Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Branching Art From Nature

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Students construct an art piece from nature. In this visual art lesson, students use objects from the environment (petals, leaves, and stones) to create a unique art piece.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Let's Build a Truck

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils study the basics of trucks and transportation vehicles. In this transportation vehicles lesson, students study pictures of basic key truck components and recognize differences between various product transportation vehicles....
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mars Pathfinder Egg Drop and Landing

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners construct a pathfinder that could land an egg safely. In this physics lesson, students explain the factors affecting the dynamics of falling objects. They evaluate their pathfinder design.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Floaters and Sinkers

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders define density as the amount of mass per volume a material contains, compare the densities of several types of materials, especially those that sink in water compared to those that float. They use two different methods to...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Chip Challenge Event Rules

For Students 7th - 9th
In this event rules packet, learners are provided with the guidelines for the Chip Challenge. They are given scoring examples and final checklists as well.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Let's Recreate Our World To Make It Better

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students examine art by artist by Tom Rollins. They discuss the painting and what it means to them. They create their own models of apartment complexes based on ideas from literature.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Grain Properties Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students study the similarities and differences of five different grains. They analyze the characteristics of corn, sunflower, milo, wheat, and soybeans.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Boxed in and Wrapped Up

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers find the volume and surface area of a rectangular box (e.g., a cereal box), and then figure out how to convert that box into a new, cubical box having the same volume as the original. As they construct the new,...
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 7.sp Waiting Times

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Suppose each box of a popular brand of cereal contains a pen as a prize. The pens come in four colors, blue, red, green and yellow. Each color of pen is equally likely to appear in any box of cereal. Design and carry out a simulation to...