Exploratorium
Cheshire Cat
Divide your field of vision in two and see what happens when your two eyes behold two different scenes! This is a way to demonstrate to body-systems buffs how the two eyes usually blend pictures to create a three-dimensional view. This...
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
Large Dominos
You may not be able to set them up and topple them over, but this set of printable dominoes can be used in a number of ways to support children's learning. A great resource for any primary grade teacher.
Bethel School District
Observations and Inference
What's the difference between qualitative and quantitative observations? Learners make observations, inferences, and predictions about their environment with a set of questions and activities that are applicable to either language...
Read Works
First Thanksgiving Meal
Cranberries, oysters, lobster, deer, and cabbage were just a few of the foods found on the table at the First Thanksgiving. After reading a two-page passage about the historic meal, class members respond to 10 reading...
Rivanna Regional Stormwater Education Partnership
Invisible Passengers
How does water pollution affect the organisms living in the water? Use three science experiments to examine how erosion and other pollutants can affect water quality. Each experiment focuses on a different aspect of pollution and...
West Contra Costa Unified School District
Multiplying Binomials and Factoring Trinomials
Two lessons for the price of one! Learners use algebra tiles to multiply binomials in the first instructional activity, Next, they use their knowledge from the first instructional activity to factor trinomials into two binomials.
Generation Nation
Propaganda
How does propaganda influence our vote? Through grand conversation, scholars gain information about what is and how to identify the different ways propaganda is used in a presidential election. Using their new-found knowledge, citizens...
PACER Center
Student Action Plan Against Bullying!
Mighty changes are possible and are often the result of the actions of individuals. Like the high hopes that let the ant move a rubber tree plant, the determination of one person to take a stand against bullying can make a difference....
Media Smarts
Looking at Newspapers: Introduction
A scavenger hunt introduces class groups to the different sections of newspapers and the different types of articles found in each section.
Scholastic
Smart Quotes Mini-Lesson
Prepare for an interview project with a set of worksheets about asking questions and quoting people. After completing a grammar exercise about quotation marks, kids write out the questions they want to ask their interviewee, and record...
Curated OER
Mini-Lesson Planning for Inferences
Making inferences and drawing conclusions is a key component to successful active reading. Encourage your class to use context clues and prior knowledge to infer different elements of a story, including the setting, plot, and character...
Curated OER
NUMB3RS - Season 2 - "Convergence" - Air Hockey
Learn how to use a matrix to organize data to solve a problem. This activity uses wins and losses to rank players for an air hockey tournament they wish to have. After practicing some basic matrix operations the class could do the...
Key Stage Fun
Squeebles Fractions
We are not exactly sure what a Squeeble is, but apparently they love cake and fractions, and your little bakers-turned-mathematicians will also. This app focuses on the basics of fractions including modeling fractions, equivalent...
Curated OER
Math Addition: 6-10
In these addition worksheets, learners practice simple addition by completing five different worksheets that add six to a number, seven to a number, eight to a number, nine to a number, and ten a number.
Curated OER
Addition Sums Super Facts Addends 1 to 10
In this addition facts activity, students will solve 36 addition problems in column format where the addends are between the numbers one and ten.
Curated OER
Addition and Subtraction
In this addition and subtraction worksheet, students enhance their addition and subtraction skills by completing the 42 problems.
Curated OER
Addition Starter Pack: Volume 1 Sample
In this single digit addition activity, students solve six addition problems with sums less than ten with pictures next to each numeral for counting.
Curated OER
Value of Letters and Number Lines
In this value of letters and number lines worksheet, students determine the value of letters in three math problems, place ten numbers on a time line, practice adding together ten addition problems and join eight calculations to their...
Curated OER
Using Addition to Learn Multiplication Facts #4
For this using addition to learn multiplication facts #4 worksheet, 3rd graders use pictures of an addition problem to write a multiplication problem online using the times sign, then check their answer.
Curated OER
Using Addition to Learn Multiplication #8
In this using addition to learn multiplication facts #8 learning exercise, students use pictures of an addition problem to write a multiplication problem online using the times sign, then check their answer.
Curated OER
Using Addition to Learn Multiplication #12
In this using addition to learn multiplication #12 worksheet, students count the shirts in the addition problem and enter the numbers, interactively, to write a multiplication sentence, then check their answer.
Curated OER
Using Addition to Learn Multiplication #1
In this using addition to learn multiplication #1 worksheet, students count the apples and enter the numbers to make a multiplication fact, interactively with immediate feedback.
Curated OER
Moving From Addition to Multiplication
In this moving from addition to multiplication instructional activity, 3rd graders count the objects that are being added and write it as a multiplication sentence, check the answers online and continue to next problem.
Curated OER
Adding 10
In this addition worksheet, learners enhance their addition skills by solving the 35 problems. Students add 10 to the given number in each equation.