root. Here is a problem that will help math learners make a connection between square roots and their order on a number line. As usual, determine two...
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Curated OER

"Pizza"rama With Fractions!!

For Teachers 3rd
Young mathematicians explore number values by utilizing food as a visual aide. They discuss the differences between halves, fourths, and eighths and how they are visually represented by a pizza. Then create their own pizza in class and...
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Curated OER

How Much, How Fast, How Far?

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars investigate the concept of the number one million. In this number concepts lesson, students read the book How Much is a Million? and brainstorm questions, such as "how many leaves are on a tree" and "how many hairs are on...
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EngageNY

Decimal Expansions of Fractions, Part 2

For Students 8th Standards
Develop your pupils' understanding of fractions and their decimal equivalence using the 12th lesson in this series. Scholars learn an alternative to long division that results in converting fractions to decimals that emphasize fractional...
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EngageNY

Infinite Decimals

For Students 8th Standards
Can you support the argument that the decimal 0.99999 ... is equivalent to the number one? The seventh installment in this 25-part module gives convincing support for this conclusion. Pupils write infinite decimals using powers of 10....
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Cornell University

Isotope Rummy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Thanks to this game, teaching isotopes will never be the same. Physical science scholars work their way toward understanding isotopes in an entertaining game. Pupils play rummy in groups while practicing good sportsmanship and creating...
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Curated OER

Exploring Number Systems

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners work in a group to prepare a poster about a new number system. They research a variety of number systems, create new symbols for their original number system and develop a tutorial for the class.
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Learner

Solid Shapes

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
A collection of two lessons, kindergartners will identify two-dimensional shapes in solid shapes. They will develop basic knowledge of the components that make up a sphere, rectangular prism, pyramid, cylinder, cone, and cube. Young...
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On the Job

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Four lessons spotlight a variety of professions while boosting listening and observational skills and making inferences. Lesson one challenges pupils to group cards based on a commonality then justify the relationship they see....
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Curated OER

Making and Describing Shapes

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Explore the concept of creating and describing 2D and 3D shapes.  Using geometry your scholars will describe the attributes of shapes and their properties.  They explore and discover what happens when you combine shapes and...
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Curated OER

The Looking Glass: Artwork of Robert Harris

For Teachers 6th - 7th
A series of 4 activities foster critical thinking, careful observation, and creative expression with the work of Canadian artist Robert Harris. Learners respond to half a painting and then to the whole picture while listening to a poem;...
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Curated OER

Sketch Book Making: Places for Creative Communication

For Teachers 10th - 12th
High schoolers create sketchbooks, explore the uses of journals, write (across the curriculum) from others' points of view, and compare forms of communication from the 1800s to today. A nice blend of individual, whole class,...
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Curated OER

Patterns to the Rescue

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars identify different numbers and letters. They state the patterns in different sequences. They compare answers as a class.
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Curated OER

Allusion: Huckleberry Finn

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Readers respond to 10 examples of allusion in a pre-assessment. After whole group discussion of allusion leading to analysis of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, they compare Huck's interpretation of the Bible story of King...
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Curated OER

Maus: Problematic Situation Strategy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Do people really need “a newer, bigger Holocaust” in order to change? Or is it possible that by making text-to-self connections to the stories of others people that they can change? In order to connect to Art Spiegelman’s Maus, class...

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