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Making Cookies- How many per hour?
Fifth graders measure how long it takes to make cookies. In this measuring time lesson, 5th graders explore how to manage time. Students decide when to start making breakfast on time, how to calculate playing time into their lunch time,...
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Activity Plan 2-3: Outdoor Picture Math
Learners match images of objects to their real counterpart. In this play-based matching lesson, children explore the playground and match real play equipment with what is seen in pictures. Lesson includes a language and literacy...
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Jack and the Beanstalk Math
Students listen to Jack and the Beanstalk and determine what they think are the most common words. In this Jack and the Beanstalk lesson, students reread the story, count the words they chosen and graph those words. Students graph...
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Line Graphs Showing Change Over Time
Students analyze line graphs. In this graphing lesson, students analyze line graphs paying attention to how the data changes over time. This lesson includes two video clips, one demonstrating an increasing line graph and one...
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TI Math, Games
Students solve problems using technology. In this algebra lesson, students apply flow diagrams and computer codes to solve problems. They use the TI to view the graphs.
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Math Investigations
Students brainstorm how math is used in daily life. They develop a class list of different topic areas in which math is used and
work in small groups to think of specific examples of how math is an important part of their lives.
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Activity Plan Mixed Ages: Family Math
Students play with math. In this early childhood lesson plan, students create drawings of family members to use for math activities including counting, seriating, sorting, grouping, and sequencing.
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Fractions Lesson Plan
Students explore equivalent fractions. In this fractions lesson plan, students use strips of paper to recognize equivalent fractions. Students may complete an online activity on an interactive whiteboard as an assessment.
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Math Fact Card Games
Learners play card games as a way to strengthen their math skills. In this math facts instructional activity, students play UNO multiplication, greater than and less then and multiplication war.
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Time Changes Everything
Students analyze census data from 1915, 1967 and 2006. They read an article about how the world's population is growing at an alarming rate. They use primary source documents to create a timeline on the information they gathered. They...
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It's About Time!
Young scholars examine the potentials, both positive and negative, of adapting an international 'Internet time' system. They create and solve word problems that require them to translate between the current time system and Internet time.
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Time and Time Again
Students analyze the effects of time zone differences on how we function as a global community, focusing particularly on the turn of the millennium as a way for students to calculate time zone differences.
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Chess Lesson Plans
Students discover the game of chess. In this critical thinking lesson, students learn the rules for each chess piece and the game as a whole. Students use critical thinking, problem solving, logic, and reasoning skills to improve their...
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Butterfly Lesson 2 - Monarch Caterpillar
Students study the Monarch Butterfly life cycle. In this Monarch Butterfly lesson plan, students examine what happens prior to a caterpillar hatching, how often it sheds its skin, and what the caterpillar goes through when it...
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Math Combinations
Students examine how to use lists, tables, and tree diagrams to solve math combinations. They create various combinations of outfits using clothing manipulatives, watch an episode of the PBS series Cyberchase, and play an interactive...
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Higher Order Thinking (H.O.T.) Lesson - BIG E
Fourth graders work with patterns while using large numbers. In this patterning lesson, 4th graders go over the definitions of the words: predict, estimate, attendance, increase, and decrease. They complete worksheets in which they track...
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Start Your Engines: An Internet Research Lesson
Fifth graders engage in a lesson which offers informational how-tos for conducting research on the Internet. Three search engines are introduced and used to gather information to solve a specific problem.
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Geometry History Lesson
Tenth graders investigate the early history of geometry. For this geometry lesson, 10th graders investigate translations, rotations, and reflections. They also solve problems with line of symmetry and rotational symmetry while reviewing...
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Math: Fractions
Participate in a class lesson on ratio, rate, and unit rate. Successful usage of this lesson requires the pupils and the teacher have access to the Scott Foresman/Addison Wesley Middle School math text. However, the unit rate problems...
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Building Better Buses: Transportation Design Challenges
Scholars learn about a series of three challenges when they design a bus system for a small town. They determine the bus routes and then figure out the best type of fuel to use before considering the cost of going electric. Learners...
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Arkansas' Top Ten Events of the Century....Says Who? Why? Deciding What is Important in History
Middle and high schoolers work in small groups to compare four different lists published in the Arkansas Times newspaper which chose the "top ten" Arkansas news events of the 20th century. Learners look for similarities and differences...
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New-tritional Info
Burning off a Big Mac® doesn't seem like a big feat until you calculate the minutes of exercise necessary to break even. Young mathematicians look at different menu items in relation to different body weights and exercises to calculate...
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The Power of Exponential Growth
How do you make a penny grow to $5,000 in just 15 days? Use the examples in this lesson to explore the concept of exponential growth and its comparison to linear models. Pupils come to understand that exponential growth eventually...
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Fractions - Equal or Not
A fabulous lesson on fractions awaits your young mathematicians. In it, learners are invited to explore the world of fractions by accessing websites that have educational activities and worksheets embedded in them. Some excellent,...