Beacon Lesson Plan Library

   Lesson Plans - Mathematics

• 1, 2, 3 Hooray for Number Equivalency! (Authored by Liz West.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students use concrete materials, number symbols, and number words to represent equivalent amounts.

• 10 by 10 Tessellations (Authored by Susanna Vondeck.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The students will work cooperatively to create tessellation patterns by playing 10" by 10" Tessellations. They need to use critical thinking skills to decide if pattern block plane figures will tessellate and how each block will best fit into the pattern.

• 100s of Ants! (Authored by Desiree Senter.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: What does 100 look like? What is the best way for 100 Ants to move on? Students will have fun counting to 100 orally as they use grids to display the 100 raisins they counted.

• 101 Equals Five (Authored by Timothy Mark Dillehay.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students enjoy this engaging activity (with a twist) on the binary system. The lesson begins with an intriguing roll playing to gain interest.

• 30 Days Hath September (Authored by MAdele Carson.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students learn the poem -Thirty Days Hath September- in preparing for learning about the number of days in the months and year. Once memorized, they practice using the calendar to count the number of days in different problems.

• 30-60-90 Right Triangles and Algebra (Authored by Johnny Wolfe.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: This lesson covers right triangle relationships of the 30-60-90 triangle.

• 50:50 Chances (Authored by Suzan Smith.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This is the fifth lesson in the unit, Where We Come From. Students reinforce the probability of gender by using a coin toss, as they continue to search for the answers to genetics questions by using mathematical expectations of probability.

• A Bar of Many Colors (Authored by Janet Greathouse.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students use colored candies to collect data, construct double bar graphs, and find averages.

• A Bubble Full of Math (Authored by Rita Williams.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This is a fun way for students to compare estimated lengths with actual lengths.

• A Latin Square Deal (Authored by Cindy Beckham.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students use four squares of geometric design to create a pattern.

• A Leaf, a Stem, a Root, Oh My! (Authored by Michele Ludick.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students identify parts of a plant using a graphic organizer.

• A Model Project (Authored by Cynthia Spear.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This activity is a concrete way to introduce students to equivalent forms of fractions and decimals. The student constructs models to represent a fraction or a decimal.

• A Penny for Abe (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: What do you know about Abraham Lincoln? Learn about his life, presidency, monument, and tribute to him through stories and poems. Students will also learn the attributes of a penny.

• A Penny for Your Thoughts (Elementary) (Authored by Barbara Brown.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Math (mentalor written, addition and division) and letter writing (narrativeor expository) are utilized in a real-world problem to assist other children.

• A Perpendicular Pilgrimage (Authored by Mason Clark.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students examine the concept of perpendicularity both geometrically and algebraically. Students apply their knowledge by designing safe passage through a two-dimensional obstacle course using only perpendicular line segments.

• A Sweet Twist on Mean, Mode, and Range (Authored by M Dennis.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson helps the student collect, organize, and analyze data to model concepts of mode, median, and range.

• A Trip to the Toy Store (Authored by Jennifer Slichter.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is the fifth lesson in the unit, Common Cents. This is a fun, entertaining lesson where students are given the opportunity to practice skills they have learned during the week about money and spend money saved on a toy of their choice.

• A Wall of Symmetrical Shapes (Authored by Barbara Johnson.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students explore line(s) of symmetry in polygons during a hands-on activity and a Student Web Lesson. Information learned is used to build a wall of symmetrical shapes designed and drawn by students.

• ABAB Patterns PLEASE (Authored by Jamie Baeten.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This activity introduces the concept of ABAB patterns in a variety of fun ways. Using illustrations, unifix cubes, construction paper and even humans, students have opportunities to practice and demonstrate their understanding of patterns.

• ABC's Transformer (Authored by Sherri Hampton.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: This activity allows students to design their own letter graph, and then produce the resulting graphs after a translation, reflection, and rotation.

• ABC’s of Ramona (Authored by Alicia Floyd.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students list words in alphabetical order according to initial and second letter. Various lists of words may be used for practice; however, initiate using proper nouns for assessment in capitalization.

• Action Counting to Ten (Authored by Patricia Hope.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Children kinesthetically learn numbers by using interactive verses that describe how to write numbers from 1 – 10.

• Adding and Subtracting Fractions (Authored by Yunling Zhang.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students learn addition and subtraction of common fractions by incorporating the use of hands-on manipulatives and diagrams.

• Adding Jumping Lima Beans (Authored by Cynthia Santana.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This activity is for a first grade class. It allows the students to relate to a real world experience, as they count off with real lima beans at the beginning of the lesson. This lesson is completely hands on, as students use their own plastic lima beans to count and add. How do we add numbers? How do we know when we’re supposed to add? Students will be able to add and to recognize the symbol of operation. Note: This activity consists of using manipulatives for addition only.

• Addition Relay (Authored by Cindy Jacobs.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students will add two digit numbers by renaming ones.

• Age Is Relative (Authored by Lynda Penry.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students calculate how old they are in three units: months, weeks, and days. Then, they write about how they solved the problems.

• Algebra Wizards (Authored by Jesica Goodman.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Hey! Are you an Algebra wizard? It is as easy as one, two, three to be the greatest wizard in all the land. So take out your magic wand and put on your magical thinking hats to see if you too know the magic equation to be an Algebra Wizard.

• All Fractions Are Created Equal (Authored by Dawn Dantowitz.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson is introducing students to equivalent fractions using concrete materials.

• All I Want for Christmas (Authored by Stacy Durham.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students work in pairs to use real life interests to create a wish list from catalogues and sale ads based on a given budget. This lesson gives the students math practice in the areas of addition, subtraction, and estimation with money.

• Allowance Time (Authored by Janet Harrigan.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students use pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters to show different ways to reach the same three digit total. Students use coin values to record data and to apply knowledge.

• Almond Magi (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Almond Magi involves students in calculating the ingredients needed in a multiple recipe and testing their calculations prior to the cooking adventure.

• Aloha Symmetry (Authored by Tara Ply.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Inspired by the story "Luka's Quilt," second graders use scissors and contrasting paper to create a handcrafted paper Hawaiian quilt square demonstrating their understanding of the concept of symmetry across two lines of reflection. Students will use their quilt square as the means of communicating what they have learned through a graphic display.

• Altogether Now, The Five Senses (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Popping popcorn is a fun way to summarize the end of the five senses unit. It is easy to involve all the senses.

• Amazing Animals (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Amazing Animals gives students an opportunity to use their estimation skills as they compare amazing animal facts to their human world.

• An American Spy with Money To Spend (Authored by Joyce Honeychurch.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Teachers can teach across the curriculum as students use imagination, math, reading, computer, geography, and social studies skills in this unique, innovative, and fun lesson where students pretend to be international spies!

• An Odd Pair of Eyes (Authored by Dena Reid.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This lesson creates an enthusiastic environment for learning about odd and even numbers through chants, actions, manipulatives, and drawings. Students are guaranteed to be all smiles by the end of the lesson.

