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CK-12 Foundation

Vector Projection

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
Two words summarize the interactive: vector projector. An easy-to-use resource lets users investigate vector projections on the coordinate plane. Given the components of two vectors, they determine the projection of one vector onto the...
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Curated OER

Mental Math

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students participate in an online computation game. In this computation lesson plan, students practice simple computations and use an internet site to review addition and subtraction facts.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Work and the Farm

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students listen to a lecture by the teacher about farm work and ways to use physics to make farm work easier. The machines that are highlighted include pulleys, ramps, lever, and gears. Each machine is explained in context of its use in...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Aviation History/Writing and Forensic Science

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
In this aviation instructional activity, young scholars research Charles Augustus Lindbergh and other early aviators and their flying machines. They then write a letter to one of the aviators asking questions about the mechanics of...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Exploring the Properties of Matter in the Preschool

For Teachers Pre-K
Students study the properties of the physical and natural world. In this properties of the physical and natural world lesson, preschool students work at discovery tables to see how simple machines work, what happens when items are put...
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Curated OER

Algebra

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice using a function machine online to help them with functions. They examine the relationship between input and output. They discover the rule for the change when completing these types of problems.
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Curated OER

Photoshop Curriculum

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers will learn the basics of their desktop; from turning on their machine to opening Photoshop and beginning a new program. The instructional activity is technology based and the user should have the necessary software.
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Curated OER

A Day on a Farm

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students discuss their morning as they prepared to come to school. The teacher guides the discussion so students understand ways they relied on agriculture to accomplish tasks. Students view pictures of various farm machinery. As the...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Old Fashion Weaving Wheel

For Students 4th - 5th
In this weaving picture worksheet, students are provided with the picture of an old fashioned tool used for cloth and weaving. Students color and/or write about the historical "machine."
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Pollution Solution!

For Teachers K - 7th
Students listen to the story "Clean Air, Dirty Air" by Lynne Patchett and discover the main types of pollution and how these affect their bodies. In this pollution lesson, students work in small groups to create a machine to prevent...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Letter Ww Words and Pictures

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this letter Ww words learning exercise, learners read the words that start with the letter Ww. Students color the pictures for the watermelon, walnut, watch, and washing machine. Learners also color the upper and lower case letter Ww's.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Sight Vocabulary

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this sight vocabulary worksheet, students study the 10 sight words and then practice tracing and printing each one. Students learn the words stay, green, known, island, week, less, machine, base, ago, and stood.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Multiplying by 100s sheet 1

For Students 3rd - 6th
For this multiplication worksheet, students put numbers into a function machine where they multiply either a one digit number or a hundreds number (200, 300, etc). Students complete 54 problems.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Learn about Torque

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students calculate torque and determine its uses. In this lesson plan on torque, students watch a video and teacher demonstrations and work with a small group on a lab activity. Students provide example of how torque is used in daily...
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Curated OER

Circuits

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students draw a schematic diagram of parts needed to build an op-amp. In this physics activity, students test the operation of their machine. They graph and analyze data using excel.
Worksheet
Math Salamanders Ltd.

Adding Decimals - Hundredths Sheet

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
For this decimal addition worksheet, learners use number machines to help them solve decimal addition equations up to the hundredth place. Students solve nine problems.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Gears and Proportions

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students explore gears.  For this simple machines and ratio lesson, students view a video clip in which front and rear bicycle gears are explained. From a set of gear combinations and gear ratios, students identify high and low gear...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Function Tables

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the concept of function tables. In this function tables lesson, 4th graders compare the star machine in The Sneeches to function tables in math. Students practice creating and solving function tables.
Worksheet
Math Salamanders Ltd.

Adding Decimals - Tenths Sheet 1

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
In this adding decimals with tenths worksheet, learners use number machines to solve nine addition problems with one decimal place.
Worksheet
Math Salamanders Ltd.

Multiplying by Tenths Sheet 1

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
In this multiplication worksheet, learners plug numbers into a function machine where they multiply a one-digit number by a number to the tenths place with one decimal. Students complete nine problems.
Lesson Plan
Teach Engineering

Magnetic Fields Matter

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Help your young scientists learn which materials are affected by magnetic fields with an activity that presents the information about different types of materials — diamagnetic, paramagnetic, and ferromagnetic — and their interaction...
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Graphic Organizer: Reference Citations

For Students 3rd - 11th Standards
Pupils practice researching sources and logging citation information with this graphic organizer. After posing a general topic, groups of students are asked to devise general questions about that topic, and to research sources...
Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nature: Friend and Foe: Challenge Activities (Theme 6)

For Teachers 4th Standards
The teacher doesn't always have to be the expert in the classroom. The first in a series of three supplementary activities Nature: Friend or Foe uses hands-on research tasks and projects to enhance readers' understanding of non-fiction...
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Curated OER

The Bricklayer's Lesson in Physics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read a simulated report, written to an insurance company as explanation for a claim of medical benefits. They list the collisions that resulted in the injuries, and identify the forces involved which caused the injury.

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