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Ethics in the Science Classroom: Recycling
Middle schoolers work in a group to create a skit of a scenario involving recycling. Student skits should encourage and convince the audience members to participate in recycling activities. Students provide written responses after the...
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Rome Comes to Third Grade
Students explore the world of Ancient Rome in this thirteen lessons unit. the rise and fall of the Roman Empire is probed. The ideals that inspired the people's sense of purpose are developed in these lessons.
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Basic Trading
Students review the basic ideas of exchange. In groups, they discover the incentives for trade and participate in a simulation. They are given a packet of stamps which are worth varying monetary amounts. They discover the concepts of...
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Guardians of the Games
Students create life sized figures in a sport activity. The figures are faceless to represent athletes or players of past present and future. They are created in full color and laminated, then cut and applied to cardboard to allow them...
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Social Studies and Children's Literature
Learners write a journal in response to literature. The story that is read is about prairies. The subject of prairies becomes an object for research. The culminating activity is the making of a map where prairies exist in the United States.
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Tough Decisions
Students examine different problem situations that could be encountered during the building of the capitol building. They are divided into small groups and given a card with a problem written on it. Then students brainstorm in order to...
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Variables That Can Affect Making Schedule
Students study the variables that affect transportation of shipments and the factors that affect deterioration of a perishable product. In this transportation lesson plan students discuss the pros and cons of team driving.
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Place Value
A huge collection of teacher resources for teaching place value. There are games, PowerPoint presentations, pdf files, Word files, Excel files, Publisher files, and smartboard activities available for download at several different skill...
BBC
Bbc Skillswise: Place Value
Five factsheets show you how to use digits, place value, place holders and the signs. Worksheets, quizzes, and a game make learning fast and fun. The Skillswise sites from BBC are geared to adults who are working on literacy and numeracy...
Topmarks Online
Topmarks: Place Value Charts
Great resource for learning or teaching place value with different levels of difficulty which include decimals. The practice mode helps students understand how numbers are made up. Immediate feedback is given.
Toy Theater
Toy Theater: Place Value Chart
This virtual manipulative helps teach place value by offering a visual representation of ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousand, hundred thousand, and millions place.
Homeschool Math
Homeschool Math: Decimal Place Value: One Decimal Digit
This is a complete lesson with instruction and varied exercises, explaining how the place value system works with decimals that have one decimal digit, and how to write such decimals in expanded form.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Flower Power Place Value Station
Students will compare sets of numbers using symbols for greater than, less than, and equal to.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Explorations in Place Value
Explorations in Place Value is an interactive math mini-unit that incorporates the use of children's literature, mathematical learning stations, and small group instructional strategies to reinforce basic principles of place value and to...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Finding the Right Place!
Second graders use numbers, base-ten models, and real-word pictures to examine ways to place numbers in their correct place.
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Tens and One Game [Pdf]
Students will explore place value using base ten blocks and following the given directions.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: 10 More and 10 Less
This lesson plan is More or Less a great lesson plan! Engage students in finding 10 more and 10 less than a number using these fun activities. Includes an eSpark video on place value, detailed lesson plan, copy of a hundreds chart, and...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Solving Equations: Addition and Place Value
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a very interactive lesson to teach the students how to solve equations and word problems using the addition properties. The lesson includes Activote questions and student interaction.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Make a Ten
An interactive simulation that teaches about place value, addition, and subtraction by adding, breaking apart, and combining numbers by making tens and focusing on place value. This simulation can either be downloaded or played online...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: A Chance at Monte Carlo
At its core, the LEGO MINDSTORMS product provides a programmable microprocessor. Students use the EV3 processor to simulate an experiment involving thousands of uniformly random points placed within a unit square. Using the underlying...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Hot Potato, Cool Foil
Students explore material properties by applying some basic principles of heat transfer. They use calorimeters to determine the specific heat of three substances: aluminum, copper and another of their choice. Each substance is cooled in...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Bigger or Smaller
Second grade students are asked to apply two complementary processes: counting and grouping. The conceptual understanding of the place value of a number and combining/separating numbers using place value, are critical aspects of...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What Is a Digit
A activity for students extend their understanding of the place value system. Students will learn how to define a digit and also identify a digit located in the ones place, the tens place, and the 100s place.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Applying the Basics!
Using base-ten materials and place-value skills, 2nd graders gain a better understanding of how to add and subtract numbers.