• An UnCOMFORTable Situation (Authored by Barbara Johnson.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students explore the relationship between the area of square units and their perimeters in a hands-on activity. Observations are recorded, and students begin to recognize that shapes with the same area can sometimes have different perimeters.

• And the Number Is (2nd Grade) (Authored by Kathy Peters.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students create their own Mystery Numbers by giving clues about the name, value, and multiples of the digits which comprise the number.

• And the Number Is (Kindergarten) (Authored by Nancy Bernath.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Through the use of music and the manipulation of numeral cards and counting objects, the children learn to read numerals 1-10.

• Angle Aerobics (Authored by Amy Gunn.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This lesson introduces students to names of angles. It provides an action activity and then a follow up worksheet to assess.

• Angles and Algebra (Authored by Johnny Wolfe.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: This lesson covers angle measure for triangles and complementary/supplementary angles.

• Ants in Your Pants (Authored by Diana Dome.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students investigate different ways numbers can be expressed as a sum and use a chart to record and analyze their findings. The use of children's literature, hands-on manipulatives, and the Internet are incorporated.

• Anyone for Lunch? (Authored by Sandi Tidwell.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The student will use statistical methods to record and make inferences about real-world situations using graphs.

• Apple Eaters (Authored by Jennifer Slichter.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is an entertaining, cooperative learning lesson where students have the opportunity to taste a variety of apples and to graph which apple is the most favorite. Students practice their speaking skills by explaining the results of the group graph.

• Applemania (Authored by Debra Barbosa.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Lesson Description- Children will practice using the mathematical concepts of sorting, patterns, classifying, counting, and recording by participating in an authentic classroom survey and experiment.

• Are We Sure They Are Parallel? (Authored by Xiuqing Li.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: This lesson is designed to explore the definition and properties of parallel lines.

• Are We the Same? (Authored by Mary Ann Taylor.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students identify and make symmetrical figures.

• Are We There Yet? (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is the review lesson for the unit, Going to Grandma’s. Using the Formative Assessment Checklist and all completed summative assessments, the teacher reinforces skills and concepts using the activities from this lesson.

• Are You a Radical or Just a Square Root? (Authored by Johnny Wolfe.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: The inverse of squaring is finding a “square root.” Square roots are found in many formulas used in many disciplines.

• Are You Coordinated? (Authored by Sissy Gandy.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students learn how to locate coordinate points on a grid. They create a graph during the lesson and identify the coordinate points.

• Area Adventure (Authored by Teri Grunden.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students use manipulatives (paper squares, geoboards) to figure out the area and learn that area = length x width. Students learn how to solve real-world problems involving area.

• Arithmetic Artistry (Authored by Stacy Durham.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students will create a classroom quilt that illustrates the many unique ways that children use math skills.

• Arithmetic Sequence (Authored by Xiuqing Li.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students will examine the concept of arithmetic sequence and learn to find the sum of arithmetic sequence.

• Around and Around We Go (Authored by Johnny Wolfe.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: A POLYGON is a closed figure formed by line segments. The PERIMETER of a polygon is the sum of the lengths of its sides.

• Around the World with Multiplication (Authored by Beverly Iacobellis.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This is a fun and exciting game that reviews the multiplication facts.

• Arranging Numbers from 1 to 5 (Authored by Tammy Hales.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: The students are expected to explore arrangements of numbers up to 5 and explore conservation of numbers.

• As the Earth Turns (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Why do the sun and moon seem to disappear and reappear making day and night? This lesson demonstrates the rotation of the earth.

• At War With Multiplication (Authored by Shannon Safriet.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Many children may have played War with cards before, but this lesson adds a little twist. The children will be practicing their recall of the multiplication facts while playing cards!

• Bags of Numbers (Authored by Todd Hauser.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is a hands on activity designed to allow the child to use manipulatives to count orally with a one to one correspondence.

• Balanced Equations (Authored by Judy Fox.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: If your students have a hard time understanding variables, this lesson is for you. It is wonderful for the visual student. In the lesson students will use weights and a balance scale to show how the sides of an equation are equal.

• Balanced Students (Authored by Albert Baggott.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students use a hands-on activity to investigate the relationships between weights and the distance of the weights from the fulcrum in a balanced 1st class lever.

• Bargain Hunter (Authored by Kelly Allen.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students will engage in a classroom shopping adventure to search for the best bargains.

• Bargain Town, USA (Authored by Rita Williams.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Designed to follow your instructions about converting number forms, this lesson is a real-world application of the relationship between fractions, decimals, and percents.

• Barge Building…What Floats Your Boat? (Authored by Glenn Rutland.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Using aluminum foil, pennies, and water, students build a barge that will float while holding the largest number of pennies. Students will learn problem solving, estimation, weight and balance, and the causes and effects of water displacement.

• Base It (Authored by Melanie Malone.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: To expose students to number systems other than the decimal system and explain why we need to know these systems (binary: electronics and computers; octal and hexadecimal: flight test, computers)

• Bearly There (Authored by Judith McCormick.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This activity is a fun way to introduce measurement. After reading How Long Is A Foot? the students use nonstandard measuring devises to measure different items and place them in order from longest to shortest.

• Bears in a Box (Authored by Sharon Ussery.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students enjoy using counting bears to predict the missing addends. Using these concrete materials they are able to see and understand the concept of missing addends. An added plus is the students cannot wait to see how many bears are really hiding in the box.

• Bears Odd Bears Even (Authored by Karen Beck.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students use counters and cubes to classify and model numbers as even or odd.

• Beary Good Problem Solvers (Authored by Dena Reid.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This activity is a “beary” fun way to practice adding and subtracting operations. Students act out problems using teddy bears, write and solve number sentences.

• Beat the Wheel (Authored by Kaye Maddox.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson provides an opportunity for students to practice multiplication facts in a large group setting.

• Better than Average (Authored by MAdele Carson.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students use baseball cards to understand averages, decimals to thousandths, and the real-world use of math.

• Big, Bigger, Biggest (Authored by Melissa Lawley.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students demonstrate keyboarding skills to illustrate big, bigger, biggest and small, smaller, smallest in a transportation picture. (NETS for Students: 1.1 and 3.1)

• Birthday Blast (Authored by Amy Brown.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: -Birthday Blast- will allow students to become familiar with their classmates birthdays as they gather information and interpret the results using a tally chart, a pictograph and a bar graph.

• Block Heads (Authored by Carolyn Francis.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Block Heads gives students the opportunity to work hands-on, using base ten blocks to model whole numbers through one thousand.

• Boarding of Symmetrical Shapes (Authored by Janet Greathouse.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The students use geoboards to model polygons and to practice finding lines of symmetry.

• Bountiful Butterflies (Authored by Alicia Floyd.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: After creating a symmetrical design resembling a butterfly, the students describe symmetry. Using their pictures students then write a story about the butterfly while focusing on creative ideas.

• Bowling Over the Order of Operations (Authored by Amelia McCurdy.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: After learning how to solve equations using the order of operations, students will use their skills to create equations that will -knock down bowling pins-.

