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Problem centered math

Why students must build their own understanding of mathematics if they are to be able to use it in the real world, and how teachers can guide them in doing so.

Format: series (multiple pages)

A guided journey into the past

In Intrigue of the Past, page 5.7

In their study of archaeological resource conservation, students will use guided imagery to discover and judge an alternative way to enjoy artifacts without removing them from archaeological sites.

Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Social Studies)

The Bermuda High and tropical storms

The Bermuda High pressure system sits over the Atlantic during summer. Acting as a block that hurricanes cannot penetrate, the size and location of this system can determine where hurricanes go. A normal Bermuda High often leads to hurricanes moving up the...

Format: video

Pattern block addition

Students will practice addition, problem solving, and writing equations in the context of a fun and challenging pattern game.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)

By Dawn Potter.

Quick Draw

In Problem centered math, page 4

An engaging math activity that helps students develop and talk about spatial reasoning.

By Grayson Wheatley.

Math problems for grade 8 geometry

In Problem centered math, page 6

Problem sets in PDF format that address objectives of the Measurement and Geometry strands of the North Carolina Standard Course of Study for Mathematics, Grade 8.

By Grayson Wheatley.

Creating your own rock art

In Intrigue of the Past, page 5.4

Students will use regional rock art symbols or their own symbols to cooperatively create a rock art panel. They will also use a replica of a vandalized rock art panel to examine their feelings about rock art vandalism and discuss ways to protect rock art and other archaeological sites.

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)

Rock art

In Intrigue of the Past, page 5.3

Students will use art materials, drawings, and rock art examples to differentiate between symbol, petroglyph, pictograph, and rock art. They will also interpret rock art to illustrate its importance in the cultural heritage of a people and as a tool for learning about the past.

Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)

Multicultural cross-grade level unit plan

This unit of study integrates reading, writing, math, and social studies. It is designed to help first and third grade students relate to other cultures of the world. They will understand and compare the similarities and differences of children, families, and communities in different times and places. They will analyze religious and other cultural traditions. They will apply basic geographic concepts.

Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Social Studies)

By Shirley Young.

Intrigue of the Past

Lesson plans and essays for teachers and students explore North Carolina's past before European contact. Designed for grades four through eight, the web edition of this book covers fundamental concepts, processes, and issues of archaeology, and describes the peoples and cultures of the Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian periods.

Format: book (multiple pages)

Mending pottery

In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.9

Students will mend broken pottery to learn what archaeologists learn by mending pottery.

Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)

Confirming and visualizing Lewis dot structures

With this activity, students can calculate and visualize the atomic and molecular structures of bonds and lone pairs in the molecule methanol (methyl alcohol, CH3OH).

Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)

By Bob Gotwals.

Resources on the web

NASA's Scientific Visualization Center

Sponsored by NASA, high definition visualization, zoomed images of familiar places on earth and from space. Images are complete with detailed explanations of the imagery. The site is well organized and easy to navigate. (Learn more)

Format: website/general

Provided by: Goddard Space Flight Center

A meal map

Students create and use maps as ways of showing information and using geometric concepts, spatial visualization, spatial memory, and other spatial relationships. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K and 2 )

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Educational Multimedia Visualization Center

This site provides animations and other visualization tools for earth science topics such as plate tectonics and the ice age. (Learn more)

Format: website/general

Provided by: Univcersity of California Santa Barbara

Tangram Puzzles

This activity helps students to develop their spatial memory and spatial visualization skills, to recognize and apply transformations, and to become more precise in their use of vocabulary about space. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Building a box

This Illuminations lesson uses a real-world situation to help develop students' spatial visualization skills and geometric understanding. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Physics Classroom

A physics tutorial for introductory physics which uses easy-to-understand language and graphs for beginning physics students. (Learn more)

Format: website/general

Provided by: Tom Henderson at Glenbrook South High School

Shodor Education Foundation

Provides modeling and simulation technologies to reform and improve mathematics and science education. (Learn more)

Format: website/activity

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NASA's Planetary Photojournal

This website contains an impressive collection of information about the solar system and univers. Images taken by exploration spacecraft and the space shuttle crew provide users with near virtual context of the topic. (Learn more)

Format: website/general

Provided by: NASA