Classroom Resources

Watch as the National Museum of Mathematics uses an image of a visitor to create a "Human Tree" using dilations. This video focuses on how similar figures can create dilations and how exponents can be used in an equation to express the proportional relationship in fractals. This video was submitted through the Innovation Math Challenge, a contest open to professional and nonprofessional producers.

Hyphens indicate specific nouns from compound words. Without them, they could refer to completely different things! Know when and how to use them.

Childhood is a time for laughing, learning, and playing with friends. Every day all around the world, children meet and make new friends. In this online book from the International Children's Digital Library, Monty the raccoon lies, breaking the trust his friend, Fritz the rabbit, had in him. This book highlights the importance of being a good friend and the consequences of lying.

See the supplemental materials for detailed teaching activities. The asset titled, "Forever Friendship—Making Friends Story Map" most closely aligns with the Alabama Course of Study.

Students identify social, cultural, and historical perspectives regarding the importance of dogs in the past and present. They write and illustrate list poems that incorporate each perspective.

Students watch two segments about dogs to identify social, cultural, and historical perspectives regarding their importance in the world in the past and in the present. After noting examples of each point of view, students write and illustrate list poems that incorporate each perspective.

This resource provides instruction and practice comparing historical and cultural perspectives.

In this video, learn about the specific properties of trapezoids. Trapezoids are special types of quadrilaterals that differ from squares, rectangles, and other parallelograms. In the accompanying classroom activity, students investigate what distinguishes this shape from parallelograms by building trapezoid models out of straw and tape.  

During this hands-on activity, your students will use household items to investigate density. They will complete an activity in which they will construct a density tube and use it in a game of Density Bowling. This is a great activity because the students will remember this activity every time they are looking for something in their kitchen. This is a density experiment that will last forever.

In this video lesson, students investigate different ways to represent the addition of signed numbers on a number line. They review what they know about negative numbers including placing them on the number line, comparing and ordering them, and interpreting them in the contexts of temperature and elevation.

Using the context of temperature helps students make sense of the addition equations. Students see that an increase in temperature can be represented as adding a positive value and a decrease in temperature can be represented as adding a negative value. When students use quantitative contexts like temperature to aid in abstract reasoning about numeric expressions with signed numbers.

This video lesson introduces graphs as an important way of representing a proportional relationship. Students plot points on the graph from tables and start to see that the graph of a proportional relationship always lies on a line that passes through (0,0). They match tables and graphs of given situations and articulate their reasons for each match (MP3).

Grade 7, Episode 5: Unit 2, Lesson 10 | Illustrative Math

In this lesson, students are taught how to interpret fractions where the denominator describes the number of equal parts and the numerator describes how many of those parts one has. They are also introduced to naming equivalent fractions by dividing a circle. This Cyberchase activity is motivated by an episode in which the CyberSquad creates a recipe for an antidote to MotherBoard's virus.

In this video lesson, students learn the term function for a rule that produces a single output for a given input. This lesson introduces and connects the different ways in which we represent functions in mathematics: verbal descriptions, equations, tables, and graphs. Students transition from input-output diagrams and descriptions of rules to equations. The lesson also introduces the use of independent and dependent variables in the context of functions.

Grade 8, Episode 7: Unit 5, Lessons 2 & 3 | Illustrative Math

While plural nouns often indicate more than one of something with a simple "s" or "es," irregular plural nouns do not. They change the word entirely. Elf becomes elves, the tooth becomes teeth! This is a short, fun video that allows students to explore grammar principles.  An activity sheet is included that provides students with an opportunity to practice identifying irregular plural nouns. 

Learn about the long-held American fascination with Julius Caesar in two videos from Shakespeare Uncovered. Brian Cox states, “Rome is not a place, but an ideal,” and the play continues to resonate because it addresses issues that face any society that tries to uphold democratic principles. The videos and support materials explore the parallels between the play and the American experience. Since Abraham Lincoln’s assassination by John Wilkes Booth, an actor obsessed with Brutus, the play continues to hold a place in the political and cultural landscape of America.

Be sure to read Julius Caesar and the American Experience | Shakespeare Uncovered - Discussion Questions under the Support Materials for Use with Students section to fully teach the standard.

Learn about how Shakespeare uses rhetoric in his play Julius Caesar in two videos from Shakespeare Uncovered. After the assassination of Julius Caesar, Antony and Brutus both do what they think is best to protect Rome. This resource works best after students have read Act III, sc. 2, to ensure they are already familiar with the speeches of Antony and Brutus before Caesar’s burial. How do the two characters frame their choices through language? How do they persuade or fail to persuade their audience? This resource also addresses how Shakespeare’s use of rhetoric can inform our understanding of how rhetoric is used today. During a time when our sources of information are increasingly fractured and curated, how do we make sense of opinions versus facts? How does rhetoric operate in the realm of social media? Support materials engage students with contemporary connections through discussion questions, teaching tips, and a background essay.

Be sure to read the Background Reading and Julius Caesar, Rhetoric, and Relevance | Shakespeare Uncovered - Activity, along with the other materials under the Support Materials for Use with Students section to fully teach the standard.

A customer service representative explains how the language you use in an email to customers may be different from the language you use in messages to coworkers or friends. This resource provides instruction and practice in crafting appropriate emails and workplace documents. 

This YouTube video will help explain how to teach factoring quadratic polynomials using a worksheet from Kuta Software. Kuta Software is free software for math teachers that creates worksheets in a matter of minutes. There are a series of three videos available to fully teach this concept. The videos are labeled Factoring Quadratic Polynomials Easy Part