Curated OER
The Flower and the Fly
It's like a biological "Beauty and the Beast!" The fascinating mutualism between a South African meganosed fly and a deep-throated geranium builds a case study in coevolution for your biology buffs to analyze. After reading about this...
Curated OER
Investigating Our Past: Where Did Humans Come From?
Investigate the theories of human evolution. In this research based lesson, learners research and discuss how geographic isolation, interbreeding, generalization, and specialization are factors in the history of humans. Groups work...
Curated OER
Reading Comprehension
Eighth graders choose a product to purchase and research it in Consumer Reports. In this consumer report lesson, 8th graders work in tiered learning groups to research a product using Consumer Reports. Students complete comprehension...
Curated OER
Learning Word Search
In this biology worksheet, students identify and locate each of the vocabulary terms listed to the right related to psychological terms. There are 17 biology terms located in the word search.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Street Fighting Mathematics
Students learn how to solve problems without doing a proof or exact calculation. Topics include dimensional analysis, successive approximation, generalization, and pictorial analysis. A syllabus, readings, assignments, and related...
Yale University
Yale University: Elements of the Short Story
This unit from the Yale University on elements of the short story is designed to develop student comprehension skills, particularly making inferences and generalizing. It also involves students in reading a number of short stories to...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Fermi Questions
This tutorial from the Math Forum provides the approach to problem solving made famous by Enrico Fermi. Fermi, a brilliant Italian physicist, used estimation frequently in problem-solving.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Web Math: Solve a Set of Two Linear Equations
This WebMath site explains how to enter your two equations with two variables and solve for those variables. It explains step-by-step how to solve the equations and gives the final solutions.
Purple Math
Purplemath: Systems of Non Linear Equations: Definitions
This Purplemath lesson provides formulas, equations, graphs and explanations of systems of equations.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Estimation Rounding
This site explains how to round whole numbers. Gives problems and games to practice this skill.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Rounding Numbers to the Nearest Ten
This site explains how to round whole numbers to the nearest ten. The information on the site gives exercise problems and games to practice this skill in a fun and helpful way.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Estimation Contest
A lesson plan that teaches the power of estimation and its uses, a distinction between estimation and guessing.
Cut the Knot
Cut the Knot!: Interactive Mathematics: Geometry Articles, Theorems, Problems
Contains over five hundred Geometry articles, problems, puzzles, and games. Some sites relating to circles are provided within this list.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Fractals
Can you figure out what pattern comes next? Explore patterns and perimeter in this math challenge on fractals. A one page activity from the NCTM Math Challenges for Families collection.
Other
Math Stories: Finding a Pattern
At this one page site, you can work through step by step a sample problem that illustrates the problem-solving strategy for "identify a pattern." The answer is right there to help you check your thinking.