This lesson unit is intended to help teachers assess how well students are able to: Select appropriate mathematical methods to use for an unstructured problem; interpret a problem situation, identifying constraints and variables, and specify assumptions; work with 2- and 3-dimensional shapes to solve a problem involving capacity and surface area; and communicate their reasoning clearly.
Material Type: Assessment, Lesson Plan
This lesson unit is intended to help teachers assess how well students are able to solve a real-world modeling problem. There are several correct approaches to the problem, including some that involve proportional relationships.
Material Type: Assessment, Lesson Plan
This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to: Model a situation; make sensible, realistic assumptions and estimates; and use assumptions and estimates to create a chain of reasoning, in order to solve a practical problem.
Material Type: Assessment, Lesson Plan
Help your child explore the world of science by engaging in some exciting and fun investigations together! Many science activities for babies and toddlers will principally involve building language. As you describe and name interesting phenomena, your child will be exposed to a rich variety of new words. The first or second-grader is better able to record her experiences and make some predictions based on her extra years of experience. Your preschooler or kindergartner is usually developmentally capable of physically engaging with things on his own, and has gained enough facility with language to begin describing and discussing his experiences.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Australian Aboriginal art is one of the oldest continuing art traditions in the world. Much of the most important knowledge of aboriginal society was conveyed through different kinds of storytelling—including narratives that were spoken, performed as dances or songs, and those that were painted. In this lesson students will learn about the Aboriginal storytelling tradition through the spoken word and through visual culture. They will have the opportunity to hear stories of the Dreamtime told by the Aboriginal people, as well as to investigate Aboriginal storytelling in contemporary dot paintings.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan
This video tutorial shows users how to create and manage groups on OER Commons, and how to share resources within those groups.
Material Type: Lecture
This tutorial shows users how to use standard and advanced search features to find resources on OER Commons.
Material Type: Lecture
The purpose of this task is to present students with a context where they need to explain why two simple fractions are equivalent.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
