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How Does Radon Get Into Your Home?
Learners examine their home and calculates the amount of ventilation found. They also compute the surface area of different objects. They determine what is needed to reduce the amount of radon entering the home.
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What's Hatching in Kindergarten?
Students identify oviparous animals. They brainstorm a list of animals that lay eggs, read "Chickens Aren't The Only Ones" by Ruth Heller and then add to the list. Students complete a booklet that shows an egg and an oviparous animal.
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Measurement Activity
Students line themselves up from smallest to tallest at the chalkboard with the teacher marking their heights. After recording their names on the board next to their mark, they work with a partner to measure their height using several...
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Our Solar System: Its Planets and Their Satellites
Fourth graders create a replica of our solar system. Each group arranges the balls in the proper order for our solar system by gluing them to the construction paper. Under each of the balls, the name of the object should be clearly printed.
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Are You Coordinated?
First graders are introduced to a coordinate graph. They are given a graph and follow directions to place stickers in the designated blocks. They write coordinate points to identify the placement of their stickers.
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Graphing Pockets
Second graders explore graphing. They count the number of pockets on their clothes and use Microsoft Excel to enter their data. Students create a class graph displaying their findings.
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Creative Cats
Students solve joining problems by using cat counters, pictures, and numbers. First, students listen to the story "Pretend You're a Cat" by Jean Marzollo.
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Learning About Ratios: A Sandwich Study
Students engage in a lesson which provides them with a concrete introduction to the concept of ratios. They demonstrate the ability to create ratios with given substances - peanut butter and jelly.
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A New View
Learners illustrate and write a story. In groups, students brainstorm lists of animals and objects. They create a storyboard from the point of view of a chosen animal or object. After learners discuss life from different perspectives,...
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Making Fudge: Measuring Weight
Fourth graders measure the ingredients for a fudge recipe. In this measurement instructional activity, 4th graders practice measuring out the ingredients for a recipe to make fudge. Later, students get to enjoy the fudge they made.
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Interpreting An Archaelogical Site
Young scholars study the site of an archaeological dig site in order to begin looking at how they can be interpreted. They look at a soil profile and respond to a research question that simulates a real site. The other questions are used...
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Harvesting and Threshing the Seed
Students harvest and thresh the seeds. They count the seeds and compare that number with the original number of seeds planted (8) to determine their profit or loss. Finally, students think about additional questions they have about...
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Fruit Seeds
Second graders use fruit to conduct an observation experiment. They use the skills of observation to write down different facts about three different fruits looking at the outside and inside contents. Students explain two things they...
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ExplorA-Pond: 1st Grade Addition
First graders explore the shoreline of a local or virtual pond and count the number of bushes and trees present in the area they are assigned. They then, as a class, add the numbers of bushes and trees together to determine the total...
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Sun and Clouds
First graders use Kidspiration software to practice putting pictures on screen in a straight line. They examine pictures of suns and clouds and create as many different combinations of seven from pictures that they can.
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Tetrominoes Cover-Up
Third graders are given square tiles and participate in a demonstration on how to arrange them. Using the tiles, they work with a partner to discover how many two-dimensional tetrominoes they can create. To end the lesson, they must...
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Halloween Subtraction 2
In this Halloween math instructional activity, 1st graders identify the number of Halloween images as the top number in the subtraction equation. Students draw an X through the amount to take away and count the number left to find the...
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Microscopes Online
In this microscopes worksheet, students access a website to complete questions about the early compound microscopes and the scientist involved in the development. This worksheet has 1 graphic organizer, 7 fill in the blank, and 10 short...
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The Paper Airplane Challenge: A Market Economy Simulation
Students have the opportunity to participate in a simulation that enables them explain the characteristics of a Market Economic System.
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What is Money? Learn the Role of Money in a Free Market System
Students view a seashell and listen as the teacher explains that these were sometimes used as money. They listen as the teacher lectures on medium of exchange, barter, and commodity. Students determine the number of chickens it would...
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Is It Big or Small?
In this word and picture matching worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures and then match them to the phrases that describes them. Students then fill in the blank to answer if the object is "big" or "small."
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Is It Big or Small? Circle the Answer
In this big/small activity, students first examine 7 pictures of common objects. Students circle the word "big" or "small" to show the size of the item.
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Adjectives
In this ESL adjectives worksheet, students analyze 7 pictures that depict objects of different sizes and shapes. Students match these pictures with the adjectives that describe them.