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Keep Your Brain in the Game: Grades 3-5

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Boost physical activity as well as concept proficiency with brief bursts of movement. Before taking a test, scholars vote on five exercises to complete from a set of 8 cards. After two minutes, learners begin their work with heightened...
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Learning Time to 1 Minute Intervals

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this time activity, students practice telling time to 1 minute intervals. They look at the time on 9 analog clock faces and write the times on the lines under the clocks.
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Subtracting Numbers 1-5

For Students K - 1st
Did you use those flashcards? I hope so, because this isn't just a worksheet it's a timed math test with 80 subtraction problems. Problems are all intended to build automaticity in subtracting number 5 and lower.
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Time to Cook!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Don't let the cupcakes burn! Using cooking procedure, learners practice drawing minute and hour hands onto five analog clock faces. They read five scenarios which require them to add time increments to find the time required for each...
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WET Science Lesson #5: Pass the Salt Please! (How Road Salt Affects Wetlands)

For Teachers 7th - 12th
As an anticipatory set, biologists listen to the story of Ruth Patrick, a scientist who used algae to detect water quality. They observe a demonstration of osmosis and diffusion. In their lab groups, they place Elodea stalks in...
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Tornado Brainstorming

For Teachers 3rd - 12th Standards
While the focus of this lesson is on writing about tornadoes, any topic could be substituted. The lesson provides a well-thought out overview of the writing process. Learners come up with a thesis statement, supporting  details, and a...
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Multiplication Five Minute Frenzy (A)

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this multiplication worksheet, students fill out four 10 by 10 grids. Students write the product of the column number and the row number. Students try to complete each chart in less than 5 minutes and score 98% or better.
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Hands On: Make a Clock and Show Time to 5 Minutes

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this telling time worksheet, students use the analog clocks in the first two examples to count time in five minute increments. Students then answer four questions about elapsed time.
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Institute for Teaching through Technology and Innovative Practices

The Right Number of Elephants

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
How can you tell if a number of items is reasonable? Combine math and language arts with a fun lesson based on Jeff Shepard's The Right Number of Elephants. After reading the book, kids discuss amounts of other items and create minibooks...
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The Nine Planets

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
A solid lesson on teaching the nine planets in our solar system is here for you. In it, young scientists learn the correct order of the planets, and they choose one of the planets to do a research report on. They must come up with five...
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Time to Five Minutes

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this math worksheet, students tell the difference between the hour and minute hands on a clock. They tell the time on four analog clocks to the nearest five minutes.
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Five Minute Adding Frenzy (B)

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this addition worksheet, learners complete a five minute addition frenzy sheet. They complete 4 charts finding the sums of the columns and rows in each space. They have five minutes to finish each chart with 98% accuracy.
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Draw Hands On the Clock: Nearest Five Minutes

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this telling time worksheet, students analyze the digital times under 9 clocks with no hands. Students draw the hour and minute hands on the clocks to show the correct time to the nearest five minutes.
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Metric Magic

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Sixth and seventh graders construct a "metric machine" as a kinesthetic aide in converting from one unit to another in grams, liters, or meters. They complete a metric activity on the Internet and view about five minutes of a video on...
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Working With Basic Units of Time

For Students 5th - 6th
In this math activity, students investigate telling time, elapsed time and word problems pertaining to time. Students also convert minutes to hours and hours to days. There are 40 problems on the 3 pages.
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Telling Time: Analog to Digital-- 5 Minute Intervals

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this math instructional activity, students learn to tell time on an analog clock and write the time in numbers to the nearest 5 minutes. There are 9 clocks on the page.
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Creative Writing - The Five Step Story Process

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Using "The Five Step Process," and picture prompts, is a wonderful way to get your students excited about creative writing.
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Time to Five Minutes: English Learners

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this English Language telling time worksheet, students learn to skip count by 5s to find the time for each example. Students complete six problems for telling time.
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Time to Five Minutes: Problem Solving

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this telling time worksheet, students write the letter of the clock with the time that matches and answers the questions. Students complete four problems.
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American Psychological Association

Get Your Class Back! Free Your Class from Cell Phones in 5 Minutes

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Welcome to a class in Cell Phones Anonymous! Rid students of their addiction with an easy, positive reinforcement, two-step program: turn them off and put them in a box at the front of the classroom. Each day they participate, they...
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Using Social Studies in Five Shared Reading Lessons: Geography

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
After several short 15-minute mini-lessons, your learners will gain an understanding of the characteristics of a non-fiction text. Using the book Map It by Elspeth Leacock, your class will become acquainted with non-fiction terms such as...
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LESS THAN ZERO

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Upper graders study how to extend a vertical number line to include negative numbers; order numbers on the number line; and find the distance between numbers on a number line. They will begin with a game using dice to explore...
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Number Patterns

For Teachers K - 2nd
Help your young scholars to identify even and odd numbers. For this number sense lesson, they read the book Madeline and use counters to identify which number has a "partner." Learners write down odd and even numbers on a whiteboard.
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Visible Speech: A Short Course in the Fundamentals of Writing (Lesson 5)

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Of these five slides, two consist of the title and directions; the other three list the parts of an essay and their purpose, as well as how to best begin an essay. In essence, this is a very brief PowerPoint that can be used as a...