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Classroom Supplies
Challenge young mathematicians to buy classroom supplies by staying within the means of a $1,000 budget. The mathematical activity provides learners with the opportunity to decide what items from the supply list would benefit a class of...
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Estimating and Counting Money
Young scholars explore the concepts of estimating and rounding. In this estimating and rounding lesson, students play a game of tic-tac-toe. Young scholars pick items and must estimate their cost by rounding. Students estimate the costs...
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Money: Demonstrating Coin Value up to $1.00
Students examine coin values up to $1.00 using paper coins. In this coin value instructional activity, students compare and contrast various coins to aid in identification, sort coins from smallest to largest, and match an equal number...
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Money Matters
Students practice spending money by completing math word sentences. For this economics lesson, students utilize problem solving strategies to complete word problems written on the board involving making purchases with money....
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Coins: Names and Value
Learners read the story Benny's Pennies and play a matching game where they match the coin to it's value. In this coins lesson plan, students use the SMART Board to view coins.
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Fictional Characters
Young scholars explore fictional characters. In this fictional characters lesson, students hear information about a character then ask and answer questions. Young scholars also answer true/false questions about the character and make a...
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Comparison Shopping & Buying Supplies
First graders compare prices to determine the best buy. They earn money, by correctly completing math problems. Earnings are used to purchase items from a store using exact change.
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Green is Beautiful
Students explore the need to care for the environment and the ways in which their actions can impact their surroundings. They play a board game to illustrate the need to protect the environment.
Curriculum Corner
Splashes of Spring Math Centers
Spring into math practice with a set of resources that taps into a variety of math practice. Skills include matching expressions to their definitions, a place value sorting activity, three multiplication and division games,...
Reading Resource
Falling Leaves Long Vowel Game
Autumn's come early in your classroom! Match leaves with short words to the trees with the correct vowel sounds. A few blank leaves allow you to add your own words to the activity.
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Rookie Lesson Module — Financial Football
Score a touchdown with an exciting game of financial football! Middle schoolers choose their favorite teams and play a virtual game of football as they answer various questions about economics.
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Money
Students speak and listen to different prices of items and complete a worksheet. For this prices lesson plan, students circle the correct prices on a sheet they are given based on the ones their teacher calls out.
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Traditional Inuit Games
Students explore Inuit culture. In this cultural diversity lesson, students collaborate to learn Inuit games and teach them to their classmates.
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Money
Students complete online activities to identify coins and their given values. For this coin values lesson, students identify pictures of various coins and write their values. Students may then complete other activities based on a varying...
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Nickel/Penny Grab
First graders examine the coins nickels and pennies. In this math lesson plan, 1st graders compare the value of the two sets of coins and determine their value. Additionally, students explore counting sets of coins that have pennies...
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Common Sense Cookie Shop
First graders shop for a bag of cookies using toy money. In teams, they choose which variety to buy and decides which bills and coins are necessary to buy the bag of cookies and a cashier makes change. They tally the cookies purchased...
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Lesson Four - Making Change
Learners practice making change. In this money lesson plan, students complete worksheets in which they find the amount of change they would receive from a dollar bill amount. Learners go online and play games on this same concept.
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The Big Buck Adventure
Students practice making change, and adding and subtracting money. In this money lesson, students listen to a reading of The Big Buck Adventure by Shelley Gil. They access teacher assigned web sites to practice making change, adding...
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Mental Math for Adding Decimals
Fifth graders work in groups to practice adding decimals. In this adding decimals instructional activity, 5th graders call out different money amounts to each other and mentally add the coins called out. Students take turns calling out...
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Money Game
Fourth graders give change of one dollar. In this decimal and fractions lesson, 4th graders receive fake coins and discuss what they could purchase with them. Students go for a walk and spend one dollar and get...
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Coral And Kelp Game Direction- Beginning C Or K
In this initial c or k spelling game, students color and cut out 12 game cards. Each has a picture, with a c or k word with the first letter missing. Detailed instructions and a game board are included.
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Treats in a Basket
Middle schoolers explore probability by participating in an experimental activity. In this number statistics lesson, students collaborate in groups in which they move a game piece around a board. Middle schoolers calculate their...
California Academy of Science
Coincidental Colonization
The Galápagos Islands are an amazing place of isolated adaptation, colonized by an interesting mix of plants and animals. The class plays a game to help them understand how these organisms came to live on the island through a combination...
Chicago Botanic Garden
The Carbon Cycle
There is 30 percent more carbon in the atmosphere today than there was 150 years ago. The first instructional activity in the four-part series teaches classes about the carbon cycle. Over two to three days, classes make a model...