Curated OER
Maple Syrup Production
Students examine the steps of maple sugar production and the labor and effort involved from the tree to the final product. They participate in a taste test game, and if they have access to maple trees, make their own syrup and sugar.
Curated OER
How Are You Doing With My Crusade?
Pupils use the Internet site, Past Times, to research the work of a famous woman from the past and then determine the current status of the issue she fought for. They write a story/report about the wonam and the issue.
Curated OER
Germination
Students observe the growth of a seed into a plant. They plant their own seeds and record the growth of the plants and write about what they observe. They describe the germination of the seed and create a time line of the growth process...
Curated OER
Fall Cubism Collage
Fall is an amazing season and leaves are fantastic subjects for artists to examine. Young artists use leaves to create fall collages using the rubbing technique.
Curated OER
MS Word Skills Assessment
Students are assessed on their use of the Microsoft Word program. In this word processing assessment, students are asked to complete a list of tasks in the Microsoft Word program to determine their knowledge of the program.
Curated OER
Presidential Trading Cards
Learners research the Internet to collect data about the US Presidents. They use the data that they collect along with available technology to produce trading cards and brochures using keyboarding skills, text boxes, acquiring photos,...
Curated OER
Snowflakes
Students read "The Snowy Day," by Ezra Jack Keats and construct snowflakes to decorate the classroom walls. They examine how snowflakes are formed and study new vocabulary words.
Curated OER
Dream Book Collage
Students discuss dreams and they types of dreams they have. They read the book "Dinosaur Dream" by Dennis Nolan and discuss the characters and events in the book. They look up vocabulary words and create a collage utilizing as many...
Curated OER
Map Making/Floor Plans/Map Reading
Students apply their knowledge of scale when mapping the classroom. They determine the use of a map legend and orient a map using a compass. They create the classroom maps using transfer graph paper.
Curated OER
Counting by Tens
First graders listen to "One Is a Snail, Ten Is a Crab", a story about a crab with ten feet and counting by tens. They create their own crab to practice counting by tens to one hundred.
Curated OER
Outer Space
In this space worksheet, students write a sentence for each picture. The pictures show a space shuttle, an astronaut, and a planet.
Homeschool Math
Homeschool Math: Math Lessons and Teaching Tips
A collection of Math lessons and tips for teaching Math for K-12.
Homeschool Math
Homeschool Math: Lines, Rays, and Angles
This fourth-grade geometry instructional activity teaches the definitions for a line, ray, angle, acute angle, right angle, and obtuse angle. We also study how the size of the angle is ONLY determined by how much it has "opened" as...
Homeschool Math
Homeschool Math: Divisibility Rules
This is a complete lesson plan about the concept of divisibility and common divisibility rules. It briefly reviews the concepts of factor, divisor, and a number being divisible by another. Then, the "easy" divisibility rules by 2, 5, 10,...
Homeschool Math
Homeschool Math: Area of Triangles
This lesson presents the idea that the area of any triangle is exactly half of a certain parallelogram -- thus we get the familiar formula of multiplying the base and the altitude and taking half of that. The lesson contains varied...
Homeschool Math
Homeschool Math: Basics of Percent
Video instructional activity [8:11] explains the basic concept of percents. Provides numerous problems for students to practice what they've learned.
Homeschool Math
Homeschool Math: Introduction to Sine
This is an introductory lesson plan about the trigonometric function sine. Young scholars will study several similar right triangles and the ratio of certain two sides in them.
Homeschool Math
Homeschool Math: Simplifying Fractions
5th grade lesson explains how to simplify a fraction.
Homeschool Math
Homeschool Math: Dividing Fractions: Reciprocal Numbers
This lesson studies reciprocal numbers and how to use them in fraction divisions.
Homeschool Math
Homeschool Math: Multiplying Fractions by Fractions
This lesson provides an explanation for the common shortcut or rule for fraction multiplication with practice exercises.
Homeschool Math
Homeschool Math: The Concept of Mixed Numbers
Lesson shows the concept of a mixed number with the help of visual models and number lines.
Homeschool Math
Homeschool Math: Multiplying Decimals by Whole Numbers
This is a complete lesson with instruction and varied exercises about how to multiply a whole number by a decimal.
Homeschool Math
Homeschool Math: Basic Shapes
This review lesson plan about basic shapes (polygons)contains varied hands-on exercises and tilings about triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, and hexagons.
Homeschool Math
Homeschool Math: Circles
Lesson presents definitions of terms associated with circles and helps students learn to use a compass to draw circles and simple circle designs.