Pennsylvania Department of Education
Fraction Strips
Students explore number sense by participating in a class fraction game. In this number value instructional activity, students utilize strips of paper with fractions written on them and conduct a trivia game in which teams challenge each...
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Fraction Strips
For this learning tool worksheet, students create fraction strips. Each strip is divided into equal parts showing fractions with denominators of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, and 12.
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Shade the Fraction Worksheets
In these fractions worksheets, students will complete a variety of activities involving basic fractions. Activities include: shading 1/2 and 1/4 of a shape, shading fractions of wheels, coloring fraction strips and identifying the...
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Strip-Teasers: A Collaborative Writing activity
Young writers engage in a fun writing activity. They write three different sentences on three strips of paper. Then they get into groups of three, and take a look at all nine sentences that have been written. Their task is to write a...
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Problem Solving - Draw a Diagram
There is an excellent strategy for learners to use when faced with a word problem that uses fractions. This presentation shows how to draw a diagram of the fractions in the problem in order to get a visual representation. Although brief,...
Math Mammoth
Adding Fractions And Mixed Numbers 1
In this mathematics activity, 4th graders add the fractions and shade the parts illustrated in each picture. Then they write the whole numbers from 0 to 5 under the bolded black lines. Students also add and give their answer as a mixed...
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Cartoon Fractions
Learners explore mathematics by viewing cartoons. For this math functions lesson, students read several "Peanut" cartoons on their worksheets as they solve fraction problems and compare them to the comic strip. Learners utilize addition,...
Perkins School for the Blind
Timeline for Anne
It is key to the learning process to make everything a child with visual impairments does as tactile as possible. After reading Anne of Green Gables, the class discusses her life events in order to make a tactile time line. They...
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Colonial Vacation Planner
Looking for a good lesson plan on the Colonial Period for your upper-elementary class? Then, this lesson plan is for you! They use website designs, U.S. travel publications, and maps to plan a family vacation to states which were part of...
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Bouncing Bubbles
Students complete a variety of activities exploring the joys and science of bubbles. They listen to the book "Bubbles Bubbles" by Mercer Mayer, create a bubble picture using Kid Pix, and explore blowing bubbles. Students experiment...
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Exploring Place and Space
Students explore number values by completing mathematical worksheets in class. In this decimals lesson, students identify the different place values a number has and the use of decimals to represent a fraction of a number. Students...
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My Friend's Sister is a Pole Dancer!
Eighth graders explore the workout that is provided by pole dancing. In this lesson, 8th graders read an article then complete several activities that check their comprehension of the article, such as answering questions that can...
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Writing Book Reviews
Students explore new authors and genres they might like to read. The understand the ingredients of a book review. They write book reviews using persuasive language to recommend books.
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Farm Babies
Students use flash cards to match the mother names to the baby names for farm animals. In a designated "barn" in the room, students simulate being mothers, fathers, and babies. The baby must find his mother and father. Students visit...
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Patterning Fun
Students practice making patterns with paint and stamps. In this arts and crafts activity, students utilize the floor of their classroom to create a giant pattern on the floor using different colored paints and foam stamps....
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In The Leaves Lesson Plan
Students are exposed to Chinese characters. In this multicultural early childhood lesson plan, students identify objects by using folding cards which have Chinese characters on one side and the English equivalent on the other.
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The Life and Times of Guy Fawkes
In this Guy Fawkes instructional activity, students cut apart 8 sentence strips; each tells an event in the life of Guy Fawkes. Students put them in the right order, paste them on a paper, and illustrate each event.
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Email Writing
Students review rules of writing emails for letters, informal to a friend and formal. In this writing lesson plan, students sort email strips into these categories and then review examples of good and bad semi-formal emails....
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I'm a Hundred, You're a Thousand
Second graders put themselves in the correct place value, write the correct number on paper, and create their own place value problems. The entire class plays a game using place value necklaces. This is a fun way to practice place value!
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Poetic Sound Devices
As part of a study of poetic devices, kids are asked to identify the assonance, consonance, and alliteration found in a series of lines of poetry, and then identify the rhyme scheme and the types of rhyme found in Poe's "Annabel Lee,"...
E Reading Worksheets
Don't Tell. Show!
As part of a study of narrative writing, young story tellers are asked to revise 20 telling sentences and create showing ones.
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Patriotic Cards
Students discuss color symbolism and patriotic colors of red, white, and blue, and create patriotic cards using Fiskars CardBoss and ShapeBoss, and Starter or Celebration Card Stencil Set.
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Bountiful Butterflies
First graders create a symmetrical butterfly after reading "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle. They fold a piece of fingerpaint paper in half to create a crease and after paint has been added , they refold and open their...
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Make a Chinese Lantern
In this holiday art worksheet, students follow instructions to make a Chinese lantern using red construction paper. They add red or yellow construction paper strips on the lantern as decorations. They may add Chinese Happy New Year...