Teach Engineering
Fun with Bernoulli
Reduce the pressure in the classroom. The second instructional activity in an Airplanes unit of 22 introduces the class to Bernoulli's Principle. Pupils demonstrate the principle by blowing between different objects causing a reduction...
Perkins School for the Blind
Baseball
Baseball is an American pastime, super fun to play, and can be made accessible to learners with visual impairments. Instead of taking to the ball field, your class can learn the rules of the game by playing a small three-dimensional...
Curated OER
I Feel Renewed!
Students participate in a simulation of the equal and unequal distribution of the earth's renewable resources. They discuss renewable resources and how food resources can increase and decrease, participate in the simulation, and analyze...
Curated OER
Tips to Help You Organize Your Classroom
Start the school year off right with great organizational ideas for the classroom
Curated OER
Making Cultural Connections
Students explore cultures through storytelling. They read African folktales. Students discuss characteristics of folktales. They research and write a folktale that includes an animal. Additional cross curriculum activities are included.
Curated OER
"Where in the World is my School?"
Students learn new vocabulary and discuss what GPS is and does. They locate their school using the equipment.
Curated OER
Welcome to School
Students are welcomed to their new school by reading a book created by their peers. They discover the daily operations and procedures they need during the school year.
abcteach
Abcteach: Basic Math Addition Activities
[Free Registration/Login Required] A collection of teacher created activities that focus on basic addition practice. Includes frog counters that can be printed and laminated, a dot-to-dot activity, and ready-to-use math worksheets that...
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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,...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Intro to Fractions for Primary Students
This site from the Math Forum is a series of lesson plans with great ideas and an excellent Web site that uses virtual manipulatives with students.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Plane Geometry
Lesson plans on how to incorporate plane geometry into an elementary classroom. Activities are hands-on, use manipulatives, and incorporate real world experiences.
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...
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Lesson: An Introduction to Estimation and Measurements
Pancakes anyone? Students explore estimation and measurement by learning how to make pancakes. A hands-on instructional activity designed for students in grades 3-5 where students are engage in hand-on experiences involving measuring...
Other
Ohio Department of Education: Models for Dividing Fractions [Pdf]
This resource consists of a detailed, hands-on lesson plan for dividing fractions using manipulatives such as fraction bars.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Area Model of Multiplication Base 10 Manipulatives
Students will use base 10 manipulatives to build a rectangular array to represent double digit multiplication. Students will make the connection between the standard algorithm and the rectangular array.This lesson plan was created as a...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Decimal War
Students will use base 10 manipulatives to build models of decimal numbers. Students will compare decimal numbers. This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science, GEMS Project funded by the Malone...