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National Security Agency

Starting a Restaurant

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
Through an engaging unit, chefs-in-training will sort and classify data using tally charts. Learners will also create bar graphs to display restaurant data and interpret data from bar graphs using a variety of categories. This is a fun...
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Plate Tectonics: Second Grade Lesson Plans and Activities

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders explore convection currents and how they relate to the movement of tectonic plates. Then, young geologists reconstruct Pangaea with a worksheet and pinpoint plate boundaries on a map using locations of earthquakes and...
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Space Awareness

Living in the Milky Way

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
Get to know our galaxy with an astronomy-themed, hands-on activity. Scholars watch an informative video, answer questions, and construct a model of the Milky Way in order to examine its contents and the distance inside it.  
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Smithsonian Institution

Water/Ways: The Poetry of Science

For Teachers 1st - 12th Standards
Water is the source of life. It appears in poetry in both peaceful and torrential descriptions; it appears in earth science in its liquid, gaseous, and solid states. Combine these interpretations of our planet's most precious and...
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Curated OER

3 dimensional shapes

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students play a bingo game to classify 3 dimensional shapes. In this 3 dimensional shapes lesson plan, students identify, describe, and classify shapes by playing a bingo game.
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Measuring Math Vocabulary

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students go over math vocabulary words and show examples of the terms on the board. For this math vocabulary lesson plan, students go over many words and are given a worksheet with words and definitions.
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Curated OER

Shirts Full of Buttons

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students match sets of buttons to complete subtraction problems. In this subtraction lesson plan, students answer the questions "how many more/less" and make bar graphs by counting up the buttons they are wearing.
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Curated OER

Charting Animal Life Spans

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders research animal life spans and complete related math activities. In this life span lesson, 2nd graders read How Many Candles and discuss life spans. Students arrange animal cards based on their life spans. Students find...
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Extending Pattern Understandings

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students use shapes and manipulatives to demonstrate patterns. In this patterns lesson plan, students also break up patterns to identify a pattern unit.
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Curated OER

Writing Equations - Addition/Subtraction Up to 2-Digits Without Regrouping

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this addition and subtraction practice learning exercise, students use their problem solving skills to use the information provided to write and solve 12 equations.
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Shapes Around Us

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners use manipulatives to study shapes. They sort shapes and use correct geometric terminology to describe them. Students find real-life examples of 2 and 3 dimensional shapes, and classify figures in their classroom according to...
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Curated OER

Ratio and Proportion Problems

For Students 1st - 2nd
What is ratio? What is proportion? Two examples are shown before your pupils are given seven problems using either ratio or proportion. Consider having your learners illustrate a selection of the problems provided. 
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California Academy of Science

Fraction Penguin

For Teachers K - 3rd
Exploring mathematics through art is a fun and concrete way to help learners grasp a concept. They will construct a paper penguin using fractions cut from circles. They'll need to determine 1/8, 1/4, and 1/2 of each circle. Once the...
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Curated OER

Telling Time to 5 Minutes

For Teachers 2nd
In this second grade lesson your class will practice telling time. The goal is to tell time to five minutes using an analog clock. Your young students count by 5 minute intervals and discuss elapsed time. 
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Curated OER

Patterns Here, There and Everywhere

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pattern recognition is a skill often used in mathematics. Learners count and sort manipulatives, organize the data into a graph and answer questions about the information displayed. They collect the objects to be used and create patterns...
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Curated OER

Counting Seeds

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars practice skip counting strategies, estimation, and higher number addition. They estimate the number of seeds in bell pepper, and count seeds in groups of tens and ones after the teacher removes seeds from the pepper.
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Curated OER

Everyday Mathematics: Ballpark Estimates

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this estimating practice worksheet, students sharpen their math skills as they learn how to make likely estimates and try the 2 extra practice activities.
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Curated OER

A Pressing Project

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students create a collection of pressed plants. In this plant lesson, students use newspaper, plywood, and a rubberband to press plants they previously collected.
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Curated OER

What If?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read WHAT IF? up to the page that ends "Suddenly, across the field they saw..." and discuss how the animals are feeling. They then discuss their feelings and in pairs discuss a possible ending to the story.
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Curated OER

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to the story, THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF and in pairs, discuss the theme of the book and two things that they liked about it. They then read the book OOPS and discuss the theme of the book identifying the things they...
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Curated OER

Word Value

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars investigate the concepts of adding, estimating, and ordering. The lesson uses the alphabet as an example illustration. The students practice the calculations in class in order to ensure mastery.
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Curated OER

Solar Eclipse

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners demonstrate the revolution of the moon around the earth and the effect of its direct alignment in between the earth and the sun.
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Curated OER

Counting Money and Making Change

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students count collections of coins and one-dollar bills. They solve problems and learn to use the dollar sign ($) with the decimal point to represent money amounts. This lesson is important as a foundation for future math concepts in...
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Curated OER

Making Benchmarks - Mass

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Elementary schoolers predict the mass for different objects. Then, using objects of 1kg mass, they make a more precise prediction. Afterwards, they discuss the need for having and using standard measures of mass. 

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