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Educational Resources: Mathematics - U.S. National Science Foundation
Grades
K to 12
tag(s): coding (86), game based learning (210), geometric shapes (138), manipulatives (9), problem solving (242)
In the Classroom
Have students use Scratch reviewed here to create a math-themed game that practices multiplication facts, solving equations, or plotting coordinates. Challenge students to construct complex geometric shapes or transformations using GeoGebra reviewed here. Students can explore symmetry, congruence, and coordinate geometry through interactive visualizations. Set up rotating stations with different Math Snacks games or videos (like "Ratio Rumble" or "Monster School Bus"). Have students complete a reflection sheet after each activity to explain the math concept explored.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Planet Ice: Mysteries of the Ice Ages - Canadian Museum of Nature
Grades
K to 12tag(s): design (78), geometric shapes (138), patterns (65), snow (22), STEM (330), symmetry (29)
In the Classroom
Have students design snowflakes and identify their lines of symmetry and then compare different snowflake designs and discuss what makes them symmetrical. Have students design a unique snowflake and write a poem or short story about it using personification, similes, and metaphors to describe their snowflake's journey from the sky to the ground. Compile a class snowflake book using ePubEditor reviewed here with their designs and writing. Measure the angles in their snowflake designs and discuss how geometry plays a role in nature and/or explore fractions by estimating how much of the original shape is cut away.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Snowflake Maker- Free Online Paper Snowflake Generator - playback.fm
Grades
K to 5This site includes advertising.
tag(s): geometric shapes (138), patterns (65), snow (22), symmetry (29)
In the Classroom
Have students create digital snowflakes and analyze their lines of symmetry. They can print out and cut their designs to create a classroom winter display. Have students compare their digital snowflakes to traditional paper-cut versions. Challenge students to estimate what fraction of the paper is cut away. Have them measure and record the angles of their cuts. Students can design a unique snowflake and then write a short poem or descriptive paragraph about it, incorporating figurative language such as similes, metaphors, and personification. Create a class book using Book Creator reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Paper Snowflake Maker - Dan Gries
Grades
K to 5tag(s): fractions (160), geometric shapes (138), snow (22), symmetry (29)
In the Classroom
Have students create digital snowflakes and analyze their lines of symmetry and rotational symmetry. Ask students to count the number of folds and cuts, then predict the final shape before revealing it. After designing snowflakes, students can write a poem inspired by their creation. Students can present their findings in a short math reflection and could create a class collection in Google Slides reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Pick Your Plate! A Global Guide to Nutrition - Smithsonian Science Education Center
Grades
4 to 8tag(s): game based learning (210), nutrition (139), united nations (7)
In the Classroom
Have students use Book Creator, reviewed here to create a recipe book. Students can use Dotstorming, reviewed here to vote on which food or country was their favorite to visit. Finally, students can use Google My Maps, reviewed here to virtually visit the countries featured in the game.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Snowflake Generator - Transum Mathematics
Grades
3 to 12tag(s): geometric shapes (138), patterns (65), problem solving (242), snow (22), symmetry (29)
In the Classroom
Have students design a snowflake and identify its lines of symmetry (folding lines where the design matches). Then, challenge them to create snowflakes with specific numbers of symmetrical sections (e.g., 4, 6, or 8). Introduce fractals by showing natural examples (such as snowflakes, trees, and ferns) and have students generate snowflakes at various stages of the design process. Compare their snowflakes and discuss how repeating patterns create complex designs. Have students design digital snowflakes and print them for a classroom display. Compare snowflake designs to traditional paper-cut snowflakes and discuss the difference between digital and handmade art.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Maths Escape Room - Twinkl Educational Publishing
Grades
2 to 8tag(s): angles (52), collaboration (79), counting (61), critical thinking (138), digital escapes (25), equations (118), fractions (160), game based learning (210), negative numbers (13), numbers (116), order of operations (29), problem solving (242), puzzles (147), pythagorean theorem (20), ratios (47)
In the Classroom
Start the class with a mini escape puzzle where students solve a quick math problem to "unlock" the day's lesson. Divide the class into small teams and use a Twinkl math escape room challenge. Teams work through math puzzles, decoding clues to "escape" first. After completing a Twinkl escape room, have students design a math-based escape puzzles for their classmates, reinforcing math concepts through creative problem-solving. Connect escape room puzzles to real-world math applications, such as budgeting for a trip, measuring distances, or calculating time zones, to show students the practical use of math skills.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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PhET Interactive Simulations - University of Colorado
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K to 12tag(s): acids and bases (7), area (54), atoms (46), charts and graphs (167), electricity (60), fractions (160), functions (52), gravity (45), light (55), magnetism (34), matter (47), molecules (43), ph (2), probability (98), quadratics (27), simple machines (20), simulations (37), sound (71), space (229), STEM (330)
In the Classroom
