Inside Mathematics
Graphs (2007)
Challenge the class to utilize their knowledge of linear and quadratic functions to determine the intersection of the parent quadratic graph and linear proportional graphs. Using the pattern for the solutions, individuals develop a...
Arizona Department of Education
Introduction to Integers
Welcome to the backward world of negative numbers. This introductory lesson teaches young mathematicians that negative numbers are simply the opposite of positive numbers as they use number lines to plot and compare...
Balanced Assessment
Local and Global Behavior
Create rules for numerical sequences. Pupils develop local rules and recursive rules for number sequences. The sequences are linear, quadratic, and cubic in nature. Scholars find that some local rules do not work, no matter where in...
Software Smoothie
Imagination Box - Colors, Shapes, Numbers and Letters
This app provides young learners with opportunities to be creative while they work with different colors, letters, numbers, and shapes.
Vanderbilt University
Dia de Los Muertos
To honor El Dia de los Muertos, scholars work together to create Day of the Dead displays—paper sugar skulls and banners—that bring a festive and memorable flare to the classroom.
King Country
Lesson 4: Relationships - Day 2: Gender Identification
Gender roles and gender identity are the focus of a lesson designed for high school special education classes. Read the introduction to the packet carefully, as it contains advice about how to approach the subject with your...
National Park Service
The Power of Remembrance
On every July 4th, we watch fireworks and celebrate our independence, but how is the history of the American Revolution preserved? Four social studies instructional activity guide learners through different memorials, commemorative...
Infobased Learning
Bloom's Literature: How to Write about Nineteen Eighty Four
A good prompt is hard to find, especially ones that encourage application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of a text. Help is here in the form of a prompt list for George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four that offers essay topics that...
Perkins School for the Blind
Polyatomic Ion Bingo
If your class is learning about polyatomic ions and needs a fun way to study those chemicals, then a bingo game might be right up your alley. This bingo game is intended to boost memorization skills, specifically the names of tricky...
US Institute of Peace
Perspectives on Peace
Much like a garden, once the seeds of peace are planted, they need to be tended! How can humankind make and keep peace? The second installment in a series of 15 peacebuilding activities focuses on different perceptions of peace. The...
Curated OER
That's a Fine Line You're Walking!
Students experiment with Hiker program to practice real world applications of linear functions and develop their understanding of expressions, relationships, and manipulations involved in writing and graphing linear equations in...
Curated OER
A Beginning Look at Basic Algebra-Lesson 1-12
For this Algebra I worksheet, 9th graders explore the basic of beginning algebra: the order of operations, integer operations, translating phrases and sentences, and solving basic one-step equations. The six page worksheet...
Curated OER
Clay Portrait Project
Students discuss facial proportions and mix colors similar to flesh tones. In this art lesson plan, students draw and paint a portrait and then translate this image into a 3D form using clay.
Curated OER
Ceramics: A Vessel into History
High schoolers produce a ceramic vessel based on elements derived from historical examples.
Curated OER
From the Rise of the Absolute Monarchy to Democracy on the American Frontier
Students use a teacher-made museum guide with questions that allow them to analyze and compare the patron art of seventeenth-century France with portraits of later periods at the Joslyn Art Museum. Students also read The Little Prince...
Curated OER
Everyone Has Interesting Stuff Teaching With Objects in the Classroom
Students determine what objects tell about a person. For this historical object lesson, students share an object that they feel tells a lot about themselves. They pass the object around a class circle, while others comment on what they...
Curated OER
Parabella
In this algebra worksheet, students rewrite word problems into algebraic expressions using algebra symbols. They figure out what it is that the new daughter has one of.
Curated OER
Order of Operations
Review the order of operations using this learning exercise. Learners complete eighteen problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Curated OER
Symbols to Sculptures
Students transform 2-dimensional drawings to synthesized, free standing 3-dimensional forms.
Curated OER
Idiom Quiz A
In this idiom quiz instructional activity, students complete a total of 30 multiple choice questions, choosing the correct idiom to replace a phrase given in brackets within a sentence, 30 total.
Curated OER
Idiom Quizzes - Negotiations
In this online interactive vocabulary skills worksheet, students answer 25 multiple choice questions regarding idioms and expressions pertaining to negotiations. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
Curated OER
Idiom Quizzes - Business
In this idiom worksheet, students take a quiz where they pick the correct idiom to replace the expression in the brackets. Students complete 20 multiple choice questions.
Curated OER
Coin Art 4-6
Students study the historical figures and symbols of U.S.
patriotism depicted on the penny, nickel, dime, and quarter coins and learn that artists designed the portraits and other images on the coins. They research Texas symbols and...