Illustrative Mathematics
Comparing Numbers
Young mathematicians spin their way to a deeper number sense with this fun, collaborative activity. Using two spinners, one with the numbers 0-9 and the other with the decades 00-90, pairs of students take turns building and comparing...
EngageNY
Base Angles of Isosceles Triangles
Build confidence in proofs by proving a known property. Pupils explore two approaches to proving base angles of isosceles triangles are congruent: transformations and SAS. They then apply their understanding of the proof to more complex...
Curated OER
Phonics Instruction: Letter Sound Correspondence
The letter m is the first letter in many of my favorite words. It has the best /m/ sound ever. Get your little ones excited about letter m with this super simple, super short lesson. They work with the teacher to practice saying,...
Curated OER
Addition and Subtraction Facts to 20 - Manipulative
Here is a good instructional activity that will allow your student to practice their addition and subtraction facts to 20. They practice facts using fact cards and practice strategies such as doubles strategies, and count to 10 strategies.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Wheels All Around
Budding mathematicians explore the concept of skip counting. They practice skip counting as they use it to determine the number of wheels that come to school at 3 different times throughout the day. They also create a data graph to show...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Yummy Apples!
Young learners listen to a read aloud of Gail Gibbons book, Apples and the story A Red House With No Windows and No Doors. They compare characteristics of a number of kinds of apples, graph them and create a apple print picture. Learners...
Curated OER
Addition and Subtraction Facts to 20
Fact families, and the relationship between addition and subtraction are the foucs of this lesson. Learners explore strategies to help with their addition and subtraction facts. They use doubles, related facts, and fact families to help...
EngageNY
Properties of Parallelograms
Everyone knows that opposite sides of a parallelogram are congruent, but can you prove it? Challenge pupils to use triangle congruence to prove properties of quadrilaterals. Learners complete formal two-column proofs before moving on to...
Curated OER
Stay Focused on Long Division
Students utilize a checklist in order to help them stay focused on long division problems.
California Department of Education
Tension and Release: Creating Mindful Harmony (CTE)
Perhaps the Doobie Brothers said it best when they sang, "Listen to the Music." With the third of four lessons from the Changing One's Tune: A Music Therapy STEM Integrated Project series, pupils discover the connection between music and...
Curated OER
Phonics: Decoding Words in Connected Text
Introduce your little ones to the wonders of phonemic decoding. They practice along as you sound out simple cvc words in the context of a sentence.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Phoneme Split and Say
Little ones are provided with all the tools needed to begin segmenting phonemes. There are twenty Elkonin box picture cards, five blank Elkonin box cards, and full instructions on how to help pre-readers practice splitting and saying...
Curated OER
Phonics Instruction: Writing Simple Words
Sound it out, read it, then sound it out, and write it. Little ones work as a class to sound out simple words. After they have sounded out each word they will write that word on the white board. This is a great way to build a connection...
Virginia Department of Education
Quadratic Equations
Review the multiple methods of solving quadratic equations through an analysis of the discriminant. Scholars use the discriminant to determine the best solution method and then solve various equations. As a challenge, learners build...
Curated OER
Phonics: Read and Write Words with a Consonant Blend
Reading often times starts with phonemic awareness and letter sound correspondence. Get little ones blending those letter sounds together to read and write simple words. As the teacher sounds out each word, learners count phonemes, and...
Curated OER
Sound of the Runners, H = /h/
A variety of activities related to the /h/ phoneme are included here. Recite an H tongue twister then trace and write the letter H. The group listens to pairs of words and identifies which word contains the /h/ sound.
Curated OER
Proportional Segments Between Parallel Lines
High schoolers identify similar triangles. In this proportional segments instructional activity, students identify corresponding sides, set up ratios, and find the length of the missing side of a triangle. They use the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
The Grouchy Ladybug
Students listen to the book, "The Grouchy Ladybug" by Eric Carle and sequence the events in the story. Using a graph, they draw and color the animals that the ladybug meets next to the corresponding time from the story, and conduct...
Curated OER
Roll the Dice
Students practice recognizing and blending letters together to create new and unique words in the process of decoding text. They play a game where they roll dice to help blend a variety of words together and create new ones to analyze...
Curated OER
Counting by Ones
Students participate in teacher-led demonstrations and use manipulatives to count the numbers one through ten out loud.
Curated OER
Counting Zero to Five
Students are introduced to the numerals zero through five. They associate the numeral with the correct number of objects. Students comprehend the quantities zero through five showing "How many?" by counting their fingers or using a...
Desert Discoveries
What's In A Habitat?
The concept of a habitat being a home for animals is the main thrust of this life sciences resource. Learners complete a cut-and-paste activity using a fine worksheet that's embedded in the plan. They must place four very different...
Illustrative Mathematics
Tilt of Earth's Axis and the Four Seasons
Geometry meets earth science as high schoolers investigate the cause and features of the four seasons. The effects of Earth's axis tilt features prominently, along with both the rotation of the earth about the axis and its orbit about...
Illustrative Mathematics
Base and Height
It is easy to find the area of a triangle where the base and the height are given. But in this resource, it is up to your geometers to identify the base and height of the triangle. In fact, your pupils will learn that there are three...