Lesson Plan
Curated OER

City People, City Stories

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students create fictional inhabitants to scale for a place called 'Box City'. They develop stories and personalities to go with the created people, share the stories with the class and write a newspaper for their city.
Activity
Discovery Education

The Time of Our Life

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Mammals are some of the newest organisms to appear on Earth. Young scholars complete an activity that results in a timeline showing the appearance of different types of living organisms. Provided with a list that spans from prokaryotes...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Old Glory

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students utilize mathematical concepts such as: measurement, ratio and proportion and geometric probability to analyze the components of the U.S. Flag. They collect, organize and interpret data by constructing charts, tables and graphs...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Proportional Flag

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students can use the concepts of similarity to create a scale drawing of the national flag, that is large enough to cover most of a football field.