Curated OER
City Streets: A Fold-up of a Street Lined with Buildings
After walking in a nearby neighborhood, have your class create this amazing city street pop-up. They study the facades of the buildings they see, focusing on geometric line, shape, and architecture. They then draw, cut, and create a city...
Curated OER
How Smart are You about Electricity, Batteries and Conductors?
Students create working circuits. In this electricity and circuits lesson, students make a battery, then build a flashlight and use part of the flashlight to create a conductivity tester.
Wyzant
Wyzant: Perfect Square List
WyzAnt provides a list of numbers and their squares. The user decides how many perfect squares to be displayed and in what fashion. The table makes a good reference sheet for students and teachers.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Multiplication Tips and Tricks
Great tips and tricks to help you learn to multiply by 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, and 12. Also, learn why remembering your squares can help you multiply.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Deploy a Satellite
Ready for a challenge? This site contains a challenge for students to build a satellite with a 6-inch square body that can deploy its own solar wings and antennae, and can fit inside a 9-inch diameter tube. Also, found on the site is a...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Irrational Approximations
Providing one lesson, one practice exercise, and two teacher resources, the information at this website is geared toward students who already understand rational and irrational numbers. The lesson has explanations of what happens when a...