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Small Busines Schemes
High schoolers investigate a small business and its profitability. In pairs, as they research a business adventure, students consider the capital outlay, maintenance, office space, prices, insurance, and profit and loss statements. High...
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Big Fleas Have Little Fleas
A benthic habitat hosts a vast collection of organisms and its structure influences the biodiversity. Middle-school marine biology explorers will discuss how corals impact structure, and therefore diversity, on the ocean floor. They draw...
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Effigy Mound Activity
Students research effigy mounds of Native people in Wisconsin. They create large models of effigy mounds in a given area based on factual information from their studies and research.
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Who Wants to Spend $20,000?
Who wouldn't want $20,000 to spend? But, the question becomes, what do you spend it on? Learners discuss loans, interest, and making adult-like financial decisions. They role-play a scenario that depicts the choices of a girl who took...
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Playground Mapping
Students convert their physical models of a playground from a previous lesson into a map of the playground that includes a scale and key. They examine and discuss examples of maps, view an image to map photo essay, and create a map using...
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Butterflies in the Garden
Students estimate the population of a butterfly ecosystem and create a chart and graph based on information they find.
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Quick Questions: Open-Ended
Students conduct an open ended survey and analyze the data they found. In this open-ended survey lesson plan, students ask others their open ended questions and then organize their results based on the most common, least common, and...
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Big Fleas Have Little Fleas!
Learners study seamounts and learn the importance of structures to species. In this ocean explorer lesson, students participate in an activity that teaches them how to modify a seamount so that they are more suitable for species.
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Catching Some Rays
Sixth graders explore the tilt of Earth's axis. In this Earth lesson, 6th graders read a Greek mythology story explaining why there are seasons. Students build a sun-ray gathering tool from styrofoam, glue, thermometers, skewers, and...
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Probability: The Study of Chance
Learners conduct an experiment, determine if a game is fair, and collect data. They interpret data, then display line graph. They conduct analysis of game for probability.
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Lesson: Journey of a Tree
Third graders explore the operation of a Christmas farm and how trees are shipped. After taking a tour of a Christmas tree farm and researching transportation, location and cost issues, 3rd graders create a map to show the distribution...
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Landscapes
Students explore landforms and landscapes. They demonstrate an appreciation for and examine how to recognize the attributes of landforms and landscapes. Students create a landscape and reflect on their painting.
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Coordinate Plane Treasure Hunt
Learners create a treasure map by plotting points on a coordinate plane using a computer drawing program. Students name and identify different landmasses and structures on their map. They create instructions to find the treasure that...
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Easy and Artistic Printmaking Using Mixed Media Materials
Students explore printmaking which began with the ancient Chinese who carved seals from stone, inked them and used the seals as identification symbols. They produce a print in this lesson.
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Mobile Phones
For this mobile phones worksheet, students fill out a chart about mobile phones, answer short answer questions, role play, and more. Students complete 5 activities.
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Mosaics of Cyprus
Middle schoolers create digital mosaics. In this visual arts lesson, students discover the attributes and history of mosaics in a teacher-led discussion. Middle schoolers use an educational program to make their own digital mosaics.
Other
Ns Dept. Of Education: Blackline Masters, Math Essentials 11
The Mathematics templates here support a Grade 11 Math text used in Nova Scotia. There is an assortment of blackline masters ranging from Celsius thermometers and Canadian coins to fraction circles and number lines. Many of the templates...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Making Patterns
Explore the literature connections, online activity, pencil and paper activity, and the manipulative investigation of patterns and geometric shapes on this page!
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 5.g Battle Ship Using Grid Paper
The purpose of this task is to give students practice plotting points in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane and naming coordinates of points. Aligns with 5.G.A.1.
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K-5 Math Teaching Resources
K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Coordinate Grid Paper Set [Pdf]
This pdf contains several types of blank coordinate grids.
George Mason University
Handmade Manipulative Instructions
At this personal site, you will find pages of math manipulatives and different types of graphing paper to print out and use in your classroom.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Make an Alien Mask Using Ordered Pairs
This website gives you the ordered pairs you need to make an Alien mask using graph paper.
Other
Nearpod: Perimeters of Polygons
In this lesson on finding the perimeter of rectangles, 3rd graders learn key vocabulary, explore grid paper, and apply their learning to a real-world situation.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Marching Columns
In this activity, students investigate constructing arrangements of different number of manipulatives into equal groups. They learn to use mathematical language, identify patterns with numbers, recognize the commutative property, and...