Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Whole Child: Parenting Skills

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students and parents participate in a variety of activities intended to develop both the growth of the child and the parenting skills of the adult. They role-play daily activities, manipulate dough, discuss the rights and...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Boxes & Blocks: Square Play

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students add a new angle to block play with this spatial challenge. In this early childhood math lesson, students use creative-thinking, patterning, visual-spatial, and fine-motor skills to explore the different shapes that can be made...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Mobius Card- An Impossible shape

For Students 9th - 11th
In this algebra worksheet, students solve word problems using linear equations and algebraic symbols. There is one problem with an answer key.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Graphs, Stories, And Games

For Teachers 8th - 12th
In this graphs lesson, young scholars read stories and present story situations on a graph.  They explore distance and diameter and explain graphs.  Students create their own stories to fit graphs.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Introduction to Conic Sections

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Learners slice cones and identify the different conics formed. They then derive the formula to solve problems involving cones. Pull out the TI calculators to visualize the slicing and the different parts and properties created.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

WRITING THE WIND

For Teachers 4th - 5th
The student will compose sentences using adjectives that describe windmills.Review adjectives. Write a noun on the board and have young scholars name the appropriate adjectives. 2. Hand out worksheets and review directions for making...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What's Up at the Rim?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are sent on a scavenger hunt to find as many plants as they can in nature.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Reflecting Culture Through Coins

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students research and recreate coins from ancient civilizations to determine how the imagery reflects the cultures which originally made them.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Day and Night

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Students discuss why day and night occur after visualizing a teacher-led demonstration.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

WWII Homefront Roundtable

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars play a role in a roundtable discussion after researching how the war impacted their character. Students play roles such as: African-American, American Indian, Japanese-American, German-American, Italian-American, Jewish...
Lesson Plan
OER Commons

Oer Commons: Area of a Circle

For Teachers 7th Standards
Seventh graders will compare the formula for the area of a regular polygon to discover the formula for the area of a circle.
Lesson Plan
Thinkport Education

Math by Design: Circumference and Area of a Circle [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will discover how to estimate and measure the circumference and area of a circle.
Unit Plan
Cuemath

Cuemath: Circles

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Explore everything about circles. Learn various parts of a circle like a diameter, radius, circumference, circles chord, tangent circles, major arc, segment, sector, and discover other interesting aspects of it. Try your hand at solving...
Activity
BBC

Bbc: Bitesize Review Circle Introduction

For Students 5th - 9th
Do you need to learn about Pi, circumference, or the area of a circle or just have a quick refresher about them? This British web site will take you through the basics and offers a quick on-line test to help you check your understanding.
Activity
George Mason University

Area Formula Lab

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
In this set of worksheet activities, students will be guided to discover formulas for area of polygonal shapes and circles.