Lesson Plan
California Academy of Science

Modeling Eclipses with Size and Distance Scales

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Size within the solar system is a difficult thing for pupils to imagine. Using everyday objects, they build models to show the scale between the sun, moon, and Earth. They situate their props in proportional distances between the objects...
Interactive
Arcademics

Penguin Jump

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Don't jump to conclusions but to products instead. Pupils participate in an online race as penguins. Users choose the ice sheet with the correct product to the individual's multiplication prompt. The penguins jump from one product to...
Interactive
Arcademics

Swimming Otters

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Otters swim through numerical gates carrying multiplication equations with a missing factor. By choosing the gate with the correct missing factor, players make the otter swim faster in the online game.
Interactive
Arcademics

Demolition Division

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Divide and conquer! Learners fire quotients at tanks carrying division problems. Correct answers destroy the tanks as they approach the base defenses. Pupils play six rounds that are one minute each to finish the online game.
Interactive
Arcademics

Drag Race Division

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Pupils speed through division as they participate in an online drag race. By answering division questions, individuals provide a boost to their cars. Learners that can answer quickly and accurately win the race.
Interactive
Arcademics

Division Derby

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Run for the quotient. Classmates practice division facts to 12 by racing against each other in an interactive online game. Horses run around a track and receive extra boosts of energy for each correct response.
Interactive
Arcademics

Pony Division

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Divided we pull. Pupils play an online game to practice division facts. With each correct response, the players' ponies pull just a little more in a tug of war.
Interactive
Arcademics

Dolphin Dash

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Dolphins swim for coins. Pupils play an online interactive game to become the first dolphin around the track. Players choose the appropriate value for a collection of coins to increase their speed. The game accommodates up to 12 racers...
Interactive
Arcademics

Dolphin Feed

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Gather money with porpoise. Individuals click on a combination of coins and bills to match the displayed amount of money. Each collection feeds a dolphin, and the player that gathers the most correct amounts wins the online game.
Interactive
Arcademics

Giraffe Dash

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Practice just in the neck of time. Pupils play an online game to practice telling time from an analog clock. Giraffes race around a track and speed up each time the player correctly matches the digital time to the analog clock.
Interactive
Arcademics

Giraffe Pull

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Take time to tell the time. Players compete in an online game of tug of war as giraffes. They determine the correct time in words for the displayed analog clock. Each correct response pulls the rope just a little farther.
Interactive
Arcademics

Dirt Bike Comparing Fractions

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Players push and pull their way to understanding fractions. Users play against one another or the computer in an online tug-of-war game to compare fractions. Learners choose the correct symbol to compare two fractions. Each correct...
Interactive
Arcademics

Ratio Stadium

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Bike to master ratio basics. Learners propel their motorbikes around the track by identifying equivalent ratios. Each correct response provides a boost to the bike, while incorrect answers slow it down.
Interactive
Arcademics

Grand Prix Multiplication

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
The race is on to multiply. Scholars use an online four-player racing game to practice their multiplication skills. Every time they correctly answer a multiple-choice question on multiplication facts within 100, their race cars move...
Interactive
Arcademics

Pizza Pandas

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Grab a fraction of the pizza pie. Players match the written fraction to the amount of pizza shown on the platter. The game allows for up to four individuals at the same time. Scholars reach for a napkin with the fraction that matches the...
Interactive
Arcademics

Ratio Blaster

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Shoot the equivalence before it gets you. Individuals practice determining equivalent ratios in six levels in an online interactive. Scholars shoot down the invaders before they reach the planet by identifying an equivalent ratio to the...
Interactive
Arcademics

Ratio Martian

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Identify the correct ratios for food. Pupils play a six-level online game to practice identifying ratios. Learners see ratios in several forms mixed in with non-ratio quantities. Individuals click on each ratio to feed the hungry martian...
Activity
US Department of Commerce

Immigration Nation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
People come and people go. Given tabular census data on the annual number of immigrants from four different regions of the world between 2000 and 2010, pupils create double bar graphs and line graphs from the data. They analyze their...
Activity
US Department of Commerce

Changes in My State

For Teachers 3rd Standards
So much can change in seven years. Young statisticians choose three types of businesses, such as toy stores and amusement parks, and use census data to determine how the number of those businesses in their state changed between 2010 to...
Activity
US Department of Commerce

Using Fractions to Compare Amusements Parks By States

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Amuse learners with a lesson on amusement parks and fractions. Using provided census data on the number of amusement parks in each state, third graders represent the fraction of states that fall within a certain range. They create a...
Activity
US Department of Commerce

Diversity: Differences in Communities

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
Using census data, the class finds the percentages of three diversity categories for four states and compare them. With the assistance of a 10 X 10 grid, pupils create visual representations of a comparison between two states on one...
Activity
US Department of Commerce

Featured Activity: Population Change Over Time

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
Keep track of a state's population. After a brief discussion on how population data is used for funding, individuals look at population changes over time. Pupils find the population of two states using three different censuses. They then...
Unit Plan
Purdue University

The Represented World: Recreational STEM

For Teachers 3rd Standards
How are forces and motion important to a swing set? Scholars explore the concepts of force and motion using swing sets. In preparation for their own STEM design project, individuals take surveys and data from peers, complete labs on...
Lesson Plan
National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network

Sometimes We Need Large Numbers to Describe Small Things

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
String the class along to help them understand large numbers. A multi-disciplinary instructional activity uses literature, science, and math to look at very large numbers. Pupils conceptualize how much a million is using literature...