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Domino Adding
Students practice adding numbers to twelve. For this computation lesson, students construct paper domino patterns and play games in which they use the the dots on the dominoes to make addition problems.
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The Friendship Race
In this activity, students work together to explore qualities and attitudes that help make lasting friendships.
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ABC BINGO
Learners participate in a homemade ABC Bingo game to reinforce the alphabet. They write a different lower case letter in each block on their card and continue until the card is filled up.
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Pondering Polygons
Seventh graders use block letter writing to help classify polygons. They use their own names which helps to keep them engaged during the lesson plan. Finally, 7th graders play a classification game naming different polygons.
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Figuring Out Equations With Figurines
Learners inspect solving equations with one variable. Through the use of a scale balance, they examine the importance of equality in an equation. By playing a balance game with figurines and a scale, students discover methods of...
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Ready to Rhyme with Hop on Pop
Students complete worksheets by circling similar letters used in rhyming sounds. They form rhyming words using index cards and play a game of rhyming Bingo. They use letter tiles to form the rhyming words in the Dr. Suess book "Hop on Pop."
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Carry Your Own Load Toad!
Students explore how to spell words with the vowel digraph /oa/. They read and spell words containing the oa digraph. Students read Toad Makes a Road. They clap their hands when they hear the /O/ sound in the story. Students practice...
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Courts and Bounds
Students relate what they know about boundaries on sports courts to explore range of space. For this domain and range lesson, students identify numbers needed to calculate ranges and use the problem solving strategy of making a table.
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Food Shopping Tips
Twelfth graders explore different ways of shopping to try to save money. In this economics lesson, 12th graders participate in a game that explains various shopping tips. Students generate other shopping tips as a group to share with...
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Garden Starters
Students grow their own gardens. In this planting lesson, students use egg cartons to start their own gardens by planting and caring for seeds. A game, a song, a craft, and a recipe are all included with the lesson to complement the theme.
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Letter Sound Accuracy, Musical Chairs
Students explore word structure by participating in a game of musical chairs. For this phonics lesson, students discuss the letters of the alphabet and identify words that begin with each letter and the sounds they make. Students...
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Addition Tic Tac Toe
Third graders participate in a game of Tic Tac Toe while practicing addition at the same time. They draw the Tic Tac Toe board with chalk on a concrete portion of the playground. They use bean bags with this activity to make it more...
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Environment: Fishing and Property Rights
Students participate in a role-playing "fishing game" to discover how over-harvesting can eliminate a resource. In the second round of the game, students are told they can only fish in their assigned territories.
Students explain the...
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Musical Alphabet
Young scholars play a musical Alphabet game after listening to the book "Alphabet Letters" by Rolando Merino in this Language Arts instructional activity for early-elementary classrooms. The instructional activity includes an idea on...
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Computation with Real and Complex Numbers
In this computation with real and complex numbers worksheet, students use addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to solve 26 problems with complex numbers to win a bingo game.
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Riddles and Words
Students play vocabulary game in which they create riddles and answers.
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Music Activity at Family Math Night
Students work with a family member in placing all of the music notes on a staff board. They try to match the rhythm on the rhythm board and show their completed song to the teacher.
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Food Webs
Students create a bulletin board display illustrating food chains they make from a list of ocean organisms. Students also play a game showing what happens when one of the organisms is removed from the food chain and how they are all...
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The Raid on Raters
Students read and discuss the article "Hollywood Rethinks its Rating Process." They discuss their views on the rating system. Students work in small groups to role play a "headhunting" company to find applicants for a new and improved...
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Equivalent Fractions
Students describe parts of a fraction and make equivalent fractions. They review parts of a fraction using a pizza, make equivalent fractions, and play the review game Fraction Fairway.
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Money Matters
Students practice spending money by completing math word sentences. In this economics lesson, students utilize problem solving strategies to complete word problems written on the board involving making purchases with money. Students...
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Animal Relationships
Students study energy pyramids, food chains and food webs. In this animal relationships lesson students complete several activities and play a game.
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Symmetry Collage
First graders, in groups, studying symmetry, compose collages and bulletin boards.
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Spill the Beans
Students play an alphabet game with beans that asks them create simple short vowel words. They spill several marked beans onto a paper and separate those that have fallen face-up. They arrange the beans into words and read them aloud.