Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: May the Force Be With You!
The goal of this lesson is to provide students with hands on experiences, while learning about magnets. This lesson engages students in experiments which explore magnet use. An emphasis is placed on open-ended questions which encourage...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Fraction Fun
The students will participate in a hands-on instructional activity about dividing a whole object into parts. They will also practice simple addition.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Simple Machines
This lesson will teach students about simple machines. Students will have an opportunity to explore and identify simple machines used in their everyday lives. Students will enjoy learning as they play a game on the Internet about simple...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Calendar Communication
The students will learn calendar skills by using a calendar log on a daily basis. Children will be responsible for filling in their calendars daily. This activity will also lead to great communication between home and school. This lesson...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Is Your Order Up or Down?
The learners will be afforded opportunities to actively explore ordering numbers (from least to greatest and greatest to least). The students will engage in a whole group and cooperative learning group setting to explore ordering whole...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Jelly Beans Add Up
The lesson will explore counting, sorting, and graphing skills. The lesson provides students an exciting and fun way of exploring and internalizing graphing, sorting, and counting skills. Realistically, the students will discover what...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Understanding Fractions
In this lesson the children will demonstrate parts of a whole using a candy bar (or fruit), and piece of paper. The activities are used as instructional plans to help students better understand shapes and parts of a shape up to a whole....
Utah Education Network
Uen: 1st Grade Act. 12: The Little House
This lesson plan introduces learners to cycles and patterns. Students will engage in shared reading. Learners will learn word patterns and repetition in language cycles. Students will learn that time in math and cycles of change in...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: How Light Travels
In this lesson, the students will be experimenting to show how light shines in a straight line. They will also be experimenting to see how light reflects using mirrors. The students will be working in cooperative learning groups to carry...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What's the Matter: A Sinker or Floater?
Students will explore matter that sinks or floats when submerged in water and that matter is categorized as either a sinker or a floater. Students will work actively in small, cooperative learning groups as well as gather in a whole...
Math Science Nucleus
Math/science Nucleus: Polymer Storybook
This animation discusses polymers and the properties of polymers in a storybook format. The story covers polymers both plastic and natural, and provides interesting information.
Math Science Nucleus
Math/science Nucleus: Cloud Poem Animation
This animation, in a storybook format, tells the various types of clouds (stratus, cirrus, nimbus) through a picture poem.
Math Science Nucleus
Math/science Nucleus: Giving Water a Second Chance
This animation discusses water and the water cycle in a storybook format. Condensation, evaporation, and precipitation are all covered.
Math Science Nucleus
Math/science Nucleus: Nu, You, and Water Animation
This animation discusses water and its properties in a storybook format. An emphasis is placed on filtration and purification of water.
Math Science Nucleus
Math/science Nucleus: Drippy Water Cycle Animation
This animation discusses the water cycle in a storybook format using the character Drippy. All the stages of the water cycle are covered.
Math Science Nucleus
Math/science Nucleus: Appendix Animation
With a focus on the appendix, this site explores, in a storybook format, the digestive system. The story involves a young boy with stomach pain which turns out to be appendicitis.
Math Science Nucleus
Math/science Nucleus: Owl Poem Animation
This animation told in a storybook format explores the food cycle generated by the owl. It begins with the owl's consumption of food, then the food provided other animals through that consumption and so on.
Math Science Nucleus
Math Science Nucleus: The Bear and the Baby
This animation discusses the history of the constellations and the naming according to myths. The specific constellation dealt with in this animation is Ursa Major and Ursa Minor (the bear and the baby).
Curated OER
Math/science Nucleus: Water Cycle Animation
This animation, in a storybook format, discusses water and the water cycle.
Math Science Nucleus
Math/science Nucleus: Wetland Animation
This animation in storybook format tells the story of Tules Pond and also gets into pond and lake ecosystem information.
Math Science Nucleus
Math/science Nucleus: Electrons and the Hairy Monster
This animation discusses electrons and the properties of electrons in a storybook format featuring hairy monsters, strange rocks, and fun animations.
Math Science Nucleus
Math/science Nucleus: Mammoth Mary Animation
This animation, in a storybook format, discusses a wide variety of prehistoric animals from the mammoth to the mastodon.
Math Science Nucleus
Math/science Nucleus: Frog Poem Animation
This animation outlines the life of a frog in a storybook format through a poem. The poem covers the stages in the life of a frog.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Celebrating Fall: Collection
Explore the autumn scene while learning math, literacy, and science at the same time! These fall-themed resources highlight ways to make traditional fall activities -- like visiting the apple orchard, going on nature hikes, and...