Pennsylvania Department of Education
Counting People
Learners practice counting. For this counting activity, students are used to help visually represent a number for their classmates.
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Stacking Chips
Students examine the outcome of adding one to a group of items. In this number sense lesson, students create stacks of chips and count them. Then, students add one more chip to the stack and count the chips again. Students discuss their...
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Modeling Spatial Relationships
Students model spatial relationships using math manipulatives. In this spatial relationships lesson, students work with a partner, and either connecting links or linking cubes that are three different colors. They explain to each other...
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Months of the Year
Students develop a pictograph using the months of the year. In this months lesson, students place their name with their birth month on a large pictograph. They discuss the information they can see on the graph using the proper names for...
Curated OER
Classroom Idea: Building a Road
Pupils explore technology by conducting a infrastructure role-play in class. In this road building lesson, students identify the techniques and manpower used to build a modern day road. Pupils utilize building blocks to create a mock...
Curated OER
Exploring Patterns
Students explore patterns. In this math lesson plan, students use a variety of objects to create patterns. Students answer questions about the patterns they create.
Curated OER
Using 2 and 3 Dimensional Geometric Shapes
Students explore geometry by participating in a shape identification activity. In this figure dimensions lesson, students identify the difference between 2 and 3 dimensional shapes by their vertices and faces. Students examine blocks in...
Curated OER
Beanbag Toss
Students explore physical education by participating in a class game. In this bean bag toss lesson plan, students utilize masking tape to create targets which they launch bean bags into from far away. Students collaborate in groups to...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Humans Are Like Robots
Four lessons related to robots and people present students with life sciences concepts related to the human body (including brain, nervous systems and muscles), introduced through engineering devices and subjects (including computers,...
Read Works
Read Works: How to Make a Better Robot
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about improvements in robotics. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Robotic Face
Build a robotic face that can make facial expressions using simple machines on this website. This website includes the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Robot Parts
This photo shows a view looking down on a number of robot parts that combine to make a programmable robot that can perform complex movements. Some of the visible parts include wires, servo motors and metal brackets.
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Other
Science Museum of Minnesota: Making a Jitterbug [Pdf]
You can make a simple robot using a few simple materials. The directions come from an exhibit on robots at the Science Museum of Minnesota.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Invent a Biobot
Make a robot that moves like a living creature using a microcontroller, motors, and mechanisms with this challenge. Also, on this challenge find a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Makers: Collection
The Maker Party, an initiative in which people around the world meet up, learn to make things, and share what they've made online. This collection is designed to support the Maker Party by providing a one-stop shop of STEM and digital...
Other
Sprk: Orb Basic Lesson 2 [Pdf]
Students will use Sphero to explore the computer science concepts of variables and conditionals (ifstatements). They will use OrbBasic, which is a text-based programming language for the Sphero. They will write a simple program that...
Other
Popular Mechanics: Technology
Popular Mechanics covers the latest in technology. Topics include computers, the Internet, audio, television, and more.
Other
Pocket Lint: Life in the Future: Tech That Will Change the Way We Live
Technology has the power to do many things, and changing the world is one of them. We're privileged to be living in a time where science and technology can assist us, make our lives easier, and rethink the ways we go about our daily...