New York State Education Department
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 4
Why is it important to use precise language? Participants explore this question in the fourth activity in a series of 15 on effective instruction. Perfect for all content areas, the activity promotes appropriate language choice through...
PBS
Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Lost and Found Activity Plan
Gorillas, groceries, pirate treasure, and aardvark homes: these are just a few of the things children will search for and find in this week's Afterschool Adventure, Lost and Found. Children will use position words like above, below, and...
PBS
Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Animal Assistants Activity Plan
The animals need help! In this week's Afterschool Adventure, children will take the role of Animal Assistants and use their spatial skills to help save the day. Each section of this weeklong adventure is introduced by a video clip or...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: What Makes Things Move?
In this activity, young scholars will learn about push and pull forces that make things move. They will also practice using position words to describe location. To learn about forces, they will move objects, observe the movement of...
Other
Jane Goodall Institute: Roots and Shoots
Find out how you can become a global citizen and bring about positive change for communities, animals, and the environment. Here's a program from the Jane Goodall Institute that can help you become involved.
LD Online
Ld Online: Learning Disabilities Online: Phoneme Awareness Activity
What do you know about phoneme activities for collaborative classrooms? This site will show how to develop your own activities to sharpen your students phonemic awareness skills. This informative resource will support any teacher's work...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Fresh Pick Challenge: Pantry Search
Put children in charge of building a pantry that Corporal Cup would be proud of. This activity will help them use direction, distance, and location, visualize placement and positioning, and describe relative positions, such as "next to,"...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Saxon Activity Center: Graphing Calculator Activity: Positive and Negative [Pdf]
Order of operations with positive and negative numbers is the focus of this graphing calculator lesson. Included are detailed examples, demonstrations of key functions, and practice problems. Acrobat Reader required.
Other
Bright Hub Education: Improving Spatial Awareness in Toddlers
Parents and teachers can help young children develop spatial ability by using the following spatial toddler activities with their youngsters or students.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Gps Art
Students design their own logo or picture and use a handheld GPS receiver to map it out. They write out a word or graphic on a field or playground, walk the path, and log GPS data. The results display their "art" on their GPS receiver...
San Diego State University
Lesson Plan: Place Value Card Game
Using a deck of cards this lesson plan has students arrange the cards they draw to make the largest (or smallest) number possible. This activity helps demonstrate the positional property of the numeration system we use.
Other
Common Core Standards Bellringers: Grade 8: English Language Arts [Pdf]
See pages 15, 31, and 47 of this 227-page document for activities where students must order sets of words from most negative to most positive connotation.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Graphing Families of Quadratic Functions
Students can use the Transform app to explore families of quadratic functions. Generalization about the effect of a, b and c coefficients have on the shape and position of the graph in general form, and the effect of a, h, and k in...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Number Detective
On this one page website sharpen your logic and place value skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.