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- 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.
- 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.
- Data gathering - Linear regressions
- In groups of three, students gather data by experiment or observation in one of nine activities. Each group models the data they gathered, creates a display, and presents results to the class using an overhead projector.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Mathematics)
- By Judy Pickering.
- Everyday geometry: Hidden figures and polygons
- A lesson plan for grade 5 math in which students use historical photographs and drafting plans to demonstrate their knowledge of mathematical figures and polygons.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics)
- By Sonna Jamerson.
- Fraction/Decimal War
- This lesson plan introduces a game that will reinforce fractions and decimals. This activity is best played in groups of 3-4. You may choose to use as an activity when work is completed or as a center activity.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Mathematics)
- By Christine Sisco.
- Friendship addition
- This lesson introduces students to the concept of basic single digit addition.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
- By Jennifer Barbee.
- Home renovation: Working with area
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 2.9
- In this lesson for grade six, students will work together in cooperative groups using the internet to calculate the cost of finishing a basement.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)
- By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.
- Making equal shares
- This activity is designed to connect literature and math. The students will use manipulatives and literature to reinforce the concept of equal sharing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)
- By Tara Almeida.
- MaraLIMAthon
- Kindergarten students will work with an older grade buddy (we worked with 1st grade students) to make predictions, and then over a two-week period, see changes in lima bean growth, and be able to document the lima bean's progress. The buddies will work together to create an illustrated short story about lima bean characters that they create.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science)
- By Kristi Waddle.
- Measurement centers
- During a center-based activity groups of students will rotate around the classroom practicing non-standard unit of measurement concepts. In addition, they will have the opportunity to familiarize themselves with measuring with rulers and will participate in a lesson about capacity.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Mathematics)
- By Amy Kershaw.
- Modeling volume
- This activity helps the students see how the volume of something includes the third dimension (width or depth) which is different from area. This activity also helps the students "prove" that the volume formula actually works. Students will already know that the volume of a rectangular prism is found by multiplying the object's length, width, and height. By using the blocks as models of volume, the students should come to realize that volume can be calculated simply by multiplying the area of the base by the height of the rectangular prism. Thus, they will come to realize that there is no need to try and fill the entire box with the tiny 1cm cubes, they can simply fill the bottom (to see how many cubes are there) and figure out how many rows there will be and multiply.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Mathematics)
- By Erin Foerster.
- Number combinations
- Students will use green and blue craft pom-poms to explore number combinations to five.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
- By Beth Deyton.
- Order, please
- This lesson lets students interact with rational numbers to create largest and smallest possible numbers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics)
- By Gail Poteat.
- Penguin possibilities: Sorting by attributes
- This lesson is designed to help students observe details and explore ways that objects, in this case penguins, can be sorted by various attributes such as size, color, etc.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
- By Shyrl Stadler.
- Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally
- Students will learn and practice the correct order of operations. The lesson will begin with a motivational group-art activity. Students will then take notes and do a "pass the paper" activity for practice. This will be followed by students creating their own problems.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5–6 Mathematics)
- By Shirley Powell.
- Reindeer boots
- Children will use problem-solving techniques to answer the question, “How many boots will Santa need for his reindeer?”
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Mathematics)
- By Vanette Hann.
- Rocket launch
- Students will work individually and in collaborative pairs or groups to solve a rocket-launch problem. The pairs/groups will then present potential solutions to the class for discussion. Similar problems will then be solved and created by students.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Mathematics)
- By Ron Hann.
- Savor the rainbow
- Use skittles to help the students practice the concepts of sorting data, recording data, writing the data collected in fraction form (part/whole), changing the fractions into decimals and percents, and taking the data collected and making a spreadsheet, bar graph, and circle graph of the data.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Beverly Revis.
- Solar energy hot box
- This hands-on science lesson is great because it allows students to get out of their seats and move about, as well as allows students to work in cooperative groups. The teacher is more of a facilitator and students are more in charge of their own learning processes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Science)
- By Nicole Albright.
- Water, water everywhere...
- This is a good beginning of the year lesson to review fractions, decimals, geometry (the number of degrees in a circle and drawing a circle with a protractor), graphing, and metric measurement. This lesson is a good way for students to meet their peers while working cooperatively in a task-oriented group. The watermelon you will be using for the activity is also a good start-of-the-year treat. Be sure to get an extra watermelon or two to share at the end of the activity.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)
- By Jayne Brown.
