Unit Plan
Newspaper Association of America

By the Numbers: Mathematical Connections in Newspapers for Middle-Grade Students

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
A cross-curricular resource teaches and reinforces mathematical concepts with several activities that use parts of a newspaper. Scholars use scavenger hunts to find the different ways math is used in the paper along with using data...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Bits and Pieces - More About Percents - Online Manipulatives

For Students 5th - 6th
In this online percentages worksheet, students access the Library of Virtual Manipulatives web site and open the percentage tool. They use the online tool to complete 8 multi-step questions making graphical representations and finding...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Seaside Science

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students research sea life using laptop computers. In this sea life instructional activity, students participate in a field trip to the beach and enter observations into their laptop computers. Students classify shells and sea life.