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One Square Meter

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students examine various ecosystems using scientific inquiry. Using the local area, they assess the characteristics and conditions in one square meter. They report their findings in the form of a survey map and data sheet. They...
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Freckle Face

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students collect and record data. In this early data analysis lesson, students gather data about their partners face. As a class, the students use tally marks and pictographs to record the data and answer question about the information...
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1, 2, 3 Hooray for Number Equivalency!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students represent equivalent amounts using concrete materials, number symbols, and number words.
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Food Labels

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars study Nutrition Facts labels. In this life science activity, students explore Nutrition Facts labels, then determine and analyze the nutrients found in a variety of foods. Additionally young scholars construct bug boxes...
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Shapes

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify attributes of different geometric shapes. For this geometry lesson, students view a  PowerPoint presentation on shapes and use attribute blocks to examine the corners and edges of each shape. Students work together to...
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What is a Tangram?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students identify a tangram. In this geometry lesson, students read Grandfather Tang's Story and retell each story using the tangrams on a flannel board. Students use tangrams to complete an included worksheet.
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Who Wants Pizza?

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Students practice fraction skills online at the "Want Some Pizza" website. They complete activities via the internet and on square grid paper. They pull down tabs to check their answers.
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Color Tile Graphing

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore data. They gather data and generate questions about the data in pictographs, tallies, tables, and bar graphs. Students use color tiles pulled by random to create their own bar graph. They discuss the bar graphs they...
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Philanthropic Literature: Give a cookie

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read a book to discover the importance of sharing. They predict what will happen in the story. Students use manipulatives to model the story problem. Students follow instructions, measure ingredients, and make cookies.
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Regrouping

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students practice regrouping using the wonderful manipulative - unifix cubes. Once they have a tactile understanding of regrouping, students complete 5 worksheets containing addition problems that require regrouping. The worksheets...
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Dividing into Two Parts — Halves

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this fractions worksheet, students divide pictures into halves to introduce them to fractions. Students complete 3 sets of problems.
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Counting on Counting

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students recognize that counting tells how many objects are in the set irrespective of how they are arranged or the order in which they are counted. They solve problems involving one more or less to a given set using their knowledge of...
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Worms And More

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars complete five center activities that in order to determine the attributes of length and area. They study the vocabulary associated with measurement of length and area. They use blocks, play dough, wrapping paper, and...
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Examining Estimation

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders participate in various activities which help them explain and explain the difference between an estimate and an exact amount.
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Play Dough Pizza Party

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students review fractions using a visual display. They receive a can of Play Dough and have to complete a worksheet figuring out how to divide up a pizza for a specified number of guests.
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Telling Time to 5 Minutes

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students take part in various activities ranging from creating a human clock, to small group problem solving to reinforce the concept of telling time accurately to five minutes on an analog clock.
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Symmetry that is Basic and Beautiful

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners explore lines of symmetry. In this symmetry lesson, students divide and combine shapes along basic lines of symmetry. Learners explore symmetry in real life objects.
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Extending Pattern Understandings

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Young scholars 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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Russian Dolls Investigation

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students measure a set of Russian dolls using the metric system. In this measurement lesson plan, students identify certain relationships between sets of measurements by measuring a set of Russian dolls and presenting their findings to...
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Folded Fractions

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders, in pairs, use various geometric shapes to represent fractional parts and divide them into equal parts.
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Managing My Money

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use The Berenstain Bears' to learn about money management. In this money management lesson, 2nd graders read The Berenstain Bears' Dollars and Sense book and complete the 'Rainy Day' worksheet. Students then discuss the...
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By Golly, By Gum

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners investigate the ingredients and creation of chewing gum.  For this scientific method lesson, students make predictions about what will happen to the mass of a piece of gum as it is chewed by a human.  Learners graph the data...
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Car Maze competition

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Learners use graphs to calibrate an RCX car. They must then program the car to traverse a maze using their calibrations
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It's a 3-D World Out There!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students construct polygons. They identify attributes of three-dimensional shapes. Students name common three-dimensional shapes. They draw three-dimensional shapes, and sort three-dimensional shapes. Students use K'NEX materials sets to...