California State University
California State University, Northridge: Amazing Egg Drop
Teams must protect a raw egg from an eight feet fall with a container they designed. To construct the container teams must use only materials given to them in a bag and must do it in an allotted time frame. Lesson plan includes a...
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NOAA
Noaa: Be a Shipwreck Detective [Pdf]
Use your skills of investigation to examine a list of items recovered from a shipwreck. Draw conclusions about the ship and its demise based off of your observations.
NOAA
Noaa: Nautical Signal Flags [Pdf]
Read about the significance of nautical signal flags, and then make some of your own to send some messages.
Harvard University
Scratch Ed: Computational Thinking With Scratch: What Is Computational Thinking?
A Computational Thinking curriculum guide which develops fluency with computational concepts, practices and perspectives.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Math Challenges for Families
NCTM offers sections on Families & School, Families & Math, Families & Homework, and more. Has links to brain-teaser problems ranging in skill from very easy to challenging. Click Take a Challenge or Challenge Index for...
University of Texas at Austin
Alien Rescue Classroom Sample Lesson Plans [Pdf]
Try a instructional activity from the Alien Rescue Classroom or modify one of their lessons to meet your unit plan. By implementing the Alien Rescue approach, your students will have the opportunity to enhance their problem solving...
Yale University
Detective Fiction: Focus on Critical Thinking
Through the use of reading crime fiction, this lesson plan helps to refine critical thinking skills and problem solving strategies which are important for the development of 21st century skills.
Math Cats
Math Cats: Crossing the River (With a Wolf, a Goat, and a Cabbage)
An interactive game where players have to move passengers across a river using their problem solving skills.
Math Cats
Math Cats: Jumping Math Cats
An interactive game where players use problem-solving and logic to jump as many of the math cat faces as possible.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Elementary Level Problems 1999
Pre-service Faculty of Education students from the University of Regina created this collection of real-world math problems that address Saskatchewan elementary mathematics content. The problems are geared towards students in grades four...
University of Waterloo (Canada)
Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing: Ratio and Rate [Pdf]
Learners explore the concepts of rate and ratio in a variety of problem-solving situations. Worksheets contain definitions and visual representations of concepts. Link to related ratio game. Other skills include measurement, data...
University of Utah
University of Utah: George Polya, How to Solve It
Understand the problem, Devise a plan, Carry out the plan, Look back. The 4 steps by George Polya.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Simple Maze Game
Use this clever applet to move your robot to safe ordered pairs as it travels to its destination. This all takes place in the first quadrant. Direction are just a click away.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Sets and the Venn Diagram
This lesson plan offers lots of tools and interactive materials to teach the idea of sets and make use of the Venn Diagram.
University of Missouri
Wise Pockets: Personal Finance Lesson Plans, Grades 3 6
The Wise Pockets World Schoolhouse presents a dozen lesson plans based on children's books and teaching money management. All include instructional activity descriptions, cross-curricular connections, instructional objectives, activity...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Math Magic
Comprehensive site of MS Word files that are easy to download which increase problem solving skills using technology in the classroom.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Math Magic
Comprehensive site of MS Word files that are easy to download which increase problem solving skills using technology in the classroom.
US Department of Education
Helping Your Child Learn Math: Math on the Go
Parents and children explore math in the world around them in this collection of math activities. Simple, engaging, and fun, these lessons offer learners the opportunity to discover math even when they're "on the go." An excellent...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Problem Solving Steps
In this activity, students learn the four steps of problem solving: understanding the problem, making a plan, carrying out the plan, and evaluating the results. This activity helps students develop skills to solve problems.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: The Perfect House
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to the concept of Multi-Attribute Compositional Models, in which market experts determine what features are most in demand for a given product. The lesson is...
University of Washington
University of Washington: Cs: Six Computational Thinking Practices
Underpinning the study of computer science are these six computational thinking practices. These practices are the kinds of activities computer scientists use.
University of Washington
University of Washington: Cs: Seven Big Ideas of Computer Science
An overview of the seven fundamental principles which make up the content of computer science.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Cyberchase: Fixing the Teleporter Part 1
In this Cyberchase video, the Teleporter breaks and the CyberSquad must try to fix it using clues given to them by Ms. Fileshare. This is one in a series of two problem-solving videos. [3:49]
Science Museum of Minnesota
Science Museum of Minnesota: Students as Designers
This site provides eight projects to use in an elementary classroom to encourage students to become inventors/designers. Invention, prototyping, materials exploration, creative writing, problem-solving, and group presentations are...