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Hide and Survive: A Natural Selection Activity

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students explore the theory of natural selection given certain scenarios. In this biology activity, students graph data taken from the experiment. They explain the factors that contribute to the survival of the fittest.
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Linear Progression

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners use graphing calculators to graph lines and create tables of values. They perform an experiment using M&M's and slinkys, then create their tables based on their results.
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Tony's Bread

For Teachers K
Students listen to the book, TONY'S BREAD by Tomie DePaola. They review what the first letter is of their first names. Then each child creates his/her initial by rolling bread dough into the shape and decoates it with candied fruit...
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Mapping an Artifact

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students copy a present day artifact onto graph paper. In groups, they decide the scale of the drawing and create the picture using specific graphing points. They are also given photographs in which there are no graphing points and they...
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Let's Get To the Core!

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students practice analyzing ice core samples to discover climate changes. Using the samples, they identify and graph the gas amounts. They use these numbers to determine their effect on global warming. In pairs, they complete a...
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Writing Crazy Crayons

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders observe the workings of an assembly line. They classify old crayon pieces by color, melt them in candy molds, package them, and produce advertising literature to sell the product. Students share their work with the class.
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Language Arts: What's My Line?

For Teachers K
Students discover how to employ number lines by estimating the number of tiles in a jar. After writing their estimates on sticky notes, they place them in order on a number line mat. Included in the lesson are various activities and...
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Cubed Containers

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners explore volume in relation to centimeter cubes and other nonstandard units of measurement using small containers. They will use hands-on materials to practice this concept. You will need small objects and containers to set this up.
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Linear Functions and Proportionality

For Students 8th Standards
Connect linear equations, proportionality, and constant rates of change to linear functions. Young mathematicians learn how linear equations of the form y = mx + b can represent linear functions. They then explore examples of linear...
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M&M Science and Math

For Teachers 6th - 12th
A series of math and science activities feature M&M's® as manipulatives to help kids work through equations. The resource includes exercises on finding averages, percent of compositions, moles in chemical reactions, genotypes and...
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Popping Problems!

For Teachers 4th
Turn your math lesson plan into a carnival game with this fun, outdoor activity. After reviewing the concept your class will be practicing briefly, split your class up into teams and head outdoors. These teams work to solve math...
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Budget Making

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students develop a budget for spending and saving. In this economics lesson, students create a budget based on personal, family and government income. They discuss jobs at home and allowances. They discuss how they manage their money...
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My Conflict Shield

For Teachers 8th Standards
As an exercise in self-awareness and improvement, class members create a Conflict Shield listing 12 skills they believe are the most useful in conflict resolution. They then color the ones they have mastered while leaving uncolored those...
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Economics Study Guide

For Students 11th - 12th
Use this resource as a basic review of economic principles. There are six questions relating to the factors of production, opportunity costs, wants and needs, tangibles and intangibles, and more.
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My Conflict Shield

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders discuss conflict. Working in pairs, they create lists of skills they have used in conflicts, skills they have seen used successfully but not used themselves, and skills they wish to develop. From their lists they identify...
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Ordering Rational Numbers and Finding Their Approximate

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore the concept of ordering rational numbers on a number line. They represent rational numbers as decimals and percents. Pupils create a foldable about converting fractions to decimals to percents, and use a...
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Is Your Money Rolling Away?

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Young scholars demonstrate how to solve word problems. They will watch the video "Math Can Take You Places" and identify three problem solving strategies.
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Areology-The Study of Mars

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students examine core samples from Mars and discover what they can use it to tell the history of Mars.  In this core sample lesson students create and analyze their own core samples then eat them at the end.
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Spicy Hot Colors

For Teachers 1st
First graders discover the importance of primary colors by reading a book in class.  In this art lesson, 1st graders read the book Spicy Hot Colors, and discuss the three primary colors and the numerous combinations they can make....
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Using Fractions to Represent M&M Colors

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students investigate the concept of fraction and tangible application. In this algebra instructional activity, students use fractions to solve real life scenarios. They convert between fractions and decimals and identify the numerator...
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Dolch Work Bingo

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students play Bingo using Dolch sight words on their game cards.  In this sight word lesson, students create their own Bingo card, filling it out with dolch words from their provided list.  When a student has gotten Bingo, the student...
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Data, Data, Everywhere... and What Am I To Think?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students demonstrate good random sampling techniques for data collection, select and develop graphic presentations of data and analyze the data to solve a problem presented.
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Decidedly Different

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders inquire as to why scientists use observable characteristics, how they sort the characteristics, and why they do so. They write journal entries to be used throughout this unit.
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Get Your Numbers in Shape - TI-83

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
High Schoolers use the TI-83 calculator to produce a sequence, explore patterns and find a linear or quadratic equation for a given pattern. They use inductive reasoning to make conjectures about patterns. They find the Y-value of a...

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