Curated OER
My Building, My Community
Pupils become familiar with the concepts of community and neighborhood and what buildings are associated with these. In this neighborhood lesson, students tour the neighborhood as a class, observing and taking photos of the local...
Curated OER
Dysfunctional Eating
Sixth graders write a 1.5 page paper explaining how to make their favorite nutritional snack. They need to assume that the audience has never seen or heard of the snack before.
Curated OER
: "Synthesizing Content on a Continuum" Activity: Developing Effective Communication
Pupils express their opinions on the danger from HIV. They study appropriate speaking techniques and become aware what it feels like to learn that they have been infected with an incurable, fatal disease. The share personal...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Adding Integers a Modeling Approach
This activity is a first glimpse into how to add integers. It is a modeling approach that will leave students with a mental image of the result of adding integers so they will be able to add integers without creating the model.