• Bubbles Everywhere! (Authored by Annette Nixon.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: The lesson is a fun way to practice measurement, and circle and sphere formulas. It can easily be adapted to fit any level of circle exploration.

• Buggy Patterns (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This literature-based lesson is the second lesson from the unit plan Patterns, Patterns Everywhere. Students learn to identify, create, predict, extend, and use patterns.

• Building Blueprints (Authored by Melissa Lawley.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students demonstrate the use of mouse skills to design and print a created blueprint of a building. (NETS for Students: 3.2)

• But That's Not FAIR! (Authored by Barbara Johnson.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students solve problems using fractions through hands-on activities and appropriate literature.

• Button Bonanza (Authored by Lore Davis.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is a small group activity in which students sort, classify, and write about how they sort buttons.

• Buttons R Us (Authored by Randy Bowne.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: The students compare buttons by attributes. Using their data, the students create different types of graphs demonstrating what they have learned.

• Buying and Budgets (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: How do you decide if you can afford to buy something new? Using a budget lets you know where your money is being spent as well as how much money you have left to spend. In this lesson, students use tables to solve budget problems. Addition and subtraction of decimals are used in the problem-solving process.

• C is for Cookie-A MEAN-ingful Graphing Activity (Authored by Michelle Gowan.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students work in groups to dissect a variety of brands of chocolate chip cookies and calculate the mean for each brand. Students create their own bar graphs, pictographs, and line graphs to represent information

• Calculate the Answer (Authored by Katherine Sparks.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: "Calculate the Answer" allows students to practice independently multiplication and/or addition skills. (This activity is appropriate for a learning center/station).

• Calculating Cats (Authored by Sharon Ussery.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Come along with the “Calculating Cats” and learn all about calculators and how to add and subtract whole numbers less than 1,000.

• Can I Put You in Your Place? (Authored by Cindy Jacobs.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students play a game that allows them to place number cards in an order to make the least three digit number possible using place value. Students compare these numbers with a partner to see who has the least three digit number.

• Can You See the Music? (Authored by Warren Bell.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: The students learn the makeup of the electromagnetic spectrum and how the various forms of EMRs are similar and different from each other.

• Candy Fractions (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Candy Fractions is quite the treat for Fraction Fridays. Families donate bags of seasonal treats that the class estimates, counts, sorts on tree diagrams, names, and then graphs. Oh yeah, then they get to eat the treats!

• Cars on the Curve (Authored by Michaél Dunnivant.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students predict which car will -win- and then play a car-race game to test their predictions. Their results are analyzed to recognize patterns of central tendency.

• Cars, Trucks and Things That Go Sorting Fun! (Authored by Lore Davis.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is a small group activity in which students have fun sorting, classifying and writing about how they sort transportation vehicles.

• Cartesian Classroom (Authored by Annette Nixon.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: The classroom is turned into a human Cartesian coordinate plane, thereby introducing students to the characteristics of the coordinate system.

• Cat's Meow One Through Ten (Authored by Jennifer Slichter.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Through the use of classroom activities, role-play and cooperative learning, students practice counting and reading numerals 1-10.

• Celebrate You (Authored by Beverly Stanley.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This activity reinforces the uniqueness of each student on his/her birthday. The students learn through a pictorial graphing activity about the months of the year. Students write about their special birthday traditions.

• Celsius Tells Temperature, Too (Authored by Jennifer Slichter.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is the sixth lesson in the Unit Weather Watchers. Students become aware that thermometer liquids expand or contract as temperature affects them. Concept of telling the temperature on a Celsius thermometer is introduced as students identify and record temperatures on Celsius thermometers through hands-on activities and games.

• Centimeter Slinkies (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This activity is a fun way to investigate measuring in centimeters. The student estimates & measures the length of a whole color-segmented, candy gummy worm. Then, as students bite off each segment, they estimate, measure and record findings in an activity log.

• Central Tendencies and Normal Distribution Curve (Authored by Dan Schmidt.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students will be given data (class test scores) to determine central tendencies, and will find information needed to construct a normal distribution curve.

• Central Tendency (Authored by Carson Ealy, Jr..)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This lesson provides students with activities to assist them in determining the mean, mode, and median of given data.

• Changing Twines: Exploring Area and Perimeter (Authored by Jessica McDonald.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: In this fun, hands-on activity, students actively engage to determine the relationships between area and perimeter measurements! Students are challenged to discover, prove, and write mathematical conjectures.

• Cheerios Number Patterns (Authored by Jean Mozell.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This activity provides an opportunity for students to use Cheerios to describe, extend and create numerical patterns.

• Cheerios- Not Just for Breakfast Anymore (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: In this lesson, students practice measurement of surface area and perimeter with estimation by completing activities using Cheerios breakfast cereal.

• Cheesy Math (Authored by Peggy Christian.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Entice students to investigate perimeter with one of their favorite foods. Students use a variety of methods to measure the perimeter of a piece of cheese, infer the change in perimeter before slicing it and recalculate the perimeter.

• Cherries are Positive, Lemons are Negative (Authored by Rita Williams.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students discover the rules for adding integers. This lesson should be conducted after students have been introduced to the definition of an integer.

• Cherries are Positive, Lemons are Negative - Part 2 (Authored by Rita Williams.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Designed to follow Cherries are Positive, Lemons are Negative, this lesson has students discover the rules for subtracting integers.

• Cherries Still Positive, Lemons Still Negative (Authored by Rita Williams.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Designed to follow the lesson -Cherries are Positive, Lemons are Negative,- this is an introductory lesson on solving simple addition equations with positive and negative integers.

• Chessboard Challenge (Authored by Susanna Vondeck.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson has been created for use with the book [The Kings's Chessboard] by David Birch. The students predict and extend the numerical pattern of twice the day before's total (multiplying by 2 or doubling). They search for other patterns within their calculations and state rules for the relationships. They also check for measurement accuracy in the book by weighing grains of rice.

• Chips Ahoy A Thousand Chips In Every Bag (Authored by Amelia McCurdy.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Nabisco claims to sell 1000 chocolate chips in every 1 pound bag of Chips Ahoy! Students use their problem solving skills and data collection to determine if the claim is true.

• Choosing a Summer Job (Authored by Dan Schmidt.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Given two summer job opportunities, the student must determine when each job will earn the same amount and what that amount will be. This will be done by solving systems of equations.

• Christmas Counting 1 - 25 (Authored by Karen Minks.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students count 25 M&M's in correct order.

• Chronic Conics (Authored by Steve Friedlander.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: The students will use two activities to be able to draw four different conic sections. One of the activities is of a physical nature while the second activity is a more traditional pencil and paper activity.

• Circle Up Your M & Ms (Authored by Rhonda Bajalia.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Have you ever noticed that the colors of M & M's aren’t evenly distributed in each package? This is a fun way to show your students how to construct a circle graph using percentages based on the colors of 100 M & M's.

• Classifying and Constructing Corners (Authored by Kristy Rousseau.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students explore, classify, and define the various types of angles (acute, right, obtuse, and straight) that occur in the world around them. This lesson plan is the second lesson in a series on geometry.

