University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Olympic Measures
Can you match these records and measurements to the correct event at the Olympic Games? This activity invites students to engage with units of measurement and orders of magnitude, and is aimed at secondary students at Key Stage 3.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: The Olympic Logo
How would you write a LOGO program to approximately reproduce the Olympic Rings logo? This activity is designed to be accessible to students at all levels of secondary maths (Key Stages 3, 4 and 5).
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Sports Equipment
Sports such as hockey, football, basketball and tennis use balls of different sizes. Can you arrange a selection of different balls in a line each touching the next to make the shortest line? This activity offers opportunities for...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Speed and Accuracy
This activity investigates the importance of accurate measurement in competitive sport, looking at examples from athletics and swimming. It is aimed at secondary maths students (grades 8, 9, and 10).
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Speed/time Problems at the Olympics
8 speed/time problems from Olympic athletics, rowing, and cycling aimed at GCSE students (grades 8, 9, and 10). This activity encourages investigation and research for some parts of the questions and gives students opportunities to...
Broward Education Foundation
Broward Education Foundation: Project Living History [Pdf]
Inquiry research is self-directed and project-based on the grade-level curriculum. Students begin an area of inquiry research becoming a critical historian. Focusing on research writing involves reading and a digital search on Destiny...
Other
Andy Warhol Museum: Resources and Lessons
A collection of resources for teaching about the life, times, and work of Andy Warhol in an interdisciplinary way. This resource features a lesson index, examples of student work, unit-length plans, suggestions for art activities, and...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Moon Phaser [Pdf]
In this activity, 4th graders will study the moon for a period of one month and learn to identify each major moon phase. They will then describe the moon through poems, haikus, and similes.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Dance Across the United States of America [Pdf]
These activities will allow students to become explorers and travel across the United States to encounter a variety of land forms. Students will create a story about their trek and then create choreography to match the sequence generated...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Dancing Differences [Pdf]
This activity will allow learners to explore comparing and contrasting through movement and choreographic sequences.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Dancing Through Sentence Structure [Pdf]
This activity will allow students to explore sentence structure through movement and choreographic sequences.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Dancing Cells [Pdf]
This activity will challenge students to create dances to represent the different parts of a cell.
University of Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh:folk Links Folk:fairy Tale Site
This site offers links to folk tale and fairy tale sites. Students and teachers will benefit from this useful reference guide.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Primary Source Picture Book
Inspired by My Tour Of Europe, by Teddy Roosevelt, students will create a children's picture book based on a topic of historical study to be used as a primary document.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Riding a Train of States
Help students memorize the states and their capitals with this interactive train-car lesson.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Drinking Gourd
After learning the song Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winters, students will use the Underground Railroad to identify with some goal or task in their own life.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: States, a to Z
In this lesson students will collect information about the state they live in and create an alphabet book of information.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Pompeii, I See
In this lesson students will research the explosion of the Mt. Vesuvius volcano by describing how they think the scene may have occurred in Pompeii.
Other
Ties Magazine: Through the Eyes of Falcons [Pdf]
This science fiction story is a spring board for great discussion questions that span across various school subjects.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Common Content Area Roots and Affixes
This table offers 50 or so common roots, prefixes, and suffixes, their definitions, and sample words in the content areas. L.9-10.4b Patterns/word changes
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The American Revolution: Heroes
In this lesson students will understand the significance of those who served during the American Revolution.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Creepy Caterpillars to Beautiful Butterflies
Students will explore the life cycle of a butterfly using a website and observations of caterpillar metamorphosis. This lesson plan will incorporate science, mathematics, language arts, and art.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: 'Batty' About Bats!! (Writing)
As a part of a week-long unit about bats, the students will identify the characteristics of a bat and write an essay about bats. Student understanding will be enhanced through the use of books, poems, lectures, discussions, individual...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Cells! Cells! Cells!
Students will learn about both POP Art and science in this pattern project. Working in conjunction with a science teacher in your school, students will view cells through a microscope and use visual diaries to create pattern templates....