Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Flight Home

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students experiment to investigate the role in fixed-wing flight. They watch as air and water flow around surfaces to examine the dynamics of airflow around an aircraft wing.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Estimation and Pattern Discovery

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students collect sunflower heads from their community garden. They estimate its seed count using different strategies. They graph their estimations on a graph and use calculators to find the actual total.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Scale Basketball

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students discuss scale diagrams and maps as well as the use of spreadsheets to find the best scale to use in a model before practicing scale and ratio problems on their own.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How Many Regular Polyhedrons Are There In This or Any Universe?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars examine the idea of "regularity" as it pertains to geometry.  In this geometry lesson students complete several assignments that are part of trihedral angles and regular polyhedrons.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"I, Robot"

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders define vocabulary and discuss the characters in a movie.  In this solar station lesson students explore robots on the Internet. 
Worksheet
Curated OER

Rice Problem

For Students 6th - 8th
In this measurement conversion worksheet, students solve and complete 35 different problems. First, they read the passage and determine if they could have passed the examination described. Then, students find how much processed rice a...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

African Americans in Science

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the life of renowned African American scientists. In this science literacy lesson, students explore a website containing profiles and achievements of past and present African American scientists. They prepare a poster...
Handout
Library of Congress

Loc: Mathematician and Astronomer Benjamin Banneker

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about the life and accomplishments of Benjamin Banneker, an African American mathematician and scientist. Also contains portraits and a map of New York, which can be enlarged for a closer view.
Interactive
Fun Brain

Fun Brain: Who Is That? (u.s. Presidents, Scientists & Mathematicians)

For Students 3rd - 8th
A fun game in which players use clues to identify important figures in history (either U.S. presidents or famous scientists and mathematicians).
Lesson Plan
University of Houston

University of Houston: Lesson Plan: Famous Mathematicians

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson plan is aimed at 7th and 8th grade students and involves researching famous mathematicians and the import of their contributions.
Handout
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Srinivasa Ramanujan Biography

For Students 1st - 8th
Interesting biographical information and famous quotes about Srinivasa Ramanujan, a famous mathematician.
Handout
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Sir Isaac Newton Biography

For Students 2nd - 8th
Interesting biographical information and achievements of Sir Isaac Newton, famous physicist, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher.
Handout
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Galileo Galilei Biography

For Students 2nd - 8th
Discover interesting fun facts about the life of Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer, mathematician, and physicist.
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: "Who Is Katherine Johnson?" by Nasa

For Students 7th - 8th
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Figure This: Vcr

For Students 3rd - 8th
This resource presents an interesting challenge for the serious mathematician with strong reasoning skills. Explore proportional reasoning, probabilities, fractions, and ratios in this challenge to figure out if you always get six hours...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Looking at Conestoga Wagons

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson combines information literacy and technology skills with subject area skills. It is designed to be a collaborative effort between the classroom teacher and the school librarian. The topic of conestoga wagons is reseached from...
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Gauss Arithmetic Sequence Strategy

For Students 6th - 8th
Learn how mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss figured out how to sum up any arithmetic sequence without having to add up each and every term. This video focuses on using your critical thinking to follow along as Gauss determines his...
Graphic
NASA

Nasa: Astronomy Picture of the Day: Hypatia

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn more about Hypatia when you check out this resource. This site features a picture and a brief synopsis of this famous scientist.
Activity
Ministry of Education and Employment of Spain

Red Escolar: El Crucigrama De Hipatia

For Students 6th - 8th
In Spanish. Hypatia of Alejandria was a great mathematician that from an early age taught and investigated almost all branches of mathematics. To remember her solve the crossword puzzle involving problems of arithmetic, geometry and...
Activity
NumberNut

Number Nut: Why We Learn About Dates and Times?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Why is it important for good mathematicians to understand the concepts of date and time? Discover the reasons in this lesson that explores the real-world connections and includes two interactive games that help build time-telling skills.
Activity
Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicacion Educativa

Red Escolar: Otra Forma De Multiplicar

For Students 3rd - 8th
In Spanish. Practice multiplication with a different method invented by the mathematician Luca Pacioli.
Article
Other

Aula365: Historia De Galileo

For Students 6th - 8th
Read about the mathematician and astronomer Galileo Galilei.
Activity
Teaching Treasures Publications

Teaching Treasures: Year Six Math True or False

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Assess your aptitude for math facts with this interactive true or false questionnaire. Questions cover a variety of math concepts and topics that should be familiar to most young mathematicians. Answers can be checked immediately.
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Augustus' Age

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use a simple formula to help you figure out the age of the mathematician Augustus de Morgan. When done, check your results against the solution.

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