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Curated OER

Rain Forest Reporters

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students work as magazine reporters to produce a print or multimedia magazine about rain forests.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Show 303: New Research into Dyslexia

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students explore the causes of dyslexia. They view CT sans and MRIs to view the brain and how it responds. Students read reports about dyslexia. They discuss the nature of dyslexia, its cause, how to diagnose it, and its permanency.
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Curated OER

The Largest Volcano on Earth

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students create time-lines of tow major eruptions and use this information to determine what happens during an eruption.  In this volcano lesson students read information about previous eruptions and create a time line. 
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Curated OER

Patchwork of the Planet

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students are taught how satellite images can be joined to make a picture mosaic. They use actual satellite images to make satellite mosaics regions of the United States. Students use a camera to photograph portions of a globe in the...
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Curated OER

It's A Jungle Out There!

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students report on an animal according to its appearance, habitat, and characteristics.
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Curated OER

Native Americans at Rose Bay

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students examine the Timken Native Americans of the 1400s and their culture of hunter-gatherers. They study the necessary vocabulary using a number of activities.
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Curated OER

Famous Scientists

For Teachers 6th - 12th
In this famous scientists worksheet, students are provided with a list of 83 scientists from various fields of science to choose from for research.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Math Maven's Mysteries: The Cuckoo Caper

For Students 3rd - 8th
The famous Clockenheimer Cuckoo is missing from Clockenheimer Clocks on Main Street! Help Math Maven get it back by solving a math riddle.
Interactive
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Puzzle Games

For Students 3rd - 8th
A collection of Math puzzles including well-known ones like Tetris and Rubik's Cube, and less familiar ones like the Rotation Game and Zinlock, as well as wordsearches and number puzzles.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Math Maven's Mysteries: The Big Top Carnival Caper

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Help the Math Maven figure out how much money it will cost to give a balloon to every tenth person riding the Ferris wheel. Includes a PDF.
Interactive
Math Cats

Math Cats: Jumping Math Cats

For Students 3rd - 8th
An interactive game where players use problem-solving and logic to jump as many of the math cat faces as possible.
Activity
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: Geo Gebra Prim (Conexiones Misteriosas)

For Students 3rd - 8th
Challenge yourself with this puzzle. Try to connect the dots of the same color with horizontal and vertical segments without leaving the grid and without crossing the lines.
Interactive
Hooda Math

Hooda Math: Hooda Stacker

For Students 3rd - 8th
Hooda Math games provide students extra practice in a variety of math skills. This game focuses on CCSS.Math.Practice.MP1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them and CCSS.Math.Practice.MP8 Look for and express regularity in...
Interactive
Cool Math

Coolmath: Coolmath4kids: Brain Teasers

For Students 1st - 6th
A collection of Math brain teasers.
Website
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Multiplying Magic Squares

For Students 6th - 8th
The math concept of "Magic Squares" is explored here with basic terminology and examples to begin with. Once students have mastered these, the more challenging idea of how to multiply magic squares is introduced. Review materials are...
Interactive
Doina Popovici

Math Play: Equation Puzzle

For Students 6th - 8th
Test your math vocabulary related to equations in this interactive crossword puzzle.
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Harvey Mudd College

Mudd Math Fun Facts: Squares Ending in 5

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This math tutorial features an exercise in which you are given any two-digit number that ends in 5 and then square it in your head.
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Other

Nz Maths Problem Solving Lesson Plans: Level 4

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This New Zealand Problem Solving website is an outstanding resource for lesson plans. They are organized into the following categories: algebra, geometry, measurement, numbers, statistics, and logic and reasoning.
Activity
Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Introduction to Algebra: Multiplication

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
How do you solve for a variable that is multiplied by another number in an algebraic equation? Find the answer to this question and see examples showing how to solve other types of algebra "puzzles."
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Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Introduction to Algebra

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
How is algebra like solving a puzzle? What is a variable? This simple introduction to algebraic equations offers examples of how to solve for "x" and how to balance equations. Follow a link to a "Simple Algebra Worksheet" when you're...
Interactive
Math Playground

Math Playground: Shape Inlay Game

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Drag and drop shapes into a puzzle to explore tessellations.
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Homeschool Math

Homeschool Math: Divisibility Rules

For Students 5th - 6th
This is a complete lesson about the concept of divisibility and common divisibility rules. It briefly reviews the concepts of factor, divisor, and a number being divisible by another. Then, the "easy" divisibility rules by 2, 5, 10, 100,...
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Homeschool Math

Homeschool Math: Comparing Fractions

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Video lesson [8:41] explains various methods for comparing fractions. It includes word problems and a puzzle for practice.
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Solving an Equation for a Missing Value

For Students 3rd - 8th
The CyberSquad solves a number puzzle to help save Motherboard in this video segment from Cyberchase.

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