• Clips, Cards, Rocks and Rulers (Authored by Lara Weeks.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students work in pairs to use standard and non-standard tools to measure classroom objects. Partners compare data and respond to a journal prompt that provides application to real-world situations.

• Close Your Math (Authored by Timothy Mark Dillehay.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students complete a roll playing activity to build understanding of number concepts. Students use 'Algebraic Closure' throughout six operations to better comprehend and review basic number theory.

• Closing the Case (Authored by Lisa Ove Gibson.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students review the steps for data collection and how to prepare data displays using statistical information from a survey.

• Cloud Watchers (Authored by Jennifer Slichter.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is the third lesson in the second grade unit on weather called Weather Trackers. Students identify the main types of clouds and the type of weather they typically bring as far as rain is concerned. The concept of matter as a gas and liquid will be observed by a classroom experiment where “clouds” are produced using hot water and ice. Students do a group activity where they draw their special cloud formations and make a class graph.

• Coin Probability (Authored by Cary Cooley.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students develop an understanding of probablility by tallying the coins they choose from different bags with different amounts of coins within them. They then predict the amount of coins within each bag according to their tallied results.

• Color Me Green if I Am a Five (Authored by Deborah Ford.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Are your students having a hard time understanding the concept of counting by fives? Here is a quick, sure fire way to get it across to them. Each student will have a hundreds chart and as you discover which numbers are said when counting by fives, the students will color the number and only the number with a green crayon.

• Color Me Red if I Am a Ten (Authored by Deborah Ford.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Are your students having a hard time understanding the concept of counting by tens? Here is a quick sure fire way to get it across to them. Each student will have a hundreds chart and as you discover which numbers are said when counting by tens, the students will color the number and only the number with red.

• Colorful Solutions (Authored by Sharla Shults.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Fractions? Who needs them? Students complete a coloring activity and practice where like fractions are actually used in real-life situations. Problem solving involves using fractions with common denominators utilizing Think, Solve, and Explain format.

• Common Sense Cookie Shop (Authored by Jennifer Slichter.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Children count and add money to “shop” for cookies. The lesson involves role-play, graphing results and cooperative learning.

• Community Canned Food Drive (Part 2) (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Health, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: During the fall holiday months, the class actively assists the local community in the annual collection of canned food for needy families. Students become involved in a graph-keeping adventure as they encourage the school to collect many canned foods.

• Comparing and Ordering Fractions (Authored by Brenda Lazarus.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students are introduced to the comparison of fractions and the ordering of fractions.

• Complexity (Authored by Johnny Wolfe.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Student will perform mathematical operations on complex numbers

• Computing Costs (Authored by Robert Pauley.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students are expected to calculate the out-of-pocket money needed to purchase a discounted item taxed at a certain percentage of sales tax.

• Confusing Colors! (Authored by Kevin Holland.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: This is a neat data analysis project in which students collect data, graph their data, and then make predictions based upon their findings. The student’s interest is maintained by the interesting way the data is collected.

• Congruent and Similar Figures (Authored by Melissa Aldridge.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This learning activity introduces students to the concept of congruent and similar figures. The class will identify, classify, and describe the similarities and differences among these figures.

• Congruent Triangles Postulates (Authored by Timothy Mark Dillehay.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students enjoy this engaging activity in discovering three lettered postulates that prove triangles congruent. Students have a great insight to the workings and reasoning behind ASA, SAS, SSS, and AAS.

• Converting Metric Measurements (Authored by Dale Peterson.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Converting metric measurements is an essential skill for science students. This lesson offers a formula for helping students learn the process.

• Cooking a Few of my Favorite Things (Authored by Joyce Sewell.)

Subject(s): Health, Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: In this activity, students learn about the nutritional value of foods, calculate the measurements, and prepare a healthy recipe for the class. Then students publish a class cookbook with their recipes.

• Coordinate Crunch (Authored by Lee Strain.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students will play a game using their knowledge of how to identify plots on a graph.

• Copy Me If You Can (Authored by Carolyn Rosier.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Learning to recognize symmetry in the environment is fun as children try to copy each other as they take turns creating a butterfly symmetrically decorated with colors and shapes.

• Count by Fives (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Counting by fives can be a challenge. This lesson gives students an opportunity to explore counting by fives in a variety of activities including using a hundreds chart and manipulatives.

• Counting by Fives for an Hour (Authored by MAdele Carson.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students learn that counting by fives will help them to tell time.

• Counting Creatures (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Counting Creatures gives students an opportunity to use the base three number system as they learn more about place value.

• Counting Down to Christmas Vacation (Authored by Jane Seevers.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students write numerals on a snowman and count off the days until Christmas vacation, using cotton balls to mark the days.

• Counting Money (Authored by Denise Simonson.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students read, write, and identify different coin combinations and use this information in real-world situations.

• Counting to One Hundred (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Counting to one hundred is a major achievement for kindergarteners. In this lesson, students refine their oral counting skills using a hundreds chart and pennies as manipluatives.

• Crabby Mystery (Authored by Barbara Bloodworth.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This activity is a fun way to introduce nonstandard measuring to students. Students will measure the length of a molting hard shell crab and estimate if the new shell will be longer or shorter after molting.

• Crazy Putty Ratio (Authored by Georgia White.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students mix various ratios of liquid starch and glue to make craxy Putty (their variation of Silly Putty) using knowledge of measurements and ratios. They chart their ratios, make observations, and write summary of activity.

• Create A Map! (Authored by Sherry McCullough.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students are independently and actively involved in creating their own school campus maps and they also review two- and three- dimensional shapes.

• Create Your Save And Rave Box (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Create Your Save And Rave Box engages students in creating a design from pattern block shapes that incorporates the principles of symmetry, congruency, and similarity, as well as flips, slides, and turns of some of the shapes used.

• Creating and Interpreting Graphs (Authored by Debra Davis.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students use data collected at the beginning of the lesson, such as their favorite brand of sneakers or favorite soft drinks, to create graphs and to interpret the results shown by each graph. Note: This lesson assesses only the creation and interpretation of two types of graphs.

• Creating Circle Graphs using Excel (Authored by Mary Kay Bacallao.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students evaluate data from a circle graph that compares time spent on various activities. They use the computer to manipulate their own data as they compare, examine, create and evaluate data using circle graphs.

• Creating Graphs from Tables (Authored by Rhonda Bray.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: “I don’t care what other people think!” Or do you? Statistical data recorded in a table is interpreted and displayed in an appropriate graph format demonstrating how opinion polls and other types of data can be easily read and interpreted.

• Creating Tessellations (Authored by Diane Bates.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies, Visual Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Explore the history of tessellations; then use art and geometry to create an original tessellation.

• Creative Cats (Authored by Lore Davis.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students use cat counters, pictures and numbers to solve joining problems.

• Critter Counting (Authored by Anne Hargrove.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: In Critter Counting, students generate, collect, organize, display, and analyze data using a graphical presentation.

