Novelinks
Running Out of Time: Anticipation Guide
Get your class ready to read with this anticipatory set for Running Out of Time. Small groups each consider one thought-provoking statement. After each group comes to a consensus, the whole class participates in sharing ideas and voting...
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
Growing Up With A Mission
New Horizons began its journey to Pluto in 2006. Ten years later, it continues its mission. In that time, scholars have surely grown, but how much more will they grow by the time New Horizons reaches its destination? Find out with an...
Lerner Publishing
Living or Nonliving
It's alive! Or is it? Through a series of shared readings, whole class activities, and independent exercises children explore the difference between living and non-living things, creating a pair of printable books to demonstrate their...
SaveandInvest.org
Introduction to Earning Interest: Grades 11-12
Does your bank pay you for allowing them to hold your money? Class members investigate three different ways money can make more money. Topics include certificates of deposit, statement savings accounts, and money market accounts. This...
Nemours KidsHealth
Peer Pressure: Grades 9-12
Peer pressure is not always negative. It can also inspire, encourage people to get involved, and help push change. Class members select a quotation from a provided list and craft a paragraph about the meaning of the statement, how it...
Curated OER
Simple Machines III - Pulleys
The principles behind pulleys, levers, and simple machines are the focus of a science instructional activity. In it, learners take part in a whole-class activity. There are two groups of pupils who each must lift objects with fixed...
Curated OER
Real-Life Problems, Working with Decimals #2
It's all about decimals in these word problems, which have scholars apply math to scenarios they will likely come across later in life. Working with multi-digit numbers and decimals to the hundredths place, learners must determine the...
Curated OER
"Music Be the Food of Love:" Found Poetry with Shakespeare and Hip-Hop
Lines from Shakespeare and from hip-hop artists provide learners with an opportunity to examine the literary devices these artists use to express their ideas about love. Groups use the provided lines to craft found poems, and then the...
Shakespeare in American Life
"Strike a Pose:" Music and Vogueing in The Winter's Tale
After class members have read and discussed Act III of The Winter’s Tale, groups select one line from Act III, scene i that they feel captures the essence of the entire scene. They then create a tableaux that best depicts the scene’s...
Illustrative Mathematics
Runners' World
Learners must investigate the validity of a claim made in a running magazine. They must identify and look up unprovided information, make appropriate estimations, and be able to convert units. Might be best used as a group or whole-class...
Polar Trec
What Is My Footprint?
How do one's habits and lifestyle choices affect the environment? Through a short online survey, learners will calculate their own carbon footprints then determine how to reduce their impact on the environment through simple steps, such...
Lorain County Community College
Fractions Part Three
See how well your mathematicians know their fractions with a challenging instructional activity full of different problems. It's all there with adding, subtracting, multiplying, and division. They will be proficient with order of...
Concord Consortium
Acid Test
This isn't your typical basic lesson—it's more acidic! Learners use pH information to determine the hydroxide ion concentration of different substances and then use these values to analyze information. The calculations require...
Curated OER
Arithmetic: Revision
Learners practice with a variety of simple equations involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Explanation is followed by each block of equations given to solve. They are set loose to complete additional equations for...
Curated OER
Factors
In this factors worksheet, 7th graders solve and complete 20 different problems for determining the factors of each number listed. They find all the factors for each number given. Students divide each whole number by another whole number...
Curated OER
Estimating Quotients
In this estimating quotients worksheet, students solve 20 different problems that include estimating a variety of quotients in each. They divide each whole number and then estimate the answer in each problem to the nearest whole number.
Curated OER
Picture Your Numbers with
Students create pairs of cards with numbers and pictures. Encourage students to use a different color to represent each number/picture pair; this help them with visual association in the "Concentration" game.
Curated OER
Logarithms
In this logarithms learning exercise, 11th graders solve 10 different problems that include various logarithms. They determine the value of each logarithm shown on the sheet. Then, students divide the argument by the base and divide the...
Curated OER
Closure Property
In this closure property activity, students solve 10 different problems using the closure property. First, they determine whether the numbers and the answer are real numbers. Then, students determine if the given sets are either closed...
Curated OER
Number: Decimals
Students explore the concept of decimals. In this decimals lesson, students examine number patterns as they complete a worksheet that requires them perform multiplication with decimal numbers.
Curated OER
Math - Divisibility
Students explore the concept of divisibility. In this divisibility lesson, students determine which numbers are divisible by another number.
Curated OER
Decimal Fractions with a Calculator
For this decimals worksheet, students write what they had to do to change decimal numbers to other decimal numbers. Students complete 28 problems where they write if they added, subtracted, multiplied, or divided.
Curated OER
Solving Inequalities
In this solving inequalities worksheet, students solve and complete 14 different problems that include using multiplication and division properties for inequalities. First, they state the number by which they multiply each side to solve...
Curated OER
What's in the Gift?
In this division worksheet, students have to solve for the missing divisor. Problems include three digit dividends divided by two digits. Problems are mixed in levels. These problems do not have remainders.