Lesson Plan
EngageNY

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 6

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
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...
Activity
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Exploring Paper

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Folding Paper Can Get You to the Moon

For Students 9th - 10th
Animated lesson by Adrian Paenza shows what unbelievable things can happen when folding just one piece of paper. [3:49]
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 8.ee Folding a Square Into Thirds

For Teachers 8th Standards
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...
Lesson Plan
Children's Museum

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Tie Dye Paper

For Teachers K - 1st
Students characterize materials by their state of matter and then combined materials to create a piece of colorful, tie dye-esque paper.
Activity
McGraw Hill

Writing Lab Reports and Scientific Papers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site list and describes the seven pieces necessary for a lab report.
Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Organizing Your Paper

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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,...
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Mg Paper Clip

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Possible Locations

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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...
Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Organizing Your Argument

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
Graphic
Curated OER

Eternal Egypt: Paper With Drawing of Wrestlers

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Interactive
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Net Cuts

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
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.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Co Origami Regular Octagon

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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.
Handout
University of Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin: Writing Center: Apa Documentation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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,...
Website
University of California

Uc Berkeley Library: Mark Twain Takes on Art

For Students 9th - 10th
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!
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Weaving the Multigenre Web

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students analyze the elements of a novel in many different genres and then hyperlink these pieces together on student-constructed Websites.
Interactive
Practical Money Skills

Visa: Practical Money Skills for Life: Cash Puzzler

For Students K - 1st
Interactive game in which players assemble different denominations of currency from jigsaw puzzle pieces.
Website
Other

Free Quilt Patterns: Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
This site alphabetically listed links to hundreds of sites with free quilt designs from Free Quilt Patterns.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Subduction Zone Earthquakes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
Interactive
Museum of Modern Art

Mo Ma: Picasso: Themes and Variations

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Free Reading

Free Reading: Sound Spaghetti; Letter Sound Accuracy Game

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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.
Activity
Other

Federal Aviation Administration: How to Make a Compass [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Website
Other

Office of the Prime Minister: Flag Finish Line

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
Activity
Constitutional Rights Foundation

Constitutional Rights Foundation: Black Troops in Union Blue

For Students 9th - 10th
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.