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The Seasonal Round and The Cycle of Life

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders are introduced to the concept of the seasonal round and how folklife traditions vary from season to season. They begin charting dates of personal interest on seasonal round calendars by starting with birthdays. Students...
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Keeping Track of Time

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore various methods for keeping track of time. In this time lesson students discuss and chart ways to keep track of time. Students investigate the need and importance for keeping track of time.
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Prefixes, Suffixes, and Root Words/Base Words

For Teachers 2nd - 6th Standards
Get your class on track with their affixes by covering prefixes, suffixes, and root words in depth. This short three-lesson unit includes vocabulary lists to study, detailed plan procedures, and some accompanying worksheets.
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Math is Beautiful: Tessellation

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Learners examine patterning in Chinese and Japanese artwork prior to creating their own tessellations using styrofoam plates in this creative cross-curricular instructional activity for upper-elementary/middle level classrooms.
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Engaging Students with the History of Time

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Researching the history of calendars and time-keeping devices can help students make sense of time measurement.
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Favorite Days

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students collect and organize data about themselves. In this data analysis lesson, students discuss their favorite calendar dates and explore ways to display the data.
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If Our Class Went to See the Prince

For Teachers 1st
First graders read the story One Monday Morning and create picture graphs based on the number of teachers, boys, and girls that would visit the prince. In this data lesson plan, 1st graders interpret tables and graphs with the help of...
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Reading the Neighborhood

For Teachers 1st
First graders complete activities with the story One Monday Morning in the Macmillan/McGraw Hill Textbook. In this data instructional activity, 1st graders read the story and gather data to create a picture graph. They read the graph and...
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How Do You Like Your Eggs?

For Teachers 1st
First graders conduct a poll about how people like their eggs. For this graphing lesson, 1st graders collect data about how they like their eggs. Students use a picture of themselves to place under the type of egg they like. Students...
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The Ancient Maya

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars explore the culture of the Mayans through a variety of activities. In this lesson about Maya, students analyze pictures in books and on websites, produce scale models of Maya architecture, and create Maya mosaics. Young...
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Ho'opiha - Growing in Knowledge: Terrarium Project

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students explore environmental protection by conducting a research experiment in class. In this botany lesson, students identify the necessities for growing a plant indoors and create a small terrarium for their plant. Students observe...
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Time Zones

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders locate different time zones. In this time zones lesson, 5th graders label the different time zones. Students research the different ways man has kept time throughout history. Students also compute the differences in time...
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When Life Serves You Lemons!

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners build their own lemonade stand. In this problem solving lesson, students measure the materials needed to build a stand and make lemonade. They find the cost of producing the lemonade and the profit they will make. 
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Measurement and Estimation

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students gain an understanding of time. In this time lesson, students work together to recognize the difference between yesterday, today, and tomorrow, As well as months, hours, minutes, and seconds. Students brainstorm ideas of ways the...
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Calendar Dance

For Teachers K
Students name the days of the week and months of the year by engaging in an interpretive dance or other movement with their bodies.
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Ordinals

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students examine uses for ordinal numbers in calendars, and an ordinal chart. They order ice cream cone cut outs from 1st to 20th and complete a worksheet. (not given)
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Weather Report Chart

For Teachers K - 4th
Students complete a weather report chart after studying weather patterns for a period of time. In this weather report lesson, students measure temperature, precipitation, cloud cover, wind speed, and wind direction for a month. Students...
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How to Calculate Time

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students complete a worksheet. For this calculations lesson, students learn factual information about computing time with clocks, calendars and eras. Students show their knowledge by completing a worksheet.
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Birthdays

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners collect data about the birth months of each classmate using a calendar. They make a table with the information before designing a pictograph using cupcake images. They answer questions using the graph.
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Time Flyers

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders study an airline flight schedule to study elapsed time. They use schedules, calendars, and elapsed time to solve real-world problems.
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Places, Places, Everyone

For Teachers 1st
First graders play the game Show Me and use math software to practice place value.
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What Drives the Stock Prices?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars see that earnings drive stock prices. More importantly, students look for earnings growth from the continuing operations of a business.
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Converting Between Units

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Upper graders practice using measurements by solving conversion problems. There are given different time or measurement increments and must convert them to a larger or smaller increment. They also utilize a calculator and conversion...
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Measuring Rainfall

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students experiment to find out how rain is measured. For this rainfall measurement lesson, students experiment to observe the effects of rainfall and how much of it fell.