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Fraction Circles

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders receive a fraction circle and show how each different part makes a whole. Students compare the different fractions that make up a whole. Students choose 2 fractions which are inside a bucket and they compare them both...
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Gator Pie, Anyone?

For Teachers 1st
First graders listen to a story, manipulate flannel board figures, and cut soft cookies and paper plates into equal parts.
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Creating Circle Graphs using Excel

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders evaluate data from a circle graph that compares time spent on various activities. They use the computer to manipulate their own data as they compare, examine, create and evaluate data using circle graphs.
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Ribbon Wand Dancing

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Pupils construct a ribbon wand which, through the use of line, color, contrast and shape can be used to better express a given emotion. Students improvise a brief dance created through manipulation of ribbon wand using three distinct...
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Fun with Patterns

For Teachers K
Students identify, extend and create patterns using various types of manipulatives and then work a pattern game in the computer lab to reinforce what was learned.
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Counting to 10

For Teachers K
Students count to 10 by using cheerios as manipulatives, identify numbers 1-10 by sight, and go to a website by using the Internet and computer keyboard (numeric) to answer questions (with help of teacher).
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Alphabetical Order

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students write spelling words for the week, or review words, in boxes that are large enough for students to cut out and manipulate with ease. After cutting them out students arrange them on their desk in alphabetical order.
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Exploring Area/Perimeter Through Coordinate Geometry

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore area and perimeter through coordinate geometry using student literature, hands-on manipulatives, and the Internet.
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Internet Field Trip on Fractions and Geometry

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students take an Internet field trip to research fractions. ESOL strategies include using pattern block manipulatives and pairing ESOL and non-ESOL students on computers.
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Flips, Slides, and Turns

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders manipulate and draw shapes to demonstrate the concept of flips, slides, and turns using letters and arrows on graph paper.
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"Shapes" Dance Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders create dances by manipulating shapes with their bodies.
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Marvelous Mathematics

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students make a table on the computer, but create fractions and equivalent fractions through the use of color. They are able to manipulate fractions in order to gain a greater understanding of the meaning of whole number that is broken...
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Tension and Compression

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers experience the forces of tension and compression by manipulating objects that are strong in each but not in both. Students construct a simple model of a beam bridge.
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Tension and Compression

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Young scholars explore the forces of tension and compression by manipulating a variety of objects, and apply what they learned in the construction of a model bridge.
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Monitoring Energy Expenditure

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students use heart rate monitors and complete a swimming and running test. These tests allow students to obtain personal data, to manipulate the data through calculations of various parameters, and to graphically represent the data.
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Relative Size - Wide and Narrow

For Teachers K
Students distinguish between wide and narrow manipulatives and sort accordingly. They use construction paper strips, ribbon, fabric strips, books, popsicle sticks and sock puppets.
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Multiplication and Division with Arrays

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students practice the commutative property, create and manipulate arrays and multiply and divide numbers.
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Double-Digit Addition with Regrouping

For Teachers 1st
First graders recall place value system and double-digit addition, create and manipulate double-digit regrouping, and devise and identify ways to use regrouping.
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Relative Weight

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders distinguish the difference between pounds and ounces and arrange manipulatives from heaviest to lightest.
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"Probably Pistachio" by Stuart J. Murphy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils use manipulatives and examine situations where probability can be used.
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Motion of the Sun and Earth: Using a Classroom Model to Explore Rotation and Revolution

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students use a concrete model of the Sun and Earth to observe and manipulate a 3-D model of the Sun and Earth.
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Eclipse: Using a Classroom Model to Explore the Moon's Shadow

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students manipulate and observe a 3-D model which simulates the activity of the Sun, Earth and Moon during a solar eclipse.
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Pulley Power

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders engage in a manipulative experiment in the mechanical advantage of simple machines. It graphically demonstrates the change in magnitude of applied force when using simple machines. Great for ESL to discover the ratio...
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Magical Shapes

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice manipulating shapes into different locations. They see that even though shapes may look different when they are moved into different locations, the shape remains the same with the same properties. They make...

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