Lunar New Year
In this updated activity, students will explore the unique naming system of the Lunar New Year, which combines the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches. Without expl...
Holidays and Annual Events
Genres
Grade
Holiday Movies
In this updated activity, students will explore box office data for top-grossing Christmas movies to analyze and compare earnings. They'll practice skills like rounding, estimating, calculating di...
Mother's Day
Algebra
Number Sense
Geometry
Math and Social Studies
Math and Food
Holidays and Annual Events
Math and Art
Current events
Ratio and Proportion
3-act tasks
Data and probability
Funny
Wow factor
How much do we spend on Mother's Day - Use the Mother's Day event to engage your students in approximating, reasoning, and investigating as students estimate how mu...
Leslie's Yummy Pumpkin Pie
Every year more and more people come to our house on Thanksgiving morning for my (Leslie's)famous pumpkin pie and a hike in the nearby woods. This year 23 people have already accepted. How man...
Will this be an El Niño winter?
The Oceanic Niño Index (ONI) started to show changes to the Pacific Ocean surface temperatures in April and May of this year. Those temperatures are still rising which is a marker for the upco...
Will sending you back to school this year cost a fortune?
With high inflation rates, supply shortages, and rethinking what is essential spending, back to school spending might be different this year. Back-to-school spending is huge and students mi...
Father's Day and Juneteenth; 3 Activities
Algebra
Number Sense
Math and Social Studies
Math and Food
Holidays and Annual Events
Current events
Ratio and Proportion
Data and probability
For Father's Day (Links to different activities)
Thank you Mother and Father for all of those diapers (2015) - Students compare the cost of buying disposable vers...
March Equinox - big deal? ... and 5 more Spring activities
What's with the March Equinox? Does it really affect our lives? Is it just some astronomical occurrence? Students calculate the daylight hours at the March Equi...
How hard is it to find a 4 leaf clover? (3 Saint Patrick's Day activities)
Shamrocks in Ireland are actually 3-leafed white clover, trifolium repens. If you are lucky, you can sometimes find a four-leafed clover. How rare is finding a 4-leafed clover? How hard do you...
Whole lot of cookies
This activity has been updated -- See the updated activity HERE