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Curated OER

Connecting Cube Structures (C)

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this connecting cube structures practice instructional activity, students solve 4 problems that require them to use connecting cubes to build the pictured structures.
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Curated OER

Building a Box

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create different two dimensional nets that can be folded to create a cube. In this visual spacial awareness lesson, students explore different ways that two-dimensional objects can be laid out to create a three dimensional cube. 
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Curated OER

New Boxes From Old

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers find the volume and surface area of a rectangular box (e.g., a cereal box), and then figure out how to convert that box into a new, cubical box having the same volume as the original. As they construct the new,...
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Curated OER

Origami Cubes

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use an origami design to make a set of cubes. Individually, they identify the characteristics of different quadrilaterals as they are folding the paper into cubes. To end the lesson, they make a new design with new...
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Curated OER

Exploring Arrangements of 2, 3, 4, and 5 Cubes

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Learners construct models of various tricubes, tetracubes, and pentacubes that are possible, classify n-cubes into different groupings, and draw these figures on isometric dot paper giving true perspective to what they visualize.
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Nuffield Foundation

Effect of Size on Uptake by Diffusion

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Cell size is limited by the surface area to volume ratio, but why is this true? Scholars measure the surface area and volume of cubes before placing them into liquid. After a set amount of time, they measure the uptake by diffusion for...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Measure Me!

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
How many unifix cubes tall are you? If you're not sure, then perform this math activity with your class and find out. Working in pairs, young mathematicians make measuring sticks out of unifix cubes in order to determine the length of...
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EngageNY

First-Person Computer Games

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
How do graphic designers project three-dimensional images onto two-dimensional spaces? Scholars connect their learning of matrix transformations to graphic design. They understand how to apply matrix transformations to make...
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Curated OER

Surface Area of Cubes and Rectangular Prisms

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders calculate surface area of 3-D shapes. In this geometry lesson plan, 8th graders analyze cubes and prisms by finding their area and surface area. They compare the data of these two shapes.
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Unit Plan
Virginia Middle School Engineering Education Initiative

Save the Penguins: An Introduction to Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Heat things up in your physical science class with this interactive lesson series on thermodynamics. Through a series of class demonstrations and experiments, young scientists learn how heat is transferred through conduction, convention,...
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NASA

Cloudy vs. Clear - Graphs

For Teachers 3rd - 12th Standards
Explore the link between solar energy and cloud cover using real data from NASA from China! Future climatologists analyze and interpret graphs of solar energy on clear and cloudy days using a literacy cube. Investigators draw conclusions...
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Virginia Department of Education

Simply Radical

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
Simplifying is radical, dude! After reviewing how to simplify square roots of whole numbers, scholars consider how to simplify square roots of algebraic monomials. Also taken under consideration is how to simplify cube roots of whole...
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Curated OER

What's the Connection Between Convection and Inversion?

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders observe a simulation demonstrating the difference between convection and inversion. They explain where and when convection and inversion layers occur and how each impacts air quality, and by connection, human health.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Connecting cube Structures

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this cube structure worksheet, students use connecting cubes to build structures shown in pictures. One picture is shown from 2 different angles.
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Curated OER

Regrouping Ten Ones for One Ten

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore regrouping. In this hands-on math place value lesson, students construct models using connecting cubes and place value mats to solve simple addition problems that require regrouping.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Tissues

For Students 9th - 12th
In this tissue worksheet, students are given notes on 6 types of epithelial tissues, 10 examples of connective tissue, three types of muscular tissue and the components of nerve tissue.
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Curated OER

Brog-Cube-the Spam

For Teachers 8th
A Middle school special ed class uses the acronym SPAM to learn the 4 parts of writing. They employ 4 different colors to help them visually distinguish each part of writing in a given prompt. This lesson is vague and uses a strong...
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Virginia Department of Education

Slippery Slope

For Teachers 7th - 10th Standards
Explore slope using geometric patterns. Young mathematicians investigate towers built from cubes to develop a linear pattern. They move the data to a coordinate plane to connect the pattern to slopes.
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Curated OER

Connecting With Coordinates

For Teachers K - 2nd
Play a coordinates game to encourage collaborative learning and grid use! Learners plot points on grids and play a game that challenges them to locate a specific point on a coordinate grid by using horizontal and vertical movements.
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Utah Education Network (UEN)

Insides and Outsides

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Give small groups handfuls of unit cubes and then dare them to build as many rectangular prisms as possible using only 12 cubes. This engaging activity serves as an introduction to the volume of solid figures. In addition to volume,...
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Curated OER

Find the Factors and Prime Factors

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Show the class how to find the factors of numbers. They use a variety of strategies, including unifix cubes, to find the factors of a whole number. This resource includes clear procedure to follow. Included are an anticipatory set,...
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Unit Plan
Columbus City Schools

To Measure its Mass or Volume?

For Teachers 6th Standards
Atoms, elements, and molecules, oh my! Teaching the fundamentals of chemistry to curious sixth graders has never been easier to accomplish. Here is a resource that pulls together everything needed to get them off to a good start,...
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Curated OER

Symmetry with Manipulatives

For Teachers 1st
First graders investigate symmetry in patterns by utilizing unifix cubes.  In this pattern lesson, 1st graders practice creating patterns that are perfectly symmetrical no matter which way it's looked at.  Students utilize original...
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Curated OER

Cups and Cubes

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore the use of cups and counters as a model to analyze the effects of operations. They create and use a rule to create a sequential pattern and use cups and cubes to model the relationship.

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