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The Goat in the Rug
Students define productive, capital, human and natural resources and intermediate goods, then classify these things by how they are used in a production process. In this resources/goods lesson plan, students listen to the story The Goat...
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A Lesson to Accompany "Benjamin Franklin and the Birth of a Paper Money Economy"
Students investigate the role of money in the colonial economy. In this colonial economy lesson, students participate in a trading activity, read the booklet "Benjamin Franklin and the Birth of a Paper Money Economy," participate in an...
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One Good Turn Deserves Another
Students make observations about shapes and 1-, 2-, and 3-dimensional objects. They conduct observations and make predictions regarding transformations of simple geometric shapes. They identify shapes that occur in household items.
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Why Guess When You Can Estimate
They apply various strategies in their estimations. They analyze the differences between guessing and estimating. They estimate the number of beans and jellybeans in egg cartons and jars respectively.
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Invest In Yourself
Students learn about budgeting, saving, dept, financial management, opportunity cost, and self-regulation. In this financial management lesson, students apply their knowledge of finance components and create their own web based plan...
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Let's Trade
Second graders engage in a lesson which focuses on adding two-digit numbers and the regrouping process. They identify when the regrouping process is necessary and make appropriate "trades" to complete an addition problem.
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Shape Up
Young scholars explore differents types of triangles and quadriaterals. In this polygon lesson, students model identify and compare two and three dimensional geometric figures. Young scholars create tangrams and discover the...
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Screaming for Ice Cream
Mathematicians investigate maximizing volume by learning to explore the problem in which they seek to maximize the volume of a cone. Students solve the problem symbolically, graphically, and through the use of integration or...
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Make Me Metric
Sixth graders explore standard and nonstandard measurement. In this measurement lesson, 6th graders estimate the lengths of different objects and write about their observations during measuring. Students work in groups to...
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Up For Change?
Students explore similar objects. They participate in a series of hands-on, multimedia and online activities to examine how the edge length affects the angle measures, perimeters and areas of similar regular polygons. Students find the...
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Equadorian Rainforest: The Tropical Supermarket
Students study the concept of sustainable agricultural practices through cocoa farming and the lives of the people who are the producers. Students watch a slide show and read a story which helps them understand the origins of chocolate,...
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Rise Over Run
Students define the slope of the line, find the slope between any two points on the line, and allow them to name other areas where the slope is used. They explain why the slope is defined as the rise over the run.
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How Long? How Wide?
Second graders distinguish between and use nonstandard and standard units of measurement, use appropriate tools and techniques to measure length and width, and record and interpret data using graphs.
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Invitation to Integers
Students find zero pairs and add integers using zero pairs and a number line. They generalize rules for adding integers. Students complete a matching activity on the Internet that helps them practice adding integers.
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Pancakes, Anyone?
First graders explore data collecting and graphing. In this data collecting and graping activity, 1st graders watch a video about monster who sells pancakes. Students make a graph to record the most popular pancake. Students also play...
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Line 'Em Up!
Students find coordinate points on a grid and create a line graph with those points. This lesson should ideally be used during a unit on various types of graphs. They make and use coordinate systems to specify locations and to describe...
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A Borrower And A Lender Be
Second graders practice addition and subtraction in this fun, technology-based Mathematics lesson for the second grade classroom. The lesson includes resource links, video clips, interactive websites, and a section for pre-lesson...
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Let's Go To Mexico
Students are able to use the Internet to conduct research. They research Mexican culture and traditions. Students compare and contrast Mexican and U.S. food and clothing. They convert United States currency to Mexican pesos. Students...
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Network This
Students determine the number of paths in a network with up to six vertices. They construct a network to solve a problem situation. They describe and defend the solution to a network problem.
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Eliminate What?
Students are introduced to the elimination method in Algebra. As a class, they solve two linear equations with two unknowns using this new method. They discuss the positive and negative aspects of using this method to solve problems. ...
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How Many Is Too Many?
Students explore the population explosion. They view a video depicting the exponential growth of human population. Students research the internet to project future population data. They perform hands-on, multimedia activities to study...
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Right on the Money
Students are introduced to coins and bills in American currency. After watching a video, they practice making the same amount of money out of different combinations of coins and bills. Using the internet, they discover how much each...
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All About Measuring with the Metric System
Students discover the metric system through video clips and Internet activities. In this measurements lesson, students practice using the units of measure for the metric system and compare them to the less popular English system....
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Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
Young scholars examine graphs to find the most appropriate for various kinds of data. In this graphing activity, student create bar, line and circle graphs. Students create graphs electronically and manually interpreting the...