6th Grade Math Understanding Percents Guided Notes & Practice
Guided notes and practice to build conceptual understanding of percent (as 'out of 100' and as a part/whole relationship) and conversions among percents, fractions, and decimals.
Classroom resources
Browse by lesson focus
Choose the topic or kind of practice you need.
Guided notes and practice to build conceptual understanding of percent (as 'out of 100' and as a part/whole relationship) and conversions among percents, fractions, and decimals.
A phonics and spelling remediation program intended for older struggling readers, covering Vc phonogram/syllable division, silent E, and homophones.
Math practice on solving and graphing one-variable inequalities (CCSS 6.EE.5, 6.EE.6, 6.EE.8).
Arctic Animal Styro-Prints - Art Project and Presentation Get your students excited about art and the arctic with this fun lesson! Students will learn about life in the arctic circle including what types of people live there, what the environment is like, what kind of animals live there and much more! The PowerPoint features a…
Space-themed nonfiction reading passages paired with text-based writing prompts, used to practice the A.C.E. strategy (Answer, Cite evidence, Explain) for constructed responses.
Guided notes and practice problems teaching 8th-grade students to identify proportional relationships (in graphs, tables, and equations), interpret unit rate as slope, and compare proportional relationships shown in different formats.
A two-part practice worksheet applying Gay-Lussac's Law and the Combined Gas Law to calculate pressure, volume, or temperature changes in gas samples.
A six-part STEM design project that has students apply circuit knowledge (open, closed, parallel, series) and algebra to design, cost out, and present a working simple machine or toy powered by batteries.
A set of 16 winter-themed math task cards giving 6th-grade students practice with ratios, rates, and unit rates aligned to CCSS 6.RP standards.
Interactive digital math worksheet set teaching ratio concepts through tape diagrams (bar models) and randomized ratio practice.
A middle-grades science research project where students research an animal's current biome and adaptations, then imagine how that animal would need to adapt if moved to a new biome, culminating in a written report and illustrated diagram.
Teach 6th-grade-level students about medieval Europe's economic history, specifically how specialization of labor and trade networks developed during the Middle Ages, through a nonfiction reading passage written at a 1000 Lexile level.
A 20-problem practice set for solving real-world unit conversions (mass, time, volume, speed) using dimensional analysis, with a fully worked answer key.
Practice constructing linear functions in the form y=mx+b from graphs and from tables of values.
An interactive whiteboard ('Smart Board') bingo game reviewing flowering plant anatomy, the plant life cycle, and photosynthesis for middle-school science.
Lesson slideshow teaching techniques for creating suspense in narrative writing (foreshadowing, vivid setting, imagery, pacing) for middle/high school creative writing.
An introductory packet teaching the distributive property through a real-world scenario, then having students practice rewriting and evaluating expressions and finding missing variables using the distributive property.
A 'find the pair' (memory-match) card game reviewing plant anatomy and photosynthesis vocabulary for middle-school science, played in teams of three or four.
A middle-school plant-biology escape room activity: students solve a series of linked puzzles (dominoes, crossword, word search, worksheet) to derive a four-digit combination-lock code, framed around a 'save the substitute teacher' story.
Have student groups apply ratio and fraction concepts by designing catering-menu recipes measured in cups, then analyzing ratios and scaling within and between their recipes.
Give students mixed practice converting units across time, length, weight, and liquid volume using word-problem task cards, with an accompanying PowerPoint version for digital/projected use.
Multi-station hands-on lab activity teaching ecological succession (primary and secondary) and the role of forest fires in ecosystems.
Give students mixed practice converting units across time, length, weight, and liquid volume using word-problem task cards.
A restaurant-themed real-world math activity where students calculate percentages, discounts, tax, and tips using a math-pun-themed menu and per-family bill coupons.