CK-12 Foundation
Mental Math to Multiply by Whole Number Powers of Ten: The Rule for Tens
Eight questions challenge scholars to use mental math while multiplying whole numbers by powers of 10. A tool with bouncing decimals demonstrates how and where the decimal moves. Question types include several multiple-choice, a...
CK-12 Foundation
Estimation to Check Decimal Multiplication: Watering a Garden
Mathematicians solve six multiple-choice and true or false questions using their knowledge of estimation and multiplying decimals. The interactive provides a garden-themed tool that creates a visual aid of three watering cans to assist...
Curated OER
Telling Time With Fuses
In this telling time activity, students use fuses which burn at different times to tell times in 45 minute increments. They solve this number puzzle and check their answer with an online solution.
Curated OER
A Leprechaun Trap
Create leprechaun traps using various materials and modeling traps using simple machines. Middle schoolers will build their trap and demonstrate it in front of their classmates. Additionally. they can create a commercial advertising...
Curated OER
Word Roots: Spect, Sta, Vert
How many words can you find? Use this word search towards the end of the unit to reinforce the new vocabulary words. Consider making it a game and timing it to see who can locate the words first.
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Word Roots PLIC, FAC, and COGN Advanced True/False Quiz
A nice twist on the usual vocabulary quiz, this test provides pupils with each of the 12 words in the context of a sentence. This variation allows test takers to use context as well as their word knowledge to determine if vocabulary...
Street Law
Mock Trial - Billings v. Pearson
Looking for cases to use for Mock Trial activities? Internet bullying is the focus of Billings v. Pearson.
Curated OER
Dihedral Figures
Middle and high schoolers perform transformations. In this web based lesson, students explore dihedral figures. They use the web tools to translate, rotate, and reflect figures. Pupils identify lines of symmetry.
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Massive Migrations
Here is an exciting exploration of a fascinating topic for your emerging ecologists: bird migration! They begin by visiting the US Fish & Wildlife Service website to discover which Arctic birds come to their areas. They are assigned...
Curated OER
QR Coded Audio Periodic Table of the Elements
Take the periodic table into the digital age with QR codes that take the scanner to an audio recording about each element from the Royal Society of Chemistry. Enlarge the image, then use a smartphone or tablet to scan the code for an...
Ohio Literacy Resource Center
Arguing with Aristotle Ethos, Pathos, Logos
Introduce your classes to the Art of Rhetoric with a lesson that focuses on Aristotle's persuasive appeals and how they have been used, both ethically and unethically, to influence opinion.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Bird Communication
Sing for your dinner! Investigate the purpose of bird songs and strategies birds use to communicate. Through the lessons, individuals learn how to recognize different types of bird communication as well as hypothesize the purpose of...
Beacon Learning Center
Cherries Are Positive, Lemons Are Negative
Lemon heads and cherry drops combine for a sweet lesson on positive and negative integers. Following an activity sheet, they use lemon as negative and cherry as positive and follow directions with a partner. An assessment, a rubric, and...
Curated OER
Light and Elements
Here is a full-fledged investigation of light waves, the electromagnetic spectrum, and element spectra. Physicists research a scientist that contributed to our understanding of the behavior of light. They take notes on your lecture, and...
Curated OER
Impromptu Speech
Focus on presentation techniques with this lesson, which prompts middle schoolers give an impromptu speech. They practice public speaking by giving a short unprepared speech. Some preparations are made to include an introduction, body,...
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MyVocabulary.com: Word Roots PLIC, FAC, and COGN Intermediate Crossword Puzzle
A fun and challenging vocabulary exercise that focuses the learner's attention on word root meanings, this crossword puzzle would make a great homework or sponge activity. Pupils are provided with 12 clues and they must come up with...
Curated OER
Word Roots 7: Spect, Sta, Vert Intermediate-Crossword
Given the clues, can you complete the crossword puzzle for words containing the Latin roots spect, sta, and vert? No word list is given, but using the answer sheet, you can provide your class with the list of words to choose from. This...
Shakespeare Globe Trust
Fact Sheet: Costumes and Cosmetics
Theatre producers in Shakespeare's time didn't have the special effects that are common today, so they had to get creative. Using the handout, pupils explore the topic of costume design. Additionally, readers learn about the stage makeup...
Bee Visual
Choiceworks
Check out this clever way to help children learn to navigate daily schedules, choices, and feelings. This application supports the completion of routines and promotes positive choices that can be used at school and home. It is ideal...
Curated OER
Demand and Supply—It’s What Economics Is About!
In this economics lesson, students examine the principle of supply and demand related to the oil market as they identify factors that cause curves and shifts and determine equilibrium. Upper graders read an informational article and use...
Curated OER
Connecting Dots
In this connecting dots worksheet, students solve a word problem involving connecting dots using a continuous line. Students complete 1 complicated higher order thinking problem.
Curated OER
7-2 Self Check Pythagorean Theorem Multiple Choice
Middle and high schoolers use the Pythagorean Theorem to determine the length of the sides of a right triangle. They solve distance problems. This one-page worksheet contains 10 multiple-choice problems. This is self-checking worksheet.
Pie Council
National π Day
Learners can enjoy pi with pie! A collection of short activities celebrates pi day with a word search, a maze, and real-world problemsn. Using pi in formulas for area, circumference, and volume as well as exploring simple fractions is...
Fluence Learning
Writing an Argument: Is Electronic Communication Helpful or Harmful?
Technology has undoubtedly improved the lives of people around the world—but has it improved communication? Seventh graders read two informative passages about the rise of texting and emailing versus in-person conversations before...