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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Swinging With Style

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students experientially learn about the characteristics of a simple physics phenomenon - the pendulum - by riding on playground swings. They use pendulum terms and a timer to experiment with swing variables. They extend their knowledge...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Hot Problem Solving

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Student teams follow the steps of the engineering design process to meet the challenge of getting their entire class from one location on the playground to the sidewalk without touching the ground between. The class develops a well...
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Living or Nonliving

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders look for living and nonliving elements on the playground.
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Other

Kid Sense: Strength and Endurance

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Strength and endurance are important to enable children to perform every day functions such as fine motor skills, gross motor skills, playground skills, and sporting skills. This article explains how to tell if your child has problems...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Searching Solid Shapes

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Lesson introducing the basic three-dimensional shapes (sphere, cylinder, cone, cube). Common items with those shapes are hidden on the playground for learners to find and photograph. Pictures are then used to create a photostory....
Interactive
Math Playground

Math Playground: Tangrams

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Click on the tangram frame to start. Use the white tangram pieces to make the picture shown on the upper right.
Interactive
Math Playground

Math Playground: Fraction Bars

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Set the numerator and denominator and then see the fraction represented visually with a fraction bar.
Activity
Math Playground

Math Playground: Math Bars

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Create bars whose length and color represents a one-digit number. The bars can then be manipulated to visualize basic math operations.
Interactive
Math Playground

Math Playground: Geometry Board

For Students K - 1st Standards
Create polygons by stretching bands over pegs on this geometry board. Then find the area and perimeter of the shape you created.
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Shapes on the Playground

For Students 3rd - 8th
On this one page website the problem will require you to use your problem solving skills to find your solution. You can then check it right at the website against the solution they have available.
Website
Public Health Agency of Canada

Public Health Agency of Canada: Be an Action Hero!

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Kids staying safe is number one in importance! Believe it or not, injuries are the number one cause of death for young Canadians. This site will help you learn to stay safe and uninjured, and that makes everyone happy!
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Math Fact Cafe

Math Fact Cafe: Flashcards: 3rd Grade: Math Facts

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Practice your basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts using these interactive flashcards. Each section gives you 20 flashcards. After each correct answer the card turns green. If you get an incorrect answer the...
eBook
Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Create and Play: Hop, Hop, Hop Scotch

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Learn how to play hop scotch in a different way on a spiral design. Book includes audio narration in 10 additional languages with text in English.
eBook
Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Cboces: Migrant Education Program: How Do You Play Safely?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Learn about the safety rules to follow when you are playing outside. Includes audio narration in 12 additional languages with text in English.
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Other

Centre for Literacy in Primary Education: Poetryline: Poetic Forms and Devices

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent resource for learning about the different forms and devices used in poetry. Each item is linked to its own page which has examples of its use. Many of the pages have videos of authors reading their poems, and some have...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Risky Business

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students explore odds ratios and risk ratios. Framed in the context of a possibly contaminated playground on which children who play show signs of toxic exposure, students...

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