• Cruising Cars (Authored by Stephanie Martinez.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Middle school students love cars. They will have the opportunity to analyze, compare and contrast tables/charts, based on given car data. While working in groups students will generate a list of desired car features and create their own table/charts.

• Cube Combinations (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Cube Combinations gives students an opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge of place value as they create 5 digit numbers from the roll of five number cubes.

• Cubed Containers (Authored by Renee Black.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson allows for cooperative groups to explore volume in relation to centimeter cubes and other nonstandard units of measurement using small containers.

• Cubes, Sums and a Little Fun (Authored by Liz West.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: In this lesson,students work with partners to make and solve additon problems using number cubes and unifix cubes.

• Cuisenaire Chefs (Authored by Janet Greathouse.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students become Cuisenaire Chefs as they mix and toss Cuisenaire rods to recreate recipes. This hands-on acivity gives students a chance to identify the value of fractions at an introductory level.

• Cut It Out (Authored by Tonja Fitzgerald.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Using a graphic model, students are asked to derive an original formula for calculating the area of an irregular figure. This lesson requires that students use critical thinking, visual perception, and mathematical computation.

• Cutting Up in Class, Fractal Style (Authored by Richard Angelini Sr..)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: A simple to make, hands-on manipulative, three dimensional, model of fractions, mirror images, tiling, fractals, tessellations, multiplying fractions, dividing fractions, and exponents; created from a single sheet of paper.

• Cylinder Surface Discovery (Authored by Carol Spice.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Help your students understand the surface area of a cylinder with this simple lesson where students create their own cylinders.

• Data Daze (Authored by Ann Campbell.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This is a short introductory activity to teach students how to read and analyze data from bar graphs, pictographs, and stem-and-leaf plots.

• Dealing with Data (Authored by Ann Hanson.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students collect, organize, and display data using a bar graph, line graph, pie graph, or picture graph.

• Decimals Make Cents (Authored by Sharla Shults.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Look out real world, here we come! Due to new jobs, pay increases, taxes, money in the bank, and opportunities to spend, spend, spend, students learn there is no way to avoid working with decimals in making life -centsable!-

• Designing Detectives (Authored by Lisa Ove Gibson.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students explore the idea of formulating a hypothesis and designing an experiment to test the hypothesis. This is an introduction to the Unit Plan: Statistical Sleuths.

• Determing Angle Measure with Parallel Lines (Authored by Johnny Wolfe.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: This lesson discusses parallel lines, transversals, corresponding angles, alternate interior angles, alternate exterior angles and consecutive angles.

• Determining Mercantile Volume of a Pine Tree (Authored by Lois Walsh.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students determine timber volumes as sawtimber or pulpwood like a forester would for market purposes.

• Diagonal Lengths (Authored by M Dennis.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students collect, organize, and analyze data while studying the Pythagorean Theorem. They measure the length and width of several rectangular objects and compare the measured results to the calculated results

• Dice Games - How to WIN! (Authored by Wesley Underwood.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This activity is a fun way to teach Data Analysis and Numerical Occurrence. The student works with a partner to play a game. Each player gets twelve counters to be placed on the numbers on the game board. The players take turns rolling two dice. On each roll the sum of the two upturned numbers is determined. If the player has a counter on that number the student may remove the counter from the game board. Play continues until one of the players removes all twelve counters from the board.

• Different Dimensions (Authored by Kim Adair.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The students will utilize graph paper or dot paper to draw all views of a 3 dimensional object in 2 dimensional form. Then partners will work from the 2d drawing to create the actual 3d structure.

• Dinosaur Patterns (Authored by Lore Davis.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students will use dinosaur counters to identify, copy, create and extend a pattern that is repeated at least three times.

• Dinosaurs Dancing Counting (Authored by Lore Davis.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: The student counts objects in a group to find out how many.

• Distance over Time (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: What is velocity and how is it determined? In this lesson plan, students are actively involved in experiments to measure and calculate the magnitude of speed, known as velocity using algebraic terms.

• Divisibility Buzz (Authored by Cindy Beckham.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students use the divisibility rule for three to compete in the game Divisibility Buzz. This lesson provides enjoyable reinforcement.

• Divisions of Generosity (Authored by Amy Hayes.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson uses THE DOORBELL RANG, by Pat Hutchins to teach the concepts of generosity and fairness. Students apply the concept of generosity and fairness to a lesson on division.

• Do Objects Vary Very Much? (Authored by John Fowler.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: This activity is a fun way to introduce standard deviation (SD). Students measure the SD of colors in a collection of objects (e.g. candy)

• Do You Have the Money? (Authored by Maria Ramdas.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Using a combination of coins and currency, the students will work in groups and use a menu to estimate if they have enough money to purchase a meal.

• Do You Have the Time? (Authored by Reshecia McNeil.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Do You Have the Time? enables students to learn how to tell time using digital and analog clocks to the hour and half-hour.

• Do You See What I See? (Authored by Shelia Scofield.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students develop an awareness that a person's perspective affects what they think they see and what they really see.

• Doctor, Doctor, Give Me the News, I’ve Got a Bad Case of Loving Math (Authored by Becca Childress.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Tired of hearing, “When are we ever going to use this again?” Students will use their knowledge of graphing inequalities to solve this real world problem. Students will have to figure how many doctors and nurses can be hired within budget and building constraints

• Does It Match? (Authored by Cindy Jacobs.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson allows students to identify lines of symmetry of given figures such as shapes, letters, and objects.

• Does One Tree a Forest Make? (Authored by Linda Kitner.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students take a walk around the schoolyard looking at and identifying the trees. One leaf for each tree is collected. A chart is developed that represents the population of trees on the schoolground.

• Does the Decimal Point Really Make a Difference? (Authored by Sharla Shults.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: What’s the problem with cheeseburgers advertised for .99 cents each or colas for .89 cents each? Students study the decimal dilemma and discover major math mistakes in the real world.

• Does Your Rectangle Have Guts? (Authored by Johnny Wolfe.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: A rectangle is the shape of a piece of notebook paper. The area is the space inside the rectangle, and it is measured in square units.

• Doing Battle with Radical Equations (Authored by Johnny Wolfe.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Equations containing radicals with variables in the radicand are called radical equations. To solve such equations, first isolate the radical on one side of the equation and then square each side of the equation to eliminate the radical.

• Don't Eat the Crayons: Real-Life Multiplication (Authored by Susan Vinson.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students use items which come in sets to look for real-life multiples and write multiplication problems. For example: a box of 24 crayons has 3 rows of 8 crayons, so the problem written would be 3 x 8 = 24. A candy bar: 2 rows of 4 segments (2 x 4 =8).

• Don't Open That Door! (Authored by Tammy Hales.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students act out the story THE DOORBELL RANG by Pat Hutchins in a small group setting to learn about parts of a whole.

• Dot Two Dot (Authored by Linda Joyner.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students compare two numbers at a given time. The students then make an educated decision as to which number is larger, which number is smaller, or if the numbers are equal by putting the correct number of dots by each number.

