Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Representing Numbers to 50

For Teachers 1st
In this mathematics worksheet, 1st graders identify two-digit numbers that show tens and ones. Then they write how many tens and ones there are and place the number in the boxes given.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Putting Your Best Foot Forward

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders measure their feet and their parents' feet, record data on computer-generated graphs, and calculate and record mean, median, and mode.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How Many More on a Graph?

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify a number that is one more or one less than a number up to one hundred and identify a mystery number. They also create a class graph that illustrates how many children are in each family, and answer questions about...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What is electrical energy?

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students distinguish between items with and without energy. For this energy lesson, students understand that natural resources power electrical apparatus and that energy needs to be saved.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Our Five Senses Affect Food Choices

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read My Five Senses: A Lion's Tale. In this five senses instructional activity, students understand the relationship between their five senses and how they affect their food choices. Students write journal entries about their...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Daily Life in Ancient Egypt

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explain how artwork can inform about a culture and its traditions. They pretend to be archaeologists who have just opened a tomb. They interpret the past based on what they discover.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Yard Sale

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students complete activities to discover spending, goods, services, price, advertising, choice, alternatives, criteria and opportunity cost.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Grasping Geometry

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars investigate geometric shapes in their environment, make a geometric design, and write paragraphs describing the design.
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Curated OER

Can You See It, Touch It, Hear It?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners develop and practice observational skills through lab activity.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Floating Golf Ball

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discuss density.  In this floating golf ball lesson students complete a lab activity on density while working in groups. 
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Estimating the Metric Lengths of Objects by Image

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] For this learning module, students must analyze the information they are given about the metric heights of three objects and answer questions that compare them....
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Meters (Grade 4)

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This learning module features three videos and a set of practice questions in which students measure and/or compare lengths of objects measured in meters.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Numbers 1 10 Activity Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
In this week's Afterschool Adventure, children will explore simple math activities using the numbers one through ten. Children will represent numbers in different ways, such as drawing quantities; writing numerals; and using number...
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Multiple Object Length Comparison (English Units)

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] For this learning module, students are asked to measure and compare the lengths of several objects lined up along a ruler. Includes video demonstrating a sample...
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Objects Longer Than a Foot or a Yard

For Students 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] For this learning module, students are asked to compare the lengths of everyday objects to a foot or a yard and state whether they are longer or shorter. Includes...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Curious George: Bug Catcher

For Students Pre-K - K
This game from Curious George helps children learn numbers, counting, comparing sets, and numerical relations. Help Curious George figure out which group of bugs is bigger, and then catch them.
Activity
SRI International

Performance Assessment Links in Science: Observing Objects

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This is a performance task for Grade Four students where they observe two different pendulums and compare the two types of motion. The activity is designed for a lab setting where students work at individual stations. A rubric and...
Lesson Plan
Other

Hubbard's Cupboard: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Math and literacy meet in this extensive lesson plan based on the familiar children's story, "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie." Learners will be engaged in math activities such as, "Cookie Count," "Who Took the Cookies," and "Cookie Jar...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Building Towers

For Teachers 1st Standards
SWBAT count a set of up to 20 objects by 1's. SWBAT use number names and written numbers to label the quantities they represent. SWBAT order a set of numbers and quantities up to 12.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Visual Differences in Length (English Units)

For Students 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this learning module, students must make visual comparisons of the lengths of objects. The process is demonstrated in the accompanying video. [0:46] A set of...
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Project Ideas: Paintball Ballistics

For Students 9th - 10th
In this science fair project, use a paintball gun to compare the calculated vs. the actual range of a projectile. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and introduction, followed...
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Measurement: Greater Than or Less Than a Yard?

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] For this learning module, students are asked to compare the lengths of everyday objects to one yard and state whether they are longer or shorter. Includes video...
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: To Imitate Two Nature Writers

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this lesson each writer will compose and revise a "showing" description inpsired by an object or a place in nature. Long before drafting, students will discuss and compare the writing styles and techniques of published authors who...