Curated OER
A Friend Is...
Young scholars investigate characteristics of friendship through literature and interviews then share their ideas through posters. They role play scenarios related to friends and problems they might have. This lesson reflects cross...
Curated OER
A Tree is a Tree and a Lot More
Learners listen as the teacher reads "The Giving Tree." they discuss all the things the tree gave the boy throughout his life. They discuss ways they benefit from trees. This studying culminates with a tree walk and planting a tree in a...
Curated OER
Exploring the Beach
Students explore the beach. In this marine habitat lesson plan, students inspect sand grains, design beach profiles, classify marine life, and examine natural beach habitats. Students use spreadsheets to record data from their activities...
Curated OER
How Do I Get a Job?
Students discuss employment programs, and research volunteer, intern and employment possibilities. They create an employment plan and a working resume.
Curated OER
Rubber Band
Eighth graders investigate what would happen to the length of a rubber band as more and more rings were hung on it. They base their explanation on what they observed, and as they develop cognitive skills, they should be able to...
Curated OER
Can Anyone Be a Leader?
Students explore the concept of leadership and identify leaders from the past and present. They brainstorm qualities of effective leaders, research a leader from the past and develop a presentation on their findings and choose a local...
Curated OER
Welcome To Program A Simple Program in C
Students are introduced to the language in C programming. In groups, they determine the correct function to be used and practice running the program to achieve the desired results. They end the lesson plan by programming more difficult...
Curated OER
Up in Smoke
Learners use PowerPoint, Internet research, scanners and desktop publishing to create a multimedia presentation on the dangers of smoking.
Curated OER
Creating A Family Tree
Fourth graders explore their ancestral background while they experience genealogy.
Curated OER
Dream! (Part One)
Students share with the class what they want to be when they grow up. As a class, they identify what they want to be for Halloween as well. They are videotaped stating their dream and photographed with their mask. Using the masks, they...
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Ray's Educational Software
A personal site that contains free educational software for children of all ages. Topic areas include math, spelling, and science.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Career Profile: Computer Software Engineer
For those students interested in developing cool video game software for computer or those who enjoy applying their compter science skills to solve problems, a career as a computer software engineer might be worth examining. This Science...
ACT360 Media
Act Den (Digital Education Network) Software Tutorials
Free online tutorials for computer software, including FrontPage, Office, PowerPoint, and Outlook Express are generously offered at this website. Students will find it easy to follow Agent Max Millennium as he guides them through...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Career Profile: Software Quality Assurance Engineer and Tester
If you like to have your computer software work perfectly, it's because of the software qualitiy assurance engineer and tester that makes that happen. Read the career profile of the software engineer and the education requirements for...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Finding the Roots of a Cubic Equation Math History
In this Derive activity, students understand how the software solves cubic equations and relate it to contributions made by del Ferro, Tartaglia, and Cardan in finding the method of solving cubic equations.
Other
Center for Technology and Teacher Education: Parabola Lesson Plan
This site is a lesson plan on construction of a parabola using the definition. Geometer's Sketch Pad software is beneficial for the activity. Through the activity students develop gemetric constructions of parabolas, use the distance...
GeoGebra
International Geo Gebra Institute: Geo Gebra
The free mathematics software creates interactive learning material that combines geometry, graphing, tables, algebra, statistics, and calculus. Teachers can download the free open source software to enhance their mathematics lessons. A...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Career Profile: Computer Hardware Engineer
Put your interest in computers into an investigation of the career of computer hardware engineer. If you want to improve the speed and function of your computer, this is your career. This Science Buddies site lays out the requirements...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Video Tutorial Installing Apps Into Ti Smart View
This tutorial shows you how to install Apps and new operating systems in the TI-SmartView software.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Transformations, Rotations, Dilations 1
This StudyCards stack tests learners' understanding of translation, transformation, symmetry, dilation, and rotation of a point to form images. Teachers require TI StudyCards Creator Software and students will need the StudyCardApp on...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Design Your Own Bedroom
Many young scholars 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...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Traditional Copy an Angle: Compass Construction Using Cabri
Use Cabri Jr to copy an angle. The activity is followed by a student-to-student interview/reflection sheet intended to require students to think, talk, and write about why the construction worked. The reflection sheet could be adapted...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Parallelograms: Discovering Their Properties
Students use the TI-89 with CABRI Geometry to discover properties of parallelograms. They will construct a figure and use the definition to discover the figure is a parallelogram.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Rotations in the Plane
In this activity, students will explore the properties of rotations and the relationships between the original and image figures.