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Activity
Education Development Center

Similar Triangles

For Students 8th - 10th Standards
Model geometric concepts through a hands-on approach. Learners apply similar triangle relationships to solve for an unknown side length. Before they find the solution, they describe the transformation to help identify corresponding sides.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"Easter" Egg Genetics

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Using plastic Easter eggs to represent parent phenotypes, genetics enthusiasts simulate the passing of alleles. They record the phenotype of each half of the egg, one representing the mother's and one representing the father's. They...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Descriptive Writing: Using Art to Inspire description

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Write with the senses! Try using art to inspire writers to consider all of the senses. Here, the class is divided in half. Each group looks at one of two images, imagines the senses that would be engaged, and records answers to five...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Practicing Letters y and z

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Get familiar with the end of the alphabet using this y and z learning exercise. Learners trace and print each letter and add them to an incomplete alphabet. Then, they draw lines connecting the letter to objects that begin with its...
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Assessment
Los Angeles County Office of Education

Assessment For The California Mathematics Standards Grade 4

For Students 4th Standards
Have scholars show what they know with a 20-page assessment aligned to the California State Standards. The test covers concepts such as large and whole numbers, all four mathematical operations, fractions, decimals, geometric figures,...
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Printables
Coloring Squared

Baseball Play Basic Division

For Students 3rd Standards
Use a baseball themed color by number activity that focuses on basic division to reinforce those math skills.  After solving each problem, young mathematicians color each square according to the key and the corresponding answer.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Unit 4 Math Vocabulary Cards (Grade 6)

For Students 6th Standards
Reinforce math vocabulary with a set of flash cards. Forty-eight cards offer boldly printed words, and their corresponding definition alongside an example with labels. Terms include absolute value, inverse operations, slope, and more! 
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Assessment
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Inside Mathematics

Two Solutions

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Many problems in life have more than one possible solution, and the same is true for advanced mathematics. Scholars solve seven problems that all have at least two solutions. Then three higher-level thinking questions challenge them to...
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Assessment
Inside Mathematics

Sorting Functions

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Graph A goes with equation C, but table B. The short assessment task requires class members to match graphs with their corresponding tables, equations, and verbalized rules. Pupils then provide explanations on the process they used to...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Changing Scales

For Teachers 7th Standards
Pupils determine scale factors from one figure to another and the scale factor in the reverse direction. Scholars compute the percent changes between three figures. 
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Interpreting Division of a Whole Number by a Fraction—Visual Models

For Teachers 6th Standards
Connect division with multiplication through the use of models. Groups solve problems involving the division of a whole number by a fraction using models. The groups share their methods along with the corresponding division and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What is an Atlatl?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Let's go an an archaeological dig! Prepare your kids with a list of vocabulary terms relating to archaeology, including different types of items that one might find. They study pictures of each item and play a memory game based on the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Multiple Perspectives: Newspaper Stories and Editorials

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Newspapers are the perfect medium through which to explore different perspectives in informational text. After researching the fur trade and resultant colonization, groups write a newspaper, including an editorial page, selecting one of...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Letter Recognition, Hungry Letter Mouse

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars take turns writing and identifying letters on a whiteboard. Learner one writes a letter; learner two finds it on the alphabet strip. If they are correct, Mr. Mouse gets to eat that letter, and if they are incorrect, Mr. Mouse...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonological Awareness: Onset and Rime, Quick Pick

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
What does it begin with? In this engaging phonics game, small groups study onset and rime using picture cards. Groups take turns as one player draws three cards from an overturned pile, placing them face-up on the table. They silently...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Onset and Rime, Word Maker Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars use a set of onset and rime cards to construct and write various simple words. Pairs take turns pulling cards from a bag and blending the onset card with the rime card to create a word. They record the onset, the rime, and the...
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Activity
Curated OER

Folding strips of paper

For Teachers 5th Standards
Fifth graders need concrete experiences to introduce a unit on multiplying fractions by fractions. A strip of paper is used to create a number line and represent 5/6. It is folded first in half, and then in quarters. After unfolding,...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Making a Clock

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Have a fun time teaching children to read analog clocks with this whole-group math activity. Using large sets of the numerals 1-12 and 0, 5, 10...55, the teacher creates a large clock on either the carpet or the white board, explaining...
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Unit Plan
Curated OER

Early Presidents

For Teachers 4th
Students are introduced to the lives and contributions of the first seven presidents of the United States. They, in groups, conduct further research on one of these president and his political platform and design a presentation for the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

M&Ms Count and Crunch

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers practice skills involving statistics and probability by making predictions on number of each color candy in one pound bag of M&Ms. They record both guesses and actual quantities, calculate percentages, and create bar...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Laboratory: Micro Rockets

For Teachers 9th - 12th
If you know how to employ the exothermic reaction between hydrogen gas and oxygen gas to make a miniature rocket, then this worksheet is a fabulous lab sheet for your chemistry charges. First, they observe a spark in pure oxygen and one...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Division for Third Graders

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Explore division and measurement relationships with your math class. They will work in pairs to measure and cut a piece of cord 100 centimeters or longer. Then they cut off equal pieces of less than 10 centimeters until all the cord is...
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PPT
Curated OER

PowerPoint: Long Division with 2-Digit Divisor

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
This long division PowerPoint presents a pneumonic device in which the first initial of generic family members names corresponds with the first initial of the proper steps to follow when solving a long division problem with a two-digit...
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PPT
Curated OER

Respiration

For Teachers 9th - 12th
This series opens with diagrams of experimental setups. A data table is displayed and questions are asked, indicating that the intent is for lab groups to perform the depicted experiments. At slide twelve, a coherent lesson about the...

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