Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Forces and Graphing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Close Enough?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Building Our Bridge to Fun!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
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...
Activity
Math Open Reference

Math Open Reference: Constructions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn about drawing shapes using only a compass and straight edge or ruler with out measuring any lengths or angles.
Article
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory

Assessing Young Children's Progress Appropriately

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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...
Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Finding Mean, Median, and Mode: Lesson 1

For Students 7th - 8th
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."
Lesson Plan
Other

Ncsc Gseg: High School Mathematics Udl Instructional Unit

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A collection of lesson plans on a high school measurement unit utilizing the Universal Design for Learning Instructional Units.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Finding Mean, Median, and Mode: Lesson 5

For Students 9th - 10th
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."
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Area and Volume in Kapa Cloth Making

For Students 6th - 8th
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...