Curated OER
Tessellations Lesson
Fifth graders demonstrate their understanding of tessellations by watching a teacher prepared Powerpoint presentation and completing an activity. The students work independently to identify tessellations.
Curated OER
Concurrent Lines in Triangles
Students explore the concept of concurrent lines in triangles. In this concurrent lines in triangles lesson, students work in groups to investigate properties of concurrent lines in acute, right, and obtuse triangles. Students use a...
Curated OER
Color the Trucks
Young scholars become familiar with the jobs of different types of trucks. In this color of trucks lesson, students decorate trucks with decorations based on the job of the truck. Young scholars describe the trucks they've...
Curated OER
Investigation: The Local Bagel Shop
Sixth graders explore economics by solving business math problems. In this ratio and proportion lesson, 6th graders examine different meals to be purchased at a coffee shop and compare which prices make which meals a better purchase....
Curated OER
Solid Figures
Students investigate solids. For this geometry lesson, students use toothpicks and gum drops to solve problems. They create visuals to help them see what is happening to the shapes.
Curated OER
Perimeter and Area of a Rectangle
Sixth graders fill out worksheets to find the perimeter and area of rectangles. In this perimeter and area lesson plan, 6th graders color in the area and measure the perimeters.
Curated OER
Comparison of Two Different Gender Sports Teams - Part 3 of 3 Scatter Plots and Lines of Best Fit
Young scholars create a scatter plot for bivariate data and find the trend line to describe the correlation for the sports teams. In this scatter plot instructional activity, students analyze data, make predictions,and use...
Curated OER
Let's Tesselate
Students investigate the geometrical concepts of translation, reflection, and rotation. They make different observations looking for the concepts that are displayed in classroom items like floor tiles, carpet designs, and visuals hung in...
University of New Mexico
Lesson Plans and WebQuests
Students review an overview of mediation techniques and listening skills. They practice good listening skills which are needed for the mediation process and discuss icebreakers in pairs to better utilize good listening skills.
Curated OER
Get it Straight Mr. Decimal!
Students work with decimals. In this decimal lesson, students participate in a hands-on group activity that enable them to review to how to appropriately add and subtract decimals.
Curated OER
From Where to Where?
Students find locations based upon their latitude and longitude coordinates. In this latitude and longitude lesson, students locate points on a grid and learn how to use an astrolabe.
Curated OER
Twenty Green Gates
Second graders explore mathematics by participating in a pattern building activity. In this geometric construction lesson, 2nd graders discuss a story problem in which a gate needs to be built from triangles and trapezoids up to a...
Curated OER
Area Of Sectors
Student find the area of a sector of a circle. In this geometry lesson, students define the sector of a circle using a sketch. They find and identify examples of sector in the real world.
Curated OER
Numeracy Lesson Plan: Reception
Learners examine number sense by participating in identification activities. In this number value lesson, students practice counting from 1-10, identifying number flash cards, reading clocks and multiplying basic numbers. Learners answer...
Curated OER
Analyzing Country Data
Pupils analyze different data in percentage form. For this statistics lesson, students plot data using box-plots, dotplot, and histogram. They compare and contrast the collected data using the boxplot.
Curated OER
An Introduction to Area and Perimeter
Students form rectangles by using tiles, measure area and perimeter by counting. They discover and apply rules for measuring perimeter.
Curated OER
Planning A School Garden
Students discover how to plan a vegetable garden. Each student take responsibility for growing one vegetable from seed, to transplanting the seedling into the soil, and providing the plant with light, moisture, temperature and healthy soil.
Curated OER
Governor's Garden
Students review types of polygons and list several examples of each. They assume the role of a landscape artist interviewing for a job. They create sketches of their plans for six polygonal gardens and write an expository paragraph...
Curated OER
What a SHAPEly Fit!
Learners identify and explore the attributes of polygons. They design and create a quilt square using polygons, and produce a class quilt.
Curated OER
Classification And Identification
Students explore diagrammatic and taxonomic keys and their application in the marine sciences. They sort and classify objects and organisms based on visual attributes.
Curated OER
Marine & Aquatic Habitats Activities - Marine Ecology
Learners enact the life cycle of a sessile animal and quantify the possibility of survival under the conditions given. They then present to the class a new adaptation which will increase the animals chance of survival.
Curated OER
Find the Shape
Students identify points on the coordinate plane using ordered pairs and also plot the ordered pairs on the coordinate plane. They also use properties of shapes to identify polygons such as triangles and quadrilaterals
(square,...