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Investigation - Peg Race
Students explore time by comparing the duration of an egg timer with how many pegs they can put in a pegboard. They experience one on one correspondence, as they place a peg in the whole. Students discover estimation of time and number...
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Student Costs Data Table
Students compare and contrast two routes selected for a virtual field trip. They create a data table of educational activities, lodging, and meal costs using Microsoft Excel software.
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Inverse (Indirect) Machines
Students observe relationships between quantities. Students complete activities for three different classes of levers. In groups, students build each type of lever. Students identify levers in their daily surroundings. Students observe...
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What's your favorite pi?
Sixth graders toss popcorn kernels at a 12? circle inscribed in a 12? square. By counting the number of popcorn kernels that land inside the circle and inside the square the students calculate estimates for the value of pi.
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Downhill Discoveries
Students are involved in hands-on activities to determine how course conditions affect bobsled, luge, and downhill ski races.
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Exploring Length and Perimeter
Sixth graders determine the perimeter of geometric shapes with a grid at technology based resource. While looking at figures on an overhead, they determine how much border they would need to go around a figure. They also complete...
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Where Is Japan? How Far Is That?
First graders use literature and hands-on activities with maps and globes to explain distance and tools used to measure distance. They select tools to measure various objects in the classroom, then apply those concepts to their map...
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Pardon me. Do You Have exChange for a Dollar?
Students are familiar with United States currency-dollar and cents. They are asked to compare it with currency of another country. Students explore currencies of various countries using the Internet, video, and hands-on activities. ...
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Prime and Composite Numbers
Sixth graders identify prime and composite numbers. They participate in a hands-on activity to discover the multiples and factors of specified numbers. They write a paragraph to explain representing factors.
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Modeling Basic Operations
Eighth graders engage in a lesson that investigates basic mathematical operations using a number line. They use props for hands on activities of visualizing the solution to a particular problem.
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Area and Perimeter
Students participate in a hands-on activity that shows the independence of perimeter and area for simple irregular figures.
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Sort and Color: 100 Bears
In this math worksheet, students sort the colors of gummy bears in the hands on activity. Then they color the bears on the sheet.
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TE Activity: Testing the Caverns
Students make model caverns out of paper mache or clay. They bury them in a tray of sand, and test the models by dropping balls into them simulating as asteroid hitting the earth. They discuss the results of the activity in a whole class...
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MathBoard
Do you want to practice arithmetic skills from simple addition facts, to cubes and square roots, to solving one-step equations? Here is a great app for practicing and learning everything from arithmetic practice using integers to solving...
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Destination Outer Space
Students investigate space travel. In this space travel instructional activity students examine space exploration history, engineers and scientists involved in space exploration, and Newton's third law of motion. Students make rockets.
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Fortified Breakfast
Learners reverse engineer a cereal. In this dietary lesson students identify the minerals that the human body needs to function. Learners examine how foods are fortified by food engineers. Students find the amount of iron in a cereal by...
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Exploring at the Nanoscale
Nano-nano! Nanotechnology can seem like it's from another planet! After learning about this tiny technology, collaborative groups experiment with how smaller particles affect chemical reactions. They do this by immersing a whole and a...
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Estimating the Mean State Area
Seventh grade statisticians randomly select five states and then determine the mean area. The class then works together to create a dot plot of their results.
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Telling Time
Students identify numerals on a clock and put them in correct order. They identify the hour and minute hands on a clock. Students practice time skills by telling time by the hour using a standard clock.
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Graphing Using Cookies
Learners differentiate between bar graphs, line graphs, pictographs and bar graphs. After participating in a hands-on cookie activity, students label and draw their own graphs.
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Time & Itineraries Two
Students explore time management by participating in clock reading activities. In this itinerary lesson plan, students define a list of time telling vocabulary terms and practice reading analog clocks with a partner. Students identify...
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Discovering Density
Students explore the physical properties of density. In this hands-on lesson plan, students calculate density and distinguish between intensive and extensive properties.
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Get it Straight Mr. Decimal!
Students work with decimals. For this decimal lesson, students participate in a hands-on group activity that enable them to review to how to appropriately add and subtract decimals.
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"The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton
Students estimate the distance in miles between Tulsa, Oklahoma and Manhattan, Kansas. They gather and graph data on gangs in both areas.