• Double This (Authored by Mary Myers.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Does doubled mean to multiply? Does quotient mean subtraction or division? This activity will provide students practice in changing verbal expression to algebraic equations.

• Down by the Bay (Authored by Martha Cordell.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students will engage in a predicting and counting activity through simulated fishing as a way to identify the bluefish of St. Andrew Bay.

• Dragon Math (Authored by Carol Weyrich.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This activity allows students to master multiplication facts in a fun and competitive manner.

• Draw to Scale the E-Z Way (Authored by Stuart Brannon.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: In this lesson, students draw a rough floor plan of a house to scale without using a ruler to determine measurements.

• Drawing Bugs Game (Authored by Michaél Dunnivant.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students explore probability by predicting the likelihood of rolling any one number on a fair die, graphing data, and analyzing the results of playing a drawing game.

• Drawing Straws (Authored by Timothy Mark Dillehay.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students enjoy this engaging activity by investigating possible lengths to sides of a triangle. Students discover the Triangle Inequality Theorem through hands-on activities with straws.

• Dream House (Authored by Amy Gunn.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This lesson should be used as a culmination to a unit on perimeter and area. . Students use scale drawings to solve real world problems problems involving perimeter and area.

• Dynamic Divisibility (Authored by Tina Davis.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students learn the rules of divisibility for the numbers 2,3,5,6,9 and 10. Students use these rules to check large numbers for their divisibility.

• Dynamite Data (Authored by Jennifer Catlett.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The students will collect and organize data for tally charts, tables, and pie graphs.

• Dynamite Dimes (Authored by Jennifer Slichter.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is a fun and entertaining lesson on dimes called Dynamite Dimes. Students have the opportunity to explore dimes in a game format. Students learn through teacher instruction, hands-on experiences, group activities and games. (This is the second lesson in the unit, Common Cents).

• Easy Estimating (Authored by Debbie Funkhouser.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: -Easy Estimating- introduces children to the fun of estimating and graphing while incorporating the concepts of less, more and equal.

• Efficiency Means Getting More for Less (Authored by Richard Angelini Sr..)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Here is a simple experiment. It costs little, the materials will last for 100 years, and it is safe. It is a study of efficiency in nature. Water is measured and predictions are made.

• Egg Carton Math (Authored by Gina Widener.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students are asked to recognize numbers 1-10 from a flash card held by the teacher and put the amount of beans in an egg cartoon that corresponds to the number the teacher holds up.

• Egg It (Authored by Pamela Williams.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students show understanding of the relationship of multiplication and addition by writing multiplication number sentences.

• Egyptian Numeration Pyramid (Authored by Frieda Bates.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students construct a 3-D pyramid and decorate it with Egyptian numbers and their equivalent in our numerical system.

• Eight Eighths Make a Roll (Authored by MAdele Carson.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Using a bag of individual rolls of Sprees, the students learn about fractions making up a whole. They also make a bar and a circle graph using the results of their Spree rolls.

• Eight Stars in the Night Sky (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Can you count eight stars in the night sky? This eighth lesson from the unit, Sky High Counting continues students’ exploration of the day and night skies. A page for the number 8 is added to students’ counting books.

• Environmental Mathematics (Authored by Kenneth Blackman.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: The students will explore what food sources are needed to survive in the wild. Then the students will plot on a graph the best food sources for their environments and the survivability rate for each member of their group.

• Enzymatic Action (Authored by Jacqueline Roberts.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Enzymes are specialized proteins that regulate chemical activity in the body without themselves being altered in the reaction. In this lab, students observe how a cell uses an enzyme to rid itself of a poisonous substance.

• Escape Velocity (Authored by Johnny Wolfe.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: The ability to use and compute roots is often a necessary tool in physics. For example, square roots are used to compute the minimum velocity a spacecraft must have to escape the gravitational force of a planet.

• Escape! Survival of the Fittest Grasshopper (Authored by Lois Walsh.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Lab Activity: Student teams design a paperclip grasshopper and measure its ability to survive a prey by either jumping high, far, or with a distracting behavior. Students relate the ability to survive to the changing attack of predators. (NETS for Students: 3.1)

• Estimate a Dinner Plate (Authored by Barbara Johnson.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students work with a partner to solve the real-world problem of planning a favorite meal given a specific budget. Estimation strategies are reviewed and practiced to help students determine the reasonableness of calculations in a given situation.

• Estimation in a Jar (Authored by Amanda Ellis.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Fill a jar with goodies and guess what happens! Use some of your favorite teacher “stuff” for students to use to estimate, group, count, and journal.

• Even and Odd Numbers (Authored by Martha Cordell.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: First graders use patterns in order to identify and recognize even and odd numbers.

• Every Vote Counts (Authored by Brenda Heath.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: This is a multi-phase activity designed to increase student awareness and participation in the voting process.

• Everything You Wanted to Know About Symmetry (Authored by Beverly Iacobellis.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson introduces and reinforces the concept of symmetry.

• Examining Estimation (Authored by Denise Simonson.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students participate in various activities which help them understand and explain the difference between an estimate and an exact amount.

• EXCEL It! (Authored by Sharla Shults.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Let’s go surfing! Students surf the Web gathering information about graphs. The data collected and analyzed in The Math Poet activity is now incorporated into a spreadsheet and graphs of varying nature generated to further enhance student understanding. (NETS for Students: 5.1 and 5.2)

• Exercise Those Statistics! (Authored by Kevin Holland.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: This activity is designed to reinforce the statistical concepts of mean, median, mode, and histograms. Students collect data by measuring their pulse rates through different activities.

• Explore Three-Dimensional Shapes (Authored by Sherry McCullough.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students are “Shapes” for the day, They are assigned to a shape group and will be exploring three-dimensional shapes. They are continuing to review map skills and two-dimensional shapes while being involved in fun and enriching activities.

• Exploring Area/Perimeter Through Coordinate Geometry (Authored by Joseph Furner PhD.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students learn about area and perimeter through coordinate geometry. The use of children's literature, hands-on manipulatives, and the Internet will be incorporated.

• Face the Facts to Remember (Authored by Sissy Gandy.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students use manipulatives, drawings, and story problems to learn the two's multiplication tables. After learning how to find answers,they participate in a memory game to match facts and answers.

• Fact Family Connection (Authored by Sandi Tidwell.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students explore the relationship of multiplication and division using arrays.

• Fahrenheit Follies (Authored by Jennifer Slichter.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is the fifth lesson in the unit, Weather Trackers. This is a fun and entertaining lesson on temperature. Students learn about temperature using hands-on activities and games.

• Family at Home (Authored by Frieda Bates.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students write a family of multiplication and division facts on a piece of paper cut in the shape of a house.

• Family Cookbook (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Family Cookbook is a published collection of recipes emphasizing number names and ingredients in a picture book format.

• Fancy Names (Authored by Christine Davis.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: After learning about closed and open figures, students will explore their own names to see if they contain closed figures.

