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Newton's Third Law of Motion
Students explore Newton's 3rd Law of Motion. In this physics lesson plan, students participate in various experiments that demonstrate the idea of action/reaction, such as a balloon launch, a skateboard activity, and a spring scale...
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Group Rope Squares
Students study how to better their cohesion and communication skills. In this investigative lesson students work in teams and learn how to communicate better as they help to solve problems and communicate their needs.
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Magical Creatures
Students investigate entertaining characters within stories. In this writing lesson, students review nouns and adjectives and discuss magical characters. Students ask themselves questions about their selected characters and write a...
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Soccer: Passing and Receiving on the Ground
Students demonstrate soccer skills. In this passing and receiving lesson, students practice passing a soccer ball and receiving a soccer ball as part of a team. Students develop control over the ball.
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Present Simple Tense: negative sentences
In this present simple worksheet, students complete negative sentences with don't or doesn't, negative forms of verbs, and more. Students complete 3 tasks.
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Introduce Vocabulary: Night Shift Daddy
Students explore language arts by reading a children's book in class. In this story vocabulary lesson, students read the book Night Shift Daddy and identify the use of specific vocabulary words. Students utilize the vocabulary terms to...
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Parking Meters
Third graders are introduced to the problem with a short discussion about parking. They then solve with a partner. As they work ask questions that focus on the strategies they are using to make the calculations.
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Marshmallows
Third graders estimate the volume and mass of one marshmallow using appropriate standard units. They design and carry out an investigation to find the average of volume/mass of one marshmallow.
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Now, That's a Bright Idea!
Students explore the role that electricity plays in their daily lives, both in school and at home. They conduct research on energy usage in various rooms of the school and in their homes and create posters, graphs, and analyses of their...
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Star Quest
Students engage in a lesson plan of using maps in order to find constellations in the night sky. They also conduct research using three constellations. The research is used to create a project to inform others. The teacher also leads the...
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Dinoflagallates of Bioluminescent Bay
Fifth graders research dinoflagallates of the Bioluminescent Bay. They research the Internet for pictures of the Bio Bay and discuss the difference between ecosystems and ecoregions. They research a marine ecoregion and create a poster.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Teaching Tools: Easy Ways to Have Fun Teaching Time Skills
This site discusses easy ways to have fun teaching time skills. These activities, games, and books will help your students master reading and measuring time.
The Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute: Clocks Teaching Time
This site from The Franklin Institute presents a number of activities, games, exhibits, scavenger hunts, resources, links related to clocks and telling time.
Scholastic
Scholastic Instructor: Ticktock Clock Fun
Use these various learning games in your classroom to teach about clocks and telling time. Reproducibles are included.
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Time
An extensive collection of teacher resources to aide in teaching time. There are smartboard and PowerPoint presentations, and many worksheets and ideas for teachers. Includes activities on time, calendar, months, and days.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Robo Clock
Students learn various topics associated with the circle through studying a clock. Topics include reading analog time, understanding the concept of rotation (clockwise vs. counter-clockwise), and identifying right angles and straight...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Portable Sundial
In this activity students will investigate the accuracy of sundials and the discrepancy that lies between "real time" and "clock time". They will track the position of the sun over the course of a relatively short period of time as they...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Interactive Time/clock Activity
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is for 2nd grade practice and/or report card assessment activity. Contains teaching pages, activote quiz pages and interactive online game links. Objective: Students will be able to...
Topmarks Online
Topmarks: Teaching Clock
Teaching Clock is a teaching resource to help children explore telling the time in both analog and digital formats. Ideal for use in full-screen mode on an interactive whiteboard, where teachers can demonstrate the relative movement of...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Clock Facts
Students calculate elapsed time using analog clocks. Included in this lesson are a detailed plan, clock template, and video of students making their clocks.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What Time Is It?
Can your students tell time? Use this instructional activity that includes a getting started, an activity, and practice to help students be able to tell time.
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Two Clocks
This clock activity is great for teaching about time problems. The first clock shows the start time, while the second clock shows the end time. The duration between the times can be automatically calculated. Either clock or the duration...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Clock
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson provides a clock that shows minutes and helps teach time.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: "Time" for My Catch
The day has come for students to create their own fish and to make sure that it is a keeper. The students will also be introduced to the clock face and the idea of hour notation.