Curated OER
Learning Strategies
Students develop critical thinking skills using questions exploring the Canadian Parliamentary system. The duties of a modern democracy are investigated.
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Make Sense of Nature
Students participate in this program that heightens their awareness and curiosity of nature as well as their sense of adventure and exploring new surroundings. They identify and choose an object from nature after exploring it with other...
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Strange Elevators: Creating and Extending Patterns
Second graders solve problems by recognizing patterns, creating patterns and extending them. They compare and contrast patterns.
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White Elephant Exercise Exchange
Students get moving in a fun holiday setting. They participate in a holiday tradition of exchanging gifts with the gift being an exercise to be completed. Exercises are written on small slips of paper and put into a small holiday gift bag.
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Fire Safety
Students review how to exit the school building during a fire drill. They discuss the World Trade Center escape routes and why there was difficulty getting out on September 11, 2001. They compare fire escape routes of the World Trade...
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Mystery Box
Fourth graders engage in a icebreaker activity that is meant to introduce curriculum areas at the beginning of the school year. The teacher prepares several different boxes filled with items that are to be studied during the year. Then...
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Tape Toes & Rubberband Hands
Students learn the proper form for throwing. Correct hand placement is demonstrated as imaginary and then real objects are thrown at a target. Tape is placed on one shoe and referred to as the tape toe to get the student in position for...
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Estuarine Currents
Young scholars explore an estuarine system to gather data on density driven currents. This type of current is contrasted with temperature and wind driven currents.
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Demand and Supply-It's What Economics Is About!
Students engage in research that investigates the economic concept of supply and demand. They look at the problem and how it can shift periodically in an economy. Students graph different quantities and see the shift in a visual way and...
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Graphing Review
Students review the principles of graphing linear functions. They discuss plotting points on a coordinate plane, solving using a table, and then graphing. Students solve problems and determine the slope of the line, y-intercept and if...
archKIDecture
Arch Ki Decture: Build It Yourself: Draw a Floor Plan
These guidelines for drawing a simple floor plan use basic supplies--a ruler, pencil (or pen), and graph paper--are from ArchKIDecture, a teacher-created site that encourages awareness of human-built environments.
Other
Smart Draw: Homepage
The official website of SmartDraw offers comprehensive information about this drawing software, as well as a free-trial download. Additional content includes tutorials, examples, and scenarios. This software is often used in...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 7.g Floor Plan
This lesson plan has students solving word problems using scale drawings.
archKIDecture
Arch Ki Decture: Build It Yourself: Draw a Dream Classroom
ArchKIDecture, A teacher-created site that encourages awareness of human-built environments, provides simple directions for drawing and designing a "dream classroom."
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Architects in Action
Through this lesson, students will learn how to use ratios to create a scale drawing of their classroom's floor plan. It provides adaptations, discussion questions, assessment rubric, and suggested readings to help develop students'...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Design Your Own Bedroom
Many students dream of designing their ideal bedroom. In this exercise, students will be required to limit their designs by size (as a specific volume) and price (a specific amount). They must design the floor plan, including furniture...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Measurement: Distances or Dimensions Given Scale Measurements
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Read and interpret scale drawings and floor plans to find scale dimensions and actual dimensions
EL Education
El Education: Home of Collette Brule Floors 1 and 2
These blueprints were created by a 5th/6th grade student from the Shutesbury Elementary School in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, as part of a Learning expedition on Architecture.The blueprints correspond to a character file (CF) created by...
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Map Your World
Students can follow these easy steps to develop a model (drawing) of their room and the things in it. Then they can broaden the drawing to include their entire floor, apartment, or house.
Careers New Zealand
Careers Nz: Architectural Draughtsperson (Drafter)
This site describes the career components needed to be a drafter in New Zealand. While the some of the information is specific to New Zealand, it does offer some valuable information about drafting that does apply to the career in...
Discovering Egypt
Discovering Egypt: Pyramids and Temples
This interactive site creates a computer-generated reconstruction of Egyptian pyramids and temples. View pyramid floor plans, paintings, drawings, and photos.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Using Area as an Architect (Stations Day 1)
In this multi-day activity, 3rd graders make 3 different models of an orphanage floor plan using Google Drawing, Virtual Graph paper, and a construction of rectilinear shapes, to calculate the area of each room using units square.
EL Education
El Education: Home of Ivy Olcott
These blueprints were created by a 5th/6th grade student from the Shutesbury Elementary School in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, as part of a Learning expedition on Architecture.The blueprints correspond to a character file (CF) created by...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Seventh Grade Math: Area and Perimeter
Learn how to enlarge drawings, figure out how much tile to buy to cover a specific floor, and learn about area and perimeter. These and other lesson plans are provided, including a fun interdisciplinary plan featuring dragons.