This short podcast (about 4 minutes) explores tips and suggestions for how to share a book at home with your child. There isn't a wrong way to share a book - but we hope these tips help you have the best experience possible.
Students gain experience and practice with three types of word problems using the "Take From" context: result unknown, change unknown, and start unknown.
This task requires students to be able to reason abstractly about fraction multiplication as it would not be realistic for them to solve it using a visual fraction model. Even though the numbers are too messy to draw out an exact picture, this task still provides opportunities for students to reason about their computations to see if they make sense.
Do you like video games? They're awesome! They let you explore strange worlds, become cool characters with mind blowing powers and take on quests you can only dream of. But wouldn't it be amazing to design your own quests, and create your own worlds?
The Game Academy teaches children how to code games using the amazing Scratch software. This helps remove some of the significant learning curve involved in using Scratch.
This art history video discussion examines Cindy Sherman's "Untitled Film Still #21," 1978, gelatin silver print, 7.5 x 9.5 inches or 19.1 x 24.1 cm (MoMA).
Students should think of different ways the cylindrical containers can be set up in a rectangular box. Through the process, students should realize that although some setups may seem different, they result is a box with the same volume. In addition, students should come to the realization (through discussion and/or questioning) that the thickness of a cardboard box is very thin and will have a negligible effect on the calculations.
In this task students use ratio and rate reasoning to solve a problem involving a sales item.
This design challenge from Chris Woods will have your students tapping into their creativity and a wealth of skills including Math to build a better shoe!
Residents along the U.S. Gulf Coast are familiar with the flooding hazards associated with storms, yet many are unaware of the risk of sea level rise. Shoppers at a local mall had a chance to explore the potential impacts of sea level rise on their communities.
In this activity, students read short stories and create presentations in multiple media to share in a Short Story Fair. At the fair, students explore and respond to the displays.
This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach third graders about shortening multiplication expressions (associative property).
This is a foundational geometry task designed to provide a route for students to develop some fundamental geometric properties that may seem rather obvious at first glance. In this case, the fundamental property in question is that the shortest path from a point to a line meets the line at a right angle, which is crucial for many further developments in the subject.
Students use their understanding of projectile physics and fluid dynamics to find the water pressure in water guns. By measuring the range of the water jets, they are able to calculate the theoretical pressure. Students create graphs to analyze how the predicted pressure relates to the number of times they pump the water gun before shooting.
The purpose of this task is to have students complete normal distribution calculations and to use properties of normal distributions to draw conclusions. The task is designed to encourage students to communicate their findings in a narrative/report form in context Đ not just simply as a computed number.
City officials in Tybee Island, Georgia, recognized sea level rise as a growing problem for their community. Visualizations from a sea level rise viewer helped them raise awareness of the city's vulnerabilities and led to development of Georgias first sea level rise plan.
Here's how it works:
- Think of a person, place or thing (Noun).
- On the left, think of as many “describing” words about your noun as you can. Be creative and try to include all of your senses when you are describing.
- On the right, include things that you noun “reminds” you of – e.g. Mother – apple pie, dog- burying bones in the garden
- Trade papers with a classmate and see if they can name your noun.
"ShowMe is a global learning community - a place where anyone can learn or teach anything. Our mission is to connect great teachers and experts to students across the world. The ShowMe iPad app lets you create lessons using a whiteboard."
There are a wealth of pre-made tutorials other teachers have shared on this site that you can use. You can also create your own! (Or students can with permission).
You do not need an account to view the shared tutorials/videos.
They are organized into these categories: Math, Science, Language, Social Studies, Music & Art
Show Me Your Math is a program that invites Aboriginal Students in Atlantic Canada to explore the mathematics that is evident in their own community and cultural practices. Through exploring aspects of counting, measuring, locating, designing, playing, and explaining, students discover that mathematics is all around them and is connected to many of the cultural practices in their own communities.
The "Let's Learn Together" section of the website offers information and videos on:
- Eels
- Quill Boxes and Quill Work
- Beadwork
- Birch Bark Biting
- Indigenous Languages
- Paddle Making
Other resources are coming soon.
By this point in the unit, students have learned all the necessary information and conceptualized a design for how an optical biosensor could be used to detect a target strand of DNA associated with a cancer-causing gene as their solution to the unit's challenge question. Now student groups act as engineers again, using a poster format to communicate and prove the validity of the design. Successful posters include a description of refraction, explanations of refraction in a thin film, and the factors that can alter the interference pattern of a thin film. The posters culminate with an explanation of what is expected to be seen in a biosensing device of this type if it were coupled to a target molecule, proven with a specific example and illustrated with drawings and diagrams throughout. All the poster elements combine to prove the accuracy and viability of this method of gene detection. Together with its associated lesson, this activity functions as part of the summative assessment for this unit.
Students learn about the major factors that comprise the design and construction cost of a modern bridge. Before a bridge design is completed, engineers provide overall cost estimates for construction of the bridge. Students learn about the components that go into estimating the total cost, including expenses for site investigation, design, materials, equipment, labor and construction oversight, as well as the trade-off between a design and its cost.