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Curated OER

Grasping Geometry

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students investigate geometric shapes in their environment, make a geometric design, and write paragraphs describing the design.
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Curated OER

Aldridge Sawmill - The Story in Numbers

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders practice math skills while becoming familiar with Texas' "Boom & Bust" economy and the natural history of the east Texas Piney Woods. They utilize worksheets and websites imbedded in this plan.
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Curated OER

Build a Sturdy Wall

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners read a version of "The Three Little Pigs" and then work in small groups to design a wall. They use Legos to build the wall and subject their design to a strength test.
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Curated OER

GIS and Agriculture

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers are introduced GIS systems and how they operate. Using a GIS system, they locate and map the various types of agricultural products grown in Oregon. They rank each county based on the amount of agricultural products...
Activity
Curated OER

Make A Farm

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use legos to create a farm. In this farm lesson plan, students create farm animals, a fence, a barn, trees, and more.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 1.oa Measuring Blocks

For Teachers 1st Standards
This is a complete lesson plan that has students use paper clips to measure the length of blocks.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 1.oa Measuring Blocks

For Teachers 1st Standards
This is a complete lesson plan that has students explore how to measure length using blocks.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: S Ic Block Scheduling

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A random sample of 100 students from a specific high school resulted in 45% of them favoring a plan to implement block scheduling. Is it plausible that a majority of the students in the school actually favor the block schedule? Students...
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Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Choose the Larger Block Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A simple game through which young learners "choose the larger block" by counting and comparing the numbers of pieces that make up each block.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Which Weighs More? Which Weighs Less?

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will use a block to compare with other objects to decide which is heavier/lighter. They will fill in a chart by drawing a picture of it under "Heavier" or "Lighter" depending which applies.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Shape Makers

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this Five E's AMSTI lesson plan, students discover relationships between shapes. Students discover multiple ways to combine shapes to fill the area of a given shape using real and virtual pattern blocks, and share their solutions with...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 4.nf Plastic Building Blocks

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
The purpose of this task is to have students add mixed numbers with like denominators. Aligns with 4.NF.B.3.c.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Sorting by Size

For Teachers K Standards
Sorting is an important foundational skills for kindergarten students to learn. Using attribute blocks to sort by size helps students practice comparing objects and prepares them to sort by other measurable attributes.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Sorting by Shape

For Teachers K Standards
Sorting is an important foundational skills for kindergarten students to learn. Using attribute blocks to sort by shape helps students practice comparing objects and prepares them to sort measurable attributes.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Choral Counting

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Using base ten blocks, students will develop the concept of ten more and ten less, moving from concrete representation to understanding of the unit of ten within ten more and ten less. Included is a detailed lesson plan with many...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 2.nbt Three Composing/decomposing Problems

For Teachers 2nd
In this lesson plan students use base ten blocks to explore place value.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Mg Solar Eclipse

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, young scholars investigate why total solar eclipses are rare. They will learn that, in addition to requiring the positioning of the Sun, Moon, and Earth, the Moon can only completely block out the Sun when it is closest to...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: A Sse Delivery Trucks: Assessment Variation

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This is an assessment task that has students look for structure in algebraic expressions related to the context of trucks delivering concrete blocks and asks them to relate that structure to the context. Aligns with A-SSE.A.1 and...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 6.g Christo's Building

For Teachers 6th
This problem looks at a scale model of a project by Christo and Jeanne Claude. Students are asked to calculate its volume, how many 1/2-inch blocks would be needed to build it, and how much cloth would be required to wrap it. They then...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: So Many Squares! Red & Blue Sort It Out

For Teachers K Standards
SWBAT sort squares by color into 2 sets or groups.
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Stat Soft: Statistics Glossary

For Students 9th - 10th
Dozens of statistical terms are defined and illustrated in this glossary.

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