Bowland
Day Out
Use mathematics to help plan a field trip. Scholars use the results of a survey to determine where a class should go on a field trip. They use provided data about entrance fees and mileage to calculate the cost per person of such a...
Star Wars in the Classroom
"Shakespeare and Star Wars": Lesson Plan Days 8 and 9
How does an author's choice of artistic medium influence an audience? What about how an author chooses to transform original source material? These are the questions class members grapple with as they compare scenes from episode IV...
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Clock Challenge Problems
In this clock challenge worksheet, students solve 5 different problems that include the study of clocks and time. First, they determine the number of seconds in 10 minutes and then an hour. Then, students determine the number of seconds...
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Time Conversions
In this online math activity, students make conversions between days, weeks, hours, minutes and seconds. When complete, students submit their answers and get instant feedback regarding their accuracy.
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Count Down the Days to a Special Event
Students calculate time using a grade appropriate skill. In this time activity, students calculate the time to a special event. Students calculate days, months, weeks, hours, minutes or seconds depending on their skill level....
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How To Measure Time
Learners practice telling time on an analog clock. In this time measurement activity, students use individual analog clocks to identify the hour and minute hand. Learners identify how to tell time by moving the hour and minute hand.
Illustrative Mathematics
Comparing Years
Who knew that the Egyptian, Julian, and Gregorian year were different lengths? Your mathematicians will! They will have to calculate the difference between the years in seconds and find the percent change. Using dimensional analysis,...
K12 Reader
Have You Got the Time?
Time and time measurement is the subject of a comprehension learning exercise that asks kids to read a short passage about time, and then respond to a series of questions based on the article.
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Tick Around the Clock
Students examine and discuss the differences between clocks they are shown. Using the internet, they research how people used to tell time before clocks. They review what the long and short hand on the clock represent and practice...
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Time Facts Quiz
In this mathematical worksheet students complete questions in relation to telling time. Students respond to 16 questions associated with the equivalencies of telling time in seconds, minutes, weeks, months, days, and years.
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Number: Time
Young scholars calculate time in decimals and fractions. In this time lesson, students divide hours into equal sections. They discuss how fractions and decimals correspond to hours and minutes.
Teach Engineering
Sudsy Cells
Let's hope that your soap is doing what it's supposed to! The second of six installments in the Cells unit has scholars perform an experiment cultivating bacteria in Petri dishes. They test soaps and detergents to see which is most...
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Hazards of Defrosted Food
Peas spoilage hot, peas spoilage cold: examine the bacterial growth on newly defrosted peas versus peas that have been defrosted for 24 hours. Using the session one questions in the "Microbes and Food Spoilage" PDF, learners will make...
Mathematics Assessment Project
Middle School Mathematics Test 5
A middle school test contains two 40-minute sections covering material through algebra. All questions involve applied problem solving or mathematical analysis.
New York Public Library
What's for Lunch?: New York City Restaurant Menus
Do you remember the days when a cup of coffee cost five cents? At A.W. Dennett restaurant in 1894, you could buy a five-cent cup of coffee and as well as a five-cent slice of pie to accompany it. The menu from that year is a primary...
National Security Agency
Equations and Expressions
Learners demonstrate their knowledge pictorially, concretely, and abstractly in this unit meant to last three hours over three days. Using hands-on activities, manipulatives, real-world applications, and problem...
Teach Engineering
How Effective is Your Sunscreen?
Protect skin from UV radiation! Groups design and conduct an experiment to test the effectiveness of UV safety products. The groups collect the data from the experiment and prepare a lab report. In the second day of the activity,...
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Mosquito Bites
Young scholars examine malaria. In this malaria lesson, students visit selected websites to watch videos and read information about how malaria is spread and how it can be prevented. Young scholars use their...
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Making Cookies- How many per hour?
Fifth graders measure how long it takes to make cookies. In this measuring time lesson, 5th graders explore how to manage time. Students decide when to start making breakfast on time, how to calculate playing time into their lunch time,...
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Adding and Subtracting Time
In this online math learning exercise, students practice adding and subtracting aspects of time. This excellent resource allows the students to check their answers, and to get "hints" should they run into difficulties. A terrific...
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How to Measure Time Worksheet
In this elapsed time instructional activity, students read facts about time such as there are 60 seconds in 1 minute, and read tips for computing elapsed time both when going from am to pm, and within the morning or afternoon. They...
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Career Education for Early Elementary Grades
It's never too early to connect children with the real world meaning of their work. A series of four one-hour sessions, plus a field trip, make up this unit on college and career readiness for first and second graders. After viewing a...
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Proportions
For this proportions worksheet, 8th graders solve and complete 10 different problems that include difficult word based proportions. First, they solve each proportion as described. Then, students write their answer on the line provided...
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Calculate Time Intervals
In this time intervals activity, students look at and calculate time intervals. Students are given ten problems with two times. Students are to determine how much time has elapsed between the two times.