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What's Your Rate?

Students learn to write and solve proportions by gathering data and calculating unit rates. Illuminations provides detailed instruction and an activity sheet necessary for completing the lesson. Students will: Collect data on unit rates... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations

What's your wingspan?

In this lesson, students learn to gather and analyze data, while reviewing measurement and graphing. Prior to this lesson, students should already be familiar with measurement and units of measurement, both standard and nonstandard. After students complete... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations

Where does the money come from?

With very few exceptions, the U.S. federal government does not have an “income” to spend providing goods and services. The money used for federal spending programs must be collected as federal taxes, or it must be borrowed. This lesson provides... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)

Provided by: EconEdLink

Where will I land?

In this lesson, the third of a six-part Illuminations unit titled “Macaroni Math,” students find differences using the number line, a continuous model for subtraction. Students are encouraged to predict differences and to compose puzzles involving... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations

Who was Wassily Kandinsky?

This lesson provides students with an exploration of the geometric figures Wassily Kandinsky used in his art. Students participate in a scavenger hunt to become familiar with Kandinsky’s works and the geometric figures used in his paintings. Illuminations... (Learn more)

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

Provided by: Illuminations

Who's in the fact family?

In this lesson, the fifth of a six-part Illuminations unit titled “Macaroni Math,” students explore the relation of addition to subtraction. Students use problem-solving skills to find fact families, including those in which one addend is zero... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations

WISE - Web-based Inquiry Science Environment

This is a consortium funded by the National Science Foundation. The consortium works to build and maintain classroom activities and lesson plans that increase students' interest in science education. (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

Provided by: University of California at Berkeley

Working with shapes

Students review basic geometric terms related to triangles. They explore these terms and other geometric concepts by modeling them on the geoboard. Illuminations provides a link to the virtual geoboard, graphic organizers, and detailed instructions for... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 3 and 5 Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations

Writing numerals to five

As students construct groups of a given size, recognize the number in the group, and record that number in numerals, they learn the number words through 5 in order (namely, to rote count), and develop the ability to count rationally. Illuminations provides... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations

YES I Can! Science

York University's YES I Can! Science database contains classroom lesson plans; labs, demonstrations and activities; assessment tools, performance indicators, and background information for teachers. Lessons are aligned to US and Canadian standards... (Learn more)

Format: website/lesson plan

Provided by: York University Science and Engineering

Zero our hero

In this lesson, one of a seven-part unit from Illuminations titled “Let's Count to 5,” students explore sets of zero items and practice writing the numbers 0 through 5. Students count back from five, identify sets of up to five items, and record... (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provided by: Illuminations