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Making a Water Filter
Fifth graders draw a plan that they think will clean the sludge in a jar. Students construct the treatment system they designed, take a bottle of sludge to the system and try it out, writing down what happened.
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Erosion: Changing the Face of Earth
Fourth graders explore how the landscape of the planet can be changed by different elements of wind, water, ice and chemicals through hands-on activities. They examine pictures of areas around town and discuss anything they think is out...
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Sunshine Math-3: Mars, XIX
For this math skills worksheet, students solve the 8 problems on the page using various math skills. The problems involve math puzzles, story problems, logic games and basic algebra.
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Shizuko’s Daughter: List-Group-Label Strategy
Help your learners navigate the vocabulary of Shizuko's Daughter by Kyoko Mori with a lesson on categorizing words. After coming up with a list of things that grow from the earth, learners decide which categories each words belong in.
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Global PC and Google Earth
Learners take notes on the physical geography of an assigned country, as well as its type of economy, major cities, and the student's own first impressions of the country, with this graphic organizer.
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Not Everything Is More Expensive
Students investigate the concept of using different types of presentations to help solve mathematical problems. They research the use of illustrations to help understand data and its interpretation in a graphing format. Students also...
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Checkers Anyone?
Students apply their knowledge of patterns and multiplication to count the number of 1x1, 2x2. and 3x3 squares on checkerboards of given dimensions. Students use patterns to complete a chart that goes up to an 8x8 square board, and later...
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Math Pyramid
In this math worksheet, students practice solving the problems by finding the values of the numbers listed in each of the six pyramids.
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It All Adds Up : Puzzle 10
In this addition puzzle worksheet, students fill in the 10 spaces in a math puzzle. Students may use each digit once in each row and column. Each row and column must add up to the given number.
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It All Adds Up Puzzle #3
In this math puzzle worksheet, students solve 10 addition problems by inserting the missing addends in an addition square. Students make the equations true by writing the correct number that will make the rows and columns add up to be...
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How Many Ways?
In this math puzzle instructional activity, students are given 10 buttons on the page, and they are to arrange the buttons in the 3 boxes provided. Students fill in the chart to find out how many ways they can put the buttons in the boxes.
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Two More Toffees
In this math puzzle worksheet, students read about one mouse who has 2 more toffees than the other mouse. They are to determine how many toffees each mouse could have. Students find as many possible answers as they can and record them in...
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Multiplication Puzzle 5
In this math puzzle worksheet, 4th graders cut out both puzzle and puzzle frame. Children reassemble the puzzle by matching an answer on each piece to a problem on the frame.
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Mad Monster?
For this Halloween math worksheet, students use the color and number code to draw and color in a pattern on the blocks. When finished, students will have colored a picture of Frankenstein.
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Codebreakers
In these code breaking activity worksheets, students complete 9 pages of activities for math puzzles and code breaking activities.
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Addition Squares #2
In this addition square worksheet, students fill in the squares so the sums are correct on the right side and at the bottom. Students complete 5 squares.
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The Little Prince: Socratic Questioning Strategy
Challenge readers to read closer in an activity based on the Socratic questioning strategy. As kids read Antoine de Saint Éxupery's The Little Prince, they use sentence starters to ask deeper questions about the text, and to relate what...
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"Going To" Worksheet
For this making predictions grammar worksheet, students read 10 sentences and make a prediction about what will happen next using the phrase "is going to." This is intended for ESL use.
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Use Cavalieri’s Principle to Compare Aquarium Volumes
Learners are designing a stunning new water feature for an aquarium, but they soon discover that more than just a pretty home for their fishy friends is required. From calculating the volume of a composite shape through the abstract...
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Critical Analysis Leads to Global Action
Learners discover the interconnectedness of the world. In this global studies lesson, students identify challenges the world faces and craft solutions to the problems they identified. Learners present their findings in a PowerPoint...
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Bagels, Pico, Fermi
In this number game, 7th graders work as a class to figure out a three-digit mystery number. Students use logic and the process of elimination to find the answer. It is a great time filler when there are 10 minutes left in class, and...
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Questions for Physics
Students practice constructing and expressing logical, concrete arguments to support their selected position. They comprehend how others construct positions radically different from your own, and still requires the development and...
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Stories That Grow on Trees
Students write their own choose-a-plot book. They develop skills in creating plot structure and think through a logical line of story action. They invent characters with striking physical and psychological attributes.
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Extra! Extra! (Geometry Extensions)
Students respond to questions based on quotes, research, and logic, and challenge problems related to the current objectives.