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Fractions of Fractions
Fourth graders use an online tool entitled the "Fraction of Fractions" tool to examine how to find a fraction of a fraction. They apply the array tool to problem solving situations. They complete paper folding activities in which they...
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The divider (mixed number quotients)
his unit uses two of the series of four Divider learning objects to support the students division of whole numbers where the quotient is a mixed number (whole number and fraction). The Divider encourages the students to split a division...
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Straddleball
Students play a game. In this spatial and body awareness lesson, students play a game called straddleball. Students practice throwing a ball, being spatially aware and playing a game with good sportsmanship.
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Seeing Interference Fringes with a Telescope
Students construct an interferometer using a simple telescope. In this physics lesson, students explain how light waves create the fringe patterns. They observe patterns made by different objects in the sky and compare them.
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ESL: Passive Voice
In this ESL passive voice instructional activity, students read examples of passive voice in various tenses, then rewrite verbs in sentences in their correct passive form.
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Sounds You See, Hear, and Feel
Learners explore and create sound wave vibrations using musical instruments and common objects. They compare/contrast and describe actions that cause sound wave vibrations that can be seen, heard, and felt.
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Finding the Spot
Fourth graders use circles to "home in" on particular spots, showing the ability of scientists to locate unseen objects in space. This activity shows how scientists know certain objects exist in space due to the forces exerted by...
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Jin Soo Kim
Students examine and discuss a sculpture by the artist Jin Soo Kim. They explore and identify basic sculpture techniques, and create a sculpture using found objects, plaster, and cardboard.
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The Magic School Bus Out of this World
Students explore the craters that objects of different sizes and weights make. They use marbles, Ping-Pong balls, and aluminum-foil balls for this experiment. They investigate what would happen if they drop objects that aren't round.
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Foam Ball Passover
Students work together using positive verbal affirmations in a relay game of passing an object with their feet.
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How Fast Is that Rocket?
Eighth graders calculate the speed of a falling object using measurements from a falling rocket. They report data from their data sheet to the teacher to record on the board or on the overhead transparency and discuss the results with...
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Balloon Round-Up
Students practice using paddles to hit objects. In this striking skills lesson, students use wooden paddles to round up balloon farm animals without touching the balloons with their hands.
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Catching Assessment: Part II
Students are given the opportunity to improve some of their catching skills. They practice catching using the cues of "pinky" fingers together to catch objects below their waist, and thumbs together for catching objects that are above the h
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Clips, Cards, Rocks and Rulers
First graders use standard and non-standard tools to measure classroom objects. Partners compare data and responds to a journal prompt that provides application to real-world situations.
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Geo Jammin' - Day 4, Lesson 13: Where, Oh Where, Can the Geo Be?
Learners listen to a story "My Crazy Dream" with an intent to identify shapes in ordinary objects. They raise their hands when they've heard an object whose shape they can identify. They discuss their findings.
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What Do We Need for Our Picnic?
First graders group objects according to physical characteristics.
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Oscar's Garbage Can
Students are arranged in a circle with two students inside the circle. They try to clean out Oscar's garbage can while the ones outside the circle try to throw the objects back in.
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Welcome to My Neighborhood
Students create pictures of neighborhoods and label the people and objects with Spanish words and phrases.
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How Dense Are You?
Young scholars examine how density is a value that describes what type of a material an object is made of regardless of its shape or size.
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Stayin' Alive
Pupils pick an object of their choice based on their ability to kick. The object is not to touch the ground. Group sizes vary within the instructional activity.
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Switch and Rotate
Students participate in a game whose object is to stay so close to a partner that when the teacher says "Stop," the players freeze. The follower should touch the leader.
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Hula Hoop Hullabaloo
Second graders use hula hoops to represent the zero as they count objects into ones, tens, hundreds and thousands. They complete an activity to after they have practiced counting objects.
