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Legends of Stars
After choosing a figure from Greek mythology, middle schoolers design, draw, and color a constellation to represent that person. Additionally, they create a story to tell how the constellation came to be. This lesson is a great...
National Woman's History Museum
The Equal Rights Amendment
The debate over the Equal Rights Amendment continues. To better understand the controversy, class members research the history of attempts to get the amendment ratified. In addition, pairs engage in a structured academic conversation...
Curated OER
Math Reference Sheet
Your young learners will enjoy having quick access to this reference sheet that includes a multiplication chart, formulas for perimeter, area, and volume, place value chart, fraction chart, basic types of polygons, triangles and lines...
Curated OER
Addition and Subtraction using Manipulatives
Sixth graders participate in a question and answer session to begin their understanding. Students complete a practice assignment using color counters. Students' assessment is composed of using color counters to complete an independent...
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Spill the Beans
Young scholars explore the meaning of a fact family. In this Math lesson, students work in small groups to create their own fact family based on color of beans. The beans are colored and represent a given value. Young scholars...
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The Color of Your Own
Students understand primary and secondary colors. In this lesson about colors, students explore where colors come from. Students paint a picture with the primary paint colors that the teacher has created. Students mix the primary paint...
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Gumball Math
In this addition and subtraction worksheet, students solve for single digit horizontal problems. Students color 30 gumballs according to the answer of each problem and chart the number of each answer that is obtained.
T. Smith Publishing
Yellow Addition
Lovely yellow flowers fill the page! Primary math masters color the given number of flowers yellow, determine how many flowers are left, and write a number sentence for the problem. Several examples of addition number sentences are...
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Learning the Number Eight
In this early childhood number 8 learning exercise, students practice printing by tracing the 8 on this page and then writing it on their own. In addition, students learn to count to 8 by circling the right number of shapes at the...
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Learning the Number 6
In this early childhood number 6 worksheet, students practice printing by tracing the 6 on this page and then writing it on their own. In addition, students learn to count to 6 by circling the right number of shapes at the bottom of the...
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Addition Practice
In this addition worksheet, 2nd graders add the two digit addition equations without using the regrouping method. Students solve 20 problems. Students may also color in the Valentine's Day images.
California Academy of Science
Plants: Hanging Tough
Learning about the rainforest can be more fun than you think. The class discusses vocabulary-in-context as they cut cardboard boxes, destined to become part of a rainforest model. Small groups of children color, cut, and construct...
Illustrative Mathematics
Grandfather Tang's Story
It's amazing the complex figures that can be made using only a few simple shapes. Following a class reading of the children's book Grandfather Tang's Story by Ann Tompert, young mathematicians use sets of tangrams to create models...
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2002 State Flower Show
Here is another State Quarter lesson. This one uses the Mississippi State Quarter. Pupils utilize beautifully-designed worksheets embedded in the plan, to practice calculating which combinations of flowers they can afford to buy. They...
Lesson Plansos
Guided Reading Activities with Pizzazz
Get the most out of your guided reading lessons with this collection of literacy materials. Offering a system for using color-coded tags to mark pages while reading books, as well as an assortment of comprehension and grammar...
Curated OER
Using Transitions
Transitions, words that reveal the relationship between two ideas, are the subject of a presentation that provides color-coded illustrations to show viewers how this part of speech functions in sentences. The PowerPoint concludes with an...
Federal Reserve Bank
Financial Fables: Shopping Wisely with Olivia Owl
Cover two subjects with one lesson plan! First, dive into English language arts; read an eBook, answer comprehension questions, and complete a cause and effect chart about the financial fable, Shopping Wisely with Olivia Owl. Then,...
Nuffield Foundation
Going up in Smoke
Don't let all your hard work go up in smoke. Pupils conduct an experiment to see the harmful effects of cigarette smoke. They observe how smoke changes the color of white wool and an indicator solution.
Concordia University Chicago
Paris Street; Rainy Day by Gustave Caillebotte
Discuss the balance, color, emotion, and context of the painting Paris Street; Rainy Day by Caillebotte. After a deep discussion, let creativity run free in your class as learners create a dimensional piece that reflects a...
American Statistical Association
How Fast Are You?
Quick! Snap up the lesson. Scholars first use an online app to collect data on reaction times by clicking a button when the color of a box changes. They then plot and analyze the data by considering measures of center, measures of...
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Animal Jr. Christmas Worksheet
In this Christmas animal math worksheet, students solve 36 single and double-digit addition problems and then follow the coloring key and color in each sum a different color.
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Alien Addition
In this addition worksheet, 2nd graders find the sums in 43 problems that include two or three addends. They color all of the spaces that have the number 6 in the answer to help the alien find his way to his spaceship in the puzzle...
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Going Fishing
In this addition facts lesson, students recognize the numbers and are able to add simple problems by participating in a fishing game. Students use a fishing pole with a washer on the end to fish for magnetic fish made out of foam....
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Divide By One-Digit Numbers
For this finding the quotients worksheet, students divide one-digit and two-digit numbers by one-digit numbers with no remainders. Students solve 40 problems.