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...
Holidays and Annual Events
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Grade
Veterans Day, 2023
Algebra
Math and Social Studies
Holidays and Annual Events
Current events
Ratio and Proportion
Data and probability
On Veterans Day we honor the men and women that have served in the Armed Forces of the United States. There are now 16.2 million living veterans. We found these maps that show where veterans liv...
How many Americans (and their pets) participate in Halloween?
Algebra
Number Sense
Math and Social Studies
Holidays and Annual Events
Ratio and Proportion
Data and probability
Surveys show that more and more people are involved in and spending on Halloween activities. If the percent of Americans participating continues at this pace and the population continues to grow at ...
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...
Summer Solstice, the longest day
Sunrise on summer solstice at Stonehenge
On Wednesday, June 21st, at 10:57 am EDT, the Earth's North Pole will be tilted as far towards the Sun as it will ever be in the ye...
Triple Crown hopefuls at the Preakness
Credit: AP Photo/Garry Jones
Saturday, May 20th 2023, will be the running of the Preakness Stakes thoroughbred horse race in Baltimore, Maryland. The Preakness is the secon...
Earth Day (April 22) Actions for Our Planet
Algebra
Number Sense
Geometry
Math and Science
Math and Social Studies
Holidays and Annual Events
Current events
Ratio and Proportion
3-act tasks
Data and probability
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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...
Ground Hog day
On GroundHog Day (February 2nd), Punxsutawney Phil will again, with great ceremony, come out of his burrow and look for his shadow. Let your students check out the relative frequency of hi...
Lunar New Year 2023
The year of the Water Rabbit
Students explore the least common multiple of these two cycles without ever hearing the term LCM. They explore some of Asian culture and begin to understand the...