What Temperature Is It?

What better way to celebrate learners' birthdays than by creating original math problems? For this open ended challenge, young mathematicians must make numerical expressions using parentheses, exponents, and three other operations that...

The story of Ruby Bridges and the case of Brown vs. The Board of Education are fantastic tools for discussing the concept of separate but equal. Kids tackle some big questions about what is fair, what is civil, and what rights or laws...

Which is colder -12 or -18? Temperature is natural real-world application of ordering rational numbers. It's also fun to talk about the lowest recorded temperature on Earth. Take the time to discuss this inquiry with your class. 

Sometimes what seems like the easiest problem is really the most difficult. Your class is first going to reach for their calculators, but will realize the number is too large to evaluate. Now what? This is where the fun and the logical...

Take down that digital clock! Scholars practice reading an analog clock face with the minute hand on various quarter-hour increments. They write the correct time below nine clocks, each of which have the hour hand in green and the minute...

In this telling time worksheet, students look at each clock and write the correct time on the line below it. There are 9 clocks on this page.

Fourth graders discuss events leading to Revolutionary War.  In this what war is this lesson, 4th graders view images from the war and discuss how it shaped our future as a Country.

Here is a recipe for a practical cross-curricular lesson! Cover unit conversions and ratios for math, the periodic table of elements for science, the difference between sodium and salt and its relation to high blood pressure for...

After reflecting on jobs people perform in the present day, scholars discuss what they believe jobs would have been like in Colonial Virginia during the American Revolution. Small groups then perform a jigsaw using informational packets....

A two-part lesson focuses on the sensitive issues of homophobia, discrimination, sexuality, and gender. Middle schoolers discuss individual and institutional discrimination, personal rights, homosexuality, and bullying.