Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Keeping Us in Stitches Activity: Hexagon Quilt Top Design

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
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.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Timely Tolerance

For Teachers 8th
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...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Dinosaur Designs

For Teachers 2nd
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.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Twenty-one Balloons

For Teachers 5th
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...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Reading Comprehension: When Ants Go Marching, They Count Their Steps

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this comprehension worksheet, students read a short selection about ants, then answer 5 multiple choice questions. Answers provided.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How Big Is Your Heart?

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students complete a performance about the heart. In this heart lesson plan, students learn about the heart functions and then perform them.
Lesson Plan
Pennsylvania Department of Education

Creating Polygons

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students describe, make and compare polygons. In this creating polygons lesson, students identify properties of quadrilaterals and describe common features of two dimensional shapes.
Graphic
Other

Molecular Movies: 3 D Tutorials for Biologists

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Interactive
Davidson College

Davidson College: Visualization of Atomic Orbitals: P Orbitals

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the geometry of the p orbitals and presents exercises for exploring their shape and orientations. Requires Java.
Interactive
Davidson College

Davidson College: Visualization of Atomic Orbitals

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the geometry of the d orbitals and presents exercises for exploring their shape and orientations. Requires Java.
Interactive
Davidson College

Davidson College: Visualization of Atomic Orbitals: S Orbitals

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the geometry of the s orbitals and presents exercises for exploring their shape and orientations. Requires Java.
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Tail Wagging and Brain Lateralization

For Students 9th - 10th
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....
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Beaver Character

For Students 9th - 10th
Use object-oriented design, discussed in this tutorial, to describe a hopping Beaver character.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Memory Game: Drawing a Grid of Tiles

For Students 9th - 10th
Creating a memory game by drawing a grid of tiles including the use of object-oriented principles and the Fisher-Yates shuffle.
Handout
University of Virginia Library

Prism: Notes on the State of Virginia

For Students 9th - 10th
[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...
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: A Button Object Type

For Students 9th - 10th
This Khan Academy resource is an article about using a button object type to create code and make it reusable.
Interactive
Other

Tagxedo

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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,...
Activity
Other

Arrakis: Area Fractal

For Students 9th - 10th
This page is mainly oriented to the visual aspect of fractals, but without forgetting the process.
Handout
ArtLex

Art Lex: History of Japanese Art

For Students 9th - 10th
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.