Lesson Plan
Missouri Department of Elementary

Communicating with I-Messages (2/2)

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Class members read a handout to learn about using I-Messages—honest statements that begin with I to get their points of view across. Next, learners practice using I-Messages with partners to better communicate without hurting...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Balloon-Powered Car

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Attractive and logical instructions are provided for constructing a balloon-powered car. Young physical scientists measure the distance their car travels and record it on a pre-printed data sheet. The make alterations to improve the...
Unit Plan
Radford University

Natural Disaster Recovery and Quadrilaterals: Fencing and Roofing Materials

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Storm into a better understanding of geometry. Using a tornado as a backdrop, scholars practice their skills finding perimeters and areas of rectangles. Learners apply their knowledge of the Pythagorean Theorem to find missing sides of...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The True Value of Sweets

For Teachers 5th
Measure your pupil's learning in a instructional activity designed to explore decimals by weighing different candies on a scale and recording the weight. Small groups then compare and order the decimal weights on a number line to show...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Is It Safe to Go In? Water Quality of Bathing Areas in the EU

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Using your senses, apprehend the effects of contaminants in water. With a global focus, young scientists conduct a safe experiment by tasting sugar and salt water with different dilutions. After reviewing threshold limits, learners write...
Activity
Curated OER

Extending the Definitions of Exponents, Variation 2

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Introduce the concept of exponential functions with an activity that extends the definition of exponents to include rational values. Start with a doubling function at integer values of time, then expand table to include frational time...
Lesson Plan
James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation

Application of the Principles of the Constitution

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
If you want to challenge your US government class, this assignment requires them to identify a contemporary issue or event that reflects the four main principles of the Constitution (federalism, separation of powers, protection of...
Lesson Plan
Virginia Department of Education

Molar Volume of a Gas

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What is a chemist's favorite plant? Stoichiome Tree! Scholars produce hydrogen gas by reacting magnesium with hydrochloric acid. Then they calculate the molar volume of the gas produced before answering assessment questions. 
Activity
It's About Time

Run and Jump

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Has your class wondered how fast a human could run or how high they are capable of jumping? Help them understand these concepts as they explore acceleration and use an accelerometer to make semiquantitative measurements of acceleration...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

America Established Because of Protest

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore events and causes that led to American Revolution and examine popular pro-Patriot renderings and texts of these issues created both at that time and in later years. Students then prepare and deliver oral presentations...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Roller Coasters

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Twisting and turning through the sky, roller coasters are popular attractions at amusement parks around the world, but how exactly do they work? Explore the physics behind these thrilling rides with an engineering design activity....
Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Describing the Center of a Distribution Using the Mean

For Teachers 6th Standards
Everyone does their fair share. The sixth segment in a 22-part unit presents the mean as a fair share. Groups build a conceptual understanding of the mean of a data set, rather than simply learn an algorithm. Learners use the...
Assessment
Concord Consortium

Center of Population

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Let the resource take center stage in a lesson on population density. Scholars use provided historical data on the center of the US population to see how it shifted over time. They plot the data on a spreadsheet to look the speed of its...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Metrics and Prefixes

For Students 7th - 10th
In this metrics worksheet, students identify the metric system and give three base units and what they measure. This worksheet has 1 multiple choice, 2 short answer questions, and 8 problems to solve.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Comparing and Ordering Numbers

For Teachers K
Students compare, order, and measure objects. In this measurement lesson, students are assessed on their ability to order, compare, and measure objects. This is an assessment only lesson and does not include instruction.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Measuring Length 2

For Teachers 5th
In this measurement worksheet, 5th graders identify which is a reasonable measurement for each stated. Then they fill in the correct unit of length and the tables given. Finally, students convert each measurement into other units of...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rolling with Links

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore geometry by completing a worksheet in class. In this non-standard measurement unit lesson, 1st graders discuss different techniques for measuring items without the use of a ruler. Students read several short stories...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Units of Measure

For Students 6th - 8th
For this math worksheet, students convert the values given into a new measurement as directed in the 20 problems. The answers are on page 2.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

ExplorA-Pond: 4th Grade Perimeter Estimation

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Your geometers are used to finding the perimeter of a square or rectangle, so give them something different this time! With this lesson, small groups will receive a picture of a shoreline and calculate the perimeter. The website listed...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Which Chocolate Is The Biggest?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students investigate the concepts of area and perimeter with the use of chocolate bars. They calculate the perimeter and area of different size rectangle chocolate bars and record the statistics. Then students make a visual comparison...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Exploring the Hudson in 1609

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
While this instructional activity focuses on a study of the Hudson River, it could be used as a template for a discussion of map skills, converting measurements, and plotting a route. The instructional activity includes vocabulary and...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Shopping the Sunday Circular

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Pupils demonstrate an understanding of price-per-unit mathematics. For this computation lesson, learners accurately figure the unit price of grocery items. They create a chart and record the item, the price, the size and the cost per item.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Area and Volume

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
What is the difference between area and volume? Have your charges build models of square centimeters, square inches, square feet, square meters, etc. It's definitely challenging, but there is no better way to learn than by trying...
Worksheet
Curated OER

The Unit Factor and Dimensional Analysis

For Students 8th - 10th
In this unit factor and dimensional analysis worksheet, students read about how to convert from one unit to another using unit factors and how to work with square units and cubic units using dimensional analysis. They practice solving...

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