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Family Finances

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students examine the dynamics of family finances. In groups, they discuss the importance of a budget and create their own given a fictional amount of money. As a class, they listen to a speaker from the bank discussing the importance of...
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What a Bohr!

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students define, identify and illustrate the parts of an atom, and investigate the Bohr atomic model. Students watch a multimedia presentation to understand an atom's parts and their functions. In groups, they create a model of an atom...
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Colliding or Combining M&M?? Colors

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders recognize the characteristics of a scientific question and investigate, make predictions, conduct tests, and record and share their observations. They discuss and plan how to investigate the question. Studets explore how...
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Sweet Inspiration

For Students 5th - 6th
In this inventions worksheet, students invent their own sweetshop recipe for Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. Students design an advertisement for their candy. In the other pages, students complete activities related to other Roald Dahl...
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Counting Animal Populations

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students learn how to count animal populations by the Mark and Recapture method. In this counting animal populations lesson plan, students begin by predicting amounts of different candies in a jar. Students then simulate using beans, two...
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Crayon Shapes

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students create an Easter Basket stuffer. In this holiday art lesson, students melt crayons together over a small cooking pot and pour the melted crayons into a candy mold. Students let them dry and are able to color with the...
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Probability Using M&M's

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students estimate and then count the number of each color of M&M's in their bag. In this mathematics instructional activity, students find the experimental probability of selecting each color from the bag. Students create pictographs...
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Probability And Statistics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers write a probability fraction based on the number of favorable outcomes and the number of total outcomes. For this math lesson, learners come up with their fractions based on a bag of candy that has six Three Musketeers,...
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Comparing Candy Bars

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders identify that a ratio is a comparison of two numbers and that a proportion is an equation that equates two ratios. They identify the extremes and means of proportions, as well as the product of the extremes equals the...
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Candy Land Math

For Teachers K
Students order numbers and sets of objects from 0 through 10 and organize and interpret information collected from the immediate environment. They read and interpret graphs usin real objects and the computer. Finally, students sort a...
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The Easter Basket

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this math review worksheet, students complete addition, multiplication, division, and subtraction problems where each answer equals a certain amount of candies. Students solve 10 problems and answer 4 questions.
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Skittle Graphing (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students discuss the uses of graphs. They use color candies to count and sort before designing graphs. They label the graph papers with appropriate titles and candy colors. They complete the graph bars, and discuss the results with a...
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Decorate-a-Cookie

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars use cookies and candy to practice finding the sum of three single-digit numbers.
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Breaking Things on Purpose

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners predict the required stress to break a candy bar. They examine how a various substances break and infer a cause for the type of break. Students relate the candy bar experiment to the importance of nanotech laboratory work and...
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Bite Sized Core Sampling

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students define the origin of rock samples and how surface core samples can tell us about the history and make-up of Mars. Candies are used as a Martian surface sample. Students study the samples and make a hypothesis about the cause of...
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A slope or not a slope? That is the question.

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders investigate concepts related to Cartesian Coordinates. They use a creative game at the beginning of the lesson to identify quadrants by passing candy to one another. The rest of the lesson is using vocabulary and problem...
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Maximize Your Product

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students complete multiplication problems in real life situations. In this multiplication lesson plan, students complete 2 digit problems in a "Carnival Candy" problem.
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Natural Selection

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students comprehend that natural selectionis the tool for adaptation and evolution of populations. They pick three M&M's and no candy corns. Students tally the number of different color M&M's chosen. They discuss why colors...
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Fuel the Brain

Cupids Estimation

For Students 2nd - 4th
Learners use candied hearts to estimate how many will fill the heart on the Valentine's Day themed page. They then do a final count after they have finished the estimation activities.
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Halloween

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students solve Halloween word problems to work on their math skills. In this Halloween lesson plans, students solve problems involving candy, costumes, money, kids, and more.
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Tim and Pat - At the Store

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this bar graphs worksheet, students use the bar graph to add how much time Tim and Pat spend buying candy each week. Students complete the table and answer 3 questions.
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Tim and Pat - At the Store

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this pie chart instructional activity, students use the pie chart to add the amount of time Tim and Pat spend buying candy each day of the week. Students answer 2 questions about the table.
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Smarties Investigation

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this math activity, students participate in an investigation of Smarties candy. For example, students estimate how many candies they have in each color, count the actual number, and record the information in a tally chart.
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Picture/Word Worksheet #40

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this vocabulary acquisition worksheet, students use the pictures and trace the words to help them learn the following words: hospital, baby, candy, magpie, rocket, and fireman.