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Big Wheels Keep on Turning
Eleventh graders work in groups and investigate how force determines the speed and distance then they view the video, "Math Vantage #7: What's Your Angle?." They are given a real life problem to solve using speed, ramps, angle, incline...
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MT-A141 PreCalculus: Worksheet 6.1
In this precalculus worksheet, students complete a table of common angle equivalences and compare them to radians. Using their calculator they examine the difference between angles in degrees and the answer in radians. Students...
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Moment of Inertia Contest
Learners design a wheel that can go down the ramp with the smallest moment of inertia. In this technology lesson, students construct their model using a computer program. They calculate the moment of inertia of their finished product.
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3-in-1 Color Tool
Young scholars use a new tool to help them be more creative in designing their quilts. After watching a demonstration, they design their own color combinations and select the fabric for their quilt. They reiew the color wheel and warm...
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Gee's Bend Quilts
Third graders identify five new facts about the quilts, women, and community of Gee's Bend and finish their quilts by sewing the four edges of the quilt down. They review the color wheel and what the terms Primary, Secondary, Analogous,...
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KinderArt Painting for kids.
Students understand what complementary colors are. In this painting instructional activity, students review what happens when colors are mixed. Students recognize that the colors oppose each other on the color wheel are...
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Simple Machines
Students investigate and explain simple machines and their uses. Key concepts include: lever, screw, pulley, wheel and axle, inclined plane, and wedge.
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Go Far in a Car
Students listen to the song, The Wheels on the Bus. They are shown the book, This is the Way We Go to School. Afterward, they learn the phonetic principle of rhyming words.
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Andy Warhol Animals
Students view and identify the colors on the color wheel. After viewing a PowerPoint, they discuss the reasons why animals become endangered. They examine the life and works of Andy Warhol and review contour drawing. To end the...
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Community Helpers Wheel
Students play a game to reinforce the understanding that some community helpers are producers of goods, and some provide a service. Students identify community helpers and their jobs.
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Beetle Wheels
Second graders link the development of skip-counting patterns to bars on a relationship graph. They also plot our skip-counting patterns on a hundred's board, counting by 2's and also by 4's.
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Pinwheel Modern Art Styles
Students explore artistic design by creating pin wheel models in class. In this modern art instructional activity, students examine historic art work of Van Gogh, O'Keeffe and Mondrian before emulating their work on construction paper....
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How Does It Move?
Students listen to the song, The Wheels on the Bus. They attempt to sing the song again, but change it for a tractor. They watch the book, A Visit With Grandma, through a projector, LCD panel, or big screen television and develop their...
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Pushes and Pulls
Learners discuss and investigate how various vehicles move. In a small groups, students then create a wheeled vehicle and find a way to make it move using various resources provided by the teacher.
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Elements Picture Assignment
Students identify the basic structural and decorative designs, create examples of line (horizontal/vertical/curved/diagonal), as well as identify and explain the difference between shape and form. Then, they identify and explain the use...
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Percentage Game
In this math worksheet, students find the winning values of the percentages while playing the game of percents using the wheel organizer.
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Skating Puzzle
In this skating puzzle, students identify terms related to extreme skating. Examples of words include ramp, rail, wheels, and helmet. A list of 18 words is provided to assist students in their search.
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Inside the Egg, Hatching Chickens
Students conduct an egg candling activity to show the life inside a fertile egg. Students discuss the needs the egg has of the hen, as well as similarities and differences between plants and animals. Students complete a life cycle wheel...
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Designing Investigations
In this investigations worksheet, students complete a hypothesis, variable manipulation, and more for sleeping habits, rolling wheels on a skate board, sports practice, and more.
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Merge Letter
Learners practice creating a database of addresses and a form letter and eventually merge that information into a letter. They create a from letter that incorporates the data sheet information in response to customers complaints...
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Solar Matters
Students design an energy resource wheel and demonstrate how to use it to access information about renewable and nonrenewable energy sources.
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Bigger Flowers
Pupils observe and compare real flowers and artists' paintings of flowers. They discuss a flower and its parts. Students discuss the color (color wheel) and are introduced to new vocabulary. They draw, color, or paint a large flower...
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Gee's Bend Quilts One
Third graders identify analogous and contemporary colors on the color wheel and identify the five facts about the quilts, women, and community of Gees Bend. Finally, 3rd graders pinned their fabric pieces to the copy paper in the exact...
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Pilots, Drivers, and Captains
Students listen to the song, The Wheels on the Bus, then change the words for a boat.