National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Against the Odds Lesson Plan
Teachers can find ideas for their probability lesson plans here. For example, there is an interdisciplinary unit dealing with disabilities and probability as well as one using a field trip to Sea World.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Writing for Math Class: Follow the Path of Five Dollars
In this instructional activity, Pat Brisson's book Benny's Pennies is used as a mentor text. Students will discover ways to spend money that meets specific criteria. Students must explain their process for their spending choices, and...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: A Math and Language Arts Lesson: Division
The lesson will help students develop an initial understanding of division and clarify how the four operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division relate to and are separate from each other. The lesson begins with a...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Bridging Literature and Mathematics
Contains plans for five 50-minute interdisciplinary lessons that ask students to write about math-related, informational books such as "Actual Size" (Jenkins, 2004) and "If You Hopped Like a Frog" (Schwartz, 1999). Students use books...
PBS
Pbs News Hour: Unemployment
This PBS lesson plan incorporates math, language arts, and economics to study the current unemployment situation in our country. Students begin by watching a story from NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, then create a publication to showcase...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Summarizing Mathematical Learning With the Important Book
In this lesson plan, The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown is used as a mentor text. Students will create an illustrated paragraph about a particular math topic. Students will use the mentor text and attempt to adapt the author's...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Writing for Math Class: Creative Math Equations
In this lesson plan, the mentor text called Mathematickles by Betsy Franco is used. Students will use the language of mathematics to demonstrate their understanding of the topics about which they write. Older students should use humor...
University of Arizona
University of Arizona: Pulse: Cultures and Cycles: Arsenic and Human Health
Interdisciplinary unit about the risk of exposure to arsenic in public drinking water. Math, language arts, social studies, and science are incorporated into the lessons.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Jump!!! An Exploration Into Parametric Equations
Students will use vectors and parametric equations to determine the velocity that they should jump out of the window of a burning building in order to land safely into the rescue net. They will work in small groups and utilize graphing...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Biodiversity: Local Ecosystem & Food Web
This is a hands on lesson in which students will explore their local community to identify living things. It can be used as part of a unit on biodiversity and energy transfer within a biology, zoology, or environmental science course, or...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Battle to the Death: Adding Integers
The goal of this lesson plan is for young scholars to use manipulatives to add integers, creating concepts rather than memorizing rules. This lesson plan will be related to the 300 Spartans who battled the invading Persians at the Battle...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Inch by Inch Learning Is a Cinch
This lesson uses an interdisciplinary approach involving literature, math, and writing. Using the book, Inch by Inch, by Leo Lionni students will explore the world of measurement. They will have the opportunity to practice measuring...
Other
Geography Through Literature Pacific Islands
This site is a highly detailed unit plan. That crosses almost all the disciplines, with "Call it Courage," as the beginning point. Links to a .pdf file and Word versions of handouts are available.