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Digital Scavenger Hunt
Students participate in a game of scavenger hunt. In this teamwork lesson, students use clues to find hidden objects. Students must work cooperatively to complete each task.
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Sorting Buttons
Students demonstrate how to sort buttons by attributes. For this classification lesson, students are given buttons and are asked to sort them independently by their attributes. Additionally, students are given one extra button after they...
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Rhyming Objects
Students explore language arts by reading Dr. Seuss stories in class. In this word play lesson, students identify the rhymes in both Dr. Seuss and Nursery Rhyme stories. Students utilize flash cards with rhymes written on them to play a...
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Investigating the Types of Energy in Different Objects
Learners investigate forms of energy. In this physical science energy lesson, students work with a partner classifying household items according to the type of energy they have. Learners complete a related worksheet.
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Take Ten: Make Cleaning Up More Fun with Predictions and Counting
Class members predict and count how many items need to be cleaned up in class while skip counting by 10s. They estimate whether having each child clean up 10 items will be enough to get the room ready for the next day. Everyone counts...
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Sink It
Introduce your class to the concept of sinking and floating. In groups, they classify objects after making predictions about which materials will sink or float. They record their results and create graphs and charts to share with the class.
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Hidden Objects
Fourth graders feel objects hidden in paper bag, and describe how they feel, smell, sound and/or taste.
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Everyday Objects As Artwork
Students examine everyday Chinese objects and analyze why they are
considered artwork today in this multi-subject lesson for Middle School. Small group colaboration is emphasized.
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Aquatic Exercise - Object Retrieval
Middle schoolers are introduced to a variety of exercises to do in the water. In groups, they swim in the deep part of the pool to retrieve objects at the bottom. To end the lesson, they practice techniques to help them breathe and...
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Grouping and Changing Materials
Learners feel and observe different types of materials. Using the internet, they sort objects based on the materials they are made from and justify their reasons for putting it in a certain category. They identify objects that could...
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A Practice with Dividing Sets of Objects Into Equal Parts
Learners answer questions about dividing items into equal parts. In this equal parts lesson plan, students see how one group can be broken up.
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How Many?
In this mathematics activity, students count the number of objects in each group illustrated. Then they write how many in the box to the right.
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Using Objects to Object to Objectification
Young scholars use math functions in part to complete a metaphorical lesson on tolerance. In this math and tolerance lesson, students receive rows of functions and try to find a single simple shared property without success. Young...
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What Doesn't Belong?
In this classification activity, students examine 15 groups of three words. They circle each word/object name that does not belong in each group and explain why.
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More or Less
In this coloring objects activity, students view two rows of suckers, color the row that has more orange and the row that has less blue. Students view 2 additional rows of ice cream cones, color the group that has more pink and the row...
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Boxes and Rectangles
In this rectangles worksheet, students color the rectangles that they can see on teach box with a different color. Students then write the total number of rectangles they can see in each group of boxes.
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Classifying Toys
In this classification worksheet, students cut out 47 small pictures of toys. They classify the pictures in groups of their choosing. They tell the reasons for grouping the items the way they did.
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Estimate the Number of Cherries
In this estimating instructional activity, students observe groups of five cherries and estimate the total amount. Students choose one multiple choice answer.
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Estimate Amount
In this estimating the total amount learning exercise, students observe a page of apples in groups of two and estimate whether there are twenty-five or eighty apples. Students choose one multiple choice answer.
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Odd or Even Worksheet
In this odd and even numbers practice worksheet, 3rd graders read 4 sets of directions and color odd or even numbers of items. There are four sets of objects which students must color as indicated.
Think Like A Programmer! Puzzlets Cork the Volcano Curriculum
Common Core Standards Connected
The standards listed below are standards from the Common Core Framework which map to learning opportunities with Cork The Volcano & Puzzlets.
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Potential and Kinetic Energy: The Roller Coaster Lab
Ron Toomer, a famous roller coaster designer, suffered from motion sickness. Pupils design their own roller coasters, learning about potential and kinetic energy in the process. Labs focus on the importance of drop height, energy...
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Word Problems of Equal Share and Equal Groups
Explore this engaging approach to division problem solving with young scholars. They construct story problems after drawing 3 cards that give them a type of object, how many they have of that object, and the number of groups the object...
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The Rutherford Atomic Model: Hidden Obstacles
Historically, scientists had to be creative to study subatomic structure. Scholars step into their minds to recreate the procedure Rutherford used to create his atomic model. Learners identify the creative efforts of early scientists...