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Ending Sound M
In this ending sound instructional activity, learners study the various images and draw a line from the letter M to each picture that ends with the M sound. Students draw lines to the jam, worm, drum, ham, and broom.
Curated OER
The Vocabulary of Space
Learners build their knowledge and understanding of vocabulary related to space. For this space lesson, students discuss four categories of words and phrases related to space.
Curated OER
Healthy Fruit Food Group: Yummy Drops Lesson Plan
Students play a computer game where they help deliver fruit that is on a plane to families. In this fruit food group lesson plan, students use the arrows to manipulate the plane. It gets more challenging as the plane goes faster.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Early Chicago Environment & People [Pdf]
"Early Chicago Environment & People" is a one page, nonfiction passage about the Native Americans who lived in what is now Chicago. It explains how they lived and how Chicago got its name. It is followed by constructed-response...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Before Chicago [Pdf]
"Before Chicago" is a one page, non-fiction, reading passage about Native Americans who lived in what is now Chicago. It describes what life was like for them and tells how Chicago got its name. It is followed by constructed-response...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee Firefighter Allocation
In this students are asked to write an equation to solve a real-world problem. There are two natural approaches to this task. In the first approach, students have to notice that even though there is one variable, namely the number of...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee Rectangle Perimeter 1
This tasks gives a verbal description for computing the perimeter of a rectangle and asks the students to find an expression for this perimeter. They then have to use the expression to evaluate the perimeter for specific values of the...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: The Value of Education
The purpose of this task is for students to add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimal numbers in a real-world context. The weekly income earned by each person in the task is the median weekly income for their education level, but they...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 7.sp Election Poll, Variation 3
Members of the seventh grade math group have nominated a member of their group for class president. Every student in seventh grade will cast a vote. There are only 2 candidates in the race, so a candidate must receive at least 50% of the...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 7.sp Election Poll, Variation 1
Members of the seventh grade math group have nominated a member of their group to be class president. Every student in seventh grade will cast a vote. There are 2 candidates in the race and a candidate needs at least 50% of the votes to...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 7.sp Election Poll, Variation 2
Members of the seventh grade math group have nominated a member of their group for class president. Every student in seventh grade will cast a vote. There are only 2 candidates in the race, so a candidate must receive at least 50 percent...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: G Gpe Slopes and Circles
The purpose of this task is to lead students through an algebraic approach to a well-known result from classical geometry, namely, that a point X is on the circle of diameter AB whenever angle AXB is a right angle. This consists of...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F if the Customers
This is a beginning lesson on the concept of functions. The context is a business that has a database of customer names and phone numbers in a table and students must decide if a function is involved. Aligns with F-IF.A.1 and 8.F.A.1.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: A sse.b.4: Triangle Series
The purpose of this task is to emphasize the adjective "geometric" in the "geometric" series, namely, that the algebraic notion of a common ratio between terms corresponds to the geometric notion of a repeated similarity transformation....
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 4.oa Carnival Tickets
The purpose of this task is for students to solve multi-step problems in a context involving a concept that supports financial literacy, namely inflation. Aligns with 4.OA.A.3.
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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.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 3.nf Comparing Fractions With a Different Whole
This task is meant to address a common error that students make, namely, that they represent fractions with different wholes when they need to compare them. Aligns with CCSS.Math.Content.3.NF.A.3.d Compare two fractions with the same...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 3.oa Markers in Boxes
The purpose of this task is for students to compare two problems that draw on the same context but represent the two different interpretations of division, namely, the How many groups? interpretation and the How many in each group?...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 8.f High School Graduation
This is an interesting problem that presents a list of high school students who are graduating. Given the information on the pamphlet, 8th graders are asked to determine how long the speeches were and an equation that will help parents...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: All About Angles
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart gives an introduction to angles, reading a protractor, naming and classifying angles. It also includes opportunities to practice these skills. The lesson is aligned with the 5th grade...