Challenge students to explore a PhET simulation related to a current science topic, such as circuits, gravity, or states of matter. They can make predictions before interacting with the simulation and record their observations to compare with their initial ideas. Give students a scavenger hunt worksheet with specific challenges to complete in a simulation (ex., "Find a way to make a circuit light up" in the Circuit Construction Kit). Students design a virtual experiment using a PhET simulation. They choose a variable to change, make a hypothesis, run multiple trials, and record their results in a data table or graph before sharing their findings. After using a PhET simulation, students discuss or write about real-world applications of what they learned (how forces affect roller coasters, how molecules move in different states of matter) and present their findings using Visme, reviewed here or Google Slides, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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TeachRock - Rock and Roll Forever Foundation
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K to 12tag(s): artists (91), cross cultural understanding (176), dance (32), empathy (38), jazz (17), musical instruments (53), social and emotional learning (110), sociology (22), STEM (330)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of these free lessons to find standards-based lessons and activities for many content areas. Encourage students to find additional examples of connections to history (or another subject) made with pop music and pop culture. Use Padlet, reviewed here to curate and share ideas and resources. Add your own resources to create interactive presentations using NearPod, reviewed here or Pear Deck, reviewed here. Include videos, animations, quizzes, and more as part of your presentation. Extend student learning by asking them to create podcasts using Buzzsprout, reviewed here to tell the story of how music and pop culture influenced different historical events.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Mount Rushmore National Memorial - Cyark
Grades
K to 12tag(s): jefferson (20), landmarks (20), lincoln (66), photography (130), roosevelt (18), virtual field trips (131), washington (32)
In the Classroom
Add this site to your current resources for teaching about national landmarks or enhance learning by integrating the lessons into math, science, and visual arts as real-world models of your teaching topics. Include individual resources from this site, such as the 3D explorer on a Padlet, reviewed here to share with students. Take advantage of one of Padlet's "recipes" to automatically generate a video playlist, KWL chart, or choice board that encourages students to visit and learn about Mount Rushmore virtually. Extend student learning by asking them to show what they know using Canva Infographic Creator, reviewed here to create infographics, flyers, or travel brochures using information learned from their virtual visits.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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STEM Bootcamps - Numerade
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6 to 12tag(s): statistics (117), STEM (330), test prep (68), tutorials (49)
In the Classroom
Flip your classroom and have students watch Numerade Bootcamp videos at home to learn foundational concepts before class. They then can apply their learning through in-class lessons. Have students create and take practice quizzes based on Numerade's standardized test prep Bootcamps using a program like Quizlet, reviewed here. This will engage them in active test prep, enhance recall through repeated practice, and extend readiness for exams. Have students summarize a Numerade bootcamp topic by creating short review videos with Padlet, reviewed here, helping their classmates understand key points from the videos. This is a link to Padlet's Help section for posting video or an image.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Scale City - The Road to Proportional Reasoning - Kentucky Educational Television
Grades
5 to 8tag(s): baseball (32), dinosaurs (47), geometric shapes (138), measurement (124), musical instruments (53), painting (55), time (91)
In the Classroom
Be sure to include this site on your class web page for students to access both in and outside of class for further practice. Have students create maps using Zeemaps, reviewed here, displaying information from roadside attractions found on Scale City. Zeemaps allows students to create audio recordings AND choose a location on a map where the attraction takes place.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Nova Education - PBS
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): archeology (29), engineering (140), environment (250), forensics (12), paleontology (28), space (229)
In the Classroom
Enjoy the interactives, videos, and text on an interactive whiteboard or projector. Use selected activities as a center (station). Share the included articles and videos with students to supplement your STEM curriculum. If articles are too difficult for students, use a text leveler tool like the one available at Brisk, reviewed here to match student reading abilities.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Sembl - Dan Finkel
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K to 6tag(s): addition (128), charts and graphs (167), counting (61), critical thinking (138), decimals (85), estimation (33), fractions (160), geometric shapes (138), measurement (124), number sense (66), patterns (65), problem solving (242)
In the Classroom
Add Sembl to your teacher's toolbox of activities to support math instruction. Most tasks include links to extended directions and additional enhancements to extend student learning. Share activities on this site with parents to practice math skills at home with their child. Use Free Online Screen Recorder, reviewed here to create a short tutorial on completing the task and sharing it with parents. Extend student learning by recreating tasks using student examples or data. For example, the 3-act math problem Lil' Sister asks students to compare the heights of sisters, recreate this activity using two students, and share on a simple website created using a simple one-page website maker such as Caard, reviewed here. Many activities share links to Google Slides, reviewed here, after opening the slides, choose to copy the file and change information to create a new activity that includes different data. Choose tasks found on Sembl to use during math station rotations, math family nights, or as homework activities.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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CK-12 Plix - CK-12
