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TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 13
The six instructional shifts in this workshop definitely move math and science teachers' understanding of instruction. The workshop, 13th out of a series of 15, asks participants to examine sample tests and to look at how the six...
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Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Shapes & Patterns
In this lesson, students will watch videos about shapes and identify shapes in their environment and in art. Links to the videos are at the bottom of the lesson overview, other material links are also provided.
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Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Abstract Sculpture & Cubes
In this lesson, students will form cubes and discuss their attributes including edges, faces, vertices, and angles. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
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Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Jack & the Giants and the Math Challenge
In this instructional activity, learners create and solve a word problem related to counting money, develop a script for a short scene, and perform it using the elements of performance. Teacher resources are provided.
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Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Abstract Sculpture & the Attributes of Cubes
In this instructional activity, students will create cubes and identify the attributes of a cube, including discussion of edges, faces, vertices, and angles. Teacher resources are provided.
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Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Dragon Scales
In this lesson plan, students create a class mural by using scale, ratio, and proportion. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
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Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Symmetry, Reflective Drawing, and Totem Poles
In this lesson, students will create a colored pencil drawing utilizing symmetry and forms characteristic of Northwest Coast art and write a critique of their work. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
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Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Circle Designs
In this lesson, students explore circumference and diameter by creating an abstract design with circles. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
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Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Geometry in Dance
In this lesson, students observe symmetry, geometric shapes, and angles in two Early American dances, and then choreograph their own dance with symmetrical figures. Media and teaching materials are included.
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Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Shapes Into Sculptures
In this instructional activity, students will identify 2- and 3-dimensional shapes as well as create shape drawings and sculptures. Teacher materials are available.
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Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Shape Mobile
For this lesson, students will create a shape mobile of 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes made from geometric shapes.
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Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Stage Props, Blocking, and Graphs
In this lesson, students will block a scene on a graph and act out the scene. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
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Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Drum Beating & Foot Stomping
In this lesson, students watch African dance and calculate tempo. Students also calculate heart beats at rest and after exercise and convert beats per second to beats per minute. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
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Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Rotation, Reflection, and Translation in Dance
In this lesson, young scholars choreograph a dance figure by creating a dance graph with descriptions of rotation, reflection, and translation; perform it for their classmates; and translate a classmate's dance map into a performance....
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Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Jack & Hardy Hard Head
In this lesson, students create and solve problems related to scale and write and perform a scene to share their problems and solutions. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
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Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: The Absolute Value of Dance
In this lesson, students use a graph to choreograph a dance figure. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
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Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Calculating Musical Tempo
In this activity, students calculate the beats per minute (BPM) of songs in different tempos. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
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Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Jack & the Giants: Jack Spends His Pay
For this lesson, students will create and solve word problems involving money (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of decimals), and develop a script for a short scene and perform it using the elements of performance....
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Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Fractions in Music
In this lesson, students explore the relationship between fractions and musical pitch. Media resources and teaching materials are included.
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Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Musical Fractions
In this lesson, students will explore fractions through rhythmic sequences. Media sources and teaching materials are included.
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Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Jack & the Zero Clan
In this lesson, students will create and solve a word problem related to adding and subtracting within 1,000, develop a script for a short scene using dialect, and perform it using the elements of performance, specifically acting,...
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Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Geometric Quilts
In this instructional activity, students will create a class quilt of nine patch paper quilt blocks using geometry.
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Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Dance Space
In this lesson, students students explore locomotor and non-locomotor movement and calculate the area needed to perform the African-American dance Zudio.
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National Gallery of Art: Counting on Art
Several lesson plans available for grades K-8 that take a look at math and art. Each lesson includes printable resources, glossary of terms, an artist biography, and national math and visual arts standards.