Develop an understanding of positive and negative numbers using football. Pupils create a football field and game pieces. The teacher gives plays and the pupils move pieces to see who wins the game.

Young scholars explore how math is relevant to Native Americans. Students investigate Indian culture through geometry. They describe and create geometric polygons and patterns. Young scholars problem solve with tangram patterns to make...

Ensure that your class has a well-rounded understanding of new inventions, in this case barbed wired. Class members, after researching the history and development of barbed wire, assess its impact on cattle and the development of the...

Students explore the American cattle industry history. In this United States history and reading comprehension cross curriculum lesson, students read an article about the history of longhorn cattle, then answer comprehension questions on...

Students read about the history of cattle trails and complete language arts, math, social studies, and more activities about barbed wire. In this barbed wire lesson plan, students read poetry, research changes over time, draw cattle...

Sixth graders compare and contrast the totals from two national football teams for the year. Using the internet, they search for the information they need and create a data bar graph. They use the information they collected to answer...

Students use construction paper to make a set of folding cards that initially hide a zero and then open to reveal a new number. They put their cards into sequential order and recognize numbers as they count by ten.

Students practice counting sets of items by 10's.  In this counting lesson, students create flash cards that show a zero while hiding the first number in order for students to practice counting by 10's.  Students practice...

Learners discover and perfect methods of calculation based on rewriting, simplifying, and logarithmic L'Hopital when the traditional applications fail to produce a result.

Pupils investigate angles through construction. In this geometry lesson, students use a protractor to identify the measurement of an angle. They identify angles cut by a transversal and two parallel lines.

First graders, after reading about cattle drives, measure the width of the horns on drawings of longhorn cattle and then convert the measurements from inches to centimeters and from inches to feet. Ranching and the American cattle...

Students measure and label specified angles. In this angles instructional activity, students use a protractor to find angles that are acute, obtuse, and reflexive. Students then label each angle and match the angles the correct...

Students analyze the understanding of what a producer is. Students distinguish between producers and consumers. Students produce a hat of his/her own. Students will share creations with each other.

Students explore the Frontier House website, examining the challenges of frontier settlement in the American West in the late 1800's. They develop budgets, and create displays based on their own research.

Fourth graders read a book about debt, credit, and interest rates and write a story about these topics. In this debt and credit lesson, 4th graders read the book Four Dollars and Fifty Cents, define the terms "debt" and "credit," and...

Second graders study Folk Songs and instruments of the orchestra in these lessons. They recognize the difference between folk songs and classical music.