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Map Coordinates: Monkey Map
Here's an engaging, meaningful, and clever activity on map skills for elementary schoolers. Pupils combine story writing with mapping skills to create an original piece of work. They utilize a worksheet embedded in the plan to guide them...
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Put Your Face on the Map
Students investigate topography and contour lines by examining a human face. In this mapping instructional activity, students create a plaster cast of a face and create a map of the contours of the face one centimeter at a time....
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CHARTING THE COURSE
Students uses atlases, maps, and Web resources to determine the distance, driving time, and amount of money they need to make the trip (estimates should include hotel/motel stays, meals, and souvenirs).
Mathematics Assessment Project
Smoothie Box
Pupils demonstrate their understanding of nets by designing a net of a box that contains 12 bottles. Given the full size top and side views of the bottle, they determine the dimensions needed for the finished box. The directions do not...
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Quarter Conservation
Here is another in the interesting series of lessons that use the special State Quarters as a learning tool. This one uses the California State Quarter. During this lesson, pupils learn the many ways they can conserve natural resources...
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A Contouring We Go
Students examine the built environment and infrastructures of their community by constructing contour equipment, using the equipment, and comparing their results to current topographical maps of the same area
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Definition of Rotation and Basic Properties
Examine the process of rotating images to visualize effects of changes to them. The fifth lesson plan of 18 prompts pupils to rotate different images to various degrees of rotation. It pays special attention to rotations in multiples of...
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Angles Associated with Parallel Lines
Explore angle relationships created by parallel lines and transversals. The 13th instructional activity of 18 prompts scholars use transparency paper to discover angle relationships related to transversals. Learners find out that these...
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Individualizing
Students practice reading maps as they plan a day trip. Using the internet, they select a destination of their choice and choose a place to stop along their journey. They write an explanation on why they want to visit the place to end...
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Stopping Along the Way
Young scholars use atlases, maps, and Web resources to plan a day trip to at least one city or point of interest that is on the way to their final destination.
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Money Matters
Students practice working with real money by keeping records of purchases. For this economics lesson, students gather money either from home or a school fund raiser and purchase items at a grocery store for people who need help....
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N is for Natural State
For any pupils who live in the state of Arkansas, this would be a fabulous educational experience to help them get to know their state better. Through the use of activities in literature, art, mathematics, science, social studies, and...
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Measure a Tree
Young mathematicians explore data collection and mathematical problem solving. They will work in cooperative groups to determine the height of a tree by measuring several predetermined distances on the ground. They will use the data...
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Accentuate the Negative
Students explore negative numbers, In this accentuate the negative lesson, students manipulate calculators to demonstrate negative numbers. Activities are differentiated for K-2, 3-5, and 4-8 grade levels to ensure that they are...
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The Art of Chess
Students discover the history of the most popular board game in the world, chess. In this model building lesson, students create their own chess pieces using a theme they have decided on and clay modeling pieces. Students investigate...
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Sudoku!
Young scholars practice their math skills by playing the game Soduku. In this numbers game lesson, students discover the rules to the game Sudoku and the different techniques to play the game. Young scholars investigate several Sudoku...
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Stained Glass for Your Class
Students investigate the history of stained glass and the creator of the art form. In this art project instructional activity, students utilize drawing paper to create their own style of stained glass using transparent paint. Students...
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Come Into my Parlor
An interesting cross-curricular lesson plan on dairy farming awaits your students. Elements of language arts, math, social studies, and agriculture are all present. Many excellent worksheets and a good article on dairy farming are...
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The Art of Simple Machines
Young scholars investigate the inventions of simple machines in our past and how they affect us today. In this engineering lesson, students discover who Rube Goldberg was and his ideas about complicated machines performing very simple...
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Fractal Fraction Fun
Young scholars discover the interesting patterns and shapes referred to as "fractals." In this geometry lesson, students utilize pieces of colored construction paper to create the branches of a fractal tree. Young scholars discuss the...
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In the Loop
Students practice comparing items by using a Venn diagram. In this diagram lesson, students divide a group of similar buttons by the small details that separate them using a Venn Diagram. Students compare and contrast shapes by their...
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Paths and Circuits
Students complete math puzzles. In this graph theory lesson, students look at an image and attempt to trace it without picking up their pencil or retracing their line. They see to count the nodes to find where to begin tracing.
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Snail Pace
Slow and steady wins the race? In the assessment task, scholars calculate the rates at which different snails travel in order to find the fastest snail. Hopefully, your class will move much more quickly in finishing the task!
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Export-Import Game
Students recognize how international trade affects them as consumers and become familiar with basic agricultural crops grown in Kentucky. They identify items used in their daily lives and .heir place of origin and examine export/import...