This is an Interactive Nearpod that introduces students to the Pythagorean Theorem. It helps students identify the legs and the hypotenuse of a right triangle. It also helps students understand how to find the length of the missing side.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This lesson is using the distributive property to identify and write equivalent expressions.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This activity is designed to introduce students to binary code by having students artfully create their names in binary code using different colors using a Google Sheet.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan, Unit of Study
This is a one-day lesson intended to fill a 60-75 minute class period. It is intended to review basic safety and sanitation principles with students as well as extend learning into deeper topics. This lesson is intended to be a review, but also to fill in gaps in student learning and understanding. The worksheet aspect is so that students have a tangable take-away from the activity. It also slows them down and makes them absorb the information more.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment
This is a lesson plan is an example of how to teach a new vocabulary word using the suggestions of McGraw-Hill and LETRS training. This lesson explains how to incorporate syllable types and phoneme counting into your vocabulary lesson.
Material Type: Reading
This Lesson Plan uses a Readers Theatre "The Ant and the Grasshopper" by Lois Walker to learn about protagonists and antagonists. Students compare similarities and differences between the two using a Venn diagram and describe the similarities and differences.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This is a lesson plan will introduce 2nd graders to the concept of odd and even numbers through a fun story called Even Steven and Odd Todd. Students will learn to pair manipulatives and count by 2's to see the difference between odd and even numbers. Preview image: by Lori Eastin
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This lesson is to assess students on their ability to correctly label the three types of clouds. It is also assessing their ability to create a presenation using technology and photography, followed by correctly citing any photos retrieved properly and safely from the media. Listed under the Library Media Standard
Material Type: Lesson
This is a lesson plan created to assist in teaching integers and absolute value. Here is an overview of this lesson: (1) Hook: number line game to introduce absolute value.. (2) Teach: student notes, practice, and video to build knowledge. (3) Apply/Assess: game using a deck a cards per partnership with teach observation. Absolute Value of Integers © 2022 by Laura Zwahlen is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students will research the physical characteristics, adaptations, and habitat of an animal and share their findings through a question-and-answer (interview) session with the animal that will be presented using a PowerPoint presentation. Following their research, students will write a script they will use to narrate their presentation. Images, text, animation/transition of slides will be evaluated along with the content and the writing mechanics. This is a face-to-face format but could be virtual/distance learning.
Material Type: Media Object
This is a 7th Grade Math Lesson on Adding & Subtracting Positive & Negative Integers. It is designed to be a 45-50 minute face-to-face lesson, however, some materials could be adapted for an online modality. Includes materials, and interactive activities for students to participate in.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Lesson
This is a lesson plan that introduces rotational and reflectional symmetry with geometric shapes, focusing on regular polygons. Notes (two copies: a student version and also an answer key, both as a Word doc and a PDF), assignment, and cut-out shapes are provided.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Lesson
A great first lesson to introduce your students to writing creative scary stories!
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This is a 5 day lesson plan that will introduce students to the variety of careers in the fashion, apparel and textile industries. Students will be introduced to the pathway and degrees available to them in Utah. Students will be able to participate in different aspects of the industry by designing and creating a textile project.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Unit of Study
This lesson is to help early readers and non readers understand and recall information from the story Caps for Sale, by Esphyr Slobodkina. This lesson is primarily for preschool children, but can be used with kindergarteners. Children will listen to the story of a peddler trying to sell his caps. The peddler takes a rest under a tree and when he awaks, the caps, which he keeps on his head, have vanished. He looks around and finally realizes that it's monkeys in a tree who have taken his caps. Once the story is read, children will choose a stick out a jar, containing a question or prompt about the book. This lesson is designed for a small group (3-5) of children. There are several extensions that can be done with this lesson including acting out the story and a small art project.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This is a context clue lesson plan. It includes a pre-test and post-test and strategies to teach context clues.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment
This is a lesson about community helpers! This is a lesson for preschool children. Citation for thumbnail image: Public Domain Dedication from openclipart.com
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This activity is intended to assess your 3rd grade students' ability to find area and perimeter of rectangles and squares. Students will be creating a robot using Google Drawing. They will then find the area and perimeter of each piece of the robot. Once they have found the area and perimeter for each shape in their robot, students will calculate the total area and perimeter of the robot. Photo by Eric Krull on Unsplash
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Interactive, Lesson Plan
Students will engage with one another to design, create, and build a mini golf course hole using recycled materials. Once completed, the students will need to explain how their hole works using scientific terminolgy such as force and gravity. This hands-on, fun, creative activity will serve as an assessment tool on what students understand about the concept of force and gravity.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Lesson Plan
This is the first unit for the 7th-grade statistics lesson to cover Mean, Median, Mode, and Range. It covers Utah Core Math Standards 7. S.P.1-2: Use random sampling to draw inferences about a population
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