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Crayograph Quilts
Students create a quilt-like fabric swatches using Crayograph crayons, emery paper and rubbing plates.
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Block Breakers
Students throw bean bags at stacks of blocks. They record the results and write the corresponding mathematical equations.
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Current Event/Public Outcry
Twelfth graders discuss the shooting of a police officer. They choose a writing form - essay or poem- and express their views about the event.
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Late-In-The-Year Counting
Students practice forward and backward counting. In this counting lesson plan, students calculate how many objects in a bag by counting forward and then count backward to check.
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Putting Together History Puzzle Pieces
Learners attempt to put puzzle pieces together with no prior knowledge. This activity shows students at the beginning of the year that history is like a puzzle, there are often missing pieces, and many ways the pieces can turn to look...
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Graph Around the Room
Students discuss the importance of taking care of their bodies. They brainstorm ways to take care of their bodies. They create a graph.
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Unexpected Answers
Students explore and complete a variety of activities demonstration probability. They make observations about the results of the activities. Students complete and discuss conditional probability. Also, students draw conclusions about...
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Recycling Paper
Pupils recycle old paper into new. In this sustainability instructional activity, students take old newspaper and recycle it into new paper.
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Pattern And Design in Nature
Learners observe natural objects carefully and note intricate design and structure beyond surface form.
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Sheryl Crow and Willie Nelson - Lesson 2
Students use appropriate terminology to describe the instrumentation and style of a musical example. They identify common elements between musical styles and vocal styles.
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Vocabulary Building - Brainstorming
Students learn new vocabulary words in ways that are fun and enriching. They brainstorm lists of words to be used in sentences, stories, or conversations.
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Try Your Hand at Han'geul
Students explore Han'geul, a Korean writing system. Pupils participate in a class discussion involving the history of Han'geul. Using specified websites, classmates create flashcards containing letters of the Han'guel language. In...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Color Poems: Using the Five Senses to Guide Prewriting
Contains plans for four 50-minute lessons that ask young scholars to use their five senses for poetry prewriting. In addition to student objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Physics 2000: Temperature and Absolute Zero
A thorough, multipage discussion of color and color television sets that explains how an image is formed on the television using red, green, and blue light. Understandable discussion, excellent graphics, and many interactive Java applets.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Light Properties
Students learn about the basic properties of light and how light interacts with objects. They are introduced to the additive and subtractive color systems, and the phenomena of refraction. Students further explore the differences between...
Mr. Martini's Classroom
Mr. Martini's Classroom: Big Number Flashcards: Addition Through 99
These interactive flashcards help students add two-digit numbers through 99. The problem changes color with the correct answer.
Mr. Martini's Classroom
Mr. Martini's Classroom: Addition Cards, Fill in the Blank
Students fill in the blank with the correct number to solve the addition problems. The problem changes color when the correct number is typed.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Beginning Addition
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart follows the Addition Chapter. for McGraw-Hill for Kindergarten. Use the die tool to determine the first number of your addition sentence and use the paint bucket to color in the cubes....
Mr. Martini's Classroom
Mr. Martini's Classroom: Inequalities: Addition and Subtraction
Students add or subtract two numbers to solve the inequalities on these interactive flashcards. The problem changes color when the correct symbol is chosen.
Mr. Martini's Classroom
Mr. Martini's Classroom: Addition and Subtraction Comparitive Equations
Students add or subtract two whole numbers and compare the solutions using an inequality symbol. The problem on the flashcard changes color if the correct symbol is chosen.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Building a Matrix for Leo Lionni Books an Author Study
Contains plans for five 50-minute lessons about four books by Leo Lionni. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to PDF handouts and links to resources used in the lessons as well as...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: k.oa Shake and Spill
The purpose of this task is for students to decompose a number as a sum of two other numbers in more than one way. Students will shake and spill 5 two colored counters and determine how many of each color is showing and record the sum...
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Graph Theory
Wikipedia provides an introduction and overview of graph theory. In addition to introducing the basic terms, there are related links to classic problems in graph theory such as the traveling salesman problem and Dijkstra's algorithm.
Other
University of Edinburgh: Glossary of Introductory Computer Graphics Terms
This website, from the University of Edinburgh, provides a lengthy glossary of computer graphics terms written by Olin Lathrop, author of "The Way Computer Graphics Work". This site provides simple definitions of basic terms; no graphics...