Assessment
Illustrative Mathematics

Sounds Really Good! (Sort Of...)

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Winning a lottery game with 60% odds sounds like a no brainer. This is when the math kicks in to show players that in the long run, they lose money the more often they play. Here is one simple question that opens the doors to a nice...
Activity
Grapevine Colleyville Independent School District

Mitosis Claymation Lab Instructions and Rubric

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A single-paged set of instructions and grading system for a mitosis project are laid out for your life science learners. (Note that the page is repeated, making this a two-page document.) Pairs of beginning biologists use clay to model...
Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Games of Chance and Expected Value 2

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Use expected values to analyze games of chance. The 15th installment of a 21-part module has young mathematicians looking at different games involving tickets and deciding which would be the best to play. They calculate expected payoffs...
Writing
Curated OER

Making a Formal Argument $5 or a Lottery Ticket

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
What's better: having a lottery ticket or a $5 bill? This question is sure to engage your middle schoolers. There's an example answer provided and, unlike the other worksheets of its kind, there is a space to write both a rough and final...
PPT
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Pearson

Future Time Clauses

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
What will you do when you grow up? What are you going to do after school is over? Learn about future time clauses and how they connect to independent clauses with a helpful grammar presentation.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Recognizing the Undocumented

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider the plight of undocumented workers. In this immigration lesson, students examine multimedia sources about the role that undocumented workers play in the American economy and conduct further research about the...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Probability Problems Concerning The Simpsons

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
For this probability worksheet, students calculate  probability in ten problems concerning lottery situations and an episode of the television show The Simpsons.
Activity
Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching

Ten Data Analysis Activities

For Students 9th - 12th
This thirteen page data analysis worksheet contains a number of interesting problems regarding statistics. The activities cover the concepts of average measurements, standard deviation, box and whisker plots, quartiles, frequency...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Literary Analysis of Theme

For Teachers 11th
Remember reading "The Lottery" and "The Possibility of Evil" by Shirley Jackson? Learners can experience and analyze the tension, themes, and human experience found in these pieces through reading and class discussion. They use...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Periodic Table

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners research an assigned element using the library, an encyclopedia, the Internet and other appropriate resources in order to write a research paper, a project, and an oral presentation.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Empathy and the Vietnam War

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars explore the implications of the draft during the Vietnam War. In this Vietnam lesson, students analyze the lyrics of songs that explore differents opinions of the Vietnam draft. Young scholars particpate in a...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Events Leading to the Indian Removal 1830-1832

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students consider the effects of Indian Removal on the Cherokee Nation. In this American history activity, students research Internet and print sources regarding the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Students write short stories that detail...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Trial Martin Luther

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students investigate details about the trial of Martin Luther. In this Reformation activity, students review the acts of Martin Luther concerning Reformation of the Catholic Church and then read proceedings from his trial. Students...
Worksheet
Curated OER

The Trail of Tears by Joseph Bruchac

For Students 4th - 8th
In this Trail of Tears worksheet, students fill in the blanks with words given to the Trail of Tears. Students fill in 19 blanks on this worksheet.
PPT
Pearson

Modals

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Ever wonder about the future? Now you know how to speculate in a grammatically correct way! Work on modals to speculate about events from the past, present, and future with a helpful and straightforward slideshow presentation.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Indiana Courts: How Do They Work?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers identify the branches of Indiana's judicial system and determine the differences between the different courts and different types of cases. Students create a flow chart showing how a court case works its way through the...
Activity
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Curated OER

Sounds Really Good! (sort of...)

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Your friend Phil wants to know if he should play the lottery. Have your class use the given data to compute the expected value and explain to Phil what he should do and why. This handout is ideal for a quick assessment of skill and...
Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Making Fair Decisions

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Life's not fair, but decisions can be. The 17th installment of a 21-part module teaches learners about fair decisions. They use simulations to develop strategies to make fair decisions.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Virginia Lotto South: Probability

For Students 9th - 12th
In this lottery worksheet, high schoolers solve 1 word problem. Students determine the probability of winning the lottery given various chances of drawing certain numbers.
Interactive
Curated OER

Past Simple and Past Continuous

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this past simple and past continuous instructional activity, students fill in the blanks to sentences by choosing the correct word or filling in the correct tense. Students complete 6 exercises.
Interactive
Curated OER

Conditional Type 1 and 2

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this conditionals activity, students choose the correct word to complete sentences, fill in the blanks to sentences, and complete a crossword. Students complete 3 activities.
Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Cash or Gas?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Which option provides the best payout? Pupils predict which lottery prize to take. They devise a method to calculate which prize would likely provide the greatest monetary value.
Worksheet
Curated OER

The Vietnam Lotteries

For Students 10th - 12th
In this probability and statistics worksheet, students examine the “fairness” to the Vietnam draft lottery system by constructing box plots of each of the twelve months using data provided.  The three page worksheet contains one...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Lesson: Cloning

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Students explore the concept of cloning. In this cloning lesson, students research reproduction, cloning, and ethic issues. Students discuss their findings and write stories about extinct animals that are brought back to life.

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