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Bowland

My Music

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Scholars investigate how the tempo of music affects heartbeats. Groups  develop hypotheses about music and its connection to heartbeats before carrying out an experiment. They analyze and present data from their investigations.
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Hawaiʻi State Department of Education

Dimension Dances

For Teachers 4th
Use dance to help learners conceptualize line segments, rays, lines, and planes. They choreograph dances that show dimensional space. Dancers start by pondering space, point, and lines as the teacher draws them in the air. Each...
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Mathematics Vision Project

Module 6: Trigonometric Functions

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Create trigonometric functions from circles. The first lesson of the module begins by finding coordinates along a circular path created by a Ferris Wheel. As the lessons progress, pupils graph trigonometric functions and relate them to...
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Curated OER

Musical Hoops

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are introduced to the five health related concepts, muscular strength, muscular endurance, cardiovascular endurance, body composition and flexibility through a game of musical hoops which incorporates math operations.
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Curated OER

Introducing money (Elementary, Mathematics)

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars study the penny, nickel, dime and quarter, one each day for four days, using a magnifying glass to identify the similarities. Then students discuss differences and value and learn a 'rap' to memorize values.
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Visa

Home Sweet Home: Purchasing a Place

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
While the process of buying a home can certainly be overwhelming, give your young adults a leg up for their future by introducing them to the components of a mortgage, as well as exploring the basic concept of credit and how to become...
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Curated OER

Math and Music

For Teachers 1st
First graders play a variety of learning games to reinforce addition and subtraction skills.
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Curated OER

Computation with Fractions

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Upper graders are introduced to the topic of fractions and percentages. In groups, they discuss real world situations in which fractions are present, and they complete a worksheet solving problems with common and uncommon denominators....
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Curated OER

Student Exploration: Fraction, Decimal, Percent

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore the concept of fractions, decimals, and percents.  In this number sense lesson, students use a worksheet to guide them through the exploration of the relationship between fractions, decimals, and percents. ...
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Curated OER

Tap Your Feet

For Teachers K - 1st
Students access a website to examine how to follow a pattern. They find their own heartbeats and tap along with the beat. They access a second website to design a class composition before showing how they keep the beat. They use...
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Curated OER

Pam Wu's Teaching Portfolio

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the concept of long division. In this long division lesson, students use multiples to work out division problems. Students also complete a worksheet for students to practice this new skill.
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Curated OER

First Rhythmic Composition

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students apply fractions to counting rhythm in music. In this algebra lesson plan, students interrelate the concept of math into music as they fill out a chart identifying the names and symbols of music notes and their equivalent values...
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Curated OER

Tap Your Feet

For Teachers K - 1st
Students listen to, analyze, and describe music. They experience performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
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Curated OER

Tessellations WOW!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify and manipulate shapes to create tessellations. In these geometry/spatial relations lessons, the students use of a variety of modalities such as literature, music, writing, and art as introductions to the concept of...
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Common Core Sheets

Determining Coordinates: Reading Positive & Negative Coordinates

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
For kids who have a hard time with graphing, a grid with coordinates can look like an unsolvable puzzle. A series of worksheets uses symbols and shapes like hearts, stars, and letters to help kids find the correct coordinates.
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Curated OER

Clockwise/Counterclockwise Math

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students practice the concept of moving in clockwise and counterclockwise directions to tell time using addition and subtraction.
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Curated OER

Counting on Coins

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars count coins. For this currency and mathematics lesson, students use skip counting to figure the value of a group of coins. Young scholars use plastic replica coins and real coins.
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Curated OER

Mr. Gallon Lesson Plans

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Using Mr. Gallon to teach liquid capacity equivalents and conversions can provide a fun way to get students thinking about measurement.
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Curated OER

Patterns on Parade

For Teachers 1st
First graders discover that patterns exist in sounds, movement, and objects. In this patterns instructional activity, 1st graders select two items from a group  and produce an alternating pattern.
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Curated OER

Muppet Math Patterning

For Teachers K - 1st
Students participate in determining the completion of patterns and discovering which part of the pattern doesn?????™t belong.
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Curated OER

Altimetry

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders accurately measure the distance to eight points on an uneven surface by conducting a simulation of sattelite altimetry. They create a two-dimensional model of the simulated ocean surface by graphing data from the Radar Run...
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Curated OER

How Do You Rate?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders make a graph. In this pulse rate lesson plan, 5th graders estimate their pulse and record it. Students measure their pulse while at rest and after physical activity and record it. Students use the internet to graph their...
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Curated OER

Pumpkin Carving for K-2 Students

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students engage in a variety of pumpkin activities. This lesson is especially rich for ESL students, who probably have little experience with this holiday and custom.
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PBS

Pbs: Scale City: Proportions and Music in the Real World

For Students 6th - 8th
In this video-through footage of the calliope aboard the Belle of Louisville, a church pipe organ, and various instruments at a recording studio-students are introduced to the mathematical concept that the length of a musical pipe or a...