Read Works
Read Works: Return of the Cube
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about competitive Rubik's Cube tournaments. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Read and Ask [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a text aloud and then roll a question cube and answer the questions together with a partner. Materials are included.
Read Works
Read Works: Return of the Cube
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the Rubik's Cube. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Water
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discuss the concept of "solids" as it applies to water. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Building Toward Fluency
The purpose of this task is to promote certain addition strategies that will help students learn to fluently add and subtract within 20. Students will use a number line or magnetic cubes to solve addition problems. Students will be asked...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Creating Cubes
On this one page website use a table to help you organize the information so that you can solve this cube problem. When you are finished you can check your answer right at the website.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Word Analysis: Category Cube
A lesson plan in which students sort word cards according to categories including: food, clothing, sports, animals, classroom things, and things with wheels. Materials are included.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Guided Comprehension in Action: Teaching Summarizing
Students learn the ins and outs of writing biographies by researching a contemporary or historical figure and writing a summary.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Number Rods
This activity gives students practice counting for meaning using unifix cubes or snap cubes. Students will count the number of unifix cubes then match the rod up to the correct number on a number line. Extension activities are included.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Find the Numbers 0 5 or 5 10
This activity helps students practice number identification and is conducive to small groups/centers. Materials needed can be made from index cards and blank wooden cubes. Variations are included to make this activity simpler or harder...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Engineering for the Earth
Young students are introduced to the complex systems of the Earth through numerous lessons on its natural resources, processes, weather, climate and landforms. Key earth science topics include rocks, soils and minerals, water and natural...
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Truncation
An illustrated description of truncation is provided by MathWorld. Click on Truncated Cube, Truncated Dodecahedron, Truncated Icosahedron, Truncated Octahedron, or Truncated Tetrahedron to read about more specific examples.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Geometry 3 D Shapes: Platonic Solids
Learn about platonic solids, a special type of polyhedra. Read a definition, make three-dimensional models using printouts, and play with an interactive animation, which will show you the faces, vertices, and edges on platonic solids:...