Curated OER
Simply Unique
Students identify, compare and contrast simple machines and their functions. They work together in groups to complete experiments using the simple machines. They write in their journals to reflect on the lesson.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Incline Plane and the Crashing Marble
Students will measure the effects of the height of an inclined plane on the force a marble produces to move a plastic, foam, or paper cup across a table. Students will discover that the higher the incline plane, the more force produced...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 5.g Battle Ship Using Grid Paper
The purpose of this task is to give students practice plotting points in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane and naming coordinates of points. Aligns with 5.G.A.1.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Building Shapes
Based on building a hexagon, this activity from the Math Forum collection focuses on using different combinations of pattern blocks to create a hexagon. An online activity, pencil and paper method, literature connections, and a...
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Make a T Rex Dinosaur Using Ordered Pairs
This math tutorial on ordered pairs has students make a T-Rex dinosaur using graph paper.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Make an Alien Mask Using Ordered Pairs
This website gives you the ordered pairs you need to make an Alien mask using graph paper.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Make a Dinosaur Using Ordered Pairs
This website gives you the ordered pairs you need to make a Diplodocus dinosaur using graph paper.
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K-5 Math Teaching Resources
K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Coordinate Grid Geoboards [Pdf]
An activity dealing with making a polygon and getting their coordinates. Materials needed: geoboards, rubber bands, coordinate grid paper and rulers.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Building a Paper Airplane Using Bernoulli's Principle
This is a culmination activity used after students have studied Bernoulli's Principle as part of a unit on forces and fluids. Students will use the Internet, textbooks, library resources and their cooperative learning group to design...
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Coordinate Grid Paper Set [Pdf]
This pdf contains several types of blank coordinate grids.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Isometric Drawing Tool
This site includes an interactive math tool to create drawings on isometric dot paper. You can draw figures using edges, faces, or cubes. Rotate and color your drawings, and view them in 3D or 2D.
Other
Nearpod: Perimeters of Polygons
In this lesson on finding the perimeter of rectangles, 3rd graders learn key vocabulary, explore grid paper, and apply their learning to a real-world situation.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F Tf, G Co, Trigonometric Identities and Rigid Motions
The purpose of this task is to apply translations and reflections to the graphs of the functions f(x)=cos x and g(x)=sin x in order to derive some trigonometric identities. There are also rotations 180 degrees about points on the x-axis...