This PIZZAZ (People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling) lesson plan will engage students in writing up and down poems. An example of an up and down poem is provided.

Students collaborate to create a story together at the same time using Google shared document.

This site features a lesson plan for William Steig's "Sylvester and the Magic Pebble." Come and check out this creative activity.

This PIZZAZ lesson allows students the opportunity to engage in the small group task of audio-storytelling or video storytelling, after being given a shoebox filled with symbols and unique items.

An Ancient Egypt website by a nationally known teacher that includes, history, creative writing by young scholars, lesson plans, and links to other sites.

In this lesson plan students are to read and write numbers based on the question being asked.

This complete lesson plan has students explore place value through word problems.

The task provides a context of "random walking" to calculate discrete probabilities and represent them on a bar graph. Aligns with S-CP.B.9.

One card is selected at random from the following set of 6 cards, and students will find the probability of different scenarios. Aligns with the S-CP.A.2 and S-CP.A.3 standards.

In each of the following problems, a number is given. If possible, determine whether the given number is rational or irrational. In some cases, it may be impossible to determine whether the given number is rational or irrational. Justify...

Students will use a block to compare with other objects to decide which is heavier/lighter. They will fill in a chart by drawing a picture of it under "Heavier" or "Lighter" depending which applies.

Students will play "Go Fish" using teen numbers to practice identifying these numbers.

Learners use simple ratios to answer the following question: John, Marie, and Will all ran for 6th grade class president. The ratio of votes for John to votes for Will was two to one. Marie got exactly the average number of votes for the...

John, Marie, and Will all ran for 6th grade class president. Of the 36 students voting, the ratio of votes for John to votes for Will was two to one. Marie got exactly the average number of votes for the three of them. How many more...

Students use ratio relationships between two quantities to answer three questions in this diagram-based performance task.

Students use ratio reasoning to solve the following performance task: John and Will ran for 6th grade class president. John got two votes for every vote Will got. It was necessary to get more than half the votes to get elected. What...

Students use ratio and rate reasoning to answer four questions in this diagram-based performance task.

Students will solve addition and subtraction equations with different structures so that they are able to see the connections between addition and subtraction more easily.

Repeatable, daily activities are one of the best ways to instill the counting sequence for children. This activity requires a 100 chart which can be made or purchased. Learners will count the "Number of the Day" beginning with 1 on the...

This tasks requires students to explore properties of the Cantor Set, which has many uncountable points, no intervals of real numbers, and has length of zero. Aligns with A-SSE.B.4.

This task presents a real world application, prescribing a course of antibiotics. For this task, a finite geometric series is utilized. Aligns with A-SSE.B.4.

Eighth graders are asked to investigate a newspaper claim about the number of Americans said to eat at Giantburger restaurants every day. They work with large numbers expressed using scientific notation in order to perform their...

Students not only practice tossing and catching in this activity, but will also use their creativity as they create and demonstrate their own "ghost" tricks.

This lesson plan asks students grades 3-5 to use wordless picture books as a springboard to write an original story based on the pictures.