• Fantastic Fraction Fudge (Authored by Amelia McCurdy.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students sequence a recipe and convert the ingredients into various fractional portions

• Fantastic Fractions (Authored by Sharon Ussery.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Do you have only a fraction of time to teach fractions? Well, here is the lesson for you! Fantastic Fractions teaches students the difference between 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4. Students will use their imagination and pictures from magazines.

• Far Out Fact Families (Authored by Jennifer Catlett.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The student explores related multiplication and division facts.

• Farmer 's Barnyard Animals Hungry for Greater Than (Authored by Cindy Jacobs.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students will compare numbers to the thousands place using < and >. Teacher can dress the part of a farmer for a motivational way to teach this concept. Less than and greater than signs will be turned into hungry barnyard animals.

• Favorite Survey (Authored by Jennifer Sansone-Berbert.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This activity is a fun and interactive way for students to collect and organize data for charts and bar graphs by questioning their classmates.

• Figuratively Speaking (Authored by Faith Daigle.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students construct and use vocabulary flipbooks to draw and describe three-dimensional figures.

• Figure This (Authored by Alice Bobe.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: In this activity, students identify congruent figures and match shapes using transformation.

• Finding the Acceleration Due to Gravity (Authored by Phil Lee.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Science (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: This is a laboratory exercise which is used to calculate the acceleration due to gravity.

• Finding the Measure of Segments (Authored by Johnny Wolfe.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: This lesson uses the betweenness property, segment addition property, and distance formula to determine segment lengths.

• Finding Your Stride Length (Authored by Kevin Holland.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: This is an estimation project designed to allow students to find the length of their strides. Using this knowledge, students measure the length of a hallway or find out how many people can fit in the school stadium or gym!

• Fish Count (Authored by Lore Davis.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students participate in hands-on activities in which they count and match objects to 10 or more using one-to-one correspondence and make a record of objects counted, which will be kept in a math portfolio.

• Fish Eyes Sort (Authored by Lore Davis.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This is a small group instructional lesson in which students sort, classify and write about what characteristics they used to sort fish counters.

• Fishing for Fun (Authored by Juanita Looper.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students categorize fish crackers into groups by color then compare the 2 groups using the symbols <, =, and >.

• Fishing for Tens (Authored by Beth Malone.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students discover how to make ten while engaged in a card game that encourages mathematical thinking.

• Five Fingers for Eating Lunch (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Where in the sky is the sun while you are eating lunch? This fifth lesson from the unit, Sky High Counting, engages students in literature as they learn about the sun. Students continue their counting books adding a page for the number 5.

• Five Little Monkeys (Authored by Lore Davis.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: The students act out subtraction situations.

• Flavorful Graphing (Authored by Jennifer Gompers.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This activity is a fun extension to collecting, graphing, and analyzing data. Students work for a fictional advertising company and are looking to find what customers will like in new products.

• Fleece, Feathers, and Fur (Authored by Ann Espersen.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: The slide-show presentation and colorful website pictures in this lesson will captivate students’ attention. This is a great way to expand interests and vocabulary while teaching prediction and categorizing using the book [Is Your Mama a LLama]?

• Flight Fair (Authored by Christy Clanton.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The teacher seizes the teachable moment to announce The Flight Fair, an opportunity for the students to conduct their personal investigations into paper airplane flight.

• Flips, Slides, and Turns (Authored by Renee Duncan.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This activity is a hands-on way for students to practice manipulating and drawing shapes to demonstrate the concept of flips, slides and turns. This lesson is especially beneficial to tactile and visual learners.

• Flowers and Rocks (Authored by Timothy Mark Dillehay.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students enjoy this engaging activity by investigating the relationship between area and perimeter while creating and pricing a flower bed for their school name. Students calculate the perimeter and area of block letters, in order to compete in a ‘Perimeter Area Bingo’ game.

• Flying With Mathematics! (Authored by Kenneth Blackman.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students fly miniature airplanes to discover characteristics related to velocity and average speed. After measuring the time and distance, the students calculate the speed and average velocity.

• Folded Fractions (Authored by Liz West.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students use various geometric shapes to represent fractional parts.

• Follow That Graph (Authored by Debbie Lloyd.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Help your students to follow that graph with ease. In this lesson, students investigate, analyze, and discuss the effects of parameter changes on a trigonometric function using a graphing calculator.

• Follow the Pattern (Authored by Rita Williams.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students recognize patterns & relationships and use them predict outcomes in real-world situations. (This lesson should be conducted after students have been introduced to patterns.)

• Four Animal Legs at Sunset (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Did you know that the sun is a star? This fourth lesson of the unit, Sky High Counting, engages students in counting and literature as they learn about the sun. Students continue their counting books adding a page for the number 4.

• Fraction Action (Authored by Cindy Jacobs.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students create fractions using strips of paper and then compare the fractions.

• Fraction and Decimal Garden (Authored by Cindy Jacobs.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students write fractions and decimals using unifix cube models and grid paper. They draw a garden using grid paper and label each section with the correct fraction and decimal to the tenths.

• Fraction and Decimal Ordering (Authored by Lois Christensen.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students learn to order numbers in fraction and decimal form, in a critical thinking and kinesthetic fashion.

• Fraction Card Shark (Authored by Sandi Tidwell.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The student will understand the relative size of fractions using symbolic and concrete representations.

• Fraction Feast! (Authored by Anne Roundtree.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This lesson introduces the concept of fractions to kindergarten students.

• Fraction Food Frenzy (Middle School) (Authored by Amy Gunn.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This lesson is an introductory lesson for adding fractions with like denominators. It allows for illustrations and simple problem solving.

• Fraction Frenzy (Authored by Jennifer Catlett.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The student will identify fractions as part of a set.

• Fraction Fun (Authored by Brenda Lazarus.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: In this lesson students learn to identify common fractions. Students should already be familiar with the terms numerator and denominator.

• Fraction Pictures (Authored by Cheryl Carasick.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students use pictures in their math lesson. They become numerical problem solvers as they create fractions from pictures, then write them into sentences.

• Fraction Popsicle Pop-ups (Authored by Stacy Durham.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students decorate and use popsicle sticks to use as manipulatives to assist with their learning of fractions.

• Fractions and Equivalents (Authored by Jeannel Lopez.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The students uses Lego blocks, drawing paper, and visual aids to understand the meaning of fractions and the concept of equivalent proportions.

• Fractions in Clay (Authored by Rose Keasey.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Engage students in clay-play with a purpose. Students use modeling clay to represent fractions. They create sets of objects as directed by task cards.

• Framed (Authored by Cindy Jacobs.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson allows students to experiment with and calculate perimeter and area of given shapes.

• Franklin Roosevelt and the Dime (Authored by Sandi King.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: How many terms can a president serve? Franklin Delano Roosevelt served four terms. Learn about his life, presidency, monument, and tributes to him through stories and poems. Students will also learn the attributes of a dime.

• Fun with Fractions (Authored by Michelle Nivison.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Do you have Fractionitis? This lesson plan will help you overcome this condition! Using fraction bars, you will learn to add fractions. You will soon be a Fraction Expert!

