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Curated OER

If You Build It, Will They Come?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students examine the city of Duluth, Minnesota. In groups, they use the internet to discover its current state of urban geography. After their research, they create and plan their own redeveloping of the city. They share their results...
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Curated OER

Comparing Northwest Native American Communities

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students review how to use the database from previous lessons. Using the information, they identify the historical and environmental effects on the people living in the Pacific Northwest. They examine the various Native American groups...
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Curated OER

Latitude & Longitude Bingo

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students practice map reading skills through a reinforcement game of bingo. They select any 24 of 30 listed cities to write on blank bingo cards. Then using atlases, locate a city based on the latitude and longitudinal coordinates...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How Big Is Your Heart?

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students complete a performance about the heart. In this heart lesson plan, students learn about the heart functions and then perform them.
Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Prepositions of Spatial Relationship

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation with examples of prepositions that descript spatial relationships.
Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Prepositions of Spatial Relationships

For Students 9th - 10th
Maintained by the Purdue University Writing Lab, this tutorial has pictures to represent the various relationship among objects in a given space. Good for visual learners.
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PBS

Pbs Mathline Lesson Plan: Sidewalk Capers [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The objective of this lesson is for students to, "explore spatial relationships by determining the area of various shapes and creating tessellation patterns." Using a variety of hands-on activities, students apply concepts of geometry,...
Interactive
Chateau Meddybemps

Chateau Meddybumps: Learning Activities: Spatial Concepts: Doghouse

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Move animals around the doghouse to examine and discuss spatial relationships such as above, under, and next to.
Interactive
Chateau Meddybemps

Chateau Meddybumps: Learning Activities: Spatial Concepts: Birds in a Row

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Move birds in and out of line to create and practice various spatial relationships.
Interactive
Chateau Meddybemps

Chateau Meddybumps: Learning Activities: Spatial Concepts: Index of Images

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An index of images that helps reinforce spatial concepts such as on, in, up, down, over, under, and more.
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BSCS Science Learning

Bscs: Frog Eat Frog World

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Using maps and graphs of large data sets collected in FrogWatch, students will determine the range, preferred land cover, and proximity to water of the American bullfrog to figure out the bullfrog's requirements for food, water, and...
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Instant Insanity

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Excellent interactive challenge working with cube nets to stack them in a specific order. Manipulate the cubes online to solve the problem.
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Everything ESL

Everything Esl: Find the Frog

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
"Find the Frog" is an ESL cooperative learning activity in which students will learn about frogs, camouflage, and spatial relationships. TESOL standards are included. It features downloads and resources.
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Street Party

For Students 3rd - 8th
Sharpen your logic and spatial sense skills while working on this challenge. Solution included.
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Roll These Dice

For Students 3rd - 5th
Sharpen your problem solving, sequencing, and spatial reasoning skills playing this interactive game, Roll The Dice. See how many different paths you can take to end up with the same result.
Interactive
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Game Khun Phaen Escapes to Freedom

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This interactive game is based on a famous character in a Thai legend. See if you can figure out how he escaped! You will have to use your problem solving and spatial relationship skills to figure out this one.
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PBS

Pbs: Mathline: Tessellations Wow! [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An integrated geometry instructional activity on spatial sense in which students identify and use different shapes to create a tessellation. "Through a variety of modalities such as writing, music, art, poetry, and literature, students...
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Lines, Rays, Line Segments, & Planes

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This robust lesson plan for upper elementary and middle school grades introduces the concepts for lines, rays, line segments, and planes. Resources are linked to it and ready for your use.
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Triangles to Tetrahedra

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Given an unlimited number of a specific type of equilateral, isosceles, and right triangles create as many tetrahedra as are possible. Includes printout.
Interactive
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Net Cuts

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
In this enrichment game, the nets for nine solids are displayed. The twist is that each net has been cut into two pieces. The challenge is find the pieces that go together.
Interactive
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab: Virtual Frog Builder

For Students 9th - 10th
As a great follow-up activity to a frog dissection, students build a virtual frog in this interactive game. It tests learners' knowledge of the three-dimensional spatial relationships of the frog organs.
Interactive
TVOntario

Tvo Kids: Tumbletown Mathletics Game

For Students K - 1st Standards
Practice fractions, counting money, understanding spatial relationships, perimeter measurement, and basic arithmetic calculations such as adding, subtracting, simple multiplying and dividing while earning points in this fast-paced game.
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The Newberry Library

Newberry: Exploration and Encounter: Map 2: Indian Map of the Southeast, 1721

For Students K - 1st
K-12 lessons using historical maps from Newberry Library presents an Indian map of the Southeast, ca. 1721. Students use maps to understand how spatial relationships are represented. Links to supplemental resources and reference material.
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Other

Bscs: Frog Symphony

For Students 9th - 10th
In this self-directed lesson, learners use maps and graphs of data to investigate the habitats and time of year and day to hear a full chorus of frogs. A handout with everything the student needs to complete this lesson is available as a...

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