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Mid-Module Assessment Task: Grade 6 Math Module 3
Ensure your class has a solid understanding of positive and negative integers before moving on. The 14th installment of a 21-part series is a mid-module assessment. Scholars solve problems on positive and negative integers, on...
American Museum of Natural History
Going, Going...Gone?
Young environmentalists consider how scientists are attempting to save endangered species. They read about what causes extinction and steps to take to minimize the threats.
Personal Genetics Education Project
Engineering the World Around Us: Genome Editing and the Environment
Challenge young minds to build a better world with genetic engineering. Biologists learn potential solutions for environmental issues using genome editing while interacting with three case studies. Scholars read articles and view...
Mathed Up!
Stratified Sampling
Young mathematicians learn how to solve problems involving stratified sampling. They review concepts of sampling and proportionality by watching a video and then they complete a worksheet of questions on this topic.
Physics Classroom
Vector Direction
Scholars practice vector direction notation in multiple formats. After mastering each individually, they work to convert from one to another as one part in a series of lessons on vectors and projectiles.
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Describing Variability Using the Interquartile Range (IQR)
The 13th activity in a unit of 22 introduces the concept of the interquartile range (IQR). Class members learn to determine the interquartile range, interpret within the context of the data, and finish by finding the IQR using an...
Curated OER
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
In this thousands word problems learning exercise, 7th graders solve and complete 6 different word problems that include the thousands place. First, they read each story and draw a picture to determine the solutions to each problem....
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Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday
What a great way to incorporate Judith Viorst's story, Alexander, Who Used to Be Rish Last Sunday, with a math lesson on money. Second graders listen to the story being read while the teacher stops to record each time Alexander spends...
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Storing CD's
Students will solve a word problem as an in depth investigation,. The lesson is based upon standards that are foundational to further development of math skills. The learners use logic and higher order thinking skills to accomplish the...
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100 Questions
Young scholars practice problem solving skills by asking questions and participating in a design challenge. In this asking questions lesson, students work in pairs to ask questions to design a solution for a difficult personal problem....
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Making Good Decisions
Students engage in some form of classroom decision making and look at possible options and consequences of each decision. In this investigative lesson plan students look at different options in solving social issues and can debate...
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How Much?
It's time to go back over all that your class has learned about decimals, fractions, and percentages! To do so, individuals solve story problems that involve addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division with decimals, explain how...
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Fairy Tales
Students listen as the teacher reads fairy tales to students and identify patterns. They listen as the teacher re-reads the fairy tales and signal or recite patterns as they listen. Students identify patterns in the fairy tales. They...
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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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Making Good Decisions
Students read a local town meeting sheet about a problem they are having, and come up with solutions. In this decisions lesson plan, students analyze the problem and come up with solutions to the problem. Students discuss how to make a...
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Moving Day
In this problem solving instructional activity, 3rd graders use logic to come to a solution. Students read a short scenario and respond to 1 short answer question writing a logical solution to the given situation.
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Meanings of Subtraction
In this word problem worksheet, 2nd graders read each problem and set up the correct subtraction problem to find a solution. Students complete 3 single digit subtraction problems.
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Add Two-Digit Numbers
In this story problems worksheet, students read one problem about a picnic and examine the picture. Students fill in the blanks in 4 questions that will help plan a solution.
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Retell the "tail" of the Tale
Students listen to a folktale and determine the problem and solution in the story. They rewrite the ending by coming up with a different solution to the same problem. They interpret the problem and solution in the folktale and...
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Think Fast! What Would You Do If . . .
Fifth graders use critical thinking and problem solving skills. It allows students to make choices and to use imagination to develop a solution for each problem. Solutions are then presented to the class.
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Stump the Dump Maze Game
Students complete reading Because of Winn-Dixie individually or as a class. As students reunite Opal and Winn-Dixie in this timed reading comprehension maze game, they demonstrate their understanding of the novel's plot, theme, and...
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Bad Case of Stripes Lesson Plan
Young scholars think about why we worry about what others think, bullying, and learning to respect and accept differences in others.In this Bad Case of Stripes lesson plan, students examine cause-and-effect relationships in a story as...
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You Make the Call
In this reading predictions worksheet, students read a short story starter. After reading these suspenseful beginning sentences, students answer the question, "What do you think will happen next?" Students write their predictions on the...
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Probability
For this probability worksheet, students determine the empirical probability based on specific sample data. The one page worksheet contains three problems. Solutions are provided.