• Fun With Symmetry (Authored by Cheryl Carasick.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students will have fun munipulating shapes to discover their multiple lines of symmetry. This activity helps students to see the lines of symmetry through colors. It gives students the ability to manipulate shapes to make their own lines of symmetry.

• Game Day Graphing (Authored by Kevin Hall.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students produce data tables and bar graphs from given sets of information and then analyze and explain the data displays.

• Gator Pie, Anyone? (Authored by Mary Williams.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This activity introduces children to fractions in an active manner. The students listen to a story, manipulate flannel board figures, and cut soft cookies and paper plates into equal parts.

• Gearing Up (Authored by Johnny Wolfe.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: In mathematics, a ratio is a comparison of two numbers by division. A gear ratio can be expressed as a ratio to solve real-world problems.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 1, Lesson 1: Gee Quiz! (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Geo George, the geometric puppet, introduces the unit to students. The children are drawn into a conversation with George to check for prior knowledge about shapes. Once relaxed and warmed-up, the class participates in taking the diagnostic assessment.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 1, Lesson 2: Math Mouth! (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Ready for the challenge, Geo George has a wonderful game for teaching children the difficult and unusual mathematically correct vocabulary words encountered on the diagnostic assessment. The game develops student understanding of these difficult terms.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 1, Lesson 3: Math Moments on My Mind (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students begin a Math Moments journal in which they freely write about the day’s math immersion, recording personal thoughts about what they learned, something they are wondering about, a response to a lead question, and/or a letter to Geo George.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 2, Lesson 4: Sing a Song of Shapes (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students learn five songs to define and develop understanding of the attributes of two- and three-dimensional figures and the meaning of mathematical terms. Through use of the attribute songs, students classify objects as either two- or three-dimensional.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 2, Lesson 5: Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Mo (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Working in groups of four, students utilize song lyrics, past knowledge, correct mathematical language, and speaking skills, to name, categorize, and describe various two- and three-dimensional shapes and objects.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 2, Lesson 6: Rhyme and Reason (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Practicing purposeful listening during this Shared Reading component, students experience mathematical language as it is enjoyed in the rhyme and reason of poetry.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 2, Lesson 7: Roll, Roll, Unroll the Scroll (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Entry in the Math Moments journal begins with student reflections on the day, recording personal thoughts about what they learned and/or something they are wondering about. Response to a higher-order thinking question rounds out the writing experience.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 3, Lesson 10: Patterned Poetry (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Through comparing and contrasting related two- and three-dimensional shapes, students complete a Venn diagram illustrating the attributes of each. Using a poem pattern from another lesson, students use data from the diagram to write an attribute poem.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 3, Lesson 11: Poly Doodles All Day (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students explore geometric vocabulary through creation of shapes on a geoboard. Oral presentation of design attributes, transfer of design, and color-coding components mix to create a fun and exciting lesson that stretches student thinking.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 3, Lesson 8: Copy Cat (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students are taught the technology skills of copy and paste as geometric language is introduced. Skills are developed and used to create a computer-generated page defining attributes of two- and three-dimensional shapes using the new vocabulary.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 3, Lesson 9: Attribute Attitude (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This Shared Reading lesson has students participating in vocabulary building through the reading of and interaction with poetry. Each poem presents the attributes of two- and three-dimensional figures.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 4, Lesson 12: Geo Gee-Hawin' (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: In order to review unit content, with specific focus on geometric vocabulary students are expected to understand and use effectively, Geo George plays a Math Mouth word game with the class giving them an opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge with geoboards.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 4, Lesson 13: Where, Oh Where, Can the Geo Be? (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Listening for geometric shapes occurring in the natural environment as presented in a student-generated story, students identify each natural object and correctly label it as the geometric shape that it is according to its attributes.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 4, Lesson 14: Give It a Whirl (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Exploration of rotating 3-D shapes at varied speeds has students discovering, discussing, and questioning. Personal reflections move students to a hands-on activity that has them transition a two-dimensional square into a three-dimensional pinwheel.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 4, Lesson 15: Geo Jingo Jivin' (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: In this writing lesson, students investigate musical instruments of varying geometric shapes that correspond with the three-dimensional shapes studied, and write shape pattern tunes, which will be read and played by students on the geometric instruments.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 5, Lesson 16: Capturing "Lions" of Poetry (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students take to the Author's Chair and share poems written at home for the Capturing “Lions” of Poetry Literacy Link parent page. The class listens with purpose for the correct attributes of the shape for which each poem was written, as well as for quality speaking traits.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 5, Lesson 17: Geo Sakes Alive! (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Pleased with students’ knowledge of two- and three-dimensional attributes, Geo George gives students the opportunity to utilize mathematical language. The challenge is to create a geo puppet by following directions given geometrically.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 5, Lesson 18: By George! (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Taking on the identity of their geometric puppet, students write a script. The script describes the attributes the puppet had as a two-dimensional square and the attributes it has now as a three-dimensional character.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 6, Lesson 20: Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Geo George leads students and friends through a review of all targeted standards. Children don their puppets and join their character in chorus, conversation, and choral correspondence.

• Geo Jammin' - Day 7, Lesson 21: Dear George (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: In their journals, students write a letter to Geo George reflecting on the unit, activities, and things they learned. Included will be their favorite part of the unit, the hardest part for them, what they learned, and their thoughts on their performance.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 1, Lesson 1: Math in Motion (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Swirling, rotating, changing, sliding. . . stimulate interest with shapes in motion to prepare students for entry into the world of geometric design. Analysis and synthesis questions are served as the appetizer before the diagnostic assessment is given.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 1, Lesson 2: Dancing Duo (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Teacher and students are a dynamic duo who search a geometry Website to identify geometric vocabulary words, record them on a Quilt Word Wall, and dance them out together. Words are displayed to take on characteristics of different design patterns.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 1, Lesson 3: Moo-vin (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Put the meaning of newly introduced vocabulary to the tune of “Hokey Pokey” and children develop an understanding through music and dance. Lyrics are read as a whole group and become a Guided Reading experience where more geometric vocabulary is discovered within.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 1, Lesson 4: Transformation Station (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students predict the outcome of the slide, flip, and turn of a triangle by transforming their thoughts and ideas into informational text. The recorded text is tested for accuracy and through peer feedback is written to perfection.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 1, Lesson 5: Do You Hear What I Hear? (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Following directions given in poetry fashion, students apply newly learned geometric vocabulary to successfully create an animal. Reading informational text for key words and specific purpose and comprehension of geometric terms is the focus.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 1, Lesson 6: Quilt Story (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Through literature, discussion, and response to critical thinking questions, students recognize the use of geometric components in quilts, and that quilts are an artistic form that reflect the cultural heritage of the people who design them.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 2, Lesson 11: A Stitch in Time (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Through reading personal size booklets, class discussion, and viewing of historical quilts, students are enlightened to the culturally artistic value of quilts, the importance of trade in meeting basic needs, and the conservation of natural resources.

• Geo Jammin' By Design - Day 2, Lesson 7: Start At Square One (Authored by Katie Koehnemann.)

Subject(s): Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Using manipulatives, students explore new shape possibili