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Better Planet Productions
Earth Care: Toys for the Future [Pdf]
For this activity designed for Grade 8, students are given the hypothetical task of designing a new school playground area for the younger children. The space must highlight technological innovation and renewable or alternative energy use.
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: The Playground
An image of "The Playground", created by Jacques-Laurent Agassez (Oil on canvas, 54 x 45 cm).
Other
Math Playground: Thinking Blocks Addition and Subtraction Word Problems
Students play a game to solve addition and subtraction word problems.
Math Playground
Math Playground: Multiplication Chart
This is an interactive multiplication chart for 0 to 9, 1 to 10, or 1 to 12. Students can use different colors to highlight within the chart for pattern recognition.
Math Playground
Math Playground: Triplets Equivalent Fractions
Determine the equivalent fractions represented in fraction bar form and pictures in this interactive game.
Math Playground
Math Playground: Weigh the Wangdoodles
The interactive activity has students practice using a scale and matching the weight assigned to each Wangdoodle to different scales. The activity introduces learners to multiple algebraic equations.
Math Playground
Math Playground: Problem Solving Videos
"Rated 'M' for middle school," Math TV invites you to tune in each week for videos of word problems being solved. Back episodes are available in subjects such as percentages, number sense, and fractions. Watch a problem worked out, then...
Math Playground
Math Playground: Speedy Sums
The online activity is action packed for middle and high school students. The interactive game has students practice addition.
Math Playground
Math Playground: Shape Inlay Game
Drag and drop shapes into a puzzle to explore tessellations.
Curated OER
Clip Art by Phillip Martin: Playground Slide
Cartoon drawing of kids playing on a slide.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Swing Low: Investigate the Motion of a Pendulum
Kids love to ride the swings at the playground. The back-and-forth motion of a swing demonstrates the physics of a pendulum. In this experiment, you will investigate the factors that affect the speed and duration of a pendulum's swing.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Worm Hunt: Isolating Soil Nematodes From Your Backyard
Nematodes, also called roundworms, are the most abundant animal on Earth and can be found in your back yard, playgrounds, and many other places. This lab involves isolating nematodes from several soil samples to discover the best...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Daniel Stories: "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: "Neighborhood Clean Up"
Read along with Daniel and he and his friends clean up the playground and learn about recycling.
Other
U.s. Government: Bullying Prevention
Bullying can happen to anyone anywhere: at school on the playground, at home via the computer or out with friends. Here is a site where students can learn how to recognize the warning signs, know the risk factors, and find ways to...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Swinging With Style
Students experientially learn about the characteristics of a simple physics phenomenon - the pendulum - by riding on playground swings. They use pendulum terms and a timer to experiment with swing variables. They extend their knowledge...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Hot Problem Solving
Student teams follow the steps of the engineering design process to meet the challenge of getting their entire class from one location on the playground to the sidewalk without touching the ground between. The class develops a well...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Living or Nonliving
Third graders look for living and nonliving elements on the playground.
Other
Kid Sense: Strength and Endurance
Strength and endurance are important to enable children to perform every day functions such as fine motor skills, gross motor skills, playground skills, and sporting skills. This article explains how to tell if your child has problems...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Searching Solid Shapes
Lesson introducing the basic three-dimensional shapes (sphere, cylinder, cone, cube). Common items with those shapes are hidden on the playground for students to find and photograph. Pictures are then used to create a photostory....
Math Playground
Math Playground: Tangrams
Click on the tangram frame to start. Use the white tangram pieces to make the picture shown on the upper right.
Math Playground
Math Playground: Fraction Bars
Set the numerator and denominator and then see the fraction represented visually with a fraction bar.
Math Playground
Math Playground: Math Bars
Create bars whose length and color represents a one-digit number. The bars can then be manipulated to visualize basic math operations.
Math Playground
Math Playground: Geometry Board
Create polygons by stretching bands over pegs on this geometry board. Then find the area and perimeter of the shape you created.
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