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Iron Oxide Lab: Incorporating Math and Science

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars conduct an experiment in small groups, draw conclusions about the amount heat of a compound achieves and practice their data analysis skills.
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Mix Freeze Group

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students practice division. In this division lesson plan, students are the numbers for your division problem. You begin with the number of students in the class, have students mix until you call freeze. Announce the group size and...
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Go Away, Big Green Monster! Activities

For Teachers K
Students participate in art, math, writing, and science activities to realize they have nothing to fear from monsters. They make masks, shape monsters, toast monsters and monster cookies. They complete monster math problems and make...
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Where Do I Belong? Shape Activity

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this shape worksheet, students color shapes that belong with a group, and write an X on shapes that do not. A variety of shapes are used, 6 sets total.
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Outdoor Activities: Solve It-Outdoors

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners practice problem solving skills. In this early childhood education lesson, students foster the ability to use creative and critical thinking to turn obstacles into bridges to greater learning as they complete various activities...
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Similar Solids and Proportional Reasoning

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Double the dimensions, quadruple the surface area. Pairs build similar prisms and compare the ratios of their surface areas and volumes to the ratio of the heights. Given two similar cones, partners determine the ratios of the lateral...
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Math Mediator Lesson 10: Slope

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Pupils explore the concept of slope.  For this Algebra I lesson, students investigate the definition of slope as rise over run or change in y compared to change in x.  The lesson includes a real-world problem in which the...
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Central Valley Math Project

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Middle schoolers study the Pythagorean Theorem. They describe what it means to square a number. Pupilsuse the Pythagorean Theorem to prove the sides of given triangles, and use geometric pieces of paper to create a right triangle and...
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Using Basic Properties to Solve Problems in Math

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Learners identify and define the rules of properties of real numbers. They rewrite each of the problems listed using the commutative or associative properties. Pupils apply problem solving strategies to clarify situations in a table...
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7th Grade Math: Algebra (Distributive Property)

For Teachers 7th
With algebra tiles in hand 7th graders will uncover the wonders of the distributive property of multiplication. They will take a pre-test, define the distributive property, then model and practice using their tiles to solve basic...
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Months of the Year

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Take your young group of learners through the school year one month at a time with this series of printable materials. Offering word cards for each month of the year, this resource is a simple way to support children with...
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Math Sequencing Activities

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Recognizing patterns and sequences in groups of numbers is an essential skill for all students to learn.
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Activity Plan Mixed Ages: Do the Animal Dance!

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students create a dance based on animal movements. In this kinesthetic lesson plan, the students will read and imitate animals in a creative way and share their dances with the group. The lesson includes a take-home activity and a math...
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An Introduction to Four Groups of Biologically Important Compounds

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students learn about the four biochemicals that are important biologically. In this biochemicals lesson plan, students identify the four major groups of biochemicals including carbohydrates, proteins, lipids and nucleic acids. They are...
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Activity Plan 4-5: Riddles by the Bagful!

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars write a riddle to be included in a class riddle book. In this creative-thinking lesson, the teacher will introduce children to riddles, then guide children through the process of writing and illustrating their own riddles...
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Activity Plan 3-4: It's a Zoo in Here!

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners create a classroom zoo for large-group science learning. In this early childhood science lesson, students develop their language, science, creativity, and fine motor skills as they research zoo animals and create classroom...
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Find the Mean, Median, Mode & Range

For Students 4th - 6th
In this math activity worksheet, students read groups of five to nine numbers and find their mean, median, mode, and range. Students solve 24 problems. 
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Springtime Flower Fun

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students study directional skills and participate in a scavenger hunt to find flowers. They compare, group and classify the flowers by their similarities and differences.
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Math Lesson Plan: Bingo Dabbing by 5's

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
Those extra large markers or "bingo dabbers" are so much fun to play with! Let learners use them to dab groups of five and practice skip counting by 5s to 100 or to 200. 
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How Does Your Animal Move?---Class Bar Graph

For Students 2nd - 3rd
Animals move in interesting ways! Get your young learners to examine various types of animal movement in this group graphing activity. Although directions are not explicit, it seems students are assigned an animal and categorize the...
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Tens and Ones Fun

For Teachers K - 1st
Youngsters use their large motor skills to build numbers to 20 in this outdoor, kinesthetic, collaborative activity. Amass cardboard boxes for groups to stack, sort, and bundle into 10s and 1s to show numbers and place value. They'll...
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Fair Games

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Who said things were fair? The unit introduces probability and its connection to fairness. The class interacts with activities of chance and plays games to relate them to fairness. Groups design a fair game and develop a presentation....
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The Viewing Tube

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Looking for an excellent lesson that incorporates math, science, and technology? Groups of three students use a viewing tube to perform an experiment, and discover how to organize their data into an Excel spreadsheet.  This is a...
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Algebra...Your Second Language

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Help learners translate word problems into algebraic equations. They will rewrite words using symbols and evaluate algebraic expressions using real life scenarios, animation sequences, video presentations, and activities to help students...