Curated OER
Introduction to Representing and Analyzing Data
Represent data graphically. Allow your class to explore different methods of representing data. They create foldables, sing songs, and play a dice game to reinforce the measures of central tendency.
Curated OER
Construct, Bisect, Duplicate: Geometry Practice with Compass and Straight Edge
Geometers employ a straight edge and compass to duplicate and bisect segments and angles, construct perpendiculars, parallel lines, figures, and circles with points of concurrency. Ample practice with 65 questions across 8 worksheets. No...
Curated OER
Circle Graphs
In this circle graphs learning exercise, students solve and complete 8 different problems that include word problems referring to two different circle graphs shown. First, they follow the directions for each problem and complete the...
Math Mammoth
Construct Line Segments and Angles
In this construction instructional activity, students use a compass and a straightedge to construct line segments, angles, and copy polygons. This one-page instructional activity contains 7 constructions.
Curated OER
Design and Construction of an Eco-House
Students are able to design, construct, evaluate and recommend materials for planned Eco-house to be built on campus. They investigate about good design and plan for construction. Students have a greater knowledge and appreciation of...
Curated OER
Modeling pentagrams using Geometers Sketchpad
Students using visual modeling software will construct two regular pentagrams which are mathematically similar. They also create a multi-page document and learn to create links between the pages and to a website on the History of...
Curated OER
Building an Electric Motor
Students study different motors and how they convert electrical energy to mechanical energy. In this motor lesson students make a model of an electric motor and examine how it can be used to do work.
Curated OER
Reinforced Concrete Bridges
Students analyze bridge designs and functions. In this reinforced bridge instructional activity students brainstorm bridge ideas, divide into teams and give an oral presentation to the class to show them their bridge design.
Curated OER
Rockets
Students work together in groups of 5 to build a model rocket from a rocket kit. For this rocket lesson, students launch the rocket when it is constructed. The students will use simple materials to build and launch their own model rocket.
Curated OER
Look at the Past
In this social studies instructional activity looking at the past, students identify, list, and explain the materials that were used to build schools in the past as compared to their school today. Then they look at a photo of boys...
Curated OER
Lines and Angles
Sixth graders explore lines and angles. They create visual representations of lines, rays and angles by drawing them on paper and using a geoboard. On paper, 6th graders write a summary of the characteristics of their representations.
Curated OER
Boat Building
Young scholars design and contrast a boat made out of aluminum foil. They test the boats to see which boat floats the best using three different solutions and steel ball weights. Students work on their own to construct a boat of their...
Science Museum of Minnesota
Thinking Fountain: Straws: Make a Glider
Design and construct a glider that files! Compare the flights with classmates' prototypes to test the success of your design.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Workshop Constructivism: Paradigm for Teaching: Learning
What is constructivism? Use this informative site to learn more about this theory and how it is incorporated into teaching and learning.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Constructing Triangles
Given the lengths of two sides of a triangle, what can we say about the third side? Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Interactive Geometry: 5.4 Constructions of Regular Polygons
Learn how to construct regular polygons.
Purple Math
Purplemath: Quartiles, Boxes, and Whiskers
Explains how to construct a simple box-and-whisker plot, and demonstrates the steps. Discusses quartiles and medians, shows how to find them, and explains how they relate to box-and-whisker plots.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Pictograph With Key Greater Than 1
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces reading a pictograph with a key greater than one, answering questions from data represented, find number of symbols to represent data by using a key, construct pictograph, and...