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DESCRIPTION Here is a complete unit to introduce fractions to an elementary class. It includes 10 lessons, hands-on activities, interactive worksheets, warm-ups, review, a unit test, a cover page, and answer keys. The lessons increase in difficulty, starting with only 1/2’s and 1/3’s, and working up to 1/12’s. Kids will learn to write fractions, color shapes to match written fractions, and become familiar with equivalent fractions through several different hands-on activities. The activities are

DESCRIPTION Here is a complete unit to teach how to tell time on an analog clock to an elementary class. It includes 12 lessons, hands-on activities, interactive worksheets, warm-ups, review, a unit test, a cover page, and answer keys. The lessons increase in difficulty, starting with whole hours, then 5-minute increments, half hours, quarter hours, and finally 1-minute increments. Students review counting by 5’s to learn how to tell time for 5-minute increments and then apply a variation of thi

DESCRIPTION Here are 17 wonderful, interactive activities to get kids fluent in telling time on an analog clock in a hands-on way! The activities are widely varied to keep kids engaged and include cut-and-paste activities, coloring, matching, drawing in the hands of a clock, “Truth or Lie?”, a dice game, and a hand-made clock manipulative where the hands actually move! All the activities would be great additions to any elementary time unit. My hope is that these activities bring both joy and lea

DESCRIPTION Here are two great activities to investigate the Golden Ratio! Do them together, or each can be a stand-alone lesson. The first activity is a simple way to show the connection between the Golden Ratio and the Fibonacci sequence. Students will use their calculators to complete 12 division problems which divide consecutive Fibonacci numbers. By the end they will see that the numbers converge to 1.618 (the Golden Ratio)! I have made a cut-and-paste version of this also, so that younger

DESCRIPTION Here are 15 wonderful, interactive activities to introduce kids to fractions in a hands-on way! The activities are widely varied to keep kids engaged and include cut-and-paste activities, coloring, matching, “Two Truths and a Lie”, a dice game, and a measuring cup investigation. All the activities would be great additions to any elementary intro to fractions unit. My hope is that these activities bring both joy and learning to your students! MATERIALS NEEDED: Scissors, glue, markers/

DESCRIPTION Here is a complete unit to teach how to count money (US currency) to an elementary class. It includes 11 lessons, hands-on activities, interactive worksheets, warm-ups, review, a unit test, a cover page, and answer keys. The lessons increase in difficulty, starting with working only with pennies and nickels, then adding in dimes, quarters, and dollars. Students review counting by 5’s and 10’s to learn to count nickels and dimes. There is practice with grouping nickels into pairs and

DESCRIPTION Here is a review and assessment for a unit on “Telling Time”. The review and assessments both cover full hours, half hours, quarter hours, 5 minute increments, and 1 minute increments. For the review, kids will be asked to match an analog clock to a digital time, write in the times of analog clocks, and draw in the hour and minute hands to match the digital times shown. They will also be asked questions about the meaning of AM and PM, how many minutes are in an hour, and how many hou

DESCRIPTION Here are 15 wonderful, interactive activities to get kids fluent in counting money (US currency) in a hands-on way! The resources are widely varied to keep kids engaged and include cut-and-paste activities, coloring, matching, “Two Truths and a Lie”, and games or activities using real coins and bills. Many of the resources include both color and black-and-white versions. All the activities would be great additions to any elementary money unit. My hope is that these activities bring b

DESCRIPTION Here is a complete unit to teach 2D & 3D shapes to an elementary class. It includes 12 lessons, many hands-on activities, review, a unit test, reference sheets, a cover page, and answer keys. Topics taught with the 2D shapes include naming the shapes (circle, oval, semicircle, triangle, quadrilateral, parallelogram, trapezoid, rectangle, square, rhombus/diamond, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, nonagon, and decagon), recognizing the number of sides, types of angles in the 2D s

DESCRIPTION Here is a great (and easy!) activity to give kids a visual understanding of the geometry behind the Fibonacci sequence! Kids will understand that the Golden Rectangle (the rectangle we are drawing the spiral within) is actually composed of squares. Kids will see that the squares are not just randomly numbered, but that the (1 unit square) + (1 unit square) = (2 unit square)’s side length. The pattern continues as the (2 unit square) + (1 unit square) = (3 unit square)’s side length,

DESCRIPTION Here are 4 wonderful and engaging activities to get kids learning about 3D shapes in a hands-on way! The first two activities familiarize students with the names of nine 3D shapes (cube, rectangular prism, cylinder, sphere, hemisphere, cone, triangular prism, square pyramid, and triangular pyramid). In “Color the 3D Shapes”, students color the 3D shapes based on a color key to learn the names. “3D Shapes Match” is a cut-and-paste activity that will review these same names with studen

DESCRIPTION 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,…Here is a great investigative activity that will show kids Fibonacci numbers in nature! You can use the real-life fruit and vegetables or simply do an internet search! If you use the real-life food, you will need an apple, a banana, an orange, a lemon, a cucumber, a head of cabbage, and a pineapple. Follow the directions to cut the fruit or vegetables to see their cross-sections, or in the case of the pineapple, you will be counting the spirals. Not all the produce

DESCRIPTION How many toes do each of these animals have?? Make this adorable and fun book that combines counting with facts about mammal feet and footprints! Each page includes one mammal pictured with either 1,2,3,4, or 5 toes and its footprints. It then includes one or more examples of other mammals with that same number of toes. Another cool feature of the book is an optional foldout page for the student’s own footprint! Each page of the book is a half page, so the book is easy to hold in sma

DESCRIPTION Here is a great set of activities to do for Pi Day or as an introduction to Circles in Geometry! The first activity is a colorful visual to show how pi is equal to the circumference of a circle, divided by its diameter. The second activity gives a hands-on foldable to easily see that a little more than 3 diameters in length is equal to the circumference of the same circle! DIRECTIONS 1.Colorful Circle Activity: Use two different colored dot markers or any markers to color the circle’

DESCRIPTION Here is an easy activity to bring some color to the Fibonacci sequence! Simply print out the numbers and glue them on to see how the sum of the two previous terms equals the next term in the sequence! If you choose to use different colors for each number, kids will see the pattern come alive even more with the color coordination! There is also an extra sheet with blank terms at the end of the equation for younger kids to practice their addition. Enjoy! DIRECTIONS Print out the main p

Here is a fun cut-and-paste activity to review for a unit assessment on “Telling Time”. Kids have 15 digital times to cut out and paste under the matching analog clock. This activity covers full hours, half hours, quarter hours, 5 minute increments, and 1 minute increments. This activity is minimal prep and set up. Simply print off the two sheets, provide each kid with a pair of scissors and a glue stick and you are ready to go! This would be an easy activity to leave for sub plans should you ne