Students study the geography of the Pacific theater of World War II. They study maps to examine the geography and features of the land.

Students closely examine and analyze an American tall tale. They find the key features of a tall tale and compose a tall tale of their own. Student groups write, edit and present their tales to the class.

Fourth graders begin their examination of the Hawaiian Islands. Using their island bookmarks from a previous activity, they work together to put the information into a book. They identify the physical and human characteristics of the...

Ninth graders study how to identify and analyze the use of figurative language used in selected poems, short stories or other pieces of prose chosen by the teacher. These pieces of literature represent at least two pieces by one writer...

Students read primary documents to launch a discussion about the role of American women throughout the 1970s-1980s.

What do students love more than building? Building with marshmallows! In this activity, students get to build shapes with marshmallows and toothpicks. Included are an extensive lesson plan, a video showing examples, a worksheet, and...

Creating arrays of numbers that describe shapes in 3D shape--arrays that describe nodes and edges.

Students will create a model of a three-dimensional shape and create tessellations on a computer using two-dimensional shapes.

Create a worksheet to assess students knowledge of the characteristics of three dimensional shapes.

The students will make the connection between 2-D and 3-D shapes using modeling clay and geometric solids and participate in an interactive web lesson. Students will make predictions about what 2-D shape they think will be made when they...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video describes how to determine what shapes are used to create a given composite shape. The video is followed by practice problems.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video describes how to determine how many triangles are needed to create the complex composite shape.

Creating a cuboid with specific position and dimensions entails a function that maps a position and dimensions into an array of nodes and an array of edges.

Lesson introducing the basic three-dimensional shapes (sphere, cylinder, cone, cube). Common items with those shapes are hidden on the playground for young scholars to find and photograph. Pictures are then used to create a photostory....

Students will play learning games to practice identifying and creating 3-dimensional figures.

A lesson in creating 3-D solids using toothpicks and marshmallows.

In this video from Cyberchase, Bianca breaks her friend's tabletop when she's practicing dance moves in his living room. She uses measurement and geometry to get a new piece of wood that will fit the table exactly. The accompanying...

This lesson offers an interesting, hands-on experience for middle school students studying cylinders. Students will create cylinders, and measure and compare their volumes.

This two-part geometry lesson plan has students identify, describe, and classify two-dimensional shapes. Students engage in hands-on activities including identifying shapes in the classroom, creating patterns with shapes, identifying...

For this activity created by mathematician Donald Coxeter, students manipulate rhomboids to make different 3-D cubes and other shapes.