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PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Using a Coordinate Grid
In this Cyberchase video segment, the CyberSquad must locate each other using a map's grid to construct a coordinate system using letters and numbers.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Memory Game: Drawing a Grid of Tiles
Creating a memory game by drawing a grid of tiles including the use of object-oriented principles and the Fisher-Yates shuffle.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Perimeter in Grid
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video and attempt practice problems on how to find the perimeter of a shape using a grid.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright Knox Art Gallery: Grid Self Portrait
This lesson plan explores how Chuck Close uses photography and a mathematical grid to create his large portraits. Hands-on activities encourage students to create using the grid, during which they will learn about variation, repetition,...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Finding Locations on a Grid
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will be able to use a letter/number grid system to determine location on a grid.
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Visual and Performing Arts: Drawing, Painting and Illustrating
Artopia is an excellent art resource for students. They are able to examine important works of art, learn about styles, principles, and processes of the various art forms used in painting, drawing, and illustration, and view videos of...
Other
Wbur: New England's Electric Power Grid Is Undergoing a Transformation
This article discusses New England's developing hybrid power grid, a network that relies on a variety of energy resources, including fuels and alternative energy sources and technologies. The ongoing transformation to renewable energy is...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Grid
The class forms a "Presidential Task Force" for a week, empowered by the president to find answers and make recommendations concerning the future of the national power grid. Task force members conduct daily debriefings with their...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Connect With Coordinates
Students will be involved in hands-on activities that will help them to learn to locate points on a grid. Students will also learn how to correctly read an ordered pair of numbers. Technology will be implemented through the use of a...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Area in Grid
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video overview and attempt practice problems on how to find the area of a shape using grids.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Smart Buildings, Transport, and Grids
The advantages and security risks of "Smart" uses of technology in buildings, transportation, and grids are discussed.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Calculating Distance Using the Pythagorean Theorem
This interactive exercise focuses on using the Pythagorean Theorem to calculate distance and plotting points on a Cartesian grid.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Should I Use Cash or Credit?
This is a instructional activity presented by EconEdLink that delivers the dilemma of cash or credit. Includes background information, a problem-solving grid, and great questions.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Calculating Rectangular Area
In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad measures Judge Trudy's land claim by using tarps, fence posts and a grid made with rope.
PBS
Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Lost and Found Activity Plan
Gorillas, groceries, pirate treasure, and aardvark homes: these are just a few of the things children will search for and find in this week's Afterschool Adventure, Lost and Found. Children will use position words like above, below, and...
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Introduction to Slope for Middle Years Mathematics
This collection of five middle school math lessons covers the topic of plane geometry, specifically the concept of slope. The first lesson introduces middle schoolers to plotting points on a Cartesian grid using a Geoboard. Lesson two...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 5.g Battle Ship Using Grid Paper
The purpose of this task is to give students practice plotting points in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane and naming coordinates of points. Aligns with 5.G.A.1.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Exploring Standard Form of a Quadratic Function
Students explore y=ax^2+bx+c using the transform graphing application. Teacher calculator is used with Navigator to send device settings, the equation format and initial coefficient values to all students. Worksheet includes all student...
NOAA
Noaa: Be a Shipwreck Detective [Pdf]
Use your skills of investigation to examine a list of items recovered from a shipwreck. Draw conclusions about the ship and its demise based off of your observations.
University of Sydney (Australia)
The Write Site: Practice: Constructing a Working Thesis
In this interactive lesson, students will refer to a synthesis grid to determine the "best" thesis to use when answering a business management question.
National Gallery of Canada
Cybermuse: Introduction to Pictorial Space
A site featuring the work of Cezanne, Monet, Picasso, and Mondrian, among others, that explores pictorial space in a composition There are lesson plans for ages 4-18, and a great section where works are juxtaposed for comparison. Use the...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Introduction to Maps
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students are expected to: explain the purpose of a map; identify and use a compass rose; use a grid to locate objects on maps; and use a map key. Activities are hands-on with students manipulating...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Single Variable Expressions: Neighborhood Block
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will solve single variable expressions using a grid of a neighborhood. Click challenge me to answer a question about the grid and click learn more to explore single variables and watch a video.
Other
University of Akron: Research Challenges Location of 'Tornado Alley'
Geographer Michael Frates redefines the concept of Tornado Alley by using a grid system to map tornado activity in the U.S. Download the Tornado Alley map and locate the other tornado active areas: Hoosier Alley, Dixie Alley and the...