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Way to Go Bananas

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore bananas. For this interdisciplinary lesson, 5th graders discover the dietary benefits of bananas, complete a fruits word search, write banana myths, research banana recipes, and use their problem solving skills to...
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Banana Bread Baker

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
You don't want to be short bananas when making bread. Scholars use their math skills to make sure there are enough bananas to go around. Using measurements given in a recipe, they must determine how many bananas they need to increase the...
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Going Bananas!©

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss importance of eating five servings of fruits and vegetables for a healthy lifestyle, and identify bananas as an excellent source of energy.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Banana Pudding

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Making banana pudding despite misplacing your one-cup measuring cup is easy as long as you can find your quarter-cup measuring cup! This real-life activity provides a good opportunity for learners to interpret division of a whole number...
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Honduras Finding the Top Bananas

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders complete an online scavenger hunt about banana cultivation before they visit a grocery store to examine banana products. They investigate "certified" means in relation to banana production and read the "Rainforest Alliance...
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Extract DNA from a Banana

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Your scientists-in-training extract DNA from a banana. Then, they wrap it around a glass rod in order to view the threads of DNA. They draw their observations.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Banana Bread

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Show your future bakers how to choose the right baking pan by calculating the volume of a pan. The resource compares two pans, one with decimal edge lengths and is too small for the recipe and one that may work. Your number crunchers are...
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Go Bananas! (Lesson One)

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students research the historical and present movements of bananas. Using maps, they locate the countries in which the fruit is grown and identify common characteristics between the banana-growing countries. They also trace the movement...
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Quick Breads (Banana Muffins)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners review what they know about quick breads and bananas. For this art lesson, students discover two different recipes for Banana Muffins off of the computer. Learners prepare a recipe for Bananas Muffins carefully and clean up...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Checking Solutions to Inequalities: Apples and Bananas Shopping Excursion

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
Go bananas over a fun interactive! Learners drag a point on a virtual graph of an inequality to see if it is a solution. This helps determine the possible numbers of apples and bananas a shopper can buy with a given amount of money.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Buying Bananas, Assessment Version

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Practice with unit rates, proportions, and ratios when Carlos purchases an amount of bananas. Learners must interpret a graph to decide whether points on the same line represent similar proportional relationships. Use with lesson plans...
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Banana activities

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this banana worksheet, students write, count, color, and sort mini activities involving bananas. Students complete four activities.
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Trace and Color: Bananas

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this fruit-themed coloring worksheet, students color the picture of bananas and then practice printing the word bananas by tracing the dotted lines.
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The Journey of a Banana

For Teachers 1st - 8th
To investigate the price of bananas in order to evaluate basic counting and number sense skills, your mathematicians focus upon multiplication and problem solving that incorporates social studies in the form of building awareness about...
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Banana Quiz

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this ESL worksheet, students answer 10 multiple-choice questions about bananas. For example, "Bananas are an excellent source of..."
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Writing
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Instructions

For Students 3rd Standards
Writing a recipe for how to make a banana split is the task assigned in this language arts resource. Learners must list the ingredients, then write the instructions for how to construct the dessert. They can look up the instructions in a...
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Lesson Planet Article
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Eight Ways to Celebrate Fruit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Activities designed to incorporate the study of fruit into your classroom during National Fruit and Vegetable Month.
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Worksheet
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The Great Big Yellow Banana Quiz - Fun Facts about Bananas 1

For Students 5th - 6th
In this research skills learning exercise, students read the questions about bananas and research to answer the 10 multiple choice questions.
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B is for Banana

For Students K - 1st
In this letter B worksheet, students fill in the letter b at the beginning of the word "banana," practice printing and tracing the word banana and the sentence "It's a banana," then color a picture of a banana.
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Going Bananas: Addition and Graphing

For Students 1st
In this addition activity, 1st graders will look at a picture to add the total number of bananas a monkey eats per day for five daily sums. Then students will answer four short word problems which require students to view the data as a...
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Bobby Banana's Garden

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this Bobby Banana's garden worksheet, students count how many fruits Bobby has picked from his garden and color the graph to show how many of each fruit Bobby picked.
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Worksheet
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The Banana Problem

For Students 10th - 12th
In this algebra worksheet, learners rewrite a word problem using algebra symbols. They calculate the length of a banana used to estimate the age of a monkey. There is answer key.
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Banana Man Glider

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students incorporate technology into the classroom as they investigate force and motion. In this science lesson, students construct a glider to be able to safely take a banana to the ground without dropping it. They investigate flight,...
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Activity
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Banana Grams

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students receive bananas that are decorated like cartoon characters to have a fun and healthy snack. In this healthy snack lesson plan, students can create banana characters with permanent marker.

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