Curated OER
Boat Safety Math
What should you always carry on a boat? Learners must solve ten addition and subtraction problems to solve this riddle. The equations include single and double-digit numbers, but no negative numbers are used. They also don't need to...
Curated OER
Water Fun
Students examine uses for water. In this water lesson plan, students discuss how they use water. As a class students make a PowerPoint by naming one swimming safety rule. Students compare and contrast fishing for fun and fishing for...
Curated OER
The Boat Problem
In this math worksheet, students are given a riddle related to weight and the limit a row boat can carry. This worksheet can be used as a warm up activity or end of class activity.
Curated OER
Fishing Adventures 3
Your young boaters will enjoy writing and solving inequalities, and representing the solution graphically in this task set in the context of renting a boat.
Curated OER
"Just Cruising"
Practice writing the same number sentence in a variety of ways. Learners will explore math cruise ship problems to write equivalent sentences. Then complete word problems which have been included in multiple languages.
Illustrative Mathematics
Fishing Adventures 2
This resource is part of a series which expects participants to be familiar with graphing inequalities on a number line. It is a word problem that asks your class to graph a discrete solution set and interpret it in the context of an...
Illustrative Mathematics
Fishing Adventures 1
Often inequalities exist in many real-world contexts but young math learners struggle with understanding how to represent that relationship in a simple equation using an inequality. This activity focuses on the basic concepts by using...
Science Friday
Make a Model of a Home Made From Shipping Containers
Build a scale model of a home built out of shipping containers. A hands-on activity has scholars watch a video about a home built from shipping containers and then design their own home. They build scale models of their designed homes...