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Understanding Rational Numbers and Proportions

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore parts of a whole. In this fraction lesson, students determine what makes a fair share. Working with manipulatives, students solve mathematical problems containing fractions.
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How Sharp Is Your Memory?

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students play a memory game as they explore reasoning. In this algebra lesson plan, students identify concepts using pictures and words. They model real life scenarios using hands on manipulatives.
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Draw Johann Sebastian Bach

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students sketch a portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach. In this portrait lesson, students discover the elements of drawing a face. Students manipulate curved lines and shading to create an original piece of art.
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Who's In The Fact Family?

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Young scholars study related addition and subtraction facts. For this math lesson, students use related addition and subtraction to solve problems. Young scholars use manipulatives to explore fact families.
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How Many More?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learners complete subtraction problems where they use goldfish crackers as their manipulatives in the problem. In this subtraction lesson plan, students use words and pictures to also show their problems.
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Extending Pattern Understandings

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students use shapes and manipulatives to demonstrate patterns. In this patterns lesson plan, students also break up patterns to identify a pattern unit.
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One More, One Less - A Practice

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students practice adding one more item and taking away one more item to figure for one more, and one less of a number. In this one more and one less lesson plan, students use manipulatives.
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Get Lucky and Algebra Jeopardy

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Pupils manipulate integers quickly to get their answers. In this algebra lesson, students play an interactive game as they review basic algebraic operations. They add, subtract, multiply and divide quickly to get the correct answer.
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Community Building

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students build different shapes using sketches. In this geometry lesson, students explore measurements and units as they build and create models of buildings. They use SketchUp to create and manipulate shapes.
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Regrouping

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students practice regrouping using the wonderful manipulative - unifix cubes. Once they have a tactile understanding of regrouping, students complete 5 worksheets containing addition problems that require regrouping. The worksheets...
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Current Thinking About Magnets

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students construct their own magnet and wire device. In this inquiry instructional activity, students investigate the factors affecting the strength of magnetic forces. They manipulate different variable to determine their effect.
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Virginia Department of Education

Modeling Multiplication of Fractions

For Teachers 6th
Multiply your understanding of multiplying fractions. A short lesson teaches pupils how to multiply fractions. By using fraction models, they get a better understanding of the concept.
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Water Polo

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders warm-up and practice passing drills in groups of four or five before being divided into teams for a full court game of Water Polo. Students are observed during practice for how well they work as a team.
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Health and Safety

For Teachers Higher Ed
Pupils identify the colors used in a preschool classroom, the set-up, the safety procedures, as well as the immunizations required for a preschool. They also engage in small activities that include a class discussion, note taking, and...
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Summer Fun Activity: Dream Vacations

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students can turn the block area into a travel agency. In this early childhood problem solving lesson, students use creative-thinking and language skills as they design a play environment.
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Pass it Around

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students participate in body awareness activities by lying in a large circle and passing a ball. In this body awareness lesson, students lie in a large circle and pass a ball in multiple fashions to improve their motor skills, problem...
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Candy Addition and Subtraction

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice computation.  In this addition and subtraction math lesson, students count M & Ms and Skittles to answer math problems and complete a related worksheet.
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What's Missing?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students practice solving very basic number sentences and recording their answers on a worksheet. Individually, they use different manipulatives to represent the sentence they solved. They also explain what steps were taken to solve...
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Tourism in London

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Pupils discuss the tourist attractions that are in London. They examine how data can be manipulated by completing a worksheet. They plan a trip to a London attraction after conducting Internet research.
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Bean Bag Challenges

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students enhance their knowledge of physical fitness skills as well as related terminology. They explore many challenges using beanbags. Locomotive skills as well as manipulatives and non-manipulatives are involved.
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Addition Stories

For Teachers 1st
First graders incorporate language expressions, such as first, then, and together into a story and write the math equations that they represent. Concepts for the process of addition are developed using manipulatives, modeling, and...
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PETA Pressure

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students assess what a "target audience" is and how it can be manipulated. They identify characteristics that make up target audiences and check the peta2 Web site for tactics that exploit those characteristics. Acquiring how to spot...
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Number Sense Sampler

For Teachers 1st
First graders read a variety of stories containing mathematical word problems. They illustrate the math problems with manipulable counters.
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Subtraction with Calculators

For Teachers 1st
First graders demonstrate an understanding of subtracting one from a number of ten or less using manipulatives, work with calculators to solve subtraction problems, and create subtraction number sentences to solve on the calculator.

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