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Choice Board: Expressed and Implied Powers
Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution expressly lists powers given to Congress. Over the years, lawmakers have expanded the enumerated powers to include powers implied by the list. To better understand the significance...
Curated OER
Mean, Median, and Mode
Show scholars the three ways to find an average: mean, median, and mode. They reference a guided example before doing these on their own. There are three sets of data and learners find the three averages for each. All...
K12 Inc.
K12 Periodic Table of the Elements
For anyone learning or teaching chemistry, nothing beats a free and interactive periodic table of the elements. Peruse the elements while learning about atomic number and mass, melting and boiling points, and many other properties of...
Illustrative Mathematics
Which Weighs More? Which Weighs Less?
Expand the the comparative language of young mathematicians with a hand-on weight measurement activity. Working independently or in pairs, children compare the weight of large wooden blocks to various other classroom objects, recording...
Illustrative Mathematics
Do Two Points Always Determine a Linear Function?
Your learners can approach this task algebraically, geometrically, or both. They analyze the building of a linear function given two points and expand the concrete approach to the abstract when they are asked to find the general form of...
Core Knowledge Foundation
A Time for All Seasons - Winter
As the days get shorter and a chill enters the air, it's time to start teaching your little ones about the wondrous winter season. Through a series of teacher demonstrations, whole-class read alouds and discussions, and hands-on...
EngageNY
Summarizing Bivariate Categorical Data with Relative Frequencies
It is hard to determine whether there is a relationship with the categorical data, because the numbers are so different. Working with a familiar two-way table on super powers, the class determines relative frequencies for each...
Curated OER
The Red Badge of Courage: Story Grammar
After finishing The Red Badge of Courage, readers complete a grammar worksheet to identify the chain of events in the plot, the enduring issues, and major themes of Stephen Crane's novel.
Curated OER
Ten Frame
Students add numbers to ten. In this addition to ten lesson, students play the Ten frame interactive game to learn about addition and facts to number ten.
Illustrative Mathematics
Puzzle Times
Give your mathematicians this set of data and have them create a dot plot, then find mean and median. They are asked to question the values of the mean and median and decide why they are not equal. Have learners write their answers or...
Mojang
Minecraft – Pocket Edition
You don't have to be a Minecraft wiz to know that this app has great playability for your learners! As afterschool programs and classroom projects around the world demonstrate, this game goes well beyond placing blocks and traditional...
Curated OER
Place Value
In this place values instructional activity, 5th graders look at the number in the place value box. Students then write the number in expanded notation and standard form.
Curated OER
Place Value Practice (Tenths)
Young scholars practice strategies solving problems with basic facts, framework, domain and early additive part-whole. They recall the compatible numbers to ten, solve problems with small numbers using a part-whole strategy and recall...
Curated OER
Thousands
In this thousands worksheet, young scholars review how to use the base ten system and how to write numbers in the expanded and standard form.
Curated OER
Math Lesson: Just How Many is a "Million Dead"?
Students are able to convert large numbers into meaningful ratios. They are able to conceptualize 1 million. Students grapple with the concept of a million. They use this activity to convey the idea of millions by converting war death...
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Multiple Patterns
Students explore patterns that involve doubling numbers. In this multiple patterns lesson, students use objects to explore these patterns while recording them using a table. Students recognize even and odd number patterns while applying...
Curated OER
Place Values - Subtracting
Learners explore the concept of place value. In this place value instructional activity, students subtract numbers from a specific place value.
Curated OER
Partition into ThHTU (pg.1)
For this place value worksheet, students write the value of the underlined digit for 10 four digit numbers. Next, they write the expanded form for 5 four digit numbers using number words.
Curated OER
Partition into ThHTU (pg. 2)
For this place value worksheet, students write the missing number in the expanded form for 4 digit numbers. Next they are asked to identify the value of certain digits in 4 digit numbers. There are five problems for each task.
Curated OER
Place Value Through Hundred Thousands: Practice
In this place value worksheet, students write each number in the first set in standard form. Students then write the value of the underlined digit in short word form. In the third set, students write the number in word form, short word...
Curated OER
Expanding Views of Learning Through iChat AV
Students identify a science topic they would like to present in a lesson. They use a digital video camera to film interviews with children in a K-8 classroom about how they think regarding that specific science topic. Pupils use iMovie...
Curated OER
Place Value Practice (Tenths and Hundredths)
Math scholars recognize place value and practice writing numbers in different forms, such as expanded notation, decimals, and improper fractions. They complete exercises that include creating models for fractions and decimals and...
Curated OER
Negative & Positive Numbers
Learners recognize positive and negative numbers and perform mathematical functions.
Curated OER
Exploding Numbers
Students discuss how numbers increase when exponential growth is occurring. They view a video and compare exponential and linear growth with a graphing calculator.