Fifth graders define words. They create a dichotomous key. After carefully examining pill bugs, 5th graders record observations. They compare and contrast habitats of pillbugs.

This teaching packet is for grades five through eight, and it is organized around geographic themes: location, place, relationships, movement, and regions. There are four full lessons that are complete with posters, weblinks, and...

Build foundational knowledge of volume by building boxes. Given dimensions for a piece of grid paper, young mathematicians determine the number of possible open-top boxes it will make. As part of this task, they also find the box with...

Here are some cross-curricular activities whil should help your kids understnad weight measurements and grammar. In this grammar and math lesson, students read the book Skittles Riddles and practice counting and balancing skittles. They...

Students trace their feet and them compare the different sizes of classmates. They construct a bar graph showing the results of their classmates' feet size. They discuss what kinds of conclusions can be drawn from their observations.

Students study about prairie dogs and determine the mean, median, and mode of a prairie dog tow's population.

Students learn their addresses and gain a sense of connection between their neighborhood and the rest of the world and the universe.

First graders explore how most living things, big and small, need food for survival.

In this math worksheet, students examine the examples using the concepts of floating point numbers and round off error. Then they compute the data for the given functions.

In this algebra worksheet, students solve problems dealing with mixture, distance, money and integer. There are 32 questions dealing with word problems.

Students evaluate the impact of volcanic ash on the surroundin environment. Through discussion, videos and activities, they identify the various ways in which volcanic ash can be more detrimental than volcanic magma and lava.

Cute graphics make this an attractive presentation for upper elementary classrooms, and multiple choice questions make it interactive as well. There is, however, a lack of coherence. For example, slide #4 addresses the air we breathe,...

In this function worksheet, learners identify the local maximum and minimum values and angle dimensions. This one-page worksheet contains six multi-step problems.

In this tangram worksheet, students find the area of each tangram shape. Afterwards, they name each piece and find the area of combined figures. This one-page worksheet contains approximately 25 problems.

Students examine and discuss the inventions and changes created by the Industrial Revolution. They create posters or clay models about inventions, write paragraphs about the advantages and disadvantages of the changes, and develop a...

Explore the relationship between 2D and 3D shapes by having your class view representation of shapes and investigate their symmetry. They will create a solid object from diagrams and describe the reflection or rotational symmetry. In the...

Students create a worm bin full of fruit and vegetable scraps wit paper and observe what happens over time. In this decomposers lesson plan, students observe that the fruit and vegetable scraps become new soil.

In this moon image worksheet, learners determine the scale of an image taken by the LRO satellite of the Apollo 11 landing site. Students calculate the sun's angle at the time of the photograph using the shadow of the Lunar Lading...

In this factorization pre-test worksheet, students solve ten multiple choice questions by finding the least common multiple. This is an interactive worksheet.

In this atoms worksheet, students complete 58 questions about the atomic radius of atoms, the ionization energy, the valence electrons, metals, non-metals and semi-metals and the families of elements.

In this atom worksheet, students complete 60 questions about the trends in atoms such as ionization energy and atomic radius, about valence electrons, about the families of elements, about metals, non-metals and semi-metals, about the...

In this math instructional activity, students solve the problems for place value by arranging them in ascending and descending order. The answers are found on page two.

In this algebra instructional activity, students solve a word problem figuring out how many rooms there are in dorm with an odd number.  This instructional activity contains an answer key.

In this eccentricity worksheet, students solve and complete 20 various types of problems that include the eccentricity of an ellipse and a hyperbola. First, they graph each ellipse and list the variable values, calculating the...