Hi, what do you want to do?
Curated OER
Presidents North and South Timeline
Fourth graders conduct online research to create a timeline of ten US Presidents. In this historical events lesson, 4th graders find online information about the birth dates and birth states of ten US Presidents. This information is...
Curated OER
Burs in Your Furs
Pupils explore the concept of animal welfare. In this wild animal habitats lesson plan, students discover the work of wild animals in sustaining their habitats as they participate in a classroom simulation. Pupils discuss how wildlife...
Curated OER
Favorite Animal at the Zoo - Making a Pie Chart
In this graphing and interpretation worksheet set, students draw charts that are either blank or outlined that show information about students' favorite zoo animals. They answer questions based on the data in 15 examples.
Curated OER
Stained Glass Polygons
Learners follow directions to make a stained glass window design of regular and irregular polygons with specific geometric elements. In this geometry lesson plan, students also analyze other classmate's designs.
Curated OER
Creature Design
Fifth graders create mathematical creatures. In this geometry lesson plan, 5th graders create a creature from regular and irregular geometric shapes. Students review vocabulary and construct an original creature based on a rubric.
Curated OER
Weighted Eggs
Students order five weighted plastic eggs in order from lightest to heaviest.
Curated OER
10 by 10 Tessellations
Fifth graders, with a partner, create tessellation patterns by playing 10 by 10 Tessellations. They need to use critical thinking skills to decide if pattern block plane figures tessellate and how each block best fits into the pattern.
Curated OER
Addition Properties
Student study addition properties. In this addition properties lesson plan, students use multiple methods to solve various types of problems. Students illustrate and describe in various ways the Commutative Property of Addition....
Curated OER
It's Close Enough: Rounding and Estimation
Second graders round to the closest five, ten, and hundred. They use place-value concepts of grouping based upon powers of ten (thousandths, hundredths, tenths, ones, tens, hundreds, thousands) within the decimal number system.
Curated OER
Olympic Medal Count
For this Olympic medals worksheet, students identify the country's flag and write the country name in the box next to it. Students add the country's abbreviation and watch the Olympic Games. Students put a mark in the appropriate box...
Curated OER
Our Keystone FFA Spring
Students identify where their water sources and explore a watershed on a map. For this watershed lesson students walk a wetland, and identify sources of pollution.
Curated OER
Temperature and Pressure on Airplane Surfaces
High schoolers use the Internet to delve into the relationship between fores and motion on a sizable object. They predict where they think the temperature and pressure be the greatest, and where the pressure be the lowest.
Curated OER
Typhoon Project
Students graph and outline the path of a typhoon. In this algebra lesson, students measure the path of the typhoon and create a graph with their data. They analyze the data and make predictions.
Curated OER
Creating a Map for Future Reference
Students use Web and other resources to create maps of either the site of their day trip, their final destination, the entire trip, or some combination of these.
Curated OER
The Nesting Habits of Folders
Students create an organized web of nested grade level folers. Within each grade level folder, they create a Language Arts/Social Studies folder and a Math/Science folder. All folders be color coded.
Curated OER
Earth's Surfaces
Students identify and define geology and earth surface vocaulary and their meanings to classify rocks and explore caves and their properties. Students find rocks and test them according to Moh's scale. They create a color coded earth...
Curated OER
Fraction Message
Students practice identifying fractional parts represented in pictures and phrases. For this fraction lesson, students determine the proportion represented by common time and money phrases such as "3 hours in a day". Students match their...
Curated OER
Water Density Boundaries
Students create observable layers in water that represent a separation based upon density differences. They model density boundaries using differences in temperature and salinity. They, in groups, perform a meaningful experiment...
Curated OER
THE MEAN INDEX CARD
Students cut an index card to create three similar right triangles and explore the congruencies and proportions that exist. They investigate the properties of lines and concepts of congruency, similarity, tangency and symmetry of...
Curated OER
Calendar Creations About the Civil War
Eighth graders research key events in the Civil War and create a calendar with illustrations and key events listed throughout the year.
Curated OER
Coal Production in the USA
Middle schoolers arrange the states by alphabetical order, find the five top coal producing states and discover their total production levels. They then find all the states which begin with the letter "A" and whose coal production is...
Ohio State University
Exploration Activities with Electrostatic Interactions
Step out of the 21st century and discover protons and electrons through observation. Using common materials, participants continually adjust their explanation of charges. The final assessment requires pupils to design their own...
Curated OER
Totally Awesome Answers to Wacky Wonders
Middle schoolers work with a partner to gather information on a question from two sources using a computer program and the Internet. They also write a report with visuals to air on closed-circuit TV for the school. Use this lesson to...
Curated OER
Determining the Altitude of Iridium Flares
Young scholars examine what iridium flares are and when they occur. In this iridium flare instructional activity students complete an activity to see how far overhead Iridium satellites are.