West Contra Costa Unified School District
Work Problems – Bar Models
Why do we have to do so much work? Scholars learn how to set up bar models to represent a situation involving work. They use these bar models to help set up equations with rational coefficients to solve the problem situation.
Bowland
Hilbre Island
Young travelers plan a trip to Hilbre Island based on constraints on tides and time. They use a timeline to help determine the optimal day/time to make the trip.
Illustrative Mathematics
Saving Money 2
Adding money is a key skill in life. Give a learning exercise that requires second graders to find the total amount of money Louis needs to make certain school supply purchases.
Illustrative Mathematics
Fraction Equivalence
Why is six-tenths equivalent to sixty-hundredths? This is the question learners are tasked to explain in writing as well as with a picture.
Curated OER
Two Investigations of Cubic Functions
Through learning about cubic functions, students graph cubic functions on their calculator. Students determine the local maximum and minimum points and the tangent line from the x-intercept to a point on the cubic function. ...
Curated OER
Comparing Fractions with Like Numerators or Denominators
Who has more candy? Learners start by examining a word problem and its visual illustration to determine how Joel's candy numbers compare to Toby's. They fill in the appropriate symbol. Next, mathematicians compare fractions and two...
South Penquite Farms
Measuring Soil Temperatures
Using an auger, start-up soil scientists bore a core of soil. They examine the sample and record the temperature at three depths in the borehole. This is an attractive activity sheet that succinctly guides your earth science class...
Shmoop
ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.4
The fourth standard for reading literature in the Common Core calls for young readers to be able to determine the figurative and connotative meanings of words and phrases. Use this resource, a continuation of a series of Common Core...
Sunburst Visual Media
Clouds
Support science instruction with a combination of engaging activities and skills-based worksheets that focus on clouds. Learners take part in grand discussions, write an acrostic poem, complete graphic organizers, solve word...
Curated OER
BBC Learning English, Writing (Culture)
Include this writing activity in your lesson about essay organization. After anwering five questions regarding their culture, middle schoolers use their responses to form the basis of a five paragraph guide to their culture. Each...
Monterey Bay Aquarium
What's in a Name?
Combine art and word analysis in a lesson about genus and species. Elementary children sleuth out the meaning of scientific names for a number of shark species using a prefix and suffix definition chart. They then draw an image of the...
Curated OER
Complex Sentences: Sentence Combining
Set up your learners to become master sentence combiners with this sentence combining worksheet! There are 3 columns on this resource. Writers merge simple sentences from the first column and second column using the clue provided in the...
National External Diploma Program Council
Abbreviations
When should you abbreviate a word, and when should you write it out? Practice abbreviation rules with a resource that provides guided examples before challenging young grammarians to correct ten sentences on their own.
Preswick House
Teaching Unit: Invisible Man
Invisible Man is a core text in high school literature classes and one of the most cited works on the AP Literature and Composition exam. Instructors new to using Ralph Ellison's novel and those who have long included it as part of...
Curated OER
Antonyms 5: Level 10
Ensure that your class's vocabulary development doesn't become stagnant with this antonym practice! Learners review 10 vocabulary words, identify the antonym of each, and check their answers on the detailed guide provided. Example words...
Curated OER
Simplifying Radical Expressions
In a radical expressions worksheet, learners use the Product and Quotient Properties of Square Roots to simplify a variety of square roots. The worksheet begins with simple radicals, progresses to radicals involving fractions and...
Achieve3000
Discriminating Phonemes 2
Some sounds sound very similar! Help your class learn how to distinguish between various sounds by following the steps outlined in this plan. The plan includes a warm-up, a teacher-led portion, and details for guided and independent...
Curated OER
Perfecting Plural Nouns
Turn potato into potatoes with a great activity on plural nouns. A quick reference guide at the top of the page shows third graders how to make regular and irregular nouns plural. They list as many nouns as they can think of, then work...
Curated OER
Grammar Practice: Choosing Between Fewer and Less
When should you use "fewer" instead of "less?" Reinforce this grammatical nuance in your class with this handy reference sheet. A short explanation guides students through the process of choosing one word over the other, and a series of...
Curated OER
Plant Diversity
Here is an all-encompassing overview of the plant kingdom! In this worksheet, beginning botanists describe characteristics of the four different plant phyla, explain various life cycles, differentiate between monocots and dicots, and...
Curated OER
Dynamics of Ecosystems
A set of guided notes walks your biology or environmental studies learners through the dynamics of ecosystems. They write short answers to questions about the energy budget, food webs, trophic levels, and biogeochemical cycles. One way...
Curated OER
Winning "The Voice": Cloze Exercise
This New York Times Learning Network exercise provides a cloze exercise along with a word bank that readers can use to complete the passage about the television show, "The Voice" and Jermaine Paul, a recent winner. Another option is...
Core Task Project
Whatif by Shel Silverstein
What a skillful way to incorporate Shel Silverstein, a wonderful author, into the classroom. Composed of three tasks, children are led through a series of text-dependent questions that force them to unveil the meaning of Silverstein's...
Nuffield Foundation
Dissection of the Ventilation System of a Locust
Jiminy cricket! If you find yourself plagued by fear of dissection, these locust respiratory system dissection directions will walk you through everything you need to know. Teens inspect a living locust to begin with, then jump over to...
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