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Environmental Mathematics
Eighth graders determine food that they would need to survive in the wild. They graph the best foods for their environments and rate the survivability rate for each member of their group.
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Area Lesson Plan
Students manipulate a variety of materials and computer applets in order to explore area and the units used to measure it.
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How Big is a Blue?
Students determine the length of different whales using a rope marked off and color coded to each length. They create life-size scale drawings of whales on butcher paper.
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"Working in a Hat Factory"
Students analyze the understanding of what a producer is. Students distinguish between producers and consumers. Students produce a hat of his/her own. Students will share creations with each other.
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Wheeling Around
Eighth graders explore the characteristics of a circle and the formulas to find circumference. They use a bicycle wheel to determine the circumference around a wheel. They utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan which has a variety of...
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"ty" number
Second graders encounter the need to assess the code in English for tens is that the word ends in "-ty." They explore the meaning of two or three digit whole numbers to realize that the meaning of words like sixty can be decoded by...
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Calculator Numbers
Third graders practice working out a hidden number on a calculator via number sequence in the advanced additive stage six. They assess number sequence to unveil a mystery number that has been entered onto a calculator and then switch...
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What about Babuie's Behavior?
Students read the story about Babuie's behavior and relate it to a finite state machine. In this language arts lesson, students discuss and analyze their reading assignments. They develop a method to help them understand the finite state...
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Poultry in Motion (The Little Red Hen Meets Chicken Little)
Students read stories and use reading and writing skills to sequence, compare and contrast, predict, and identify parts of a story. Six lessons on one page.
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The Taxpayer's Responsibilities
Pupils explore system of voluntary compliance, and describe taxpayers' responsibilities related to filing a tax return.
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Guided Reading Lesson: Here Comes the Bus
Students discover basic concepts of print. In this early literacy lesson, students discover basic high frequency words. Students make predictions as they read. Cross-curricular activities provided.
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Explore: Investigating Division
In this exploring and investigating division worksheet, students, working with a partner, study and answer seven clues to exploring and investigating division equations.
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EZ Fractions
Students become familiar with fractions, and have a meaningful experience to relate them to. They write fractions, and identify numerators and denominators.
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Finding Polygons in Cubist Art
Fourth graders explore geometric properties and relationships in a two-dimensional work of art. They first search for and identify polygons in a Cubist painting and then use polygons to create their own Cubist portrait of a classmate.
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Investigation Can You Build This?
Students work in small groups to explore spatial relationships while building with color cubes. Students must identify positions of blocks to partner, recreate a model, and color a sketch of their structure appropriately.
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Products, Multiples, Factors
In this products, multiples, and factors worksheet, students complete various activities where they solve problems for products, multiples, and factors of numbers. Students complete 14 problems.
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Addition Stories
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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Code Crackers
Students work in teams creating and posing math rules and trying to guess them using a formula controlled worksheet they create with Excel. Student pairs take turns to see who can crack the other's code the fastest.
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An American Spy with Money To Spend
Sixth graders use their imagination, math, reading, computer, geography, and social studies skills in this unique, innovative, and fun lesson where students pretend to be international spies!
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Area of Parallelograms
Seventh graders review the process of finding the area of a rectangle and complete a couple of examples as a class. They discuss what a parallelogram is and what the formula would be for finding its area. They listen to an explanation...
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PowerPoint Probability
Sixth graders investigate film making by creating a video about probability. In this math visualization lesson, 6th graders create a presentation for their class demonstrating the probability of random events taking place in the...
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Piggy Pockets
Second graders determine when estimates and exact totals are appropriate in dealing with money. They simulate keeping a checking account over a period of time and keep a checkbook ledger to record deposits and expenses.
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M&M Statistics
Students determine the difference between guessing and making a prediction. They discuss what they could graph using a bag of M&M's. They take a Raw data sample and convert it into a sample. They graph the actual results and combine...
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Calendars
Second graders read books and discuss the names of the days of the week, months, and their holidays and seasons. They discover the concept of the days in order, practicing sequencing using a pocket chart and perform a matching activity...