Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Buffalo Soldiers Encampment

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in a field trip to become familiar with the Buffalo soldiers. In this Buffalo Soldiers lesson, students report on the Buffalo soldiers lives.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Lesson #2 Absolute Value and Symmetry

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students investigate absolute value functions.  In this Algebra II/Pre-calculus/Calculus lesson, students explore the formal definition of absolute value and apply the piece-wise definition to solve inequality problems. ...
Lesson Plan
Perkins School for the Blind

Student Store

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Vocational training activities are extremely important for learners with intellectual or physical disabilities. Here is a great idea that will help your class become skilled at money handling, basic economic concepts, interpersonal...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Cross Country Adventure

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students practice measurement and geography in this lesson. They build a Lego vehicle using an RCX. They predict how many seconds it will take their vehicle to reach a specific state on the United States of America map that each group of...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Graphics Integrates Fun

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students take digital pictures of themselves before using a stylus pen on to trace their facial features on a graphic pad. Using an Internet gallery of body drawings they complete a caricature of themselves. In two other activities, they...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"COUNTRY" CHRISTMAS AND OTHER HOLIDAY CELEBRATIONS

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders develop an understanding of Christmas traditions of other countries and well as the United States. They discover the meaning of other holiday celebrations and utilize computers and other technology as an integral part of...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Earth and Space Science: Exploring Earthquakes

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars explore earthquakes. In this earthquake lesson, students research earthquakes and identify where they take place. Young scholars use map skills to track down earthquake locations. There are internet sites suggested in this...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

All About Me

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students answer short answer questions, state their likes and dislikes, say what roles they have, and more about themselves. For this all about me lesson plan, students read books about how we are all different and the same.
Activity
Other

Worksheet Works: Coordinate Picture Graphing

For Students 2nd - 4th
Generate a worksheet for practice in how to plot coordinate pairs as you copy an image. Choose an image, the type of grid, the number of quadrants, and the layout, then download your worksheet in PDF format.
Activity
Other

Math Mammoth: Children's Best Activities: Copy the Pictures

For Students 2nd - 4th
A collection of animal pictures with grid overlays for drawing practice. Students copy an image by drawing the contents of each square of the grid into a matching square on a second blank grid next to the picture. Each activity can be...
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Gpe, G Srt Finding Triangle Coordinates

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Given a picture of a triangle on a coordinate grid, students are asked to find the coordinates of points which divide line segments in a given ratio. Aligns with G-GPE.B.6 and G-SRT.B.5.
Handout
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Ellipsoid

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Math World begins with a picture of an ellipsoid and then gives cartesian and parametric equations for the surface. The site gives much more information for the ellipsoid, including special ellipsoids, a surface area...
Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Egg Math Axis of Symmetry

For Students 9th - 10th
Uses an egg to demonstrate the concept of axis of symmetry. Put your cursor over the picture to "move" around the egg. Offers links to related concepts, including Cartesian Ovals and Ovals of Cassini.
Assessment
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: General "Transformation" Vocabulary

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site offers a short discussion of transformations. The discussion has few pictures and expresses the transformations in terms of relative coordinates rather than pictures.
Graphic
Curated OER

Circle Picture

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides definitions for different parts of a circle, pictures to more clearly represent formulas involving circles. Some of the formulas discussed include: area of a circle, area of a sector of a cirles, circumference, length...
Handout
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Octant

For Students 9th - 10th
This page from MathWorld.com provides a good diagram of the eight octants of the Cartesian coordinate system. (Good picture, but not much explanation is included!)
Graphic
Curated OER

Parametric Unit Circle

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides definitions for different parts of a circle, pictures to more clearly represent formulas involving circles. Some of the formulas discussed include: area of a circle, area of a sector of a cirles, circumference, length...