How Many Cups of Water? Math Challenge

Your body is about 70 percent water.  A cup of water weighs about 1/2 a pound.  How many cups of water do you have in your body?

Football Field and Dollar Bills Math Challenge

An American dollar bill is 6 inches long.  An American football field is 360 feet.  How many dollar bills would you have to line up end to end to cross the entire field?

How many Soft Drinks Math Challenge

How many soft drinks are consumed per hour?

How many soft drinks per day?

How many soft drinks per week?  Write this number in scientific notation.

Software Use Math Challenge

Daily Infographic surveyed a group of design professionals and compiled the data above. Using this data, answer the following questions:



1. What percentage use Microsoft Word most often?



2. What percentage use Google Docs most often?




3. What fraction of design professionals use Evernote most often for note taking

Perimeter of a Horse Corral Math Challenge

A rancher built a corral for his horses with the dimensions listed above.  What was the perimeter?

Teens Don't Eat Enough Fruits and Vegetables!

According to a new study by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers, teens are not eating enough fruit and vegetables.


1. Read this article.

2. Convert all of the percentages into fractions and decimals - display in some easy to read format ( a chart or columns perhaps?)

Bonus:
1. How many students ate vegetables less than once per day?

New Years Lesson Plan

Language Arts

New Year’s word search http://www.docstoc.com/docs/20807799/New-Years-Word-Search

Make your resolutions with this goal setting worksheet.  

 Math

Practice your division with this worksheet.

Art

 

Make this fun crown to celebrate the New Year!

Multiplication Arrays Math Challenge

Write two math sentences for the multiplication array above.  How many in all?

School Supply Fraction Math Challenge

Sports Fraction Math Challenge

Gingerbread Baby Lesson Plan

Gingerbread Baby, by Jan Brett is a retelling of the old favorite about a fast running gingerbread boy who escapes from the oven and the misadventures he has on his way.

Reading

 Watch and listen to Jan Brett read her version of the story, Gingerbread Baby (note actual story begins about 3.5 minutes through the video).

 

 

After reading answer the questions on this reading comprehension worksheet.

Compare and contrast the Gingerbread baby with the original Gingerbread man story using this venn diagram.   

 

Writing Prompt

Make up your own adventures of the Gingerbread Baby.  Where will he go? Who will he meet?  How did he escape?  How will you catch him?

Social Studies

Make a map of your Gingerbread Baby's adventures around your neighborhood.  Make his path clear and mark any place he stopped (houses, businesses, etc.)

History

Learn about the history of Gingerbread here.

Math

 Practice division with this Gingerbread division worksheet.

Maryland State Flag Math Challenge

Maryland's state flag is made up of the Calvert and Crossland Family Seals.  Each family has their seal displayed twice.  What fraction if the flag does one seal take up?

Happy Birthday to the Florida Everglades!

Did you know? 

Everglades National Park celebrates it's birthday on December 6th!  On December 6th, 1947, the government set aside 1.5 million acres of protected land (a small fraction of its original size) as Everglades National Park.

Before there was an Everglades National Park there was Everglades, the ecosystem. This Everglades has been around for 5,000 years!

The original Everglades used to reach all the way from the Orlando area to Florida Bay. It was a big wilderness of wetlands containing sawgrass marshes, freshwater sloughs, mangrove swamps, pine rocklands and hardwood hammocks.

Vocabulary

 Use a dictionary to find the meaning of each of the words below:

Ecosystem-
Habitat-
Precipitation-
Evaporation-
Condensation-
Conservation-

Geography

The Everglades are in Florida.  Learn more about Florida with this worksheet.

Math

Frogs live in The Everglades.  Solve this problem about a frog.

Movie

Enjoy a tour of the Everglades below:

Mrs. Claus Math Journal Math Challenge

Change The World Writing Prompt

Change the World

Have you ever wanted to change the world? If you could change one thing to make the world a better place what would it be?

Think about things you would change. Think about reasons you would change them.
 
Write the essay, choosing one thing to change and tell your reader several reasons why it is the most important thing to change in order to make the world a better place. Remember to use specific details to support and explain your reasons. Use interesting adjectives and descriptions to make your paper interesting to read.

A Day With The Family Writing Prompt

A Day With the Family

Everyone enjoys time with their family. What is the best day you have ever spent with your family? 

Think about the best day that you ever spent with your family. Think about reasons that made it the best day ever!

Write a paper telling about the best day you ever spent with your family. Include at least three reasons in your paper that explain what made it the best day. Be sure to use specific details to support each of your reasons. Use vivid verbs and adjectives to make your paper interesting to read.

How Many Words Can You Make?

 How many three, four or five letter words can you make using the pictured letters? (Hint: There are 23 possible words.)

Veterans' Day Lesson Plan

Homeschool Teacher - Lesson Plan & Newsletter 

November 11, 2010

History

Today is Veterans' Day!  "Veterans Day is an annual American holiday honoring military veterans. Both a federal holiday and a state holiday in all states, it is usually observed on November 11. ... It is also celebrated as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day in other parts of the world, falling on November 11, the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended World War I. (Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 with the German signing of the Armistice.)" The United States also celebrated Armistice Day on November 11th until Al King, an Emporia, Kansas shoe store owner campaigned to update it to 'All' Veterans Day. With the help of then U.S. Representative Ed Rees and President Dwight Eisenhower, "Congress amended this act on November 8, 1954, replacing 'Armistice' with Veterans, and it has been known as Veterans Day (official spelled without apostrophe) since." - Wikipedia

Language Arts

Try this Veterans' Day Word Search.

Writing

Send a postcard to a Veteran thanking them for their service with this website.

Math

Try this Math Challenge.

Flower Math Challenge

A florist buys roses at $0.50 apiece and sells them for $1.00 apiece.  If there are no other expenses, how many roses must be sold in order to make a profit of $400?  How did you figure that out?

Cuckoo Bird Math Challenge

 

If a cuckoo clock cuckoos on the hour (the number of times for that hour) and on the half hour (once each half hour) how many cuckoos does it make each day?