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3 dimensional shapes
Students play a bingo game to classify 3 dimensional shapes. In this 3 dimensional shapes lesson plan, students identify, describe, and classify shapes by playing a bingo game.
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Mystery Graphs
Pupils study graphs and learn how to display information into a graph. In this graph lesson plan, students construct a graph of their own sorted data, and pick out things in graphs that are inconsistent.
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Adding and Subtracting Three-Digit Numbers by Jumping
Second graders use data to graph information and draw conclusions. In this instructional activity on data analysis, 2nd graders practice gathering, sorting, comparing, and graphing data. Students differentiate data that can and cannot...
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Addition and Subtraction
Young scholars develop their own strategies to solve basic addition and subtraction facts. In this addition and subtraction lesson plan, students use strategies they already know and new ones to solve problems.
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Partial Products
Students use the partial products algorithm to complete multiplication problems. In this partial products lesson plan, students are introduced to the algorithm and connect the relationship to multiplication and division problems.
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Adding and Subtracting Rational Numbers to Solve Problems
High schoolers explore the concept of probability. In this probability instructional activity, students use area to determine probability. High schoolers use charts and spinners to help determine the probability of events such as...
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Spending
Student explore the value of money. In this addition and subtraction instructional activity, 2nd graders earn "money" for classroom jobs and spend it in the classroom. Students practice how to add prices and calculate change. This...
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Spending - Maintaining the skill of money
Third graders practice making change with money. In this subtraction instructional activity, 3rd graders watch a video about money. Students investigate what it means to earn money, spend it, and find their change.
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SPENDING: Maintaining the Skill of Money
Fourth graders explore the concept of maintaining money. In this personal finance lesson, 4th graders earn "money" for cleaning their classroom desks. Students spend the "money" in the classroom and practice making change.
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Magnet Subtraction
Mini mathematicians use magnets to complete subtraction sentences. They choose a number of objects with the magnet and subtract the number from the total objects. Have them create number sentences as they fish for magnets.
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The Expanding Universe
Students explore the expanding universe. In this science lesson, students use balloons to model the expansion of the universe. Students take measurements of the balloon expansion and answer questions directed to develop their...
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Energetic Atoms - Active & Spaced Out
Students discover the power of the sun through an outdoor experiment. In this solar power lesson plan, students view a PowerPoint presentation on atoms before they complete an atom worksheet. Students utilize a solar bag to demonstrate...
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Circles in the Landscape: Irrigating Oklahoma Crops
How do you grow crops in a area with insufficient rainfall? Why you irrigate, of course. Class members investigate irrigation systems by designing a system of their own. After examining irrigation related concepts, vocabulary terms, and...
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Economics
Fourth graders read a poem about rice and identify its importance around the world. In this rice lesson, 4th graders read about the role of rice in various nutritional sectors around the world. Students complete two word problems about...
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Let's Go Golfing
Students bring their visions for golf courses to life. In this scale model lesson, students research golf courses online, plan golf courses on grid paper, and then create scale models of the courses they planned.
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Percents and Discounts
Learners convert between decimals and percents. In this algebra instructional activity, students define percent as it relates to sales and tax. They calculate the percents of number using multiplication.
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Angle Pairs
Students identify different angle pairs. In this geometry lesson, students identify the different angles of two parallel lines cut by a transversal. They identify the interior and exterior angles.
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Pythagorean Theorem
Students solve problems using the Pythagorean Theorem. In this geometry lesson plan,students identify the right angle, hypotenuse and legs of a right triangle. They find the missing sides using the ratios of the Pythagorean theorem.
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Electric Circuits
Students explore energy by completing an electricity worksheet. In this conductors lesson, students define the energy related vocabulary terms circuit, electronics, conductor and semi-conductor before examining computer chips in class....
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Strawberry Girl: Outdoors in Florida
Students explore nature by researching the state of Florida. In this animal identification lesson, students read a children' story and research the Internet to discover the difference in animal life between the early 1900's and present...
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Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday
Fourth graders read the story Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday and discuss money issues. In this money lesson plan, 4th graders create a budget.
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Sorting Buttons
Students demonstrate how to sort buttons by attributes. In 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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Stacking Chips
Students examine the outcome of adding one to a group of items. In this number sense lesson, students create stacks of chips and count them. Then, students add one more chip to the stack and count the chips again. Students discuss their...
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Associative Properties
Young scholars investigate the associative property of addition. In this associative property of addition lesson, students work in pairs and build addition problems with six blocks. They sit on either side of a desk so that they can...