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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 1 Mathematics); By patsy morgan.

Animals move!: This plan introduces students to the different ways animals move.; Format: lesson plan (grade K Healthful Living and Mathematics); By Michelle Tesiero.

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.

Birds of a feather, an interdisciplinary unit: Math/Science wing: This lesson is part of an interdisciplinary unit on birds which contains math/science and language arts components. In the math/science wing, students will prepare frequency tables and construct a circle graph of the species of birds observed at bird feeders.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics); By Vicky Smathers.

Pizza anyone?: Students survey their class and analyze data about favorite pizza toppings. This activity is meant to be fun and engaging, with the class participating and making decisions as a whole.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics); By Jack Hunter.

M&M madness: Students will explore fractions, decimals, percents, and circle graphs with M&M's.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Mathematics); By Donna Reble.

Soup's on!: This lesson integrates children's literature and math. The students will listen to "Stone Soup" by Marcia Brown and bring items from home to make "First Grade Soup." The children will use the items to create a graph and share information about their graphs.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics); By Vicki Rivenbark.

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.

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 Mathematics); By Tammy Sharpe.

Solid graphing: The students will review solid figures using a baggie of assorted snack mix (cones, cubes, cylinders, and spheres) and will begin a vertical bar graph showing the number of each solid figure in a bag of assorted snack mix.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); By Lisa Fletcher.

Minerals and math: Students will develop ways to create self-devised rules for classifying minerals and relate this information to scientific ways of classifying minerals according to their characteristics. They will then compile this information into a chart and convert parts of the chart into a line or bar graph.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics and Science); By Courtney Richards.

Bear graph: The students will compare and contrast bears brought from home and share their ideas through a graph.; Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics); By Karen Pledger.

Apples on parade: Children will discover the different varieties of apples after listening to a selected story by describing likenesses and differences of apples, sorting apples, graphing apples, eating apples, and creating apple star trees. This unit can be extended to allow children to cook with apples.; Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics); By Nancy Haley.

M&M math: Rotating to each station using M&M's, this lesson will allow students to add, graph, sort, and estimate.; Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics); By Karen Walker.

Web of life: Students will apply their knowledge of the different categories of species that live on Earth. Students will then use a variety of thinking maps to display their information.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science); By Danielle Pickard.

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.

Animals undercover: Students will learn about the different animal coverings using the inquiry method. They will learn about how the covering is used for protection and to control body temperatures.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Science); By Anne Ellis.

See how they run!: The 100 meter dash: Middle level students will collect times as they run the 100 meter dash. These times will be depicted through various graphic representations (bar, circle, histogram). Times will be compared to current world records for the 100 meters. Students will decide which Math class ran fastest and support that choice in short essay form. They will also try to determine the faster gender based on the data collected.

This lesson plan is a unit filled with related lesson plans. One or two parts of this project could be completed as a stand-alone lesson, or the entire set of activities and extensions could be completed for an involved, integrated unit.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Mathematics); By Holly Smith.

"Eggs-tra" special sounds: Students will identify, compare, and classify the sounds made by plastic eggs filled with rice, pebbles, and salt. They will graph the results of their discoveries. They will then compose and tape sound pieces illustrating dynamic levels they discovered. Finally they will construct their own "maraca" using plastic eggs.; Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Music Education); By Sondra Edwards.

Leaves: Students learn about the changing leaves with a hands-on approach. This cross-curricula thematic unit is designed for students to explore, read, write and much more.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts)

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