Activity
Science Friday

Make a Model of a Home Made From Shipping Containers

For Teachers 6th - 10th Standards
Build a scale model of a home built out of shipping containers. A hands-on activity has scholars watch a video about a home built from shipping containers and then design their own home. They build scale models of their designed homes...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Ratios, Proportions, and Cross-multiplication

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use cross-multiplication to find the unknown respiration rate of an astronaut. For this multiplication lesson plan, students also use the same process to find missing values in proportions.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Currency Exchange

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the currency exchange rate.  In this middle school mathematics instructional activity, student use proportions to exchange between the U.S. dollar and the euro.  Students come up with a product they would...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Comparing Ratios

For Students 6th - 7th
In this comparing ratios instructional activity, students solve and complete 3 different problems using the screens shown. First, they write a ratio that compares the shaded part to unshaded part illustrated. Then, students use the same...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Proportions a/b=c/d

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students calculate distance and proportion of objects. In this algebra lesson, students define proportion and how it is used in math. They solve the problem through guided instruction.
Interactive
Curated OER

Problem Solving with Multiplication and Division II: Post Test

For Students 5th - 8th
For this multiplication and division worksheet, students answer multiple choice questions where they problem solve multiplication and division problems in word problems. Students answer 10 questions total.
Assessment
Noyce Foundation

Mixing Paints

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
Let's paint the town equal parts yellow and violet, or simply brown. Pupils calculate the amount of blue and red paint needed to make six quarts of brown paint. Individuals then explain how they determined the percentage of the brown...
Assessment
Achieve

Framing a House

For Students 6th - 10th Standards
If members of your class wonder where they can use the math they learn in middle school, let them discover the answer. Learners apply geometry concepts of scale and measure to calculate the costs of framing a house addition.
Unit Plan
Bowland

Highway Link Design

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Discover a renewed appreciation for the highway transportation department. with a lesson that has scholars design a highway route that meets certain conditions, including traffic flow, curves, speed limits, financial costs, and...
Printables
Virginia Department of Education

Middle School Mathematics Vocabulary Word Wall Cards

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Having a good working knowledge of math vocabulary is so important for learners as they progress through different levels of mathematical learning. Here is 125 pages worth of wonderfully constructed vocabulary and concept review cards....
Interactive
Curated OER

Problem Solving with Multiplication and Division

For Students 5th - 10th
In this multiplication and division worksheet, students answer multiplication and division problems where they use charts and solve word problems. Students complete 10 problems total.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Home Sales Records

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Teach your class how to calculate monthly payments on a home mortgage. In this percent lesson, students calculate the monthly payment on a home mortgage, and compare different lengths of time and the interest rates for national median...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Race and Gender in the Media

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Learners analyze race and gender in the media. In this algebra instructional activity, students apply their knowledge of percents and ratios to determine the representation of race and gender in the media. They discuss and graph their data.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Percent and Percentage Problems

For Teachers 9th - 11th
In this Algebra I/Algebra II worksheet, students solve application problems involving percents, percent error, and percent of increase or decrease.  The two page worksheet contains a combination of fourteen multiple choice and free...
PPT
Curated OER

Exothermic vs. Endothermic

For Teachers 10th
The PowerPoint opens with video footage of the decomposition of nitrogen triiodide and then explains it with diagrams. Graphs of exothermic and endothermic reactions are exhibited, as well as one for the effect of a catalyst on reaction...
Handout
McGraw Hill

The Units of the English System

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Go from feet to inches to yards and back again with this notes and activity combo resource. Several pages of examples regarding unit conversion of the English system are given, followed by different pages of problems. There is a nice...
Lesson Plan
Bowland

Reducing Road Accidents

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
By making the following changes to the roads, we can prevent several accidents. A multiple-day lesson prompts pupils to investigate accidents in a small town. Pairs develop a proposal on what to do to help reduce the number of...
Assessment
Achieve

False Positives

For Students 7th - 10th Standards
The test may say you have cancer, but sometimes the test is wrong. The provided task asks learners to analyze cancer statistics for a fictitious town. Given the rate of false positives, they interpret the meaning of this value in the...
Assessment
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California Education Partners

Linflower Seeds

For Students 7th Standards
How does your garden grow? Use proportions to help Tim answer that question. By using their understanding of proportional relationships, pupils determine the number of seeds that will sprout. They create their own linear...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Math: Currency Exchange Rates

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders apply the division and multiplication of decimals to convert dollars to various international currencies. In a travel simulation activity, they convert money, distance, and temperatures. During their "trip," students...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Math Journal: Functions and Coordinate Geometry

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine the many uses of coordinate grids. In this graphing lesson, 5th graders write data driven equations, discuss the x and y-axis, and determine if using 2 or 3 ordered pairs is better.  Students complete several...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Motion and Forces

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders create PowerPoint presentations to present Newton's three laws of motion, and make and launch rockets.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Ratios

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders complete a taste test of different sandwiches, rate them, and then put them in a ratio graph. In this ratio lesson plan, 4th graders write what they learned about ratios after this activity.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Learning About Ratios: A Sandwich Study

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students engage in a lesson which provides them with a concrete introduction to the concept of ratios. They demonstrate the ability to create ratios with given substances - peanut butter and jelly.

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