TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Swinging With Style
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...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Hot Problem Solving
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...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Living or Nonliving
Third graders look for living and nonliving elements on the playground.
Other
Kid Sense: Strength and Endurance
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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Searching Solid Shapes
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....
Math Playground
Math Playground: Tangrams
Click on the tangram frame to start. Use the white tangram pieces to make the picture shown on the upper right.
Math Playground
Math Playground: Fraction Bars
Set the numerator and denominator and then see the fraction represented visually with a fraction bar.
Math Playground
Math Playground: Math Bars
Create bars whose length and color represents a one-digit number. The bars can then be manipulated to visualize basic math operations.
Math Playground
Math Playground: Geometry Board
Create polygons by stretching bands over pegs on this geometry board. Then find the area and perimeter of the shape you created.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Shapes on the Playground
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.
Public Health Agency of Canada
Public Health Agency of Canada: Be an Action Hero!
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!
Math Fact Cafe
Math Fact Cafe: Flashcards: 3rd Grade: Math Facts
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...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Create and Play: Hop, Hop, Hop Scotch
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.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Cboces: Migrant Education Program: How Do You Play Safely?
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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Centre for Literacy in Primary Education: Poetryline: Poetic Forms and Devices
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...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Risky Business
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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