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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Targeting an Action

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore how the brain how the brain infers the position of a moving target. They investigate how the brain can fine-tune its motor control over the muscle groups that will perform the intended action. Students participate in a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Cut Up Painting

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students work on color planning and painting skills and reinforce principles of design. They alter a work of art to create a low relief assemblage.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Snakes: Illusions in Locomotion

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners learn how snakes move. In this locomotion lesson, students learn the four main methods of locomotion that snakes use. Learners visually create one locomotive movement.
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Activity
University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Irregular Surface Area Exercise

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students will be engaged by this assignment that has them estimating the areas of irregular surfaces. This includes computing the area of rectangles, triangles, and circles.
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Kids Math: How to Find Surface Area

For Students 1st - 9th
Learn how to find the surface area of various shapes square, rectangle, and triangle on this website.
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Study Guide
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Area of Polygons and Circles

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
How would you find the area of a polygon or circle? Explore this concept with engaging activities at this test prep site. Here you will find detailed problem solving strategies with accompanying visuals, a reference table with formulas,...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Surface Area

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students learn how to find surface area of rectangular and triangular solids.
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Handout
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Area

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Definitions and formulas for the computation of surface areas of triangles, rectangles, and any regular polygon. Helpful links to related pages.
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Activity
The Math League

The Math League: Area and Perimeter

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial provides a brief introduction about what area is, then gives the formulas for area of a square, rectangle, parallelogram, trapezoid, triangle, and circle. Examples of each formula are provided.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Unknown Dimensions of Squares and Rectangles (Grade 3)

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This learning module features five videos and a set of practice questions in which students learn to compute linear measures, given edge or surface measures of...