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Hula Hoop Together
Students use hula hoops and music to develop a motor skill. When the music stops students should find a blue hoop. This is also a good lesson for socializaiton.
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Group Initiatives
Learners explore the names and qualities about members in the group. They each say their name and something about themselves. Students gather around in a circle. They listen to the teacher as he or she says the name of someone and throws...
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Mathematics Within: Algebraic Processes and Its Connections to Geometry
Fifth graders discover the connections between algebra and geometry. With a focus on arrays and factors, they are introduced to multiplication. They develop an array for multiples of 2 through 10 and identify the factors of each row....
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Happy New Year
Students play a game sing poly spots, balloons, beach balls, volleyball trainers, foam balls, and music that requires them to develop locomotor movement skills.
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Read the Directions
In this comprehension worksheet, 5th graders focus on following written directions. Students seek out and circle specific "direction" words in the 11 sentences given.
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The Beat of Your Heart
Students explore different applications involving their own heart. In this illumination lesson students measure their fists and relate it to the dimensions of their hearts.
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Hoop Trip To The Planets
Learners practice locomotor patterns already introduced while reinforcing facts about each planet.
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Dispose of Waste Properly
Students explore biology by participating in an environmental role-play activity. In this animal waste lesson plan, students identify the appropriate way to dispose of human and animal waste when staying outdoors. Students conduct an...
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Circle of Friends
Learners investigate the meaning of friendship and how to make friends. In this friendship lesson, students make Venn Diagrams showing the similarities and differences of characters in two stories. They discuss their own circle of friends.
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Math Computation
Second graders complete math computation word problems. In this word problems lesson, 2nd graders read the math computation word problems and solve them.
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Language Arts: What's My Line?
Students discover how to employ number lines by estimating the number of tiles in a jar. After writing their estimates on sticky notes, they place them in order on a number line mat. Included in the lesson are various activities and...
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Presidential Race
Students explain the way in which a candidate wins an electorial race and the number of votes necessary to win in the electoral college through movement.
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Fitting a Line to Data
Students work together in groups to collect data in relationship to how much water marbles can displace. After the experiment, they use the data to identify the linear equation to determine the best-fit line. They use the equation to...
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Fluency Station Directions
In this fluency station directions worksheet, young scholars discover their expressive reading score through timing one another and calculating their words they read per minute.
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Better Lesson: Skip Counting Patterns
Are there repeating patterns in number counting? Recording skip counts may help reveal patterns that can be used in solving later math problems.
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Better Lesson: Following Rules
Fourth graders often confuse skip counting with finding a rule or pattern for a given set of numbers. Here, they focus on how one number relates to the next and extend the pattern to determine the rule.