A lot of Cars
🚙 In this updated activity, students will explore the environmental impact of transportation choices. They will use division to calculate how different transportation choices...
Social Studies
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Ulmer Nest
🏠In this activity, students will dive into estimation and critical thinking as they explore ‘Ulmer Nest’. It’s essential to start with the starter slides, where student...
How much does America spend for Mother’s Day?
Updated in April 2026 with new data; see the answer key.How much do we spend on Mother's Day? Use the Mother's Day event to engage your students (as a class) in approximating, reasoning, and investiga...
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 ...
Will the Barbie movie out-perform Avatar at the box office?
The Barbie Movie is still doing well in the theaters. It has only been 6 1/2 weeks since its debut. Do you think that it can out-earn Avatar? Students study the numbers, recognize ...
What do you know about the Hawaiian islands?
We’ve been watching news about the extreme wild fires, draught and winds that have devastated parts of the Hawaiian Islands. Let your students explore Hawaii and better understand its d...
Will sending you back to school this year cost a fortune?
This activity is scheduled to be updated in August 2026. Stay tuned! With high inflation rates, supply shortages, and rethinking what is essential spending, back to school spending might be diffe...
It's opening weekend for Barbie
This movie is supposed to be nostalgic, clever, funny, and wildly entertaining.
We've written an activity that lets students express their excitement (or lack of) in seeing this new movie, st...
Father's Day and Juneteenth; 3 Activities
Algebra
Number Sense
Social Studies
Food
Holidays
Current events
Ratio and Proportion
Probability and Statistics
For Father's Day (Links to different activities) Thank you, mother and father, for all of those diapers - Students compare the cost of buying disposable versus cloth diape...
Betsy Ross's 5-pointed star
Flag of the United States from 1777 to 1795.
In honor of Independence Day we thought it would be fun to look at one story about the first American Flag.
The rough desig...