PBS
Stories of Painkiller Addiction: Prescription Drug Abuse Awareness Campaign
The I-STOP law was designed to regulate the distribution and tracking of prescription drugs. After reading an article about its signing and implementation, middle and high schoolers work together to come up with their own ideas for an...
Lerner Publishing
Meet the Dinosaurs
Take your class of youngsters on a prehistoric adventure with this four-lesson series on dinosaurs. Accompanying the Meet the Dinosaurs books by Don Lessem, these lessons engage children in writing their own dinosaur books,...
Curated OER
Place Value
In this place values worksheet, 5th graders look at the number in the place value box. Students then write the number in expanded notation and standard form.
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Multiplication and Exponents
Students write values as both standard and exponential forms. In this exponential form activity, students solve multiplication of exponents problems. Both application and drill and practice formats are presented.
Curated OER
Hundreds, Tens, and Units
How many hundreds, tens, and ones are there? The class examines 3 different images, each containing flats, rods, and units. They write down the number of 100s, 10s, and 1s, then the whole number they represent.
Texas Instruments
TI-Nspire™ CAS
When it comes to rating educational calculators, this calculator is always near the top of this list. Now it's available as an app. There is a lot of calculator power wrapped up in this app. Not only is this a fully functioning...
Cornell University
Beam Focusing Using Lenses
Explore optics using an inquiry-based experimental approach! Young scholars use a set of materials to design and build a unit capable of focusing a beam of light. They experiment with different lenses to determine the best approach to...
NASA
What's the Frequency, Roy G. Biv?
While all light travels at the same speed, each color in the visible light spectrum contains a different wavelength and frequency. Scholars determine the relationship between frequency and wavelength as they complete the activity. They...
Curated OER
Finding the Area of Polygons
Third graders are exposed to finding the area of polygons by decomposing figures and recomposing them into rectangles. This strategy allows children to expand on their prior knowledge of constructing shapes by rearranging parts into...
Curated OER
Using Algebra Tiles to Explore Distributive Property
Math is fun with algebra tiles! Young mathematicians explore eight expressions involving the distributive property and use algebra tiles to expand simple expressions. The resource is perfect for both guided and independent practice.
Novelinks
Words by Heart: Level 3 Writing Assignment
Get in touch with the emotional side of writing by reading Words By Heart. The writing assignment helps learners make personal connections with the text and hone their writing skills by exploring a time that they had to forgive...
Bully Free Systems
Bully Free Lesson Plans—Eighth Grade
Middle schoolers are likely very familiar with the concept of bullying and cliques. Discuss their experiences and brainstorm ways to handle peer conflict and feelings of exclusion with a poem that focuses on bullying, and a second lesson...
Curated OER
Place Value Through Thousands Practice 1.4
In this place value activity, students convert each number that is shown in pictures, expanded, or word form into standard form. Students also write the place of the underlined digit in a four-digit number and write its value.
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Point-Slope Form
Ninth graders explore the point-slope form of linear equations and graph lines in the point-slope form. After completing the point-slope equation, they identify the slope of a line through a particular point. Students explain the...
Curated OER
Understanding 10: Backwards and Forwards
Help your young mathematicians completely master 10 by practicing one-to-one correspondence, number recognition, and recording numbers displayed. They make 10 with groups of two-different colored cubes and color in 10-frames to show how...
TESCCC
Place Value to 999,999
Master place value with a series of lessons that use math journals, manipulatives, and place value mats. Kids follow the instructions to represent numbers of all sizes with base ten blocks and recording sheets.
Curated OER
Place Value: Ones, Tens and Hundreds
For this place value worksheet, students write numbers in two ways other than that given; students choose from standard form, expanded form and word form.
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Standard, Expanded and Written Form (T)
In this number sense activity, students fill in 14 blanks in a chart with either the standard, expanded, or written form of each of the given numbers. They work with numbers to the hundred thousands place value.
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Standard, Expanded and Written Number Form (O)
In this number sense worksheet, students fill in 14 blanks in a chart with either the standard, expanded, or written form of each of the given numbers. They work with numbers to the hundred thousands place value.
Curated OER
Numbers: Standard, Expanded, and Written Forms
In this number sense worksheet, students fill in the blanks in a graphic organizer by writing the numbers in standard, expanded, and written form. They work with numbers to the hundred thousands place value.
Curated OER
Decimals: Writing, Comparing and Ordering
In this decimals: writing, comparing and ordering worksheet, 6th graders use a place value chart to write decimals in standard, expand and word form, to compare by writing > or < , and to put a list of decimals numbers...
Curated OER
Create a Cat with Amaco Scuptamold and Wireform Metal Mesh
Students create an animal from Sculptamold and metal mesh. In this hands-on arts instructional activity, students use the materials provided the create a piece of art in the form of an animal. This instructional activity includes easy...
Curated OER
The History of Rock and Roll: Part 6 - My Generation Social an Cultural Influence on Music Composition
Students examine influences on the creation and development of music.
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Place Value, Addition, and Subtraction
In these math review worksheets, students complete several addition, subtraction, and place value problems. Students complete 17 problems.