Students can work individually or in groups of 3 or 4 to create a solar oven out of a pizza box. Students are trying to figure out the best way to make a solar oven in order to melt the chocolate and marshmallow in the S’more. Students will be given a group of objects and tell them the basis of how to create a solar oven. The oven will need to be placed in direct sunlight for most of the day. This experiment works best on a very hot, sunny day.

This unit is basically chapter 5 in our Math Expressions curriculum.  If your district uses Math Expressions, then this unit will make a lot of sense to you.  If you don't have Math Expressions, this unit can still help guide you through teaching your kids meausurement using customary and metric systems.

This lesson gives students a better perspective as to how acreage is determined. Using the computer in their pocket students learn to calculate area in feet and acres. Using their results the can calculate biomass, board feet per acre, or even the amount of electrical fencing needed to protect a meadow.

Students must set the correct angle on the rescue launcher in order to rescue the aliens in this interactive game. Students are on a mission to rescue aliens and help them find their new space colony, Planet Geometry.

In this online interactive, students solve problems estimating degree of measurement for the angle shown.

This online interactive allows teachers to create angles of various sizes and demonstrate how to measure them using either a 180 degree or 360 degree protractor. The protractors are automatically centered on the vertex of the angle.

Students will use different terms of measurements to measure dimensions of their apples. Students will use 5 senses to describe their apples.

In this fun interactive, students use the slingshot to pop as many balloons as they can as the balloons pass by. There is a set of ten balloons for each round and when all ten balloons have passed or been popped, students receive a score. Students drag the 'x' to the column which matches their score. As students complete each round, he/she creates a line plot using their scores as data.

For this activity, students read and interpret a bar graph in order to answer questions. There is a "Stretch Your Brain' section of the activity designed to challenge students.

This tutorial by Bill Nye explains how to make a simple barometer using a jar and a balloon. The barometer is an old and accurate first look at predicting the weather by examining the pressure of the atmosphere. Students will discover how atmospheric pressure and surface gravity help meteorologists forecast the weather.

Students work in small groups to build one 1m by 1m squares using newspaper. The groups combine to construct a cube. The students then fill the cubes with base 10 cubes, longs and flats.

Students investigate the weather from a systems approach, learning how individual parts of a system work together to create a final product. Students learn how a barometer works to measure the Earth's air pressure by building a model using simple materials. Students analyze the changes in barometer measurements over time and compare those to actual weather conditions. They learn how to use a barometer to understand air pressure and predict actual weather changes.

This task was developed by high school and postsecondary mathematics and design/pre-construction educators, and validated by content experts in the Common Core State Standards in mathematics and the National Career Clusters Knowledge & Skills Statements. It was developed with the purpose of demonstrating how the Common Core and CTE Knowledge & Skills Statements can be integrated into classroom learning - and to provide classroom teachers with a truly authentic task for either mathematics or CTE courses.

This task was developed by high school and postsecondary mathematics and design/pre-construction educators, and validated by content experts in the Common Core State Standards in mathematics and the National Career Clusters Knowledge & Skills Statements. It was developed with the purpose of demonstrating how the Common Core and CTE Knowledge & Skills Statements can be integrated into classroom learning - and to provide classroom teachers with a truly authentic task for either mathematics or CTE courses.

In this video segment from Cyberchase, Matt and Inez have to choose a cage for Spout the Whale. The cages they find in a store come in different sizes and Matt and Inez are not sure of Spout?s exact size. They use estimation and non-standard measurements to estimate Spout's size and select the best cage. Teaching tips are also provided that discuss frame, focus and follow-up suggestions for using this video in a math lesson.

Students estimate the angle of rotation needed to fire a cannon at a target. They have 10 balls to hit as many targets as possible.

Lesson plan using a Cyberchase activity where students learn about body matches, measuring one part of the body using another body part. They learn about non-standard measures and relative measurement. This activity is motivated by a Cyberchase episode in which the CyberSquad must act as crime scene experts to find out who kidnapped Chewcrocca, a giant cybercrocodile.

In this activity, students will work in small groups to change a chocolate chip cookie recipe that feeds 10 to one that feeds 100. Then students will change it again to feed 2000.