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K to 12tag(s): angles (52), area (54), atoms (46), charts and graphs (167), data (149), decimals (85), earth (181), earthquakes (49), equations (118), fractions (160), geometric shapes (138), integers (21), latitude (9), magnetism (34), molecules (43), oceans (144), planets (117), plate tectonics (28), prime numbers (26), probability (98), rock cycle (24), rocks (43), scientific method (50), seasons (37), simulations (37), solar system (111), statistics (117), STEM (330), Teacher Utilities (198), volume (34), water (105)
In the Classroom
Use Plix interactives as warm-up activities when teaching new concepts, as a computer center activity, or as an exploration activity for homework. If you are not using a learning management system, use the three dots located on the top bar to find different share options and embed code to use on websites. After providing exploration time, ask students to share their understanding of the content in the using Padlet, reviewed here. This is a link to Padlet's Help section for posting video or an image. Create a topic for students to add a video response that might include a demonstration of their computer screen as they discuss how the interactive works and share their understanding of the concept they explored.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Mobius Strip Hearts - What We Do All Day
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K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): crafts (83), problem solving (242), STEM (330), valentines day (11)
In the Classroom
Include a Mobius strip heart activity during your Valentine's Day celebrations, or share the instructions and materials as part of maker-space activities. Extend learning by providing a finished Mobius strip heart, then ask students to problem-solve how to make the heart without any directions. Encourage students to share ideas on everyday uses of Mobius strips, such as conveyor belts, exercise bands, etc. Ask students to record tutorials for creating the Mobius strip heart activity and other Mobius strip creations, then share their tutorials and pictures in a multimedia book presentation created with Book Creator, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Math World - Math World
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K to 6tag(s): addition (128), angles (52), area (54), calendars (37), colors (64), counting (61), data (149), division (96), estimation (33), fractions (160), geometric shapes (138), measurement (124), money (110), multiplication (120), patterns (65), percent (59), perimeter (20), place value (34), probability (98), roman numerals (7), subtraction (110), symmetry (29), time (91), volume (34)
In the Classroom
Include Math World as part of a computer science center activity. As a class, use Google My Maps, reviewed here to create a virtual tour of locations visited during your Math World lessons and activities. Find additional information to share on your maps, including pictures and articles with other information. Use Symbaloo, reviewed here to create links to Math World and additional math activities and games for students to access all resources through one location. Add your chosen activities to Curipod, reviewed here and create an interactive lesson that includes videos, articles, quizzes, and more.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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STEM - STEAM - STREAM Resources - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): engineering (140), STEM (330)
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We have included resources for all grades. Remember, our "In the Classroom" suggestions with each reviewed resource, give you ideas about using these tools in your classroom.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Achievery - AT&T
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K to 12tag(s): blended learning (27), coding (86), digital citizenship (84), engineering (140), environment (250), equations (118), geometric shapes (138), graphic design (50), internet safety (112), literature (218), map skills (63), measurement (124), media literacy (106), narrative (16), numbers (116), operations (72), order of operations (29), problem solving (242), remote learning (31), Research (78), social and emotional learning (110), spanish (107), STEM (330), substitutes (25), writing (311)
In the Classroom
Bookmark and save this site as a resource for lessons in many content areas to engage students using popular video clips. Although originally designed for remote learning, all lessons can be easily adapted for in-class instruction. Easily find activities to differentiate instruction for different student ability levels by browsing options below or above the student's current grade level. Many lessons include worksheets in PDF format. Turn these activities into a digital format by taking a screenshot of the document, then save as the background on Google Slides, reviewed here. Add text boxes in the appropriate place on the slide for students to add responses. Use Pear Deck Flashcard Factory, reviewed here, to create flashcards for students to practice the vocabulary highlighted in each lesson.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Mathematics Lessons - TedEd
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K to 12tag(s): critical thinking (138), engineering (140), financial literacy (92), numbers (116), probability (98), problem solving (242), riddles (15), STEM (330)
In the Classroom
Use the activities on this site to introduce problem-solving to students through various topics and problem-solving tools. Begin by narrowing down the content to your chosen grade level to find appropriate activities. Next, consider differentiating activities by student interests and ability levels. Finally, use the option to customize lessons to create questions for different groups of students or add additional questions while still using the original video. Ask older students to use these activities as a model, then create their animated math riddles using Powtoon, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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