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ESL: What's the Weather Like?
Beginning English learners practice describing the weather with help from eight picture clues. Questions are phrased like "How's the weather?" and "What's the weather like?" Tinker with the formatting to make it all fit on one page...
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Routines Matching
Here is an ESL word and picture matching instructional activity. Learners analyze seven pictures that depict morning routines, and match each picture with a phrase that tells what is happening.
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ESL: Body Parts Matching
Match drawings of basic body parts with their names. A handy tool for teachers of beginning ELLs.
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ESL Picture/Idiom Matching Worksheet
In this ESL picture to idiom matching worksheet, students examine 7 small clip art images before matching them to the idioms they best represent. They work with idioms such as "blood is thicker than water," and "as you make your bed, so...
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Complexity Madness
Discuss different techniques for finding the area of a geometric shape, with a great visual guide. Using a real life example, learners calculate the area of a rectangle and a square.
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Family Quilts Keep Us Warm
Students explore different types of families and cultures. They create a paper quilt with geometric designs of similar colors to show unity and pictures of each of their families to show diversity.
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Synthetic Division Review
In this synthetic division worksheet, learners use synthetic division to divide a binomial. Explanations and examples are provided. This three-page worksheet contains ten problems, with answers.
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Geometry: Parallel and Perpendicular Lines
This basic handout would be good for skills practice or a review of parallel and perpendicular lines. Review the definitions, then practice writing equations of lines that pass through a specific point and are either parallel or...
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Investigation- I've Got It
Students practice grouping skills by sorting footwear of the class as a whole group. Activity can be extended by having individual students sort a variety of colored items using a sorting mat.
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Trina's Triangles
Practice evaluating polynomial expressions at the same time you find Pythagorean Triples. Look for patterns and find examples when the "formula" does and doesn't work. Finally, verify the formula by proving the identity true.
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: Concept/Vocab Analysis
Considering using Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry for book circles or whole-class study? First time teachers, and those who have used the text before, will find some interesting tidbits in this overview.
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100 Stamps for 100 Days
Second graders count by 2's to get to 100. In this counting lesson plan, 2nd graders use the program Kid Pix to create stamps two at a time until they get to 100.
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Math/Quilt Connection
Students explore quilting. In this math patterns lesson, students define the perimeter of a quilt border, create tessellations using geometric shapes, and detemine the area of a quilt.
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Math Lesson Plan: Handprint Counting by 5's
A handprint worksheet is provided to help youngsters practice skip counting by 5s. As a follow up, you could have little ones gather into groups to skip count their own fingers by fives.
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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 1, Lesson 2: Dancing Duo
Second graders and teachers identify geometric vocabulary word by searching a geometry website. They create a Quilt Word Wall using the geometry words.
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Pascal's Triangle
In this math worksheet, students read the discussion about the importance of games. They create a game as directed. They also read the rules for the Pascal Triangle.
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Introduction to Algebraic Thinking
In this introduction to algebraic thinking, students perform given calculations. They draw a sequence of pictures to explain the equation. This five page worksheet contains six multi-step problems.
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Dividing Fractions
In this mathematics worksheet, 6th graders identify what the quotient looks like when they divide a smaller fraction by a larger fraction. They also write the reciprocal of each divisor and multiply when necessary.
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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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Magic Math
In this addition and subtraction worksheet, learners solve the one digit addition and subtraction problems and create its counterpart number sentence. Students complete 10 problems.
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What Goes Between? Number Sequences
In this lower elementary math worksheet, students fill the blank in the middle of two numbers with the number that completes the sequences. They see 4,___.6; and fill in the blank. They see a black line picture of a chicken on the page.
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Mixed Fraction Sequences
In this math learning exercise, students complete the mixed fractions that are sorted into a sequence. The sheet is intended as a teacher's guide.
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Math Sequencing Activities
Recognizing patterns and sequences in groups of numbers is an essential skill for all students to learn.
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Birthdays and the Binary System
Students explore binary mathematics. In this middle school mathematics lesson, students investigate patterns and place value in the binary system. Students examine applications of binary mathematics by creating a birthday-guessing device.