TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Forces and Graphing
This activity can be used to explore forces acting on an object, to practice graphing experimental data, and/or to introduce the algebra concepts of slope and intercept of a line. A wooden 2x4 beam is set on top of two scales. Students...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Close Enough?
Accuracy of measurement in navigation depends very much on the situation. If a sailor's target is an island 200 km wide, sailing off center by 10 or 20 km is not a major problem. But, if the island were only 1 km wide, it would be missed...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Building Our Bridge to Fun!
Students identify different bridge designs and construction materials used in modern day engineering. They work in construction teams to create paper bridges and spaghetti bridges based on existing bridge designs. Students progressively...
Math Open Reference
Math Open Reference: Constructions
Learn about drawing shapes using only a compass and straight edge or ruler with out measuring any lengths or angles.
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
Assessing Young Children's Progress Appropriately
This article focuses on the critical issue of how to assess your young child's progress appropriately. Students, teachers and parents will benefit from this informative article. The article features contact information to learn more...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Finding Mean, Median, and Mode: Lesson 1
This lesson will demonstrate how to find the mean, median, and mode for a set of data. It is 1 of 5 in the series titled "Finding Mean, Median, and Mode."
Other
Ncsc Gseg: High School Mathematics Udl Instructional Unit
A collection of lesson plans on a high school measurement unit utilizing the Universal Design for Learning Instructional Units.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Finding Mean, Median, and Mode: Lesson 5
This lesson will demonstrate how to find the mean, median, and mode for a set of data. It is 5 of 5 in the series titled "Finding Mean, Median, and Mode."
PBS
Pbs: Area and Volume in Kapa Cloth Making
A Hawaiian kapa artist explains how she uses area and measurements as part of her art-making process in this video from the Center for Asian American Media. In the accompanying classroom activity, students watch the video and learn how...