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Making Change
Students investigate how to make change when purchasing items. In this making change lesson plan, students examine a scenario to calculate the correct change. Students play Bingo based on information and calculations to determine the...
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Lesson Four - Making Change
Students practice making change. In this money lesson, students complete worksheets in which they find the amount of change they would receive from a dollar bill amount. Students go online and play games on this same concept.
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Making Change: Revolutionary Tactics of the Civil Rights Movement
The film American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs introduces viewers to the differing philosophies of and strategies employed by 1960s civil rights leaders such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. and the debate over...
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Making Change
Second graders explore how to incorporate a new type of technology, the cash register and/or a calculator, as a motivational tool for solving real life problems. They practice estimating money and counting back change from $20.00.
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Climate Change in My City
Students investigate the climate changes occurring locally, regionally and globally over the last one hundred years. They brainstorm and predict whether the current year's weather was warmer or colder than last year then check the...
Illustrative Mathematics
The Price of Bread
As part of an initiative to strengthen our young adults' financial understanding, this problem explores the cost of bread and minimum wage since the 1930s. Learners are asked to find the percent increase from each year and compare it...
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Try a Money Bee for a "Change"
Students take the spelling bee format and adapt it to provide practice in making change and work on their money skills. They simulate the process of making purchases with money and making change as necessary to complete the purchase.
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Piggin' out with Money
Third graders manage money. In this money math lesson, 3rd graders read Pigs Will be Pigs. Students then use manipulatives to practice adding monetary amounts and making change. Students also practice working with money on selected...
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Physical Changes & Chemical Reactions
Fifth graders explore physical and chemical changes. They prepare a demonstration in which they perform an example of either a physical change or a chemical reaction.
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Money: Demonstrating Coin Value up to $1.00
Students examine coin values up to $1.00 using paper coins. For this coin value lesson, students compare and contrast various coins to aid in identification, sort coins from smallest to largest, and match an equal number of pennies to...
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Cells and Chemical Changes
The billions of cells that make up all living things are the focus of this resource. Understanding the differences between the cells that make up plants and animals is an important distinction; it is covered here quite-well. Some...
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Making a Liquid Crystal Thermometer
Introduce your classes to a fourth state of matter! Liquid crystals have a colorful sheen that changes based on different physical factors. Learners use this information to create a liquid crystal thermometer where the color of the...
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Cool Cookie Math
Second graders identify the value of coins and make change from a dollar using different amounts. They are given story problems and use a fake shop in which they can buy things in which they have to determine how much change they would...
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Nothing New? A Physical Change
Fifth graders discuss the differences between chemical and physical changes. In groups, they complete experiments and discover how a physical chnage can be reversed. To end the lesson plan, they review the steps of the water cycle and...
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You're the Cashier!
Third graders use manipulatives and computers to count back change from amounts up to $5.00.
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The Heat is On!
Fifth graders investigate evidence for changes in matter that occur during a chemical reaction.
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A Picture Changes 1000 Minds
Students choose a Times photograph and write a brief essay explaining what they think is happening in the photograph and how it makes them feel. They select and analyze photographs depicting events in the Balkans and create a news photo...
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Developing Models
Students study the concept of a scientific model and demonstrate climate change models. In this scientific lesson students design a model using direct and indirect evidence and use it to make hypotheses.
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Hydrogen-Oxygen Reaction Lab
High schoolers conduct an experiment using the reaction of hydrogen and oxygen. After pairs balance the chemical equation for making water, they mix different ratios of hydrogen and oxygen in a chemical reaction. Classmates...
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Telling Time as an Everyday Use of Numbers
How can we estimate time? Have your young mathematicians make a clock. Then they compare and contrast types of clocks. They practice writing times in two different ways and make a book about telling time.
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Colonial Life
Fifth graders explore American colonial life. In this interdisciplinary history and science lesson, 5th graders participate in several hands-on activities that require them to make colonial products that involve physical or chemical...
Teach Engineering
What Makes Our Bones Strong?
So is that what you meant by rubber legs? The activity has pairs subject a chicken bone to vinegar and observe what happens over a period of days. Individuals then write up a lab report and document their observations and findings.
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Hidden Science in Colonial Living
Fifth graders evaluate evidence that indicates a physical change has occurred. In this colonial living lesson, 5th graders explore the science involved in the making of items used in colonial life, such as, bread, butter, soap, candles,...
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Identifying Correct Change
Students analyze the importance of recognizing whether or not they have been given correct change. They brainstorm ideas for determining whether or not they have received correct change. Students model and practice dialog to request...