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Selecting Lower Priced Grocery Items
As adults, most individuals with special needs must live on a budget. Provide them with money management skills by teaching your class how to make price comparisons while shopping at the grocery store. They work through a series of...
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Leveled Problem Solving: Range and Outliers
In this range and outliers worksheet, learners solve 6 word problems where they examine data then identify outliers, find the upper and lower quartile ranges, find the interquartile range and create box-and-whisker plots.
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Fluency Activities for Lower Levels
Readers participate in activities designed to increase their fluency with language. They collaborate in small groups to complete stem sentences about themselves. They write facts about themselves and answer questions asked by the other...
Mathed Up!
Upper and Lower Bounds
Investigate how rounding affects values. Individuals watch a video about how to find the highest and lowest possible numbers that result in a given value when rounded to a certain place value. They finish by completing a worksheet of...
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General Knowledge Questions- All School Subjects Lower Intermediate
In this interactive general knowledge learning exercise, learners complete 24 multiple choice questions based on their knowledge in several subject areas. These subjects include science, geography, sports and music.
New York City Department of Education
Theater Units for Lower and Upper Elementary Levels
Introduce middle schoolers to playwriting and the elements of drama with a six-session storytelling unit that encourages kids to expand their acting and writing skills. The 12-page packet includes overviews of the lessons,...
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Worksheet 30 - Intervals
In this interval worksheet, students divide functions into intervals. They computer the upper and lower sums for the partition. This two-page worksheet contains approximately eight multi-step problems.
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Asking and Answering Lower-Level Questions
Help your kindergartners with reading comprehension using this simple sentence strips approach. They answer basic questions about a simple sentence, determining the who and what of the story. Use the graphic organizer...
British Council
Stairway to Nowhere (Lower Level)
Picture this! Scholars quickly sketch an image of what they think a picture of Stairway to Nowhere would look like. They participate in a fill-the-gap exercise where they complete sentences by filling in the blanks of the transcript as...
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Leaf Stomata as Bioindicators of Environmental Change
Students, in this experiment, collect leaves from two species of trees and the stomatal index on the upper and lower epidermis of each leaf be determined.
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Triangles- Lower Elementary Geometry Coloring Page
In this lower elementary geometry worksheet, students locate all of the triangles and color them green. They color triangles in the form of a Yield sign, a sandwich, a tent, and mask.
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What Comes Next Lower Elementary Math Worksheet
For this lower elementary math worksheet, students write the number that comes after the given number. They write the number on a blank line in 12 examples such as 5, _____ . They see a black line picture of a cat on the page.
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Lower Elementary Word Search- Bear
In this lower elementary word search worksheet, students locate 6 words that are found in a word bank at the bottom of the page. They locate 6 words which include; bear, black, brown, cubs, den, and honey.
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Lower Elementary Family Word Search
In this lower elementary family word search worksheet, learners locate 9 words that are associated with families. They see the words in a list underneath the puzzle. They see words that include aunt, brother, cousin, and grandparent.
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Charles' Law
Learners determine the validity of Charles' Law. In this Charles' Law lesson plan, students measure the volumes of a gas at two different temperatures. They determine the volume at a high temperature and predict using Charles' Law what...
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Freezing Point Depression
Students create ice cream in a zipped bag and measure the temperature of a salt/ice mixture. They discover how salt lowers the temperature necessary to freeze ice to a solid (below 0'C).
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Mt. Whitney to Death Valley
This is an intriguing problem that brings together real-world data, technology, and mathematical problem solving. If visibility wasn't an issue, could you see from the highest point in the lower 48 states, Mt. Whitney, to the lowest...
Joy Uzarraga
Famous American Research Project
Designed specifically for lower elementary pupils, this is a great biographical research project in which students research a famous American, and then design creative poster boards to help them "become" the famous...
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Box and Whisker Plots
In this math worksheet, students compute the median of sets of numbers. They create box and whisker plots. Students identify the median, upper and lower quartiles, and minimum/maximum amounts. On the last page of this worksheet, students...
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A Look at Tidal Wetlands
Here is a comprehensive and lengthy presentation on tidal wetlands. Many photos of grasses and the animals that live among them are included, making this a virtual field trip. The progression of the presentation is as if you would walk...
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Welcome to the Wonderful World of Machines
Designed for a lower elementary school classroom, this presentation on simple machines is a wonderful way to introduce this topic. The resource begins by identifying and defining the six types of simple machines, and then goes on to...
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A Whale of Importance to the Arctic People
The bowhead whale of the Arctic region is of great importance to the people that live there. Your class will brainstorm all they know about this wonderful whale and create an informational video, which they will share with the children...
BBC
Rivers - Lesson Plan for Use Online
Here is a very nice activity on rivers and the water cycle designed for young learners. In it, pupils view two animated cartoons that do a terrific job of showing how the water cycle works, and how rivers flow. After that, everyone...
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What Is Area?
What if I can no longer justify area by counting squares? Lead a class discussion to find the area of a rectangular region with irrational side lengths. The class continues on with the idea of lower approximations and...