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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Order Your Numbers

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students examine the order of whole numbers that range from 0 to 1,000. They compare and contrast the quantities of different numbers using the number line, objects, and symbols of comparison. Students also work as a class with cards to...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Getting Into Shape

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students recognize lines and corners as properties of geometric figures and identify shapes based on these characteristics. They move through a variety of stations practicing tossing, throwing, tallying and recording combinations of shapes.
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Lesson Plan
Pennsylvania Department of Education

Order, Order

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students use pictures to identify items as ordinal numbers. In this ordinal numbers lesson plan, students use the words "before" and "after" to identify the pictures as well.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What Is Sustainability

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students investigate the concept of how people are dependent upon natural resources and how they can apply them to be maximized in usefulness. The students are encouraged to develop an appreciation for the environment. They conduct a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Function Machine

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders decipher a pattern using input and output. In this functions lesson, 2nd graders use input and output numbers to find a pattern involving addition and subtraction. Students use the pattern they discovered to help solve...
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Curated OER

Ordering Fractions and Decimals

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students place fractions and decimals with unlike values in correct numerical order.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

North Carolina Pottery

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students examine the process of evaporation. They observe how when clay dries, the water evaporates and how the weight of the object decreases. They complete a worksheet to complete the lesson.
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Curated OER

Taking In The Heat

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students discover that different textured materials can absorb more heat than others. Students work with thermometers, clocks, and graphs.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Monarch Chrysalis

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students examine the last stage of the monarch butterfly. For this life cycles lesson, students read the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar and study photos of the monarch life cycle. Students illustrate the third stage of the monarch...
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Curated OER

Techno Timeline

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars create a timeline of inventors. In this dual history/science lesson plan, students research inventors of technological products, then work in groups to create a timeline of events. The timeline may include science...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Butterfly Lesson Plans

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students study the life cycle of the Monarch Chrysalis. In this butterfly life cycle lesson, students study the monarch butterfly life cycle and focus on the fourth stage of the life cycle. Students draw a picture about the fourth stage...
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Curated OER

Rain, Rain, Go Away

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students conduct a number of experiments involving evaporation and condensation. They view and discuss a video about the water cycle and then design posters about the rain based on the book "Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs".
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Polymer Physics on the Playground

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students investigate what materials allow them to slide down a slide the fastest. They set up test procedures and carry out an experiment.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Making E-Books in the Kindergarten Classroom

For Teachers K - 8th
Students produce e-books using themselves and their physical surroundings to demonstrate content standards, such as number sense or color recognition. They provide evidence using a digital camera, props, and the presentation tool.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Monarch Egg

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students investigate the stages of the Monarch butterfly and its life cycle.  In this butterfly life cycle lesson, students discuss when, where, and how the Monarch butterflies lay their eggs.  After discussion, students participate in...
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Curated OER

Shapes and Review of Locomotor Skills

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students engage in a series of loco-motor activities based on shapes. In this loco-motor lesson, students demonstrate physical skills through races, jumping, hopping, galloping in circles, squares, rectangles and triangles.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Two Step Addition Sums to 100 Word Problems

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video shows how to break down a word problem into two steps to solve an addition problem with numbers up to 100. The video is followed by a series of practice...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Multiplying by 4

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video explains the connection from multiplication to repeated addition with multiplying by four. The video is followed by a series of practice questions to...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Comparing the Values of Numbers in a Table

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video shows how to compare four different 3-digit numbers to answer a series of questions of the number being the largest or the smallest. The video is followed...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: African Village: 2 D Space and Capacity

For Students 2nd - 3rd
Visit this African village and learn about symmetry and parts of 2D shapes. Users can first watch a video that helps with the concepts of finding a vertex and a line of symmetry. They can then practice their knowledge on four activities...