+
Unit Plan
Newspaper Association of America

Power Pack: Lessons in Civics, Math, and Fine Arts

For Teachers 3rd - 12th Standards
Newspaper in Education (NIE) Week honors the contributions of the newspaper and is celebrated in the resource within a civics, mathematics, and fine arts setting. The resource represents every grade from 3rd to 12th with questions and...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Flying with Pythagoras

For Teachers 7th - 10th
A lengthy narrative about Pythagoras and his young scholars precedes an activity in which your young mathematicians practice using the Pythagorean theorem to solve three problems about flight and distance. Answers are provided. 
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Pardon Me. Do You Have Change For a Dollar?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Upper elementary and middle school learners explore currencies from a variety of countries. They use the Internet, video, and engage in hands-on activities. They practice converting U.S. currency to foreign currency and vice versa. This...
+
Lesson Plan
Ahisma Summer Institute

The Power of One - Math in a Different Angle

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
In this 2-day lesson focused on exponents, middle schoolers will cross the curriculum by engaging in science, history and language arts activities. Exponential growth will be explored using grains of rice on a chess board. Exponential...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Balancing Equations and Using a Pyramid

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders complete worksheets and make journal entries to interpret mathematical expressions about the pyramids. In this equality by balancing equations lesson, 6th graders participate in groups or by themselves to complete exercises...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Numbers Behind Hunger: Rate of Change

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Explore the concept of world hunger by having students collect and graph 1990 world hunger statistics. They will analyze the data in order to determine how to decrease world hunger rates and try to determine problems and solutions of...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

I want a credit card--or do I?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students pretend to borrow $1000.00 on a credit card. They pretend to make the minimum payments for a year. When they're done, they make a pie chart showing how much of their payments reduced their debt, and how much was interest.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Making Good Investments

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars compare different aspects of investing money from traditional savings accounts to money market accounts. They research investment accounts at local banks and compare them.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Choose or Lose: The Electoral Process

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students examine the local and national election process. In groups, they brainstorm a list of the issues important to them and compare them to an overall list of issues present in the election. They analyze graphs and complete...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Extreme Elevations

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders use highest and lowest points of land elevation around the world to find the differences. Sea level is zero, so students be operating with positive and negative numbers. After students find the information on the...
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Numbers Behind Hunger #1

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students investigate world hunger. In this global issues lesson, students research world hunger issues using the World Food Program website. Students analyze statistics and consider how to address word hunger issues.
+
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Demise of Copper's Trading Power

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders evaluate statistical equations. They examine data from archaeologists at Jamestown, complete statistical equations using the sets of data, and graph the results.

Other popular searches