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The Royal Children's Hospital: Hand and Finger Strength
Hand and finger strength is important as it is required for many everyday activities. It also helps to develop the endurance to complete activities such as writing a full page. Here are a variety of strategies to strengthen grip and...
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: Inter Math: Coordinates
This site discusses coordinates in the Cartesian plane. The site gives some fundamental terms involving Cartesian coordinates and a graph with the origin and a point labeled. Be sure to follow the links to related terms, everyday...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Connect With Coordinates
Students will be involved in hands-on activities that will help them to learn to locate points on a grid. Students will also learn how to correctly read an ordered pair of numbers. Technology will be implemented through the use of a...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Connecting With Coordinates
This instructional activity will allow students to practice plotting points on a grid. Students will have an opportunity to play a coordinate game. This instructional activity is hands-on and allows for cooperative learning. This lesson...
University College London
University College London: Conjunctions: Coordination Types
This site is from the Internet Grammar of English of the University College of London. It offers very complete--and technical--information, identifying three types of coordinators: syndetic, asyndetic, and polysyndetic. Offers self-quiz....
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Peg + Cat: Costume Box Digital Game
In this digital game, children can dress up all their favorite friends from Peg + Cat. Get Peg, Cat, and friends all dressed up in the silliest of outfits, of course! Shuffle up the clothes they're wearing by clicking the arrows. Also...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Take a Trip: A Journey Through Familiar Places
Using the computer mouse, children carefully move a car through a map of a town while trying to avoid going off of the path. They pass different landmarks and are introduced to them one at a time. The activity provides good hand-eye...
Other
Naeyc: Help Your Child Build Fine Motor Skills
There are lots of activities that can increase muscle strength and coordination, preparing children for more advanced skills, from writing with a pencil, using a computer mouse, or playing a musical instrument. Help your child build fine...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Unit Circle
Two hands-on lab activities for instructors to use when teaching about the coordinate graphs of the sine, cosine, and tangent functions derived from a unit circle. The graphs of the reciprocals of the three functions are investigated....
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Creating a Reflection
In this lesson, the students will create geometric reflections. This is a hands on activity where the student will be able to conceptualize how geometric shapes are reflected across the x and y axis of a coordinate graph. This lesson...
PBS
Pbs Mathline Lesson Plan: Struts'n Stuff [Pdf]
Incorporating concepts in algebra, number sense, patterning, data collection, and geometry, this lesson engages students in various hands-on activities to explore the relationship between regular polygons and the number of diagonals...
PBS
Pbs: Lace Cards to Strengthen Fine Motor Skills
Get little wrists and fingers ready for writing with this fun activity! Lacing cards help children perfect their pincer grip, which is necessary to hold a pencil properly.
Other
Pocket of Preschool: Favorite Fine Motor Tools and Toys for Preschool
Fine motor skills take practice but it can be FUN. Students may not get the time they need to perfect this skill, so let's make sure they have the opportunity to improve with the help of some toys, tools, and games through PLAY.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Take a Trip! Jr
Take a Trip Jr is a truly unique activity. You have four lives to carefully move your car through the town maze to reach your destination and learn some fun facts about the location. Be careful to remember the correct path! This activity...
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Plane Geometry
Lesson plans on how to incorporate plane geometry into an elementary classroom. Activities are hands-on, use manipulatives, and incorporate real world experiences.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Graphing Fun
In this hands-on project, young scholars have the opportunity to survey their classmates to find information that is meaningful to them. Then students will construct graphs using computer software. Young scholars will analyze their...
Cuemath
Cuemath: Transformation of Functions
In this mini-lesson, we will learn about transformations of functions, transformations of exponential functions, and transformations of quadratic functions. Check out the interactive simulations to know more about the lesson and try your...
University of Washington
Neuroscience for Kids: Reflexes
Site provides interactive activities to use in the classroom to test one's reflexes. Also includes more reaction time experiments as well as links to more fun activities.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Using Geoboards in the Classroom
A thorough look at the extensive uses of geoboards in the classroom. Links are listed which give introductory information on geoboards - for teachers new to using them. Then, lesson plans are provided for using geoboards in teaching...
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: Inter Math: Half Plane
This site opens with an example half plane with a diagram and definition. Be sure to follow the links to related terms, challenging problems, more information, everyday examples, and the interactive check point involving half planes...
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: Inter Math: Origin
This site opens with a labeled origin and explanation of the defining characteristics of the origin. Be sure to follow the links to related terms, challenging problems, more information,, and the interactive check point involving the...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Physiology Monitoring and Cycles Lab With Report
Using physiology monitoring, students will understand how to collect data using scientific methods in this activity. Students will also learn how to communicate the finding in a lab report. Physiology monitoring will include measuring...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Building Towards the Future
This curricular unit introduces students to basic Civil Engineering concepts in an exciting and interactive manner. Bridges and skyscrapers, the two most visible products of Civil Engineers, will be discussed in depth. Students will have...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Clifford El Gran Perro Colorado: Tesoros Enterrados
En "Barbaroja, el Pirata", Tucker pierde su querido Lil' Squeakie luego de que sus amigos pasaran el dia enterrando tesoros en la arena. Clifford y Emily Elizabeth hacen su mision el encontrar el juguete tesoro de Tucker antes de la hora...