Lesson Plan
University of Texas

Inside Mathematics: Boxes [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th - 7th
This task challenges students to demonstrate an understand of the concept of equality using scales and balance beams.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Hydrogen Oxygen Reaction Lab

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lab exercise exposes students to a potentially new alternative energy source-hydrogen gas. Student teams are given a hydrogen generator and an oxygen generator. They balance the chemical equation for the combustion of hydrogen gas...
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Math Slice

Math Slice: Heavy Slice Special Test

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A concise test for assessing number sense using weights and scales. Assessment is scored online offering students immediate feedback. Can be used for a quick assessment.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: How Do You Measure Up? (With the Ti 10)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this activity, students measure weight, height, and length with the help of a balance, scales, rulers, yardstick, and tape measures. They use their TI-10 to find proportions and to round off answers to whole numbers.
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Curated OER

Eternal Egypt: Scale Box With Scales

For Students 9th - 10th
This box is for keeping a scale and weights. It contains a sliding rule of two levels, carved and divided to contain balances.
Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Art Appreciation: Unit 3: Technical Aspects of Art

For Students 9th - 10th
In this third unit of a course on Art Appreciation, students learn how to describe the technical aspects of an artist's work by discussing elements of art and principles of design. They also look at the stylistic qualities of an artist's...
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Weight

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this interactive, students weigh a rabbit, frog, and kangaroo by adding blocks to the scales until they are exactly even.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Longer and Heavier? Shorter and Heavier?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students will compare the length and weight of several pairs of objects to learn that weight and length are separate measurable attributes, and not always related.
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Other

Sorico: Describing and Comparing Measurable Attributes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
The following unit can be used to teach measurable attributes. Students will describe and compare two objects with a measurable concept in common using direct comparison. Included are necessary vocabulary, a scavenger hunt, and links to...
Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: May the Forces of Push and Pull Be With You!

For Teachers K - 1st
Read, brainstorm, drag objects, erase to reveal answers, and move weights on a balance scale to learn about forces, mass, gravity, weight, and balance in this activity created by SMART.
Unit Plan
CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Mass and Weight: What's the Difference?

For Students 9th - 10th
Explanation of the differences between mass and weight.
Graphic
Wyzant

Wyzant: Basics of Equations

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial from WyzAnt contains a walk-through of the basics of solving algebraic equations. Examples are given and the tutorial ends with an interactive worksheet that contains an answer key.
Graphic
Curated OER

Diagram

For Students 9th - 10th
A very descriptive site about sound balancing, including diagrams and illustrations to help you understand what sound balancing is.
Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Mechanics Mania

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Through ten lessons and numerous activities, students explore the natural universal rules engineers and physicists use to understand how things move and stay still. Together, these rules are called "mechanics." The study of mechanics is...
Website
Other

Louvre Museum: A Closer Look at the Titeux Dancer

For Students 9th - 10th
Media-rich module examines a terracotta figurine that embodies many characteristics of classical Greek sculpture. Expert commentary accompanied by animated overlays demonstrate details of the composition that give it harmony, balance,...
Activity
University of California

Ucla K 6 Physics/astronomy: Mass, Weight, and Density

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This website provides explanations of mass, weight, and density with directions for building simple scales and balances. Provided as encouragement to teach these concepts to young children, it offers a good review for older students.
Article
University of California

Uc Davis Geo Wiki: Chemical Budgets of Oceanic Elements

For Students 9th - 10th
To the extent that the composition of the ocean remains constant, the rate at which any one element is introduced into seawater must equal the rate of its removal. A listing of the various routes of addition and removal, together with...
Unit Plan
NASA

Nasa: Space Place: Messenger: Planet Mass Comparison

For Students 3rd - 8th
Compare the masses of planets in this interactive animation. Simply pile a number of Earths on one side of the scale, to balance with the mass of one Jupiter. Then try this with all the planets.
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Curated OER

Congressional Scales, a True Balance

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a large site from American Treasures covering primary source documents from the early 1800s through the Civil War and on to Western Expansion.
Graphic
Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Libra

For Students 9th - 10th
A balance, a pair of scales. The principal parts of this instrument were: 1. The beam. 2. The two scales, called in Latin lances. The beam was made without a tongue, being held by a ring or other appendage, fixed in the centre. The...

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