Curated OER
Jeopardy Game
Learners review terms and concepts related to the class through games. They play a jeopardy style game to review concepts realted to the class.
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Alike and Different
Learners compare and contrast objects and are introduced to a Venn Diagram. In this alike and different lesson, students make observations regarding properties of objects. Learners classify object and build ideas about variables....
Curated OER
No Fears
Twelfth graders imagine themselves living in a different world and attempt to see themselves in the world differently.
Curated OER
Earth Surface Socratic Questions
High schoolers explore the ways Earth's surface is shaped by hydrologic, climate and tectonic forces by participating in a whole class discussion. They respond to prompts that lead them to conclusions about the relationships between...
Curated OER
CO2 and Mass
Students determine if carbon dioxide has mass. In groups, they use a standard set of materials to test the carbon dioxide. They answer questions on their lab sheet and discuss them as a class.
Curated OER
Being a Pedestrian
Young scholars study the Green Cross Code. They determine that there are specific traffic rules for pedestrians, just as there are for other road users. They think about the rules they would need to follow to obtain a 'pedestrian's...
Curated OER
Baleen Whale Feeding Activity
Students compare the size of baleen whales to humans. They also assimilate the different feeding methods of baleen filter feeding and gulp feeding whales.
Curated OER
Perpetual Motion
Students discuss movement of air currents and then experiment to create visible models of air currents. Students connect the model to weather patterns.
Curated OER
November Science
Pupils review that all people, plants, and animals live on Earth. They classify objects found in the environment as living or nonliving.
Curated OER
Cemetery Study for New Hampshire History
Students take a field trip to a New Hampshire cemetery. They examine the way of life in the 19th century and their belief systems. They answer questions before and after their field trip.
Curated OER
Dig This
Fifth graders explore the work of paleontologists and the life of dinosaurs and create a sculpture of the bones of a Stegosaurus. The sculpture was then buried and used by other classes for a dig.
Curated OER
Trade Creates Opportunities for Individuals
Students examine how trade can be a vehicle for the alleviation of poverty. They conduct Internet research, analyze organizations that help to alleviate poverty, and create a business plan for a micro business for a developing economy.
Curated OER
Paradox Worlds
Students view and analyze "Still Life," by Cornelis de Heem. They answer discussion questions about the painting, write similes, discuss symbolism, create a still life sketch, and create a paint box poem.
Curated OER
Retrograde Composition
Students complete their own retrograde composition. They finish playing a set of notes started by their teacher. They use computer software to complete their song.
Curated OER
Bringing Math to Life with Laserdisc Technology
Students explore various problems. They present their final results and explain the path they followed in order to obtain their answers. Students show their written work as well as orally explaining their work.
Curated OER
Revolutionary Women Portraits: Finding and Viewing New Perspectives
Students identify and analyze portraits of Revolutionary-era women. Creating a concept web, they record the actions by women during the war to be made into a chart and timeline. They discuss the cultural and social expectations of women...
Curated OER
Great Explorers
Students research an explorer and present a multimedia presentation on the explorer. In this United States explorers lesson plan, students watch a video about Lewis and Clark. Students use Google Earth to study their journey and keep a...
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Expanded Form and Word Form Calculator
Expanded form calculator shows expanded forms of a number including expanded notation form, expanded factor form, expanded exponential form and word form.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Completing the Expanded Forms of Numbers
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video describes how to break down a number into expanded form using place value. The video is followed by practice problems to assess student understanding of...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Completing Expanded Forms of Numbers (Place Values to 1,000)
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] For this learning module, students are given the expanded form of a number up to 1,000 and must use their understanding of place value to fill in missing numbers....
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Completing Expanded Forms Using Numbers and Words
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video shows how to complete a number in expanded form using place value. The video is followed by practice problems to assess student understanding of the concept.
Common Core Sheets
Common Core Sheets: Number and Operations in Base Ten 5.nbt.3a Worksheets
Print or create worksheets or flashcards to assess students' understanding of place value, numeric form, and expanded notation.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Whole Numbers in Written Form Review
Presents an example of a number converted into its expanded place value form and its word form. Includes several practice questions along with explanations of solutions.
Purple Math
Purplemath: Minors and Cofactors: Expanding Along a Row
A "minor" is the determinant of the square matrix formed by deleting one row and one column from some larger square matrix. To find the determinant of the matrix A, you have to pick a row or a column of the matrix, find all the cofactors...