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Understanding 10: Backwards and Forwards

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Help your young mathematicians completely master 10 by practicing one-to-one correspondence, number recognition, and recording numbers displayed. They make 10 with groups of two-different colored cubes and color in 10-frames to show how...
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Volume and Surface Area

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students explore volume and surface area. In this math instructional activity, students fill boxes with cubes to identify the volume of the boxes. Students discuss area.
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Probability

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Using real life examples, learners discuss probability and ratios. They begin by answering a set of questions, and then participate in a probability activity involving a bag of colored cubes.
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ONES and TENS

For Teachers 1st
Before you can teach place value or regroup, you need to provide students with a concrete idea of the definition of ones and tens. Here, ones and tens are defined and then shown several different ways in order to represent several...
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One and Tens Place Value - Step-by-Step Lesson

For Students 1st - 3rd
Give your pupils a grasp of place value in a two-digit number. They see a drawing of counting cubes in a stick of ten, then examine a set of four. Mathematicians determine how many blocks there are by grouping the tens. Ideally, you will...
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Color the Right Shapes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
I remember doing this activity when I was little. Learners color each shape the color indicated at the top of the page. Squares are blue, cubes are red, circles are green and so on. There are 30 shapes to identify and color. 
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The Hundreds Place

For Students 2nd - 4th
Young mathematicians examine images of counting cubes to determine the value of each set. The arrangement values include hundreds, tens, and ones. Encourage scholars to utilize place value knowledge instead of addition and counting with...
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Sorting 3-Dimensional Shapes

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
The sorting is simple here: Does this three-dimensional figure have a curved surface or not? Scholars review an example before trying this on their own with nine figures including a sphere, cylinder, prism, cube, cone, and pyramid. They...
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Sorting 3-Dimensional Shapes

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Does it have corners? Scholars sort three-dimensional figures into one of two categories based on whether or not they have corners. They look at six shapes: sphere, cylinder, cone, cube, prism, and pyramid. For each, learners write the...
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Roll A Sentence

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this modifiers worksheet, students play a game where they roll cubes and write sentences that include nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.
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Investigation: Crazy Caterpillars

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore biology patterns by creating a model insect. In this patterns lesson plan, 1st graders utilize snap cubes and pattern blocks to recreate their own version of a centipede or caterpillar. Students create their...
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Sources of Heat

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders conduct an experiment related to heat sources, and participate in a heat source hunt. They identify sources of heat, then compare the melting rate of ice cubes, illustrating the results in their science journal. Students...
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Refrigeration Part 2 - How they work

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate insulators and how refrigerators actually work to keep things cold through evaporation and pressure changes in the coolant. They create a box to keep an ice cube from melting, and observe a variety of...
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One Out of Six

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate basic concepts of chance and probability. They make a number cube to predict which number might be rolled the most often out of 20 consecutive rolls and tally the results. Number cube template included.
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Native American Blocks

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students research information about a Native American tribe and document their knowledge by creating a block (cube) containing pictures about the homes, tools, food, clothing, and transportation for this tribe.
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Changing Sugar

For Teachers 6th - 9th
In this chemical and physical change worksheet, students use a sugar cube and observe its physical properties both when it is whole and after it is crushed. They heat the sugar cube and record 5 properties of the matter while being...
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The Castle

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Students build a castle to Ravi's design using the cubes. Students then make an original model of a solid object from diagrams which show views from the top, front, side and back. Students describe the reflection of rotational symmetry...
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Modeling the Rock Cycle

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this modeling the rock cycle worksheet, students use a sugar cube to show the phases and changes in the rock cycle as represented by the changes in the sugar cube. For each step of the experiment students indicate the part of the rock...
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Weathering and Wind

For Teachers 6th - 9th
In this weathering and wind worksheet, students simulate the effects of weathering by wind using 2 canisters, 2 types of sandpaper and 2 sugar cubes. Students swirl the sugar cubes inside the canisters lined with fine and course...
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Rock Cycle

For Teachers 7th - 10th
In this rock cycle worksheet, students simulate the changes that occur during the rock cycle using a sugar cube. They use the sugar cube to represent a rock and perform changes on the sugar cube that represent the stages of the rock cycle.
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Challenge: Five in a Row with Decimal Numbers

For Students 6th - 9th
In this multiplication worksheet, students play a game with 2 number cubes or dice where they substitute decimals for the numbers on the cubes.  Students multiply the decimals together then find the corresponding product on a 5 by 5 game...
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Earth's Age: The Dating Game

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars conduct a simulation to determine radioactive decay and half-life. Using pennies, dice or sugar cubes as isotopes placed in shoe boxes simulating rocks, they hold five trials representing 1000 years each to find the...
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Fractions

For Teachers K
Students observe and demonstrate a variety of activities to identify the fraction parts and the symbols they represent. As a class they explore different fractions using unifix cubes, then use the cubes to build and discuss the...
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Grade 5: Multiple Towers

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use interlocking cubes to build towers to represent factors of numbers and place the towers in the appropriate places on a Tower chart in order to look for patterns. They work in partner groups, and finish by writing...

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