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.
Lesson Plan
OpenStax

Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: The Shape of a Melody

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Here is a lesson plan that will allow your students to learn about melodies and their shapes. Recognizing when the notes are high or low and if they move up or down will help your students understand melodic contour.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Chicka Chicka Shape Glyph

For Teachers K Standards
This is one of my favorite Open House activities. We use our shapes to create "mystery" glyphs that are hung in the hallway. Families use the legend to guess their child's glyph!
Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Surface Processes and Landscape Evolution

For Students 9th - 10th
The resources provided by this course outline focus on the processes involved in the shaping of Earth's surface.
Article
OpenStax

Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Melody

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about one of the basic elements in music, melody. Discover the ideas of melodic shapes and phrases as well as motifs and themes, and how to present these topics to children.
Handout
Math Open Reference

Math Open Reference: Prism

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Use this interactive tool to explore prisms. Change the height and the shape of the base to see how these affect the prism. There are also several additional options, e.g., making it oblique or transparent. Properties of a prism are...
Handout
Math Open Reference

Math Open Reference: Quadrilateral

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn about quadrilaterals with this helpful reference tool. Provides a detailed definition, examples, and an interactive activity that enhance further explanation. Includes links to related topics.
Handout
Math Open Reference

Math Open Reference: Polygon

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A complete reference guide to polygons. It provides definitions, examples, and an interactive activity that enhances further explanation. Includes links to related topics.
Unit Plan
OpenStax

Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Duration: Notes Lengths in Written Music

For Students 9th - 10th
Read everything there is to know about the basics of notes. From their durations, their shapes and their stems, you will learn how notes are used in music.
Unit Plan
Math Open Reference

Math Open Reference: Solid Geometry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A complete reference guide to solid geometry. The mathematics resource provides definitions and interactive activities that enhance further explanation.
Article
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: The Skeletal System

For Students 9th - 10th
After studying this article, students will be able to identify the functions and structure of bones, types of bones, bone development, parts of bones, types of joints, and bone disorders.
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Opening Patterns

For Students K - 1st
As excitement mounts ahead of the start of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, take a look back at the opening ceremony for the 2008 Games in Beijing. What shapes and patterns can you see? This activity is aimed at young...
Unit Plan
OpenStax

Open Stax: Bone Classification

For Students 9th - 10th
This site helps you understand how the 206 bones that compose the adult skeleton are divided into five categories based on their shapes.
Unit Plan
OpenStax

Open Stax: Divisions of the Skeletal System

For Students 9th - 10th
The following site helps us understand the divisions of the skeletal system. The skeletal system consists of all of the bones, cartilages, and ligaments of the body that support and give shape to the body and body structures.
Handout
Other

Platonic Realms: The Mathematical Art of m.c. Escher

For Students 9th - 10th
Math Academy Online presents a great M.C. Escher (1898-1972 CE) site for connecting the arts and mathematics. As even Escher said, "For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of...
Graphic
Curated OER

Eternal Egypt: Almond Shaped Lamp

For Students 9th - 10th
This almond-shaped lamp has an opening for oil in the center that is surrounded by circular ridges.
Graphic
Curated OER

Eternal Egypt: Jar in Shape of Rooster

For Students 9th - 10th
The jar in the shape of a rooster was used to store liquids. The beak is the opening for pouring out the liquid. The body is decorated with the typical colors for this kind of bird, especially the red color.
Graphic
Curated OER

Eternal Egypt: Almond Shaped Lamp With Cock

For Students 9th - 10th
This almond-shaped lamp is decorated with a centrally placed cock in an upright posture. It has two openings for oil.
Graphic
Curated OER

Eternal Egypt: Oil Lamp in Shape of a Horse

For Students 9th - 10th
This lamp has a round base, the oil tank is pear-shaped; the opening for the wick has a slight inward turned rim. The bulbous lid is topped by a knob and is held to the oil tank by a hinge.
Handout
Math Open Reference

Math Open Reference: Volume

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn about volume with this helpful reference tool. Provides a detailed definition and examples that enhance further explanation. Includes links to related topics.
Handout
Australian Museum

Australian Museum: Concretions, Thunder Eggs and Geodes

For Students 9th - 10th
Ever break open a geode and see the beauty inside? Learn how those crystals formed, as well as the mineral formations in thunder eggs and concretions.
Website
Other

Fifa World Cup Russia 2018

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Official site of the Russian World Cup counts down the days, hours, minutes, and seconds to the opening! Exciting photos and the latest news will keep readers up to date on how this world event is shaping up. Please know that the site is...
Study Guide
Other

Ohio Department of Education: Third Grade Achievement Test (Practice Test) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd
Half-length practice test for the third grade OAT (Ohio Achievement Test). The test includes 15 multiple-choice and 5 open-response question dealing with topics such as measurement (time, angles, ruler), data analysis (bar graphs,...
Website
American Academy of Achievement

Academy of Achievement: Sir Tim Berners Lee

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography of Tim Burners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. His vision of an open system for the exchange of information has shaped the world we live in today. Includes a profile, videos, and a photo gallery.