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You Can Do It: Creating How-To Videos
Students create instructional videos. in this video instructional activity, students choose a subject area and topic to make their own how-to video. They research this topic and film their video using a flip-camera.
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Hour, Half-Hour, Quarter-Hour: Homework
For this telling time worksheet, students practice reading time and describing time in at least two ways. Students must read clocks and also write the number of a time given. Student end the worksheet with a problem solving activity.
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Add 2-Digit Numbers in Different Ways
In this solving addition word problems instructional activity, students use secret code cards and counters to problem solve. Students solve six problems.
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Order O Order Two-Digit Numbers to 100
In this ordering numbers worksheet, students solve 12 problems in which the missing number in a sequence is filled in. Students use the number lines to determine the number what comes before, between or after.
Pedago Net
Acing Math
Deal me in! Elementary and middle school classes will love this selection of math games, all involving a deck of cards. From fractions to exponents to rounding up and down, the games cover such a variety of skills that your classroom...
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The Common Core Literacy Standards - Grade 2 Posters
Support second graders with mastering the Common Core using this series of classroom displays. With each English language arts standard rewritten as a We can statement and accompanied by images and examples, this resource provides...
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Linking Social Networking to Language Arts
How to tap into students' social networking experiences to enhance learning in the language arts classroom.
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Dr. Seuss and Read Across America
What important facts about Dr. Seuss influenced the Read Across America movement...? This is the driving question of a research project that requires scholars to find information about Dr. Seuss' life and work. Class...
It's About Time
Plate Boundaries and Plate Interactions
How does the Earth continually repair itself? Explore the answer to this question, and others, with a unit on plate boundaries and interaction. Pupils classify the types of movement at plate boundaries and identify the...
It's About Time
Slinkies and Waves
Slinkies® are a great tool for visualizing waves. Pupils work in groups to create both transverse and longitudinal waves before using a polarizer to analyze the ways they are able to travel.
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Rounding to the Nearest Tens or Hundreds
Project these rounding problems as an all-class warm up, since they are written in large text and lend nicely to this purpose. Scholars round three numbers, two double-digit and one triple-digit, to both the hundreds and tens place. Note...
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The Star-Spangled Banner
Get your kids moving as they learn about the history of the United States National Anthem. Scholars examine the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key, and the meaning behind The Star Spangled Banner as they listen to an 18-minute...
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Independent Studies Movies
History comes alive as groups work cooperatively to create short iMovies about a specific historical period of their choice. Ideal for late elementary grades, the lesson includes a video demonstration and a short materials list.
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Model Addition to 100
For this addition worksheet, students solve 6 word problems using the numbers 1-100. The first 2 problems are set up as a guide.
K6 Math
Area of Squares and Rectangles
More practice provided here for your young learners! They will find the area of two squares and one rectangle. There's open workspace for your learners to calculate the area. Note that the multiplication required to solve these problems...
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Generate Measurement Data Word Problems
Plot data for three word problems, each with a table of data. Learners create line plots for these, all of which have only single-digit whole numbers. The large text and few number of problems make this ideal as a whole-class warm up....
Project Noah
Writing Goes Wild
Young scientists develop their observation and writing skills as they craft and then post a detailed description of a plant or animal they have spotted and photographed.
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Wild Christmas Reindeer
Young scholars listen to the children's story "The Wild Christmas Reindeer" while using the pictures from the story to help analyze the plot. In this reading comprehension lesson, students discuss the text and pictures of a story as they...
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My Family - Bookmaking for Social Studies
Students create family histories. In this book making lesson, students take digital cameras home for the night and take family members' photographs. Students use the photographs and text they write about their families to create a family...
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Peer Review and Collaboration Using Chat Tools and /or Voice Recorders
Students use audio devices to record a text and have a peer edit it. In this peer review and collaboration lesson, students write a short text on a topic provided by the teacher. After recording their text the message is sent...
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Dig In - Grow your own grub
Students monitor the growth of a plant over several weeks. For this earth science lesson, students plant a courgette plant, take digital photos, and upload them to the BBC gallery. They turn their photos into live animation...
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Card Counting
In this place value worksheet, students follow the directions provided to play a math card game. Students play in pairs to play this game that involves determining the value of a digit depending on its place.
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Expanded Form
In this place value learning exercise, students solve 6 word problems where they use knowledge of expanded notation or expanded form to name the value of digits or identify numbers in standard form based on place value clues.
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That's The Story!
Images can inspire powerful writing. Engage your class in narrative writing with the idea included here. Individuals each snap a digital photograph that includes action. The teacher then mixes these up and hands each class member a photo...