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- The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- The learner will be doing curriculum integrated activities using Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science)
- By Shannon Zerniak.
- Amazing amaryllis activities
- Students will use an amaryllis started from a bulb to explore the growth of the plant, measure, record and compare the growth of the leaves and the flower. They will enter the data on a spreadsheet and convert it into a graph.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Mathematics and Science)
- By Mary Rizzo.
- An apple a day: Understanding halves and simple addition
- This is a hands-on lesson which uses apples to introduce the concept of "half" and to teach simple addition. This lesson was taught to a group of 1st grade EC students.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Mathematics)
- By Janet Acorn.
- Area of solids
- Finding area of rectangular solids and cylinders by cutting them into flat pieces and adding the areas.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–12 Mathematics)
- By Dorothy Carawan.
- An average autumn
- This lesson will be a review of skills for calculating mean, mode, median, and range of a set of numbers to be created by the students. It will result in a seasonal display for the classroom or school-wide bulletin board.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–6 Mathematics)
- By Scott Counce.
- Beaded bracelet multiplication
- Students complete a variety of estimation and multiplication activities to plan, create, and write directions for creating beaded bracelets.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Visual Arts Education and Mathematics)
- By Dayle Payne.
- Body graphing
- "Body Graphing" is an interactive graphing activity involving manipulatives to compare graphing results. With the use of ropes and unifix cubes students will learn to compare and contrast their body with classmates. The graphing activity can be extended to graph differences with height, hair and eye color, and other physical attributes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Mathematics)
- By patsy morgan.
- Bouncing ball experiment
- In this experiment students should be in groups of 3. Students will drop a ball from different heights and measure the corresponding bounce. Since each group will use a different ball, they will generate different sets of data. They will be asked to discuss and compare their linear function with that of their classmates. They should practice measuring the ball bounce before they begin to collect data.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Mathematics)
- By alicia jones.
- Bunny addition
- This lesson integrates language arts, music, and math. The children will listen to the story Count on Bunnies. They will be given the opportunity to act out the story and solve bunny equations. After listening to the song "Five Young Rabbits," the children will take turns being rabbits and pantomiming the actions as the class sings. The children will combine the rabbits at the end of each verse to see how many rabbits have been added. Then they will work in pairs to create their own rabbit equations.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By Becky Smith.
- Candy math
- Unit on reviewing Math skills. The unit will take 20 minutes per day for 6 days. A good activity for late spring.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Mathematics)
- By Tammy Sharpe.
- "Chips" ahoy!
- This lesson will help children recognize, continue, and create number patterns, as well as find the rules for the patterns. The activities progress from concrete to semi-concrete to abstract.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics)
- By Terri Downing.
- Chocolate! Chocolate! Chocolate!
- Using chocolate as a theme, students will become involved in reading, writing, math, word study/spelling and other developmentally appropriate (integrated) activities. The unit includes centers for the classroom along with whole group activities.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By Luwonna Oakes.
- Classifying transportation objects
- In this lesson the students will sort, classify, and label transportation items by various attributes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By LuAda Skaggs.
- Congruent figures
- This is a fun, hands-on activity to help students identify congruent figures.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Mathematics)
- By Jennifer Robinson.
- Describing words: Go Away, Big Green Monster
- The students will use describing words in their writing based on the book Go Away, Big Green Monster while integrating math concepts about shapes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By Paula Jennings.
- A dicey stem and leaf plot
- After being introduced to a stem and leaf plot, students will be able to create their own stem and leaf plots.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Mathematics)
- By Debbie Newton.
- Dinosaur math
- The children will be involved in several different activities (graphing, sorting and classifying, patterning) rotating to each station during the lesson.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
- By RobinC Adams.
- Does one cup of everything weigh the same?
- The student will predict whether one cup of everything weighs the same. Next, the student will estimate the mass of several cups of materials. Then, using a primer balance the student will find the actual mass of each cup of materials in grams. The students will order the cups from lightest to heaviest by mass.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics)
- By Christy Bunch.
- Does your house measure up?
- This lesson is intended to be used as a final assessment of a student's understanding of an inch, foot, and yard. It will also assess their ability to use a yardstick, follow written directions, and work with a partner to draw a house on the school blacktop as part of a class neighborhood.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)
- By Cathy Searcey.
- Domino fun!
- Students will use a domino turned vertically and count the dots in the top section and the dots in the bottom section and add the 2 numbers together and write an equation. Students can make a domino to eat.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)
- By Lydia Wilson.

