Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Trivia Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students, as chasers, on teachers signal, move throughout a space trying to tag others with their free hand. When a tag is made, both players stop; chaser reads question from card to student who was tagged. If answer is correct, person...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Patterns in Nature Booklet

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine patterns on objects in nature, then use rubbings of these patterns to create pattern booklets.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Three Dimensional Art of Vertebrates and Invertebrates

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students, during this twelve week series of lessons, learn basic anatomy through life sketches of human skeletons and shells. They learn fundamentals of line and convey life through sketches learning science through art.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Catch The Leprechaun

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students play a version of the game tag to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. They chase and tag a designated leprechaun who is holding a gold coin.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Spaces and Places

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners identify three-dimensional forms in various buildings and construct three-dimensional paper forms.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Pi Day (March 14)

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders determine the value of ? by measuring the circumference and diameter of circular objects such as soup cans, Oreo cookies, etc..
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Little Hands Help the Homeless

For Teachers K - 12th
Learners explore, analyze and study the concept of the homeless. They cover a wide range of classroom, community and career activities that define, develop, encourage, support and defend the homeless as well as what we can do as...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Research questions

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this research worksheet, students answer multiple choice questions about different research items. Students complete 12 questions about the internet, different resources, and more.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Firefighters

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students read books, learn about the letter f, and eat ice cream all to learn about firefighters. In this fire fighters lesson plan, students also string beads to look like fire hose and visit a fire house.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Shapes and Review of Locomotor Skills

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students engage in a series of loco-motor activities based on shapes. In this loco-motor lesson, students demonstrate physical skills through races, jumping, hopping, galloping in circles, squares, rectangles and triangles.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How Far Can You Throw?

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders take a turn throwing the basketball and softball. They measure the distance in feet and inches between the starting and landing points of the balls. The recorder will record the distance each ball was thrown next to each...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sorting Pond

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice balancing while learning the classifications of different animals
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Daytona 500

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use pedometers to help track distance goals while participating in a team scooter race modeled after the Daytona 500.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Aerobic Frisbee Golf

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars work cooperatively to accurately throw a Frisbee in order to learn about fitness components and different systems of the human body.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Everyone can explore architecture

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners draw like an architect. In this interdisciplinary instructional activity, students research and draw several examples of different forms of architecture through societies, cultures and times, then present them to the class.
Activity
Analyze Math

Analyze Math: Cone Problems

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The geometry tutorial explores problems related to the surface area and volume of a cone. The activity has several examples with detailed solutions.
Activity
Other

Good Calculators: Cone Volume Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
For the purpose of obtaining results for several cones simultaneously, you can introduce into the calculator the multiple values of the cone. The calculator then will automatically sum the cone volume results which provides the...
Interactive
Government of Alberta

Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring Surface Area, Volume, and Nets

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Investigate the concepts of area, volume, 3D shapes, and nets using this interactive Learn Alberta math. The solid shapes focused on this exploration include rectangular and triangular prisms, rectangular and triangular pyramids,...
Study Guide
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Cones

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
What is a cone? Find a definition, example images, and formulas for determining volume and surface area.
Unit Plan
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Cone

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from MathWorld describes characteristics of cones, names of various special cones, equations for a cone and many other equations relative to a cone. [Requires Java.]
Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Living in the Mill: 3 D Objects

For Students K - 1st Standards
On this interactive website student practice various math skills using a real life scenario at an ice cream party. Those skills include naming and identifying spheres, cones and cylinders.
Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Pizza (Italian) Restaurant: 3 D Space

For Students 2nd - 4th
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario. Those skills include identifying 3D objects, identifying the similarities and differences in prisms and pyramids, and drawing 3D shapes such as...
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Mg Ice Cream Cone

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
You have been hired by the owner of a local ice cream parlor to assist in his company's new venture. The company will soon sell its ice cream cones in the freezer section of local grocery stores. The manufacturing process requires that...
Activity
Maths Challenge

Maths challenge.net: Perfect Cone

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Using knowledge of surface area of a cylinder formulas and volume of a cone, find the height of a cone / cylinder.