Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Skipping

For Teachers K - 1st
Students investigate skipping and sliding. In this movement lesson, students practice skipping and sliding while holding colored chalk marking the wall mixing the colors to make different colors.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sports and Exercise Activity

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders practice utilizing motor skills by participating in different sports activities.  In this physical education lesson, 8th graders participate in racquetball, shuttle cock, and baseball style activities in order to...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Physical Education - Gallop

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners practice galloping. In this gross motor skills lesson, students review how to jump and hop using a jump-rope and hopscotch. The teacher shows the steps to gallop and they hold a noodle and pretend as if they are riding a...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rhythmic Dancing

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders practice expressing themselves through the art of dance.  In this physical education instructional activity, 4th graders discuss choreography and how moving specific ways at certain times can be artistic. ...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Tae-Bo

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore physical fitness by performing Tae Bo.  In this physical education lesson, 7th graders practice using mixed martial arts techniques by completing a Tae Bo fitness exercise in class.  Students reflect on...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Present Progressive

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students use the present progressive to describe what they're doing at a specific moment in time.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Shapes and Review of Locomotor Skills

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Pupils engage in a series of loco-motor activities based on shapes. In this loco-motor lesson, students demonstrate physical skills through races, jumping, hopping, galloping in circles, squares, rectangles and triangles.
Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Lcr Meter Working Principle and Uses

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what an LCR meter is and how it is used to measure the inductance, capacitance, and resistance of a circuit. Lists the different parameters of a circuit that it measures, describes two types of LCR meters, and gives definitions...
Handout
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Michael Faraday

For Students 9th - 10th
A self-educated man with a brilliant mind, Michael Faraday was born in a hardscrabble neighborhood in London. Through the combination of insatiable curiosity and a powerful will to succeed, he transcended his austere beginnings to...
Website
MadSci Network

Mad Scientist Network: Building a Wimshurst Machine

For Students 9th - 10th
Using a question and answer format, this page is a response to a question on how to build and use a Wimshurst machine. Directions and suggestions for building such a device are given. The principle of electrostatic induction which...
Website
Education Development Center

Making Mathematics: Proof

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This is a site which links to specific techniques of proving including conditional statements, proof by contradiction, mathematical induction, parity arguments, and the pigeonhole principle. The site contains a link to various example...
Unit Plan
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Faraday's Ice Pail

For Students 9th - 10th
Out of a humble ice pail the great experimentalist Michael Faraday created a device to demonstrate key principles of attraction, repulsion and electrostatic induction. (Java tutorial)
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Motors and Magnetism

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will build a simple DC motor out of metal coat hangers, a 24-guage wire armature and field magnet, 14-guage wire brushes, and build the motor so that it rotates when connected to a 10-volt DC power supply. Students will...
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Other

Fagler College/nas 111/scientific Methodology

For Students 9th - 10th
Power Point presentation on scientific method for NAS 102 Human and Environmental Biology II.
Handout
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Stanley Transformer 1886

For Students 9th - 10th
Applying discoveries Michael Faraday had made a few decades earlier, William Stanley designed the first commercial transformer for Westinghouse in 1886.
Website
Philosophy Pages

Philosophy Pages: John Stuart Mill (1806 1873)

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a site that's dedicated to the life and works of John Stuart Mill (1806-1873 CE). The site provides numerous links to relevant information about his life and also his works on utilitarianism, individual liberty and women's rights...
Activity
Richland Community College

Richland Community College: Math 116 Lecture Notes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from the Richland Community College provides the detailed lecture notes to a college algebra course, complete with equations and definitions. Content ranges from "functions and their graphs" to "conics and parametric equations."