First graders practice identifying simple geometric shapes. As a class, they discuss positional words and review the words for simple shapes and their characteristics. They work together to create their own puzzle using the shapes.

Third graders engage in a lesson that is concerned with the playing of a Trick Triangle Game while focusing upon developing skills of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. They play the game and practice rounding of...

Using the Hudson River as the focus, learners discuss the difference between salt water and fresh water environments, analyze maps and graphs, and complete addition and subtraction problems. This lesson comes with a wealth of...

Pupils practice using a GPS receiver. They walk in different directions and monitor their progress on maps. They enter specific locations and use information given to them to get them back to their original locations.

Tenth graders investigate the circumference and diameter of a circle. For this geometry lesson, 10th graders relate circumference to diameter. They create a scatter plot to estimate the value of pi.

Learners explore the three dimensional Cartesian coordinate system and discuss how it is important for structural engineers in order to be able to describe locations in space to fellow engineers. They participate in a hands-on activity...

Students create two drawings for a new animal pen design at the zoo. They must draw the ideas keeping the amount of material available in mind. They compare and contrast their two designs and write how they are similar in perimeter and...

Students place two plane mirrors at different angles to experiment with reflection. They make kaleidoscopes and periscopes.

For this cardinals worksheet, students explore facts about cardinals and practice their number reasoning. Students read about cardinals and solve word problems involving cardinals.

Learners examine the possibilities of communication with other living organisms within our solar system through research and hands on activities, as well as observing and analyzing teacher demonstrations.

Students are involved in hands-on activities to determine how course conditions affect bobsled, luge, and downhill ski races.

Students use powers of ten to make reasonable estimations for list of questions. They share their problem solving techniques with the class.

Young scholars are given the task of designing an apartment. In groups, they practice estimating the area and perimeter of different shapes. After designing their space, they apply the same formulas to solving real-world story problems.

After a whole-class discussion of water reservoirs, ten liters of water are given to each lab group to represent Earth's total amount of water. They divide the water into smaller containers, each representing one of those reservoirs. The...

Students interpret and analyze data.  In this middle school mathematics lesson, students conduct an experiment in which they investigate which solar collector, black, white, or silver, absorbs the most heat.  Students examine...

Students learn the geography of Japan and its location in reference to the United States.

Students participate in a simulation activity to help them summarize issues related to health promotion and disease prevention. They see first-hand what their odds are in acquiring HIV.

The role of fat as a nutrient that provides a source of concentrated energy and is also necessary for the body to utilize other nutrients, namely some important vitamins.

Food preparation that supports the concepts of adding fiber and water to the diet. Identify fiber, its sources and functions. National Standard 14.2.1 Identify the function of fiber Identify cellulose - non digestible fiber Discuss the...

Demonstrate food preparation techniques of salads, soups, casseroles, breads, meats, poultry and pastries.

Students examine abiotic and biotic factors. They define biotic and abiotic, categorize a list of items onto a Venn diagram, label various items from areas on the school grounds as biotic or abiotic, and diagram a magazine picture.

Using their knowledge of right triangles, pupils find out how far a ship is from a light house. Class members determine how far around the world a ship would be sailing at a constant speed.

Bend it, but don't break it. Groups investigate the strength of different materials. Using a procedure in the seventh segment of a 22-part series on aviation, pupils determine how far a rod will bend. They determine the strength-to-mass...

Let's see how complicated we can make this simple task. The last activity associated with a 10-part series has groups design and build a Rube Goldberg machine. Teams determine a simple task to accomplish and use the engineering design...