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Fun patterns
Students gain an understanding of shapes and patterns using Interactive Math Journey while reviewing the names of shapes and colors.
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Matching Coins and Amounts
Students recognize coins and understand their values. For this coins lesson, students identify sets of coins and match them with their value.
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Measurement & Cooking - Rice Krispie Treats
Students practice their measuring and cooking skills with a box of Rice Krispies. In this culinary lesson, students utilize a box of Rice Krispies, butter, marshmallows and utensils to cook a batch of Rice Krispie Treats. Students...
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Fill In the Missing Numbers: 1-10
Mathematical scribes have 6 opportunities to fill in missing numbers in series of 10. Enlarge the image before reproducing. Children for whom this work is developmentally appropriate don't yet have the fine motor control to write in...
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Where Are the Dinosaurs?
Young scholars explore the concept of extinction by studying dinosaurs. In this dinosaur instructional activity, students distinguish between extinct creatures and those that still exist.
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Massive Migrations
Turn your students into flocks of migratory birds for this fun activity on animal migration. Prior to the activity, the teacher creates four different migration routes in the classroom or any available open space, labeling nesting...
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All About Shoes
Students sort shoes. In this sorting lesson plan, students use shoes to explore attributes and practice sorting. This lesson plan encourages the use of a Venn Diagram to aide in student sorting.
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Sorting and Graphing Animals
Students inquire about animals using SIRS Discoverer or eLibrary Elementary. In this organizing data lesson, students sort pictures of animals in various ways and develop graphs. Students locate a mammal, reptile, fish, insect or bird...
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Graphing Conversation Hearts
Students collect data and create a graph. In this mathematics lesson, students separate paper hearts by color and create a graph showing the number of hearts of each color present. Students receive a handful of candy hearts that they use...
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100 Stamps for 100 Days
Students recognize similarities and generalize patterns. For this math and technology lesson plan, students develop an understanding of number patterning by grouping stamps and counting by 10s.
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Quick Questions
Students ask their classmates survey questions. In this survey lesson, students come up with a question and possible answers. Their classmates mark their answers and the class discusses what they notice.
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Money: Demonstrating Coin Value up to $1.00
Students examine coin values up to $1.00 using paper coins. In this coin value lesson, students compare and contrast various coins to aid in identification, sort coins from smallest to largest, and match an equal number of pennies to...
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Ideas for Making Class Books
I like to make enough class books throughout the year so that at the end of the school year, each child gets one book to keep. Here are a few easy ones. For every field trip we take, we make a class book.
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Big Time Lessons
Teaching students about time can provide a way to talk about sundials, different types of clocks, and even time travel.
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Mondrian, Math, and Amazing Colors
Students study geometric shapes, lines, and the primary colors as they create Mondrian-like art prints.
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Tony Bennett: With Special Guests The Backstreet Boys - Lesson 2
Students clap four-beat rhythm patterns containing whole, half, dotted half, quarter, and eighth notes and rests in a given tempo. They clap the tempo as their teacher holds up flash cards.
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the Whale Game
Students listen to whale stories and answer addition and subtraction problems in the stories. In this addition and subtraction lesson, students receive 20 goldfish. Based on the story they eat the goldfish. Students write number...
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Ramps
Students experiment to see how various objects roll down ramps. In this ramp instructional activity, students observe weight, size, and material of objects. Students compare speeds by using a second ramp.
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Counting on Art
Explore the life and painting style of African-American artist Horace Pippin by looking carefully at its parts, then create a "secret number" painting for a classroom counting book.
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Frisbee Baseball
Students keep track of the number of tosses it takes them to reach each base, and encourage team members and recognize their successes. To make this activity fit the level of older classes, measure distances and figure averages as you play!
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Great Picture Books to Teach Social Studies for Grade K-3
Every class enjoys reading new books at the beginning of a unit. Use this resource to identify a variety of books for kindergarten to third grade that can be used to complement social studies standards. The books can kindle learners'...
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Forest Life- Wood Bug Study
Examine wood bugs and their habitat. Learners gather wood bugs and examine their bodies. Then discuss their body parts and how they help them survive. They also predict where they think wood bugs live to then graph the class results.
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Count it, Glue it, Read it!
Students identify numbers 1-10 and count objects to match corresponding numbers. In the number sense lesson, students create a counting book, matching numbers they've written on index cards with the correct number of items (beans,...