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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 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 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 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