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Lesson Title/Description
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CA Standards
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NCTM Standards
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All Aboard!
Have you ever wanted to take a train trip to another city in
California? What would you do when you got there? You are
going to take a "train trip" to a city of your choice. You
will then tell us about your trip when you return.
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Gr 2: 2.2,
2.3
Gr 3:
1.1
Gr 4:
1.2
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K-4: 1,
4,
9,
10
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Buying My First
Car
You will soon be in the position of getting your driver's
license and looking for a car. In all of the excitement, you
are faced with a number of decisions which need to be made
before you actually purchase your car. Through this unit you
will research every aspect that a person goes through when
purchasing a car.
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Gr 6: 1.2,
1.3
Gr 7: 1.2,
1.6
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5-8: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
7,
10
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California Here We
Come!
A trip across the USA. Each team will choose any state
capital on the east coast as their starting point. They will
travel west stopping at each state capital along the way and
record miles traveled. Each student group will create a
chart or table showing the number of miles traveled from
state capital to state capital and then total number of
miles driven. Be the team to reach Sacramento, California
with the fewest number of miles traveled to win the
prize.
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Gr 4: 1.2,
3.3
Gr 5:
2.1
Gr 6:
2.3
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K-4: 1,
2,
3,
8,
11
5-8: 1,
2,
3,
7,
10
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Coaster
Connections
What science and math exist in a roller coaster? You will
enter the world of roller coasters via hands-on activities,
Internet information, online experts, and computer
simulations.
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Gr 6:
1.2
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9-12: 1,
4,
5,
6,
8,
9
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College Fund from Great
Aunt Betty
Great Aunt Betty left you $1,000 to go towards your college
fund. Now, you will be investing your new found money into a
30 month CD. The account will be automatic, since it will be
done through the Web site. Your job will be to calculate the
growth of your CD for seven years.
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Gr 7:
1.7
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5-8: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10
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Company is Coming
Grandma is coming for a visit tomorrow, and her doctor has
put her on a fat free diet. You have found a fat free recipe
for pancakes, which serves eight. Since Grandma can't eat
eight pancakes, you'll need to find 1/2 of the recipe. Mom
found out about your neat idea and wanted to taste your
creation, so now you need to find 3/4 of the recipe.
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Gr 5:
2.4
Gr 6:
2.2
Gr 7:
1.2
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5-8: 4,
5,
6,
7,
8
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DINOSAUR MATH web
page
Use the Internet to learn more about dinosaurs. Calculate
average weights and heights. Also included are lines to
dinosaur bibliographies.
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Gr 4: 1.4,
1.6, 2.1, 2.2, 3.3, 3.4
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K-4: 2,
5,
8,
12
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Dream Car Math
Collect price statistics on the Internet for purchasing 2
"dream cars" and calculate profits, differences in base
price compared to manufacturers suggested resale price.
Calculate monthly payments and compare calculated results
using greater than, less than and equal to. Extensions
include visiting a classic car web site and compare your
cars to older "collector" versions.
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Gr 4: 2.1,
2.2, 3.1, 3.4
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Eating on a Budget
You have won a $25.00 gift certificate to the Grist Mill
Restaurant and Bow Mills Pub for a dinner. You will choose
an appetizer, salad, and beef or seafood for your dinner.
The catch is, you'll need to stay within the $25.00
budget.
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Gr 5:
2.1
Gr 6:
2.3
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5-8: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
7
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Exquisite
Excursions
Students will locate 6 cities, one on each of the 6 major
continents. They will find distance for each leg of their
journey, convert to percents, use a time zone map, and
convert to foreign currencies. The class will estimate the
circumference of the earth and find the range, mean, median,
mode(s) and possible outliers for the estimates.
