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Calendar Counting
Students demonstrate how to count by 2's. In this number sense lesson, students review skip counting on the hundreds chart and recognize the pattern of counting by 2's. Students use a reproducible of a calendar to color in the days as...
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Foreign Language Initial Reading
Learners match sentences and phrases to pictures in a target language. They identify the proper written form of familiar spoken phrases. Students practice labeling objects and pictures with the proper greeting, color, number or object...
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My Classroom
In this vocabulary worksheet, learners match ten pictures of classroom items to their names. Each illustration is a drawing. Some are black and white, others are in color. The worksheet is intended for use with English language learners.
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Bean Toss
Students investigate positive and negative numbers using lima beans as a concrete model.
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Fraction Strips: Adding Fractions
Third graders problem solve using fraction strips. In this adding fractions lesson, 3rd graders create fraction strips to help identify fractional sizes (fourths, eighths, thirds) and to solve word problems.
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Block It Game
Young scholars use problem solving strategies such as guess and check and visualization to play the game. They use mental mathematics to decide on the placement of pattern blocks and look for patterns.
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Picture Your Numbers
Young scholars play a variation of the Concentration game to practice math skills matching numbers with visual pictures. They have 20 cards, ten with pictures of items drawn on them. They other ten are numbered. They try to match correct...
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Using several learning modalities to teach about the Periodic Table.
Learners identify how to relate the position of an element in the periodic table to its atomic number and atomic mass. They identify how to use the periodic table to identify metals, semimetals, nonmetals, and halogens, and also,...
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On Our Way to School
First graders create a class graph that illustrates how they get to school and interpret data from the graph. They complete an assessment worksheet independently and answer questions about the graph shown.
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Skip-counting Practice
Students practice skip counting. In this skip counting lesson plan, students practice skip counting using hundreds boards and patterns. Students complete several examples and problems to ensure their understanding.
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Addition Properties
Student study addition properties. In this addition properties lesson, learners use multiple methods to solve various types of problems. Students illustrate and describe in various ways the Commutative Property of Addition. Learners...
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American Bald Eagle
In this American bald eagle worksheet, learners match ten facts about American bald eagles with their definitions and put five facts in sequential order.
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Math Lesson Study Plan
Second graders find missing addends by solving math word problems. In this missing addend lesson plan, 2nd graders work in a whole group setting to find the missing addends in word problems before using the strategies to work...
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Look for Patterns
In this number pattern worksheet, 3rd graders focus on sequencing. Students must study the number chart and respond to 3 short answer questions about the patterns that are shown in the chart.
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Human Number Line
Fourth graders become aware and comprehend number relationships among those numbers most commonly found in geometric applications. They work in groups, 4th graders arrange themselves in order form the least to the greatest number in...
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Best-Selling Books Bar Graph
Students fill in bar graphs to show ten of the best-selling students' books of all time. Students create simple bar graphs to show how many copies of each of the ten books have been sold.
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Gummy Candy Count
Use the book, The Gummy Candy Counting Book, to practice counting up to ten objects in a group. This lesson nicely-combines language arts and math in a way that should lead to effective teaching.
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Investigation- I've Got It
Students practice grouping skills by sorting footwear of the class as a whole group. Activity can be extended by having individual students sort a variety of colored items using a sorting mat.
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Bocce Ball - Lesson 1 - Rules and Courtesies
In between fighting, Roman soldiers played this game for their amusement. What is the game? Bocce ball, a form of lawn bowling which the Italians brought to the US. This sport can be played by anyone who can roll a ball that is about the...
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Trees of Mississippi
Students research tree species found in Mississippi, and record the tree types, numbers of trees, and locations. Students then research the forest industry sites, and determine possible relationships between industry location and tree...
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Learning About Homonyms
I don't know why but I love teaching homonym lessons. This one encourages learners to look up and write a definition for a set of 10 different homonyms. Tip: Put new knowledge to the test and have the class fix a story that contains...
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Wellness Day
Plan a wellness day! Invite speakers from community resources to come and present and participate in a wellness day. Reinforce how important it is to take care of the whole body and how the choices they make now can make a difference...
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Hunt the Fact Monster Hunt #25
In this Internet research learning exercise, learners use the Fact Monster search engine to find the answers to two multiple choice and eight short answer questions.
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Funtastic Fractions
Students discover fractions by creating models. In this fractions lesson, students read Give Me Half! by Stuart J. Murphy and view a video about what fractions actually represent. Students divide a square piece of paper a certain amount...