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Demon Masks
Young scholars, using a story for inspiration, create their own demon mask. They are to use lots of color, texture and imagination.
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Personal Mummy Case
Students create a papier mâché mummy case covered with personal symbols from students' lives.
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Geo-Vistas
Students create a geometric cardboard sculpture covered with personal drawings.
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Investigating Soil
Fourth graders swap local soil samples with another school and examine the differences. They research soil properties, identify organisms that live in soil, create and maintain a biome of soil decomposition and design a poster to present...
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If I Had as Robot...
Learners design a robot of every day objects and name it. They write about things the robot could do for them using the "If I Had a Robot" activity sheet using the robot as a visual aid to add to their creative writing.
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Math Who Am I?
In this math terms puzzle activity, students read the description for each math term. Students try to guess what each term is. Students circle the third letter in the box to check their answers.
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Making Rectangles
Students study rectangles. In this math activity, students use numbers, measurements and geometry to draw rectangles of varying sizes.
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Look at It from the Right Angle
Students investigate how geometry can be used in the field of fitness and physical performance. They view a video that demonstrates how doctors and therapists mention geometry as they treat sports-related injuries.
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Classifying Figures on the Coordinate Plane
Fifth graders use estimation to solve word problems. In this fractions instructional activity, 5th graders decide whether or not an answer to a work problem is reasonable by applying their knowledge of fractions, decimals and estimation....
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World Projections
Students identify map projections and examine polar maps. In this map skills lesson plan, students use a flat world map to identify various projections and calculate the distances between locations by using a map scale.
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Turtle Tales
Learners watch videos and fill out worksheets about the turtles and their journey to the Costa Rican beach. In this turtles lesson plan, students learn and discuss survival, predator and prey, and stages of development.
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The Places We Love
Learners examine how they and others express themselves. Using various writings and art, they discover the places they like to go in the world and share them with their classmates. They paint their favorite place and share their...
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Pop-up Books - BIM
Fifth graders draw and color unique scenes from their own versions of fairy tales, and create pop-up books.
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Exploring Geometric Mean
Students solve problems using geometric means. In this geometry lesson, students create altitudes in right triangles. They use Cabri software to move the triangle around and observe different sides and angles.
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Math Vocabulary Spiral Puzzle
In this math vocabulary worksheet, learners solve the clues for math vocabulary words to fill in the blanks in a crossword. Students complete 8 problems.
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Penguins, Penguins, Penguins
Learners create "juice bottle penguins" using paper mache, water-based paints, water, and recycled juice bottles. This lesson is intended for early-elementary students and is great as a post-activity for a lesson or unit on Penguins or...
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Odd Thing Out
Students listen to the math problem provided and work in groups to solve. They think about the objects and write down their information in a table. Class construct the table on a large piece of paper that can be put on the wall after the...
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Topics in Math
In this consumer mathematics worksheet, students explore a variety of topics in mathematics including simple interest, perimeter, area, volume, translating words into symbols, percentage problems and mortgage calculations. The fourteen...
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Assignment: Creating within a Limited Format
Learners follow set of guidelines to create a picture of an apple with a stem and leaf. They think about whether they are more or less creative when working within a set of rules.
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What Goes Around
Fourth graders investigate the relationships between the area and perimeters of squares and rectangles. They calculate the perimeter of rectangles and squares using a formula. Students investigate the relationship between the perimeter...
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Nearpod: Three Dimensional Shapes
In this lesson, students will learn to identify three-dimensional shapes by name and distinguish between two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Three Dimensional Shapes
While 3 Dimensional shapes are not mentioned specifically in the Common Core, they do include the term face which is more appropriate for 3D shape attributes.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Eureka Math Parent Guide: Two Dimensional and Three Dimensional Shapes
A guide to support parents as they work with their students with two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Three Dimensional Figures
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of three-dimensional figures. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check It"...