Curated OER
Division Day 2
Students complete division problems and represent their answers as equal sharing and discuss what equal sharing means. In this division lesson plan, students also fill out a chart that helps them solve problems.
Delaware Math Cadre Elementary Committee
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
How to use the relationship between multiplication and division to solve math word problems is the focus of the activity presented here. In it, fourth graders work in groups to solve problems posed by the teacher. Then, each group is...
Anti-Defamation League
Toys and Gender
As you walk down the toy aisle, it's easy to see that toy packaging is based on gender stereotypes. Here, a lesson challenges scholars to look past the stereotypes and value a toy for what it is and the joy it brings. Through thoughtful...
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Equally Likely and Unequally Likely Outcomes
Students explore probability. In this statistics/probability lesson, students compare experimental and theoretical probability and use experimental probability to make predictions and conjectures. Students explore the distinction...
Curated OER
More Monkeys, Fewer Monkeys, Equal Monkeys
Students compare sets of objects. In this identification lesson, students inspect sets of monkeys and identify them as more, less, or equal to the other sets. Students observe a video clip discussing comparisons.
Curated OER
Reconstruction and "All Men Are Created Equal"
High schoolers examine the time after the Civil War known as Reconstruction. In groups, they role play a Senate Subcommittee Hearing on Reconstruction in which some members are senators and others are witnesses. They share their ideas...
Curated OER
Balancing Equations and Using a Pyramid
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...
Curated OER
Leveling the Gender Playing Field
Students explore whether or not the gender 'playing field' is becoming more level. They share their views by responding to questions regarding changing attitudes about women and men in the past, present and future.
Curated OER
The Story of Ruby Bridges
Students research Ruby Bridges and discuss differences they have with their classmates while also discussing their equality. In this Ruby Bridges lesson plan, students also write about a character word that describes Ruby, and create an...
Curated OER
Can Girls Be Plumbers? And Other Gender Stereotypes
Students realize the effects of stereotypes by collaboratively creating a chart with the rest of their class. In this equality lesson, students demonstrate stereotypes by collaborating on a jobs chart and matching pictures of people they...
Curated OER
Share Equally
In this beginning division worksheet, students solve 5 problems in which object are divided evenly. Students use objects and bowls to divide evenly.
El Paso Community College
Geometry Definitions
Geometry is full of shapes, figures, and corresponding things here and there. The guide shares all of the key pieces of geometric information in a nicely color-coded and labeled sheet.
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Plyler v. Doe: Can States Deny Public Benefits to Illegal Immigrants?
Illegal immigration is an ever-changing source of consistent controversy. A reading passage about the rights of undocumented workers and illegal immigrants—and the lack thereof—guides high schoolers into a mock trial activity. Three...
Curated OER
7.RP Music Companies, Variation 2
Real-world multiple-step proportion problems are sometimes hard to find for your math class. Here is one designed specifically to meet that need. Learners use proportional relationships to determine price per share in the acquisition of...
Illustrative Mathematics
Fractions and Rectangles
Visual models are excellent teaching tools when explaining equivalent fractions. Looking at a rectangle cut into twelfths, students first identify the shaded fraction, and then explain whether the fraction is equal to one-fourth....
Curated OER
Vocabulary and Concept Development
After introducing your class to root words and affixes, present them with this short review and practice opportunity. To start, they share definitions of root words and affixes with their partners. Then, after looking at some affixes and...
Humanities Texas
Primary Source Worksheet: Lyndon B. Johnson, Excerpt from “To Fulfill These Rights”
"Equal opportunity . . . is not enough." Johnson's 1965 commencement address to the students at Howard University provides an opportunity for participants to see how education was a key element in his vision for civil rights.
Curated OER
Separate But Equal Opinions
Students examine the ways in which editorials and Op-Ed pieces respond to current events. They write editorials in response to news items from the New York Times.
Curated OER
Liberty, Equality, Uniformity?
Students examine the French draft law to ban religious symbols from public schools. They research "secularist" and "pluralist" positions regarding this ban, debate the topic in class, and draft a position paper on the ban.
Curated OER
Model Repeated Groups
In this repeated groups worksheet, students use equal-shares drawing to solve a word problem, analyze and explain the process, make equal share drawings for 30 marbles and "explore it."
CK-12 Foundation
Whole Number Division: Pancakes
Given 13 pancakes and five plates, learners are asked to distribute the pancakes evenly among the plates. Is it possible? Will there be any remainders? These are the questions pupils are asked to answer after manipulating an interactive...
CK-12 Foundation
Angle-Angle-Side Triangles: Garden Gate
Good fences make good gardens. Individuals use an interactive to see how angles and sides relate in a triangular-shaped garden fence. They apply the Law of Sines to find the length of the garden gate (third side of triangle) given two...
J. Paul Getty Trust
Tag: Whose Values
Get young people thinking about their lives and current topics of social justice, advocacy, gender, race, and identity. After examining several works by Barbara Kruger, participants select a tag with one of the questions printed on it,...
Equality and Human Rights Commission
Learning area 3: Explore a Wide Range of Jobs and Challenge Preconceptions
Squash the notion that certain jobs are meant for a boy or girl with a unit comprised of nine activities. Through discussion, videos, audio clips, worksheets, and readings, scholars examine stereotypes related to specific jobs and...