Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Division of Fractions: Using Fraction Strips

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Model division by a fraction using fraction strips. This video focuses on modeling division of a whole number by fractions.
Interactive
Toy Theater

Toy Theater: Fraction Strips

For Students 3rd - 5th
Use these colorful fraction strips to model fraction relationships and solve mixed fraction problems.
Activity
K-5 Math Teaching Resources

K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Fraction Strips [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th
An activity to recognize and label the fraction. You will need the following materials: glue, scissors and the included fractions strips template.
Activity
K-5 Math Teaching Resources

K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Make Your Own Fraction Strips [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th
An activity to work with fractions. Materials needed: sheet of legal size paper (81/2"x 14"), ruler, scissors, pencils and crayons.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Finding Equivalent Fractions

For Teachers 6th
Using number lines and fraction strips helps students become familiar with benchmark fractions, equivalent fractions, and comparing fractions.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Folding Strips of Paper

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
The purpose of this task is to provide students with a concrete experience they can relate to fraction multiplication. Perhaps more importantly, the task also purposefully relates length and locations of points on a number line, a common...
Handout
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Mobius Strip

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, which is provided for by Mathworld.com through Wolfram Research, gives a thorough look at the Mobius strip. Pictures, charts, and formulas are also provided.
Lesson Plan
University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Rational Numbers Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This hands-on lesson plan discusses and explores rational numbers. Students construct personal fractional strip kits and use them to compare fractional amounts and investigate equivalence. The lesson plan includes instructions,...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Subtracting Mixed Numbers

For Teachers 4th Standards
A lesson focused on subtracting mixed numbers using fraction strips and an interactive fraction pad.
Activity
K-5 Math Teaching Resources

K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Exploring Equivalent Fractions [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 4th
Use fraction strips to explore equivalent fractions.
Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Environment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Through 10 lessons and more than 20 hands-on activities, students are introduced to the concept of an environment and the many interactions within it. As they learn about natural and human-made environments, as well as renewable and...
Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Your Father's Nose

For Students 9th - 10th
After constructing a frame with a mirror made of horizontal strips, explore what your face would look like if it was made up of half of someone else's.
Article
A&E Television

History.com: 8 Ways the Original 'Star Trek' Made History

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Handout
Other

The Distillation Group: An Overview of the Distillation Process

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this site to learn about the basic process of industrial distillation. There is also a photo gallery to view real-world distillation plants.

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