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Gr 4:
2.2
Gr 5: 2.1,
2.2
Gr 6: 1.2,
1.4
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5-8: 1,
2,
5,
7,
10,
13
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Extreme Elevations
Students use highest and lowest points of land elevation
around the world to find the differences. Sea level is zero,
so students will be operating with positive and negative
numbers. After the students find the information on the
Internet, they record the elevations on a chart and on
pictures, and do the subtractions. Other problems using
positives and negatives are then done.
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Gr 7: 1.2,
2.5
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5-8: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7
9-12: 1,
2,
3,
4
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Go the Distance
Who needs math? Pilots do. This lesson applies math
functions to convert kilometers to miles and calculate
travel time for different fighter aircraft.
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Gr 5: 1.1,
2.3
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5-8:
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The Greedy Dog
This lesson is an introduction to the concepts of more
than/less than. The lesson includes a whole class activity
in which the children will be representing the number of
items that the dog ate and also a worksheet activity. The
children will also gain some experience with using a
graph.
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Gr 1:
1.2
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Hollywood's Top
Ten
Students will gather data on the top 10 highest grossing
movies, and make a bar graph and a pictogram.
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Gr 7:
1.2
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5-8: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7
9-12: 1,
2,
3,
4,
10
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It's Your Life
This is a 3 part lesson utilizing census data of the mean
income of workers 18 years and older by education attainment
levels. The data is also broken into gender and 3 ethnic
groups - white, black, and Hispanic. Students will
analyze census data to create graphs and take part in a
simulation using this same data as a starting point to make
financial decisions and budgets. Some familiarity with line
and bar graphs is helpful.
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Gr 6: 1.4,
2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Gr 7: 1.2,
1.3, 1.6, 1.7
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Math, Calories and
You
Don't we all like to eat and exercise? This lesson makes
students aware of how many calories they burn in relation to
their own body weight and they get to practice their
multiplication skills at the same time.
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Gr 5: 1.1,
2.3
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5-8:
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Math Crosswords
You and your classmates will create crossword puzzles that
use the definitions of math terms you use as clues. The
terms will be the answers which go into the puzzle.
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Gr 5:
2.4
Gr 7:
1.1
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Math for a Better
Life
This lesson provides students an opportunity to practice
math skills while learning about how to achieve and maintain
a healthy lifestyle. Happy Trails!
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Gr 5:
2.3
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5-8:
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Math
Review/Geography
This is a lesson designed to help review 7th and 8th grade
math skills. In addition, map skills are also reviewed.
Hopefully, geographic knowledge of Europe is improved. To
complete this lesson a basic knowledge of percents, area,
map reading, estimating, and rounding will be used. A three
inch strip of paper will be needed.
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Gr 6: 1.2,
2.3
Gr 7:
1.2
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5-8: 3,
4,
5,
12,
13
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Monthly Cost of Living -
Food
Students will determine how much they would need to feed a
family for a month. Students will plan meals and use
Internet grocery stores to find the cost of individual food
items.
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Gr 6:
2.1
Gr 7:
1.2
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Place Value Population -
Rounding Off
Students start by collecting and rounding data about their
school. They move on to gathering and rounding larger
numbers from the Internet.
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Gr 4: 1.1,
1.3, 1.4
Gr. 5:
1.1
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K-4: 1,
3,
4,
12
5-8: 1,
3,
4,
7,
8,
9,
10
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Planning a
Trip
Students will plan a trip to from 3 to 5 cities of their
choice. The main assignment is to make a brochure to travel
to the chosen cities. It should be of a quality that it
could be used by a customer to decide if they would like to
take this trip. It should include fares for planes, trains,
rental cars etc., cost of housing and meals, points of
interest to visit in the cities.
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Gr 5:
2.1
Gr 6:
2.3
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5-8: 1,
2,
5,
7,
10
9-12: 1,
2,
10,
12
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Population Ratios
An interdisciplinary project (mathematics, social studies)
where students choose a county in the United States and
using ratios convert the statistics into meaningful
numbers.
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Gr 5:
1.2
Gr 6:
1.3
Gr 7:
1.6
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5-8: 1,
3,
4,
5,
7,
9,
10
9-12: 1,
3,
4,
5,
10
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The Probability of
Pintails
Many things are possible, but the chances of something's are
even better than that. They are probable. Students use
percentages to calculate the probability and probable number
of various types of ducks in a wildlife refuge.
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Gr 4:
1.6
Gr 5: 1.2, 2.1,
2.4, 2.5
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K-4: 1,
2,
4,
8,
11,
12
5-8: 1,
2,
4,
5,
6,
7,
10,
11
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Pumpkin Pie for
All!
Let's make pumpkin pie for the whole class! Imagine making
enough pie so that everyone could have a piece. How about
enough pie to take one home. The only problem is that the
recipe you have makes 1 pie at a time which only has 8
pieces.
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Gr 2:
4.2
Gr 3:
3.1
Gr 5: 2.1,
2.4
Gr 6:
2.1
Gr 7:
1.2
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K-4: 4,
6,
7,
8,
10,
12
5-8: 4,
5,
6,
13
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School Clothes
Budget
The lesson is a problem for students to learn about buying
on a budget. It gives students an opportunity to use math in
a practical life application problem.
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Gr 6: 1.4,
2.1, 2.3
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Shopping for Toys
You have just won a $100 gift certificate to buy some toys!
You must try to spend as much of it as you can without going
over. Let's go shopping and have some fun!
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Gr 2: 2.2,
2.3, 5.1, 5.2
Gr 3:
1.4.
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K-4: 1,
2,
3,
4,
8,
12
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Sports Teams &
Math
How many of you like sports? How many of you would like to
see how your favorite NFL football team is doing? Today we
are going to look up NFL sports teams on the web and analyze
their statistics.
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Gr 3: 2.1,
2.4, 2.5, 2.7, 2.8
Gr 4: 2.1,
3.3, 3.4
Gr 5:
2.1
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Surf's Up!!!
Looking for a way to introduce the web to your students?
Sneak in some math skills at the same time? Maybe even a
little math reasoning? This just may be the lesson for you
to use. Students will surf the web to complete a student
worksheet. The lesson may be used in a lab setting or one
computer station. It is for 2nd grade last quarter or 1st
quarter 3rd grade
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Gr 2: 3.1,
3.3
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Weather Math
Collect data about weather statistics in your own location
and another geographical location to use in calculating
averages and comparing your results using less than, greater
than or equal to skills. Skills of calculating the
differences between highs and lows will also be
explored.
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Gr 4: 2.1,
2.2, 3.1, 3.4
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What Are We Listening
To?
Students will gather data from a web site on number of music
albums sold by genre for the last two years. They will
convert these figures to fractions, decimals, and percents.
They will then display the results in bar graphs and pie
charts. Finally, they will answer questions about their
graphs.
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Gr 7:
1.3
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5-8: 1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
7,
10,
13
9-12: 1,
2,
3,
4,
7,
10
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What In The World Would
You Have?
Students will use the Internet to calculate rates of
exchange from US currency to other countries. This activity
will help in understanding conversion techniques.
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Gr 4:
3.2
Gr 5:
2.1
Gr 6:
2.1
Gr 7:
1.2
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What's My Number?
Students will be on an information quest using the Internet
to find facts needed to arrive at a number on the 100 board,
known only to the author of the quest. Students will use the
information to work math problems using the 100 board.
This lesson plan may be adapted to any grade level and
maybe integrated with other subject areas. This is
dependent on the teacher and the skills targeted for the
student.
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Gr 1: 1.1,
2.1, 2.6
Gr 2:
2.2
Gr 3:
1.1
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K-4: 1,
2,
3,
6,
7,
8
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Zeros and Blackbirds
Do you yearn to be high in the sky and far far away? this
math lesson allows students to convert kilometers to miles
and calculate the range that historical aircraft can
travel.
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Gr 5: 1.1,
2.3
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5-8:
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