PBS
Pbs: Creating Numerical Patterns With Rules: Bianca Functions in the Wild
In this Cyberchase video, Bianca and her friend go camping and soon realize that Bianca has left the food at home. They find a vending machine in the woods, but it doesn't dispense the food that corresponds with the numbers Bianca...
Geographypods
Geographypods: Patterns and Change: Disparities in Wealth and Development
This collection of four learning modules looks at issues related to the unequal distribution of wealth and economic development. Examines how this is measured and presents student video assignments on this topic, followed by a discussion...
PBS
Nova Teachers: Hunt for the Serial Arsonist: Classroom Activity
In this activity they can begin to see how forensic scientists use fingerprints for identification. Students will identify particularly noticeable features in fingerprints and compare students' fingerprints.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Patterns and Fingerprints
Students apply several methods developed to identify and interpret patterns to the identification of fingerprints. They look at their classmates' fingerprints, snowflakes, and "spectral fingerprints" of elements. They learn to identify...
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Moire Patterns
In this activity, students will use Moire patterns to demonstrate wave interference.
Other
Interacting Texts Directed Activities Related to Texts (Darts)
Want to improve your students' reading skills? This is a good place to find the types of directed activities, using a definition text, reconstruction/analysis activities, and advantages of using DARTs.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Sentence Pattern Transformations
This entry focuses on sentence pattern transformations including to active/passive voice, cleft, interrogative with yes or no answer, negative, emphasis, and to interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory. It includes an explanation and...
NASA
El Nino: Making Sense of the Weather: Global Wind Patterns
This is an educational site offered by NASA that has information on global winds, including prevailing westerlies, with illustrations. Included is a short activity to illustrate the winds.
PE Central
Pe Central: People Puzzles: Communication and Cooperation Activity
Using large shapes and patterns, this physical activity requires that students use effective oral communication to complete the group task.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Analyzing Hurricanes Using Web and Desktop Gis
In this activity, students research hurricane data to discover their behavior and patterns. They map them across decades to see whether their frequency is increasing. They study Hurricane Andrew and investigate the relationship between...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Real Survival Skills
Learn about process analysis, writing procedurals texts, the steps of the writing process, and cause and effect in this unit. Also, examine patterns of organization in writing. A handy chart shows common organizational patterns which...
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PBS
Pbs Mathline: Bead Dazzling (Proportional Reasoning) [Pdf]
A comprehensive instructional activity on algebraic thinking where students create and identify patterns using proportional reasoning. Research based, this instructional activity includes technology connections, items for discussion, and...
Concord Consortium
The Concord Consortium: What Are Some Patterns in How Things Stick Together or Push Apart?
In this learning module from The Concord Consortium, students will start to develop their own computer simulation models of how attraction and repulsion between charged objects work.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Traffic Jam Activity Lesson Plan
There are seven stepping stones and six people - three on the left facing the three on the right. How is it possible to have the three on the left end up on the right, and vice versa, while everyone was at all times standing on a stone...
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Lesson: Navajo Weaving
Intergrating dance into your social studies lesson on the Navajo culture will give your learners a glimpse into another way of life. They will use their knowledge of loom weaving, Native Americans, and creative dance to express these...
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Reptile Adaptations
For this lesson plan site, students examine the changing traits that have enabled reptiles to live in their environments. Interesting information and activities about reptiles are found on this site.
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese Real Time Data Projects:collecting Weather Data and Keeping a Weather Log
Over a period of two weeks students will use their class-made instruments to measure and record weather data. Students will also compare their data to online weather data. The final activity involves analyzing the collected data to look...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Introduction to Accountable Talk
In this lesson, young scholars will take a more active role in their learning by discussing a read aloud with their partners. The teacher will become more of a facilitator in the lesson and allow the children to "wrangle" with the content.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Spanish 1: Unit 2: El Dia Y La Fecha
In this second unit of an introductory Spanish course, students learn how to use days of the week in conversation and in writing, how to change nouns between singular and plural, how to recite a children's song, how to identify and model...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: The Arrangement of Elements: The Periodic Table
In this tutorial, students will investigate the arrangement of the Periodic Table by watching videos, completing interactive activities, and quizzes.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Echolocation in Action!
In this activity, students will experience echolocation themselves. They actually try echolocation by wearing blindfolds while another student makes snapping noises in front of, behind, or to the side of them.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Gnomon 1
This interactive activity gives you an opportunity to explore a specific number pattern named the "Fibonacci sequence." See what other patterns you can discover while you manipulate the blocks. There is a "Printable Page" link if you...
Chateau Meddybemps
Spatial Concepts
Explore spatial concepts with these activities. Use them to aid in-class discussions about spatial sense or as group or partner activities.
Other
Backtracking: An Interactive Tessellation Game
Click on the squares to move the tiles and create the correct pattern. A fun way to explore the concept of tessellations.