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Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read the story Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday and discuss money issues. In this money lesson plan, 4th graders create a budget.
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Sorting Buttons

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students demonstrate how to sort buttons by attributes. In this classification lesson, students are given buttons and are asked to sort them independently by their attributes. Additionally, students are given one extra button after they...
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Stacking Chips

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students examine the outcome of adding one to a group of items. In this number sense lesson, students create stacks of chips and count them. Then, students add one more chip to the stack and count the chips again. Students discuss their...
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Associative Properties

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Young scholars investigate the associative property of addition. In this associative property of addition lesson, students work in pairs and build addition problems with six blocks. They sit on either side of a desk so that they can...
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Guess the Container

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students become familiar with appropriate containers for various shapes.  In this container lesson, students find containers that best fit their object. 
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Months of the Year

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students develop a pictograph using the months of the year. In this months lesson, students place their name with their birth month on a large pictograph. They discuss the information they can see on the graph using the proper names for...
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Estimation Skills

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students use a balance scale with beans or seeds to estimate how many of them would weigh as much as a teddy bear counter. In this estimation lesson plan, students hold items to estimate.
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Making Graphs

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore statistics by conducting class demographic surveys. In this graph making activity, students identify the family members of each classmate, pets they own, and favorite activities. Students organize their statistics and...
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Indoor and Outdoor Patterns

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore geometry by participating in a visual illustration activity. In this pattern identification lesson, students explore inside their classroom and discuss patterns they find while tracing them on paper. Students attend an...
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Fractions and Ribbons

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders solve division problems using partial quotients. In this long division lesson, 5th graders practice seeing division as a process of repeated subtraction and estimation. This lesson provides a script for the teacher.
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Round Numbers to Nearest Ten or Hundred

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders review telling time. In 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 telling...
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"Heat Transfer and Ice Cream!"

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students analyze earth science by creating a frozen treat in class. In this heat transfer lesson, students discuss how matter is transformed from solid to liquid and liquid to gas when energy is removed from the equation. Students...
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Sketch Up

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students estimate and measure exact. In this geometry lesson, students create different object in three-dimensional pattern. They use SketchUp to create their shape and perform measurements on their shapes.
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Finding Rates

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore the concept of rates and how to solve them in problems. They solve the problems using multiplication. The majority of the lesson is direct instruction with the students being included in the process.
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Reflections

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders become familiar with the use of the Geometer's Sketchpad. They examine and practice creating geometric shapes. Students identify shapes and explore the introductory functions of the Geometer's Sketchpad. They complete...
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Counting Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students practice counting, reading, and writing the numbers 0 through 5. In this basic counting lesson, students review a counting book, use macaroni as a manipulative, and learn a song as a means to learn and practice writing and...
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Skip Counting by Two's

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice their counting skills. For this skip counting lesson, 1st graders review counting by 1's with a song, use number lines to learn to skip count by 2, practice counting forwards and backwards, complete a leapfrog...
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Astronomical Scales

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students describe the different units of measurement. In this space science lesson, students calculate astronomical distances using a scale. They explain the significance of using scientific notation in expressing very small or very...
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A.P. Exam Review

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students engage in a lesson plan that is concerned with the cumulative concepts introduced in a Calculus course. They review exponential growth and how it is used to measure increase in values. Students also apply the use of the...
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Polar and Cartesian Coordinates

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students review polar coordinates, as well as translations and rotations in Cartesian Coordinates. They also watch a video on conics and write a summary of the video for a quiz grade. Students then find an equation after a...
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Patterns

For Teachers K
Students make patterns. In this early sequencing lesson, students observe and state a pattern when they see one. The teacher begins be using students to demonstrate a pattern with half of the children standing and every other child sitting.
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Mathematical Modeling and Physics

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders use a web site to investigate roller coaster physics. In this mathematical modeling lesson, 12th graders are grouped according to their performance on a test. Each group is given an activity to complete on a web site...
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H2O in Us

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars discover through this activity that all organisms are composed of water. They find that 70 percent of their bodies are made up of water that is in thier cells and blood, and not free-flowing throughout their body.
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Represent Rational Numbers

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Pupils identify expanded notation and scientific notation. In this rational numbers instructional activity, students use a calculator to discover the powers of 10. Pupils practice writing numbers in expanded notation using powers of 10....

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