K-5 Math Teaching Resources
K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Coordinate Grid Geoboards [Pdf]
An activity dealing with making a polygon and getting their coordinates. Materials needed: geoboards, rubber bands, coordinate grid paper and rulers.
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Easy to Make Paper Airplanes
Have fun making different kinds of flying vehicles. You will learn how to make a paper airplane, helicopter, rocket, blimp, etc.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Building a Paper Airplane Using Bernoulli's Principle
This is a culmination activity used after middle schoolers have studied Bernoulli's Principle as part of a unit on forces and fluids. Students will use the Internet, textbooks, library resources and their cooperative learning group to...
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Coordinate Grid Paper Set [Pdf]
This pdf contains several types of blank coordinate grids.
University of California
Cse: What's Your Sign? The Science Behind the Zodiac
This paper presents the explanation behind the Zodiac signs. It discusses motions of celestial objects, the Plane of the Ecliptic, and the constellations of the Zodiac.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Isometric Drawing Tool
This site includes an interactive math tool to create drawings on isometric dot paper. You can draw figures using edges, faces, or cubes. Rotate and color your drawings, and view them in 3D or 2D.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Better by Design
The purpose of this activity is to use a scientific method to determine the effect of control surfaces on a paper glider. The students will construct a paper airplane/glider and test its performance to determine the base characteristics...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Building Shapes
Based on building a hexagon, this activity from the Math Forum collection focuses on using different combinations of pattern blocks to create a hexagon. An online activity, pencil and paper method, literature connections, and a...
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Nearpod: Perimeters of Polygons
In this lesson on finding the perimeter of rectangles, 3rd graders learn key vocabulary, explore grid paper, and apply their learning to a real-world situation.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Lab Activity: Aviation
This site from the Illinois Institute of Technology provides a student lab activity in which the flight of a paper airplane is investigated and studied. Designed for primary grades, but easily adaptable for junior high students.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Make an Alien Mask Using Ordered Pairs
This website gives you the ordered pairs you need to make an Alien mask using graph paper.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Make a Dinosaur Using Ordered Pairs
This website gives you the ordered pairs you need to make a Diplodocus dinosaur using graph paper.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Make a T Rex Dinosaur Using Ordered Pairs
This math tutorial on ordered pairs has students make a T-Rex dinosaur using graph paper.
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Lesson Plan Activities: Amelia Earhart and Airplanes
This site features several lesson ideas and activities on Amelia Earhart and airplanes for young learners.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Mile of Pi
The team from Numberphile printed one million decimal places of Pi onto a piece of paper which stretched for over a mile. They rolled it out on a runway usually used for testing planes and cars. [6:28]
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F Tf, G Co, Trigonometric Identities and Rigid Motions
The purpose of this task is to apply translations and reflections to the graphs of the functions f(x)=cos x and g(x)=sin x in order to derive some trigonometric identities. There are also rotations 180 degrees about points on the x-axis...
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Hoopster
Students create their own airplane using straws and other materials and learn the principles of aerodynamics.
Curated OER
Diagram of Ecliptic
Paper presents the explanation behind the Zodiac signs. Discusses motions of celestial objects, the Plane of the Ecliptic, and the constellations of the Zodiac.
Curated OER
Diagram of Zodiac Constellations
Paper presents the explanation behind the Zodiac signs. Discusses motions of celestial objects, the Plane of the Ecliptic, and the constellations of the Zodiac.
Curated OER
Diagram of Earth's Precession
Paper presents the explanation behind the Zodiac signs. Discusses motions of celestial objects, the Plane of the Ecliptic, and the constellations of the Zodiac.
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