Teaching Gracefully

In this Newspaper Center activity, the students will construct a graph for high and low temperatures and will find the weekly average of both the high and low temperatures. The students will find the Forecast of the week’s weather in the newspaper. The students will record both the high and the low temperatures on the line graph. They will use red to record the high temperatures and blue to record the low temperatures. The students will give the graph an appropriate title and label both the x- a

Use this Book of Fractions to teach and help students practice fractional concepts. This Book of fractions enables students to locate and identify fractional parts, write and read fractions, construct fractions that represent a part of a whole shape, and create a part of a whole by coloring a shape that corresponds with a given fraction. The students will use markers, crayons, or colored pencils to color in equal parts on both the rectangles and the circles to represent halves, thirds, fourth

Use this to help students practice or as an assessment when teaching fractions and decimals. Students are to write a decimal and a fraction to represent the part of a grid that is shaded, compare fractions and decimals, shade grids to represent given decimals, write fractions as decimals, and write decimals as fractions.

Practice writing numbers in standard form, word form, and expanded form in this fun activity. Students will find the Automotive Sales in the Classifieds section of the newspaper. They will choose five cars that they would like to buy. They will write the name, year, and the price of each car in standard form, word form and expanded form. Then the students will practice comparing and ordering numbers by writing the name of the cars in order from the least expensive car to the most expensive car.

This Angle Scavenger Hunt is designed to be used at the end of the Types of Angles Lesson for the students to apply what they have learned about identifying straight, acute, obtuse, and right angles by naming or drawing the different types of angles that they can see in the classroom.