Curated OER
Mighty Oaks from Little Acorns
What does it mean to grow? To germinate? For the plan detailed here, class members investigate the growth process of an oak tree while focusing on the beginning stages of planting and germination. They plant seeds and record observations...
Curated OER
Garden Grid
Basically, your class reads about different garden plants from an included handout and seed packets that you provide, and then uses a grid to plan out where to place the plants. They can practice counting with the seeds, grouping,...
Curated OER
Agriculture in Motion
Youngsters learn about simple machines that could be used on a farm. They learn about agricluture, listen to a farmer speak, compare and contrast different farm machines, and then design their own. Note that although the publisher...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Seeds: How They Grow
Students observe the growing stages of plants. In this plant growth lesson, students collect, germinate, and plant seeds to chart the growth process of plants.
Curated OER
Mighty Earth Movers
Note that although the publisher lists almost all of the Common Core standards for both math and language arts, you will most likely want to take the general topic and choose which area to focus on. Regarding math, pupils measure worms...
Other
Visnos: Interactive Clock
Determine the time, degree of angles, and fractions, using this interactive white board clock activity.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Oscar's Rotten Ride
Learn spatial relations with Oscar the Grouch as you collect trash that is over, under, or between different objects!
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Fashion Store: Mass & Capacity
Penny the Penguin owns a fashion store. Let's find out what people wear at Antarctica. Uses popups.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: English Bus: Measurement & Comparison
Visit London and figure out things like bigger, smaller, empty, half full, and full.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: More, Less or the Same: Comparing Quantities
This site provides examples of comparing quantities, as well as exercises and simple games to practice the skill.
Arcademics
Arcademics: Tug Team Comparing Fractions
Play tug of war by comparing fractions correctly.
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Ordering and Comparing Numbers
A large selection of teacher resources dealing with ordering and comparing numbers at several levels. There are worksheets, PowerPoints, smartboard presentations, and activities.
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: Measures
A huge collection of teacher resources to aide in the teaching of all types of metric measurement: length, distance, mass, weight, capacity, and volume. Activities include measuring, estimating, converting, investigating, and finding...
University of Texas at Austin
Mathematics Teks Toolkit: What's Poppin
Compare weights and volumes using popped and unpopped popcorn.
SRI International
Performance Assessment Links in Science: Measurement: Using the Balance (Lesson)
This performance task assesses students' ability to use a balance and to measure the mass of objects accurately.
Common Core Sheets
Common Core Sheets: Comparing Numbers
Create a activity to assess students knowledge of comparing numbers.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Scratch: Animal Inequalities
Help Sharky and Ducky compare numbers in this inequalities game practicing greater than, less than, and equals.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: What Is a Measure?
For this lesson, Rolf Myller's book entitled How Big is a Foot? is used as a mentor text. Students will answer the question, "What does it mean to be big?"The mathematical concepts of area, attributes, and fractions are introduced....
Mr. Martini's Classroom
Mr. Martini's Classroom: Mr. Martini's Classroom: Kids Math Comparing Numbers
Compare numbers from 1 to 40 using inequality symbols and equal sign with this interactive game.
Mr. Martini's Classroom
Mr. Martini's Classroom: What Time Is It?
Practice telling time using a multiple choice assessment.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Can You Do It Too?
Can you throw a beanbag as far as the Olympic hammer or discus throwers? This activity introduces children to informal measures to compare distances, and is designed to be accessible to primary pupils at Key Stage 1.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Now and Then
Look at the changes in results on some of the athletics track events at the Olympic Games in 1908 and 1948. What will the results be in 2012? This slightly more challenging activity encourages children to examine data and consider...
Chateau Meddybemps
Chateau Meddybemps: Teeter Totter Experiments
Practice comparing mass by trying the Teeter Totter Experiment. Watch the teeter totter move up and down as you compare Marcus to each animal.