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Curated OER
Putting Together History Puzzle Pieces
Pupils attempt to put puzzle pieces together with no prior knowledge. This activity shows students at the beginning of the year that history is like a puzzle, there are often missing pieces, and many ways the pieces can turn to look right.
Curated OER
Mineral Scavenger Hunt
Young scholars complete a scavenger hunt worksheet as they find examples in their classroom, at home, etc., of minerals. Excellent worksheet!
Curated OER
Reading Comprehension - Scanning
Students use scanning as a comprehension skill when reading certain types of publications. They compare the reading technique used when reading in their mother language to those used when reading English.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Sounds Like Music
Music can loosely be defined as organized sound. The lesson objectives, understanding sound is a form of energy, understanding pitch, understanding sound traveling through a medium, and being able to separate music from sound, can...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Fractions in Music
In this lesson, learners explore the relationship between fractions and musical pitch. Media resources and teaching materials are included.
OpenStax
Open Stax: C. M. Sunday: Music/math/literacy Unit
This lesson encourages students to actively participate while learning about music and math similarities. This site has many ideas and resources to help aid you in planning your lesson.
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: All Around the Baseball Field
Here's a lesson plan that combines art, music, movement, critical thinking, math, and baseball. The plan gives complete instructions, printable resources and web links, assessment, and application of national standards.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Calculating Musical Tempo
In this lesson, young scholars calculate the beats per minute (BPM) of songs in different tempos. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Keys and Scales Are Sets
Help your students identify sets and intersections of sets with this musical activity. Using the concept of key signatures, students will learn that scales are sets of notes. Included with this lesson plan are downloadable worksheets and...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: The Sound of Numbers [Pdf]
For this lesson, students will explore numbers and their relationships through rhythm and learn how every aspect of music can be described mathematically.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Rhythmic Experiences [Pdf]
For this lesson. students will learn that musical symbols have numerical values as they divide beats and meters, perform and create rhythm patterns, and practice operations with fractions.
PBS
Pbs: Order of Operations: Flocabulary's Pemdas Lesson
Watch and listen to a recitation of the order of operations set to hip-hop music. This video focuses on PEMDAS as the acronym for order of operations and demonstrates the concept by walking through a problem in the correct order.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Translucent, Transparent, and Opaque Objects
Students will become familiar with transparent, translucent, and opaque objects. Students predict whether items are transparent, translucent, or opaque. Finally, students will show what they have learned by producing a song, poem, cheer,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Drum Beating & Foot Stomping
In this instructional activity, 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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Cyberchase: Crack the Code
Cyberchase video in which the CyberSquad must get into a vault before Hacker, Buzz, and Delete by cracking a code of shapes and numbers. [3:20]
PBS
Pbs: Mathline: Tessellations Wow! [Pdf]
An integrated geometry lesson plan on spatial sense in which students identify and use different shapes to create a tessellation. "Through a variety of modalities such as writing, music, art, poetry, and literature, students are...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Realizing the Power of Your Own Creativity [Pdf]
In this lesson, students interpret a poem called 'The Little Blue Engine' by adding music, movement, visual art, and drama. After performing their creation, they will discuss any mathematical and/or scientific connections that have a...