Curated OER
Practice Exercises in IT Skills Pack 4: Presentation Graphics
Learners explore how to annotate and align clip art as well as create Powerpoint presentations. In this presentation graphics lesson plan, students expand their IT skills set by completing 4 projects employing clip art and presentation...
Curated OER
TE Activity: The Boxes Go Mobile
Students create a mobile of boxes and cubes that they made in a previous lesson that can be accessed from this page. They design the mobile using method that an engineer would use to balance the items based on surface areas and volumes.
Curated OER
Racism and the Box
Students examine racism and how it relates to self-deception. They identify the effect of racism on society. They reflect on the lesson by writing a paragraph about discrimination and racism.
DK Publishing
Addition Practice #3
If you're in search of some basic addition drills, take a look at this for your second and third graders. There are 20 vertically aligned equations here, each with one three-digit addend and one...
Curated OER
Addition - Sums to 9 (3 of 3)
Simple summation skills are the meat and potatoes of future arithmetic skills. Use this worksheet to provide practice for your first graders when adding single digits. Answers are provided by the click of a box at the top of the page,...
Helping with Math
Ratio and Proportion: Writing Ratios (2 of 2)
Elementary and middle schoolers use pictures to figure out simple ratios and complete ratio word problems. An example is done for learners in which three apples and seven oranges are displayed. The answer simply is a ratio of 3:7. The...
Curated OER
Latin Roots Grad, Mot, Cad: Interactive Puzzles
Three short puzzles emphasize Latin roots grad, mot, and cad in English spelling and vocabulary. Learners choose words from a list and complete spellings in boxes with definitions for clues. A reading passage using the words is included....
Curated OER
Volume of Rectangular Prisms
Introduce the procedure needed to find the volume of a rectangular prism. Learners rank various prisms such as cereal boxes and tissue boxes from smallest to largest volume. They use an applet to find the volume and surface area of each...
Curated OER
Design Your Own Cereal Box
Students explore the ways in which media messages work and the ways in which consumers are targeted.
Curated OER
Manufacturing Technologies: Making a Picture Frame
Students use cereal boxes, paint, buttons and glue to design and make a frame for a photograph. They consider the different processes involved in making the frame and discuss how their observations apply to manufacturing systems that are...
Helping with Math
Addition - Four 4-digit Numbers
Stack up those digits and get your fourth graders adding! This printable handout displays 20 addition problems in which pupils find the sum of four four-digit numbers. With a click of the box in the upper left corner of the web page,...
T. Smith Publishing
Counting Turtles
What child is not drawn to turtles? Seven different groups of turtles are depicted on this handout for them to count. They write the number in a large box on the right side of the page. This simple activity helps to meet counting goals...
Turabian Teacher Collaborative
My Favorite Martian: Workshopping Warrants
Sometimes explaining an argument can lead to confusion and miscommunication. Narrow down the details in written arguments with a group activity in which learners pretend to be aliens from another planet, struggling to understand each...
Turabian Teacher Collaborative
Parts of Argument II: Article Critique
Break down the parts of argumentative writing with a critical thinking activity. High schoolers read an article of your (or their choice), and use a graphic organizer to delineate the ways the author structures his or her arguments.
Fluence Learning
Writing an Opinion Requiring Voting
Challenge writers to compose an essay detailing their stance on, and the history of, voting. Three assignments, each broken down into three parts, requires fifth graders to take notes, read and complete charts, write paragraphs, compare...
Fluence Learning
Solve Problems Using Measurement Concepts
Young mathematicians demonstrate what they know about measurement with a four-task assessment that focuses on estimation, length, and inches.
California Education Partners
We Are The Ship
An assessment sheds light on scholars' ability to read, gather evidence, and draft an original written composition. Learners read an informative text twice before taking notes and discussing their thoughts and textual evidence with a...
Kenan Fellows
Unit 4: Bioethics and the Future of Biotechnology
What's the future of biotechnology? Explore a hot topic in the fourth and final unit in a series of Biotechnology lessons. Learners develop an understanding of the many issues in bioethics, then create an argument for or against the role...
Curated OER
Shopping at the Lift and Carry Store
Young scholars are provided with the opportunity to practice proper body alignment when lifting, carrying and lowering an object.
Curated OER
Investigating Volume
Students investigate the components of volume and use appropriate units and procedures to calculate the volume of several household boxes.
T. Smith Publishing
Larger and Smaller Numbers with Bear
A teddy bear tops the page, for no other reason than to look cute. Ten pairs of boxes follow. For each of the first five, learners color the box with the smaller of the two numbers. For the final five, they color the larger. This is a...
Helping with Math
Worksheet: Dividing by 4
First notice that an answer key is available by the click of a box at the top of the page. Then you will see that learners practice the four times table before delving into division. Twenty-eight quotient-finding problems follow. A...
Helping with Math
Addition Worksheet: Totals 9 or less (1 of 3)
Here is the first in a series of three single-digit addition worksheets. The first 24 of the problems are horizontally written, while the remaining 12 are vertical. At the top of the webpage is a place to check off a box that will reveal...
Helping with Math
Subtraction Worksheet: Numbers to 9 (1 of 3)
Single-digit subtractions skills are super important in the early grades. The linked resource is the first of three such pages accessible through this website. By checking a box at the top of the page, answers can be revealed. Consider...