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Curated OER
Keeping Us in Stitches Activity: Hexagon Quilt Top Design
Students examine how the hexagon shape can be a building block for quilt patterns. They view images of quilts, discuss symmetry and design patterns, and create and name an original quilt design.
Curated OER
Timely Tolerance
Eighth graders work together to focus on an oppressed group of society. Using the information they gather, they create a museum exhibit to educate their community on the group. They present their PowerPoint presentation to the class to...
Curated OER
Dinosaur Designs
Second graders examine facts that can be found in nonfiction books. They listen to a read aloud of Patrick's Dinosaur, with time before the end for student predictions. They make dinosaur t-shirts using facts from the book.
Curated OER
Twenty-one Balloons
Fifth graders determine what the Newbery Award is and why it is importance. They examine a number of Newbery Award winning books and listen to a book talk about William Pene DuBois', Twenty-One Balloons while watching a PowerPoint...
Curated OER
Reading Comprehension: When Ants Go Marching, They Count Their Steps
In this comprehension worksheet, students read a short selection about ants, then answer 5 multiple choice questions. Answers provided.
Curated OER
How Big Is Your Heart?
Students complete a performance about the heart. In this heart lesson plan, students learn about the heart functions and then perform them.
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Creating Polygons
Students describe, make and compare polygons. In this creating polygons lesson, students identify properties of quadrilaterals and describe common features of two dimensional shapes.
Other
Molecular Movies: 3 D Tutorials for Biologists
A collection of visualization-oriented tutorials for creating 3D animations for use in your biology classroom. Search by difficulty level, software package, or 3D topic area.
Davidson College
Davidson College: Visualization of Atomic Orbitals: P Orbitals
Discusses the geometry of the p orbitals and presents exercises for exploring their shape and orientations. Requires Java.
Davidson College
Davidson College: Visualization of Atomic Orbitals
Discusses the geometry of the d orbitals and presents exercises for exploring their shape and orientations. Requires Java.
Davidson College
Davidson College: Visualization of Atomic Orbitals: S Orbitals
Discusses the geometry of the s orbitals and presents exercises for exploring their shape and orientations. Requires Java.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Tail Wagging and Brain Lateralization
The left brain is supposed to be better at language, and organizing sequential actions, the right brain is supposed to be better at visualizing orientations in space, making and listening to music, and deciphering the emotions of others....
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Beaver Character
Use object-oriented design, discussed in this tutorial, to describe a hopping Beaver character.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Memory Game: Drawing a Grid of Tiles
Creating a memory game by drawing a grid of tiles including the use of object-oriented principles and the Fisher-Yates shuffle.
University of Virginia Library
Prism: Notes on the State of Virginia
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read the complete text of Thomas Jefferson's "Notes on the State of Virginia" and highlight rhetoric in blue, orientalism in red, and social Darwinism in green. When finished, click save to see how...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: A Button Object Type
This Khan Academy resource is an article about using a button object type to create code and make it reusable.
Other
Tagxedo
Tagxedo is a tool for making word clouds for visual displays and graphic use. Students insert a piece of text and the words are laid out to form a shape. A Tagxedo can also be created by pulling text in from a website, Twitter handle,...
Other
Arrakis: Area Fractal
This page is mainly oriented to the visual aspect of fractals, but without forgetting the process.
ArtLex
Art Lex: History of Japanese Art
A very general survey of the history of Japanese art. Click on any of the time periods to learn more specific information about each one. Includes several examples; click on the title of each work to enlarge the image and to learn more.