Amby Duncan-Carr
Following Directions and Making Comparisons
This quiz, which can be completed and scored online, involves two important skills - following directions and making comparisons. Students compare a series of names or numbers, then follow directions for recording what they find.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Comparison of Problem Solving Models
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Use the strategies of making a table and looking for a pattern to solve problems.
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McGraw Hill
Glencoe Literature Library: "Night" Study Guide [Pdf]
A great resource for students reading Elie Wiesel's memoir, "Night," complete with an author biography, vocabulary lists, brainstorming activities, and thought-provoking writing prompts linked to specific chapters. After reading "Night,"...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Spectroscopy
Students learn how using a spectrograph helps us understand the composition of light sources. Using simple materials and holographic diffraction gratings (available online at a variety of sites, including Edmund Scientifics and the...
Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring Parabolas and Polynomial Equations
This multimedia Learn Alberta math resource looks at how parabolas and polynomial equations are used to study an object's flight path. The accompanying interactive component lets students explore and make comparisons of the flight paths...
Microsoft
Microsoft Education Lesson Plan: Making Money From Lemons
Simulation where learners apply mathematics and economics concepts in the lemonade business. Learners set up a virtual lemonade stand and must determine production costs, product variables, and profits. Students record data collected on...
Rice University
Hyper Stat Online Statistics Textbook: Trend Analysis
A series of pages that help us understand testing one or more components of a trend using specific comparisons, a set of coefficients, error analysis of variance and the probability value.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes Ratios 3
Learners assess their mathematics skills by answering these randomly generated multiple choice questions. Topics included are ratios in simplest form, ratio comparisons, and equivalent ratios.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: How Van Gogh Made His Mark
An exhibition that focuses primarily on Van Gogh's drawings. Includes many illustrations and tools to help learners develop a deep level of understanding of "how Van Gogh made his mark." Helpful extras include a glossary, interactive...
Other
Miniature Earth: Comparative Demographics Worldwide
Miniature Earth reduces the world's population to 100 to underscore the dramatic differences in wealth, age, faith, education, environment, and health among people who live on this planet. An excellent apply-what-you-know site for...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Teeny Tiny Garden Craft
Grow your own garden with this lesson plan. Young scholars will learn about plants while they create their own garden.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Compare and Contrast Lesson: "I Used to Be, but Now I" Poetry
After reading/listening to the picture book When I Was Five by Arthur Howard, students will compare themselves today to a time in their life when they were younger. After determining exactly how old you will be in your younger state and...
PBS
Pbs: The Roman Empire of the 1st Century: The Violence of Ancient Rome
This lesson focuses on the extreme violence that permeated Roman society and how that violence may have attributed to the downfall of the Roman Empire. Students will make comparisons between the violence in ancient Rome and the violence...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Diffusion Demonstration
An interactive demonstration where young scholars make observations of the process of diffusion. Students draw and record observations, make predictions, and make comparisons between what they're observing and how a cell membrane works.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Hotspot Lesson: Samoan Hotspot
Using the Hotspot Theory and Plate Velocities, learners make comparisons between Hawaii and Samoa in an attempt to determine the volcanic origin of Samoa.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Alternative Record Books
Take a look at the amazing limits that athletes push themselves to in search of Olympic glory. Which events see the fastest speeds, furthest distances and highest forces? This activity challenges students to undertake some research,...
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Recreation Yesterday and Today
Primary texts from the 1920s and 1930s launch an exploration of entertainment and recreation popular during that time in America's history. Students will research rural and nationwide experiences from this time and, in turn, make...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: New Leadership [Pdf]
"New Leadership" is Harold Washington's Acceptance Speech as Mayor of Chicago on April 12, 1983. It is followed by an assignment which requires students to provide evidence from the text; it includes comparing Washington's election as...
abcteach
Abcteach: Select a Math Problem Type
Generate worksheets for math problems ranging from simple addition problems to place value with expanded notation for free. Your choice of font, font size, color and landscape when printing.
Other
Accra: Cost of Living Index
Relocating? Need reliable cost of living comparisons? A great source of information on cities across the US. You can compare two cities side-by-side.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Estimation
This lesson plan is designed to help students learn to make estimates. Resources are linked to help support the teacher and offer exploration and practice to students.
PBS
Pbs: Count on It!: Episode 203 Blossom and Snappy Go to the Farm, Part I
Blossom and Snappy decide to surprise Robbie by making her a pumpkin pie using math in some creative ways. They visit a pumpkin farm, dairy farm, and a dairy plant, finding out all the ways math is used in each of these places.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Backpack Challenge
Enter personal data about the weight of your backpack in an online survey and note whether boys or girls carry the heaviest backpacks. Analyze the data for patterns and make conclusions.
Other
Nearpod: Rates & Ratios
In this activity on ratios, 7th graders explore how ratios can be used to demonstrate rates by exploring proportional relationships.