EngageNY
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 6
Is a college education necessary for success in today's world? The class investigates the question, along with others at the end of the sixth workshop in a 15-part series. The lesson has four parts with multiple activities and...
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Exploring Paper
Learn how new materials, new methods and new ideas are transforming traditional origami. Watch videos of a master origami folder create his unique pieces. Learn how to make your own paper and how to fold your own paper airplanes.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Folding Paper Can Get You to the Moon
Animated lesson by Adrian Paenza shows what unbelievable things can happen when folding just one piece of paper. [3:49]
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 8.ee Folding a Square Into Thirds
This exercise begins with students folding a square piece of paper according to directions and aligning it on a coordinate grid. They then must find and solve a pair of linear equations which can be used to understand how to fold a piece...
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Tie Dye Paper
Students characterize materials by their state of matter and then combined materials to create a piece of colorful, tie dye-esque paper.
McGraw Hill
Writing Lab Reports and Scientific Papers
This site list and describes the seven pieces necessary for a lab report.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Organizing Your Paper
Two slideshows and a screencast on organizational patterns used when writing essays and speeches. The first is a 20-slide presentation explaining the seven most common organizational patterns used in writing: time sequence, spatial,...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: G Mg Paper Clip
A paper clip is just over 4 cm long. How many paper clips like this may be made from a straight piece of wire 10 meters long? This high level task is an example of applying geometric methods to solve design problems and satisfy physical...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Possible Locations
Students use their knowledge of scales and areas to determine the best locations in Alabraska for the underground caverns. They cut out rectangular paper pieces to represent caverns to scale with the maps and place the cut-outs on the...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Organizing Your Argument
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) explains how to organize information in an argumentative essay. Several examples are provided to show how each piece of evidence is elaborated.
Curated OER
Eternal Egypt: Paper With Drawing of Wrestlers
This piece of paper from the Fatimid period, fifth century AH (11th century AD), is a drawing of two wrestlers. Part of the paper is damaged.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Net Cuts
In this enrichment game, the nets for nine solids are displayed. The twist is that each net has been cut into two pieces. The challenge is find the pieces that go together.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: G Co Origami Regular Octagon
After successive folds of a piece of origami paper, a student must explain why the shape made is a regular octagon. Aligns with G-CO.A.3 and G-CO.D.12.
University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin: Writing Center: Apa Documentation
This site provides information on the APA (American Psychological Association) documentation style. The information can be downloaded in PDF format. It refers to several handouts dealing with parenthetical references, reference lists,...
University of California
Uc Berkeley Library: Mark Twain Takes on Art
A great look into the thoughts of Mark Twain and how he feels about certain pieces of art. Tongue-in-cheek, playful and fun. A great link between literature and fine arts for the educator!
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Weaving the Multigenre Web
Students analyze the elements of a novel in many different genres and then hyperlink these pieces together on student-constructed Websites.
Practical Money Skills
Visa: Practical Money Skills for Life: Cash Puzzler
Interactive game in which players assemble different denominations of currency from jigsaw puzzle pieces.
Other
Free Quilt Patterns: Homepage
This site alphabetically listed links to hundreds of sites with free quilt designs from Free Quilt Patterns.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Subduction Zone Earthquakes
For this instructional activity, learners manipulate a model, consisting of templates on a piece of paper and an overlaying transparency, in order to explore the characteristics of subduction zone earthquakes. In the process, they...
Museum of Modern Art
Mo Ma: Picasso: Themes and Variations
Interactive analysis of Picasso as printmaker explains the printmaking techniques that he put to inventive use over his long career. See close-up comparisons of his works on paper along a number of key thematic and subject-matter...
Free Reading
Free Reading: Sound Spaghetti; Letter Sound Accuracy Game
A great game to teach students how to sound out words. Each student picks a piece of long paper out of the teacher's basket and pronounces the letters on it.
Other
Federal Aviation Administration: How to Make a Compass [Pdf]
Learn what a compass is, how it works, and how you can create a simple one using a sewing needle, magnet, bowl of water, and a piece of paper.
Other
Office of the Prime Minister: Flag Finish Line
How quickly can you put the missing pieces on the flags of Canada's provinces in this interactive game? Paper-and-pencil versions of this game may be printed.
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Constitutional Rights Foundation: Black Troops in Union Blue
Activity on African American troops in the Union Army. Students read article for background information, answer questions, then analyze and write about the controversies in a piece to be published in a mock Frederick Douglass's Paper.