Students explore sale items.  In this money and percent math lesson, students work in groups to locate food ads in the newspaper.  Students identify sales and calculate final prices using percentage discounts.  Students...

Sixth graders explore agriculture by examining world geography. In this pecan cultivation lesson, 6th graders identify the history of the famous nut and the impact it has on the U.S. economy, diet and human body. Students define...

Fifth graders explore fractions by participating in a card activity in class. In this percentages lesson, 5th graders inventory the amount of different cards in a deck in order to determine the percentages of getting a certain card....

In this data management and probability applications worksheet, 7th graders solve 13 different types of problems that include finding the mean, median, mode, and range of each set of values, as well as, solving a number of word problems....

A cross-curricular resource teaches and reinforces mathematical concepts with several activities that use parts of a newspaper. Scholars use scavenger hunts to find the different ways math is used in the paper along with using data...

In this graphing data instructional activity, students solve and complete 8 different word problems related to graphing data given. First, they determine the percent of people who do not believe in any of the phenomena described and...

Here is a tricky little interactive online quiz with which your motivated learners can test themselves on the finer points of subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement. They need to know that macaroni and cheese is actually a...

Students practice figuring percentages by solving written shopping problems.  In this consumer math lesson, students read several scenarios dealing with items on sale and must figure out the new price.  Students check their...

Students explore mathematics by participating in a pizza pie activity. In this nutrition lesson, students identify the caloric intake in a piece of pizza and estimate the average number of slices eaten by a person. Students utilize...

Incorporate writing into your physical education class. In groups, learners unscramble a list of words related to exercise and use them in their journal writings. Using their name, they write one word related to physical activity that...

Does homework improve student achievement, or does it increase stress? Scholars use the included debate topics website to prepare for a class discussion or debate about whether homework is advantageous. After reading a brief background...

Students describe, analyze and generalize relationships, patterns, functions using words. symbols, variables, tables and graphs.

In this Euclidean proofs instructional activity, 10th graders solve 10 different problems that include completing indirect Euclidean proofs. First, they write a statement for each of the reasons listed on the sheet of proofs. Then,...

In this verbs worksheet, students complete a 25 question multiple choice on-line interactive practice exercise about verbs ending in "-ed". Students choose the best verb for the sentence from two choices.