Curated OER
Grizzly Habitat
Students find areas on playground where they would live if they were a grizzly bear, share their reasons for their choice, talk about habitat areas, and choose their sites again, based upon new information.
Curated OER
Putting Together History Puzzle Pieces
Students 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...
Scholastic
Scholastic Instructor: Origami Math
Have you ever tried origami? This Japanese form of paper folding is the basis of this math lesson plan. Students will have an opportunity to integrate their creative side with their math skills.
National Gallery of Art
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.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Thiebaud's Cake Math (Intermediate Version)
Using the painting, Cakes by artist Wayne Thiebaud, students will learn and practice math concepts of volume and surface area. Then they will create a bold cake painting, either online or with classroom art materials.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright Knox Art Gallery: Can It?
Pop artists used consumer products, advertising, and popular culture icons as the major source for subject matter in their art. Between 1962 and 1967, Andy Warhol painted soup cans, both individually and in groups. 100 Cans is one of the...
Crayola
Crayola: Counting 'Til the Pigs Come Home (Lesson Plan)
A fun lesson plan for younger students incorporating art, math, and writing. Student create their own counting stories, and illustrate them. Also provides resources and adaptations. (To access this lesson plan, you must register with...
PBS
Pbs Mathline Lesson Plan: Sidewalk Capers [Pdf]
The objective of this lesson is for students to, "explore spatial relationships by determining the area of various shapes and creating tessellation patterns." Using a variety of hands-on activities, students apply concepts of geometry,...
PBS
Pbs: Mathline Creature Feature Lesson Plan [Pdf]
An interdisciplinary math, science, and language arts lesson plan that engages students in an exploration of statistics. Through a study of various forest climates, students utilize data collection and analysis, classification, and...
Microsoft
Microsoft Education Lesson Plan: Candy Is Dandy
Explore color distribution of M&M candies using this detailed lesson plan. An engaging integrated lesson that requires understanding of spreadsheets and formulas, and logical reasoning. Links to related websites.
OpenStax
Open Stax: C. M. Sunday: Music/math/literacy Unit
This lesson plan 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 plan.
PBS
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.
PBS
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.
PBS
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.
PBS
Pbs Mathline: Button, Button Lesson Plan [Pdf]
An integrated math and language arts lesson focusing on statistics. Young scholars explore the concepts of estimation, data collection, data analysis, classification, graphing, and counting through the reading of the Button Box by...
PBS
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.
PBS
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.
PBS
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.
PBS
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....
PBS
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.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Self Portrait Drawing [Pdf]
In this lesson, students will explore self-portraiture by looking at classical portrait paintings, such as Diego Velazquez's La Infanta Margarita or Raphael's Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. A close look at these works reveals...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: A Math and Language Arts Lesson: Division
The lesson will help students develop an initial understanding of division and clarify how the four operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division relate to and are separate from each other. The lesson begins with a...
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...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Monumental Construction [Pdf]
In this lesson, students work in teams to create large paper sculptures using newspaper rolled up into tubes.