Curated OER
Think Green
Pupils experience and practice compositing and recycling through hands-on-activities. They distinguish between which items from their trash can be recycled, composted and reused. The process for making recycled paper is also covered in...
Curated OER
Avoiding Primer Language
In this avoiding primer language worksheet, students combine four or five simple sentences into one effective sentence with only one independent clause.
Read Works
Read Works: Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about the television game show "Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?" A question sheet is available to help students build skills in author's purpose.
Math Slice
Math Slice: Math Jeopardy Game
Let's play Jeopardy! Modeled after the popular TV game show, this interactive game focuses on addition number skills. Immediate feedback given to responses. Top winners have their scores posted daily.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Escape Game
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to elementary game theory. The lesson is framed in the context of criminal who must get off at one of two subway stops -- will the officer choose the same stop...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Dragonfly Tv: The Show: Trees
How much do you think you know about trees? PBS site offers a video and description of the life cycle of trees and their leaves.
Math TV
Weekly Math Tv Problem Solving Videos
This resource offers two different topic problems per week for students to solve. A video showing the method to solve each problem is given. After viewing a solution method for solving the problem try one on your own where you can only...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Science of the Game of Thrones
The popular television show, Game of Thrones, and the novel series it is based on, A Song of Fire and Ice, take place in another world. Joe Hanson explores possible scientific explanations of the phenomena exhibited on the show. [8:01]
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Dating Game
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson shows students an algorithm to find the day on which any date in the past or future, has or will land. The lesson begins with a manual "hammering out" of a few specified dates by...
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Charades Game Word List
This is a list of book, movie, and television show titles to be used to compile a list for a game of charades. It also explains the basic rules for the game and how to choose words for different groups.
Read Works
Read Works: Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the television show Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Other
Consumer Report: Buy Me That Too: A Kid's Survival Guide to Tv Ads
This video [14:45] A Kid's Survival Guide to TV Advertising from Consumer Reports Television helps children understand television advertising by showing tricks advertisers use to fool viewers, revealing facts that ads don't provide, and...
Other
Kaept'n Blaubaer
This site from the German TV show Kaept'n Blaubaer includes games, contests, and basic learning activities.
Other
Hong Kong Education City: English Campus
English Campus is an excellent site for Chinese speakers learning English. It includes seven channels - Watch, Read, Practice, Play, Create, Meet, and a Teachers' Corner. Learn by playing word and grammar games, watching movies and...
Rice University
Rice University: Web Adventures: Csi: The Experience
Based on the CSI television show, this series of four role-playing games helps students learn the scientific method and try their hand at solving crimes. Discover if you have what it takes to be a forensic scientist.
Other
Disney Junior: Play App
Welcome to the magical world of Disney Junior Play featuring your favorite Disney Junior characters all in one place! Loads of exciting TV shows, games, puzzles, sing-along videos, dress-up fun and sticker book scenes. The 'Disney Junior...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Shifting Cells
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the concept of algorithms. Students are at first given a string of cells (one-dimensional), and then told to iterate the cells according to a couple basic...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Truth or Dare
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson present a series of five logic puzzles, most of which include the classic "liars and truth-tellers" format. On the teacher's page, sample leading questions are presented to help...
A&E Television
History.com: 8 Ways the Original 'Star Trek' Made History
When "Star Trek" premiered on NBC in the fall of 1966, it promised "To boldly go where no man has gone before." More than half a century later, it has done just that. The original "Star Trek," which lasted for only three seasons, birthed...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Guess My Type or Lose
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students take a greater look at tree diagrams, especially in relation to decision making. Game theory figures in on this lesson, as students try to determine which choices...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: To C or Not to C
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the Iterated Prisoner Dilemma, an interesting problem in the realm of Game Theory. Two prisoners are separated and given the opportunity to either "rat out"...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: A Party of Six
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson use graph theory to examine social network analysis. Students form complete graphs with different colored edges (representing acquaintance or non-acquaintance), and determine how...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Have Your Cake and Eat It Too
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students think about fair way to divide a quantity into even parts. Different algorithms are presented, including "I cut, you choose," and students are to choose which...
Other
Exidor's Logic Puzzle Place
This lighthearted personal website (Exidor is a character from the old "Mork and Mindy" TV show) provides a multitude of logic puzzles and brain teasers, along with links to similar sites. Solutions provided for each puzzle.