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= = = = = = = = =**These links take you to a specific lesson plan or interactive** = =**activity that you can use in your classroom.** =

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/OrderOfOperationsFou/ (Grade 6-8)** A game like Fraction Four but instead of fraction questions the player must answer order of operations questions (addition / subtraction, multiplication / division, exponents, and parentheses) to earn a piece to place on the board. Parameters: time limit, difficulty level, types of questions. A game like Fraction Four but instead of fraction questions the player must answer order of operations questions (addition / subtraction, multiplication / division, exponents, and parentheses) to earn a piece to place on the board.
 * Order of Operations

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/15/gk2/tornadowhat.html In this lesson, students will learn the basics about how [|tornadoes] are formed, and when and where they are most likely to occur. They will learn that the United States is the country most vulnerable to tornadoes and why most tornadoes occur in "tornado alley." Students will "create" a tornado in a bottle. Finally, they will draw pictures of tornadoes of different shapes and sizes and review basic safety information about what to do in a tornado.
 * What is a Tornado**

http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/Byrnes-celebrations/bday.html Students learn about how people around the world celebrate birthdays (traditions)
 * Lesson Plan about Birthdays**

Family Quilts Keep Us Warm http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/lessonplan.jsp?id=82 In this lesson, students learn that families are diverse and describe the similarities and differences between them. They also follow one-and two-step oral directions to identify and describe simple patterns Allison Lucas
 * Can you Measure up?**
 * http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/3801/
 * After reading Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel's book Cook-A-Doodle-Doo!, primary students will engage in dramatization and a variety of measuring activities that include estimation, equivalents, and elapsed time. Students will work collaboratively to conduct measuring "experiments", record their findings, and present their findings in final report

http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/03/lp308-03.shtml This lesson plan is an experiment involving 2 containers - one containing soil and "trash" and the other containing soil, "trash", and worms. The lesson involves exploring the composting abilities of worms.
 * Composting with Worms**

http://www.sites4teachers.com/links/redirect.php?url=http://www.explorelearning.com/ This is a lesson plan focused on a simulation to show and explain the phases as they occur. It's a great way for the kids to see the phases from two separate viewpoints. It also comes with student/teacher guides and vocabulary.
 * Phases of the Moon**

[|http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?BenchmarkID=7&DocID=]74 This site has a variety of sources for grade level categorized lesson plans pertaining to many areas of science, especially //earth science and life science//.
 * Science Lessons**

http://www.playground.com/area_perimeter.html Just click onto this site so that students can practice finding area and perimeter on line instead of paper and pencil
 * Area and Perimeter**


 * Clifford The Big Red Dog
 * http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/flash/phonics/index.htm
 * This is a cool site that I could use to add to a couple of lessons that I already use. This is an interactive game that would be awesome to use during my reading workshop time. The students can click on the speaker that will read the directions to the students. The game focuses on identifying picture words that begin with the same sound as the picture that is given. The students click on the main picture and the computer says the name of the picture. Then the students can click on the other picture on the screen and find out the names of those pictures. If the beginning sounds match then the student adds it to the little drop box. When they have finished, the pictures are refreshed and the game starts over. The students can do this activity independently because it does not require any reading. (Kara Lewis)
 * **ABC One Hundredth Day**
 * http://abcteach.com/directory/basics/math/100th_day_of_school/
 * This has many interactive activities to assist teachers with a 100th Day lesson.
 * Most grades K-3 celebrate 100th day using math, reading, crafts and more. This site will be an excellent resource for extending the lesson.

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/MathComparingFractionsSmarties34.htm In this lesson students are put into small groups and given a small bag of smarties. This can be done using any multi-colored bag of candy or cereal. They are to gather data from the bag by sorting colors and recording fractional colors. This is explained in a very basic lesson, but to utalize this lesson in my room, which I have done using cereal, I would have the group record the data in fraction, decimal, and percentage form. They could then create a graph with their information. (4-5)
 * Smarties Math Lab**

Arithmetic: Using Area Codes to do three digit Addition and Subtraction http://www.lessonplanspage.com/MathSubtraction35AreaCodes.htm This lesson gives students practice finding states on a map to determine their area code which they then add it to or subtract it from another state’s area code. When using the subtraction I always have my students check with addition. The students gain knowledge of geography, subtraction, and addition.

http://www.emsresponder.com/features/article.jsp?siteSection=17&id=5048 Lesson regarding the Assessment and transportation of patients to an appropriate facility.
 * Trauma Assessment And Patient Destination**

http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=132 This lesson includes interactive websites to help students practice letter recognition and increase fluency.
 * A is for Apple: Building Letter Recognition Fluency**

[|[[http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/01/g35/drought.htmlo|http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/01/g35/drought.html] Students explore a map of a country and recognize characteristics of a drought, what causes a drought, and how it affects the people who live in those places. Students compare these characteristics with their living area or similar areas.
 * Living Through a Drought**

[|http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=L558] Students begin by recalling 2-D geometric shapes. Independently they select paintings by Kandinsky from the internet, and make a list of the shapes found in the painting. Then the students compare their answers with a partner and decide which shapes were used the most, as well as why Kandinsky used specific shape properties in his paintings.
 * Geometry in the World of Art**

http://www.ed.arizona.edu/ward/Latitude/pythag.html This lesson explores how the Pythagorean theorem can be used to examine the concept of latitude and longitude. It is a good example of how the theory can be applied in real life.
 * Latitude and Longitude**

Bugs in the System This interactive site will enable students to graph bugs, which will relate back to our science unit. The students will graph different bugs and I will be able to ask them questions about their graph when it is complete. (Second Grade)
 * http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/bargraphs.html