After reading John Updike's "Ex-Basketball Player," students write poems describing themselves five years in the future. The teacher takes the poems and mails them to students in five years.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students will define terms related to plot and will “map” the plots of familiar stories. Using “The Tell-Tale Heart” again, they will discuss how writers build and develop plot in their stories.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
The standard citation style guide book for the fields of business, education, health science, public service, and social science is the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition, 2010. The American Psychological Association (APA) publishes the manual. We commonly refer to it as "the APA Manual". The business, education, health science, public service, and social science departments at IRSC recommend APA format for papers written in these fields. Two types of citations are included in most research papers: citations within the text of the document and a list of reference citations at the end of the paper. In-Text Citations: The APA Manual uses the author-date citation system for in-text citations. Reference Citations: The sources you use in your work are included as a separate list at the end of the paper. The APA Manual suggests using the title, References, for the list.
Material Type: Reading
Can you avoid the boulder field and land safely, just before your fuel runs out, as Neil Armstrong did in 1969? Our version of this classic video game accurately simulates the real motion of the lunar lander with the correct mass, thrust, fuel consumption rate, and lunar gravity. The real lunar lander is very hard to control.
Material Type: Simulation
This interactive Flash animation allows students to explore size estimation in one, two and three dimensions. Multiple levels of difficulty allow for progressive skill improvement. In the simplest level, users estimate the number of small line segments that can fit into a larger line segment. Intermediate and advanced levels offer feature games that explore area of rectangles and circles, and volume of spheres and cubes. Related lesson plans and student guides are available for middle school and high school classroom instruction. Editor's Note: When the linear dimensions of an object change by some factor, its area and volume change disproportionately: area in proportion to the square of the factor and volume in proportion to its cube. This concept is the subject of entrenched misconception among many adults. This game-like simulation allows kids to use spatial reasoning, rather than formulas, to construct geometric sense of area and volume. This is part of a larger collection developed by the Physics Education Technology project (PhET).
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
Students will explore the concepts of place value using their bodies as tools. They will time themselves performing various kinesthetic tasks like jumping jacks and sit ups and use the numbers that they record from these activities in their exploration. Working in groups, they will practice adding and subtracting and comparing numbers. They will also come up with creative ways to represent numbers using the properties of operation and the rules of place value.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Teaching/Learning Strategy
This task was developed by high school and postsecondary mathematics and agriculture sciences educators, and validated by content experts in the Common Core State Standards in mathematics and the National Career Clusters Knowledge & Skills Statements. It was developed with the purpose of demonstrating how the Common Core and CTE Knowledge & Skills Statements can be integrated into classroom learning - and to provide classroom teachers with a truly authentic task for either mathematics or CTE courses.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
"Students create their own Mystery Numbers by giving clues about the name, value, and multiples of the digits which comprise the number." from Beacon Learning.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive, Lecture Notes, Lesson Plan
This simple but open-ended math game introduces basic probability concepts using coins and dice. Players roll the dice and collect coins to match the number rolled. Be careful, though; if you roll a 1, you lose your coins. The player to gather the most money wins.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Game, Lesson Plan
The body consists of arms, hands, fingers, feet, etc. Demonstrate how to measure with a crayon. Each student will create a book about themselves using the book template.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
In this activity, learners develop an understanding of cylinders and volume as they compare two sizes of popcorn buckets.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
The activities in this lesson help students understand how physical activity burns calories.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Enter your own data categories and the value of each category to create a pie chart. There are also built in data sets which can be viewed.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Data Set, Interactive, Lesson Plan, Simulation, Student Guide, Teaching/Learning Strategy
This professional development article identifies resources that show young learners (K-grade 5) how scientists study Earth's climate and make predictions. The online lessons either allow students to collect and analyze data or learn about tools and technologies that make data collection possible. The lessons are aligned with national content standards for science education. The article appears in the free, online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle, which examines the recognized essential principles of climate literacy and the climate sciences for elementary teachers and their students.
Material Type: Data Set, Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
In this activity, learners use their understanding of probability to guess which color will be drawn from a bag.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
In these lessons students will explore the paintings of Horace Pippin and Wayne Thiebaud and the mobiles of Alexander Calder to discover and practice math and visual art concepts. Background and biographical information about the work of art and artist, guided looking with class discussion, and activities with worksheets using mathematical formulas and studio art provide the framework for each lesson.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan
Watch an interview with a couple who built a home from shipping containers. Then, design and construct a scale model of a unique shipping container home using printed templates, and estimate the cost of flooring and paint based on model dimensions.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Case Study, Data Set, Lecture, Lecture Notes, Lesson Plan
This is a 50 minute lesson where preschool to kindergarten-aged students explore using their five senses several different station of materials
Material Type: Activity/Lab
