Curated OER
Why Should We Clean The Beach?
Students volunteer for the International Coastal Cleanup. They describe the purpose of the Lake Michigan Foundation and a history of the dunes. They reflect on their experiences with writing.
Curated OER
What Can We Do To Help End Hunger?
Students identify the responsibility and ability of individuals to act to fight hunger and malnutrition and ensure food security. They identify specific actions we can take to help end hunger.
Curated OER
What can we do to help end hunger?
Students identify courageous people throughout history that have fought hunger and look for local examples as well. They consider how we can fight hunger and malnutrition in our communities and the world.
Curated OER
What Do Salt Trucks Do?
Students predict what will happen to ice when salt is put on it. They make observations and discuss what actually happened to the ice. They relate their experiment to the salt trucks they see on the street.
Curated OER
Shakers and Movers
Students examine the efforts of Marion Stoddart to form the Nashua River Clean-Up Committee. They participate in a role-play of people involved in the formation of the committee and townspeople affected by the river, and act out the...
Curated OER
One Survivor Remembers: A Call to Action
Students participate in service learning projects within their community. For this community service lesson, students study the action steps for a hunger service learning project and discuss the project. Students use the model to help...
SMART Technologies
Smart: 65 Addition/subtraction Story Problems
Students may compare, join, separate numbers to solve these story problems. These are the tougher kinds of problems! There are also some of the more traditional, "easier" part/part/whole type of story problems here, as well.
Quia
Quia: Story Problems With Mixed Practice
Your problem-solving skills are put to the test in this interactive word problem game on this site. Employ a variety of mathematical skills and strategies including logical reasoning and computation. Multiple choice problems created for...
Other
Nearpod: Addition & Subtraction Within 20
In this lesson on addition and subtraction within 20, 1st graders learn how to solve addition and subtraction story problems by finding clue words. Adding three addends is also taught in this lesson.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: What Is the Story of the Word Problem? [Pdf]
This lesson will assist students in visualizing and solving situations presented in word problems.
Quia
Quia: Analogies (Set 1)
This resource provides 12 multi-operation story problems for students to solve.
Math Drills
Math Drills: Math Word Problems
Download these free worksheets to sharpen your word problem skills. Sheets focus on addition, multiplication, subtraction, division, and other math topics.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Little Red Riding Hood's Journey to Grandma's
The students will listen to the story of Little Red Riding Hood and work subtraction word problems connected to the story. The problems are related to distance traveled. They will work cooperatively with partners and share subtraction...
Other
Homelands Productions: Worlds of Difference
This site has intriguing stories about the possible problems of globalization around the world. Read and listen to interviews with people of varying cultures.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference
The picture book One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference, written by Kate Smith Milway, takes place in Africa. Here in a Ghanan village, young Kojo cannot afford to go to school after the death of his father. His resourceful...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Act Out Subtraction and Addition
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use the teddy bears to act out stories while solving addition and subtraction problems.
Books in the Classroom
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Computation and Picture Books
This sample chapter from Hurst's book Picturing Math is an excellent resource for using picture books and activities for learning computation.