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Spiders - KidPix

For Teachers K
Students answer questions after a story is read aloud, identify and recall the three major body parts of a spider (head, body and 8 legs), construct a spider when given parts of a spider on a handout, and draw and decorate a spider using...
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"Adding It Up" at James Fort

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students discuss jettons and their archaeological importance at Jamestown. They then practice using historic counting sheets and artifacts to understand the calculating methods of the early 17th Century, and identify their similarities...
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Forest Forensics

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore forests.  In this "forest forensic" lesson students divide into groups and go through the stations using their clues to solve the questions. 
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Common Factors and Common Multiples and Simple Exponents

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore factors and multiples. In this factors and multiples lesson, students learn the vocabulary words factor, common factor, multiple and common multiple. Students view examples of each and then complete activity sheets.
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Fun Through Fitness Day

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students engage in an entire morning of physical fitness activities called Field Day. Events such as dashes, water relays, hoop pass and obstacle course are some of the ideas.
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Finding Percent When Given A Fraction

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders calculate percentages when given a fraction. They convert a percentage to a fraction. All of this be done by each student's ability to read the graphs made available by the spreadsheet information.
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Graphing and the Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students gain practice reading coordinates and plotting points by participating in the Coordinates! Game. They demonstrate and test their skills with graph paper and the Maze Game.
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Elapsed Time Two

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners study how to calculate elapsed time. For this elapsed time lesson, they determine how to calculate the ending time of an event when they are given the starting time and the elapsed time. They participate in direct instruction,...
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Multiplication Facts for 2, 5, and 10

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Pupils improve their multiplication skills by completing the multiplication equations for facts 2, 5, and 10. In this multiplication facts lesson, students use different colored markers to mark on a number line and skip count by 2s....
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Turtle Tales

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students watch videos and fill out worksheets about the turtles and their journey to the Costa Rican beach. In this turtles lesson plan, students learn and discuss survival, predator and prey, and stages of development.
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Factoring Trinomials

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Young scholars factor trinomials using specific steps. In this algebra instructional activity, students factor polynomials following the steps on a smart instructional activity. They review important vocabulary to help with solving the...
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Combining Foods

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students explore addition. For this math lesson, students discover how addition and subtraction are related. Students model related addition and subtraction facts.
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Simple Machines

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils recognize simple machines in their environment, create a picture of a simple machine using KidPix Software, and appropriately name and identify the type of simple machine that they have created using their keyboard.
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Patterns with Decimals

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders are given a set of manipulatives to use to develop patterns. In groups, they follow the directions to determine which blocks go with which pattern and put them into the correct sequence. To end the lesson plan, they...
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Two-Digit Subtraction With Regrouping

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students practice their subtraction skills by solving 2 digit subtraction equations the teacher lists on the board. In this subtraction with regrouping lesson, students use the regrouping method to solve the 2-digit subtraction equations.
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Means of Growth

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students collect and graph data. In this statistics lesson, students analyze their plotted data using a scatter plot. They identify lines as having positive, negative or no correlation.
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Energy in Today's Global Society

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explain how heat is used to generate and produce electricity.  In this energy lesson plan students complete several activities that show them about the different fuels used for heating. 
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Simple Machines - Kid Pix

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders recognize simple machines in their environment. They create a picture of his/her simple machine in Kid Pix Studio. Once students have completed their picture have them save it to their desktop or disk. Next they create a...
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Rainbow Fish Graphing

For Teachers K
Students graph different colors of rainbow fish scales after participating in a shared reading of The Rainbow Fish. They answer questions based on the graph. They practice making graphs independently using colored cereal circles.
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Body Proportion

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders measure the height and arm span of various classmates. They use a spreadsheet to design a graph that shows the class measurements from tallest to shortest in metric and standard systems.
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Math: Creating Fraction Strips

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders construct fraction strips to play several math games. Using different colored construction paper, they assemble the strips and play Order the Fractions and Fraction War. With a pair of dice, 3rd graders roll fractions...
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Communicative & Associative Properties

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders participate in activities to explore communicative and associative properties. Given double color counters, 8th graders create arrangements to demonstrate the properties. They discuss the strategies used to model each...
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Lemonade Stand: Making Money the Old-Fashioned Way

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars run their own lemonade stand and are to figure out what to sell the lemonade at to gain the maximum profit.
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Will There be Enough Water?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate water usage, water available, and water demand historically in the local area. They use projections of water usage, availability and demand up to the year 2050. Students use graphs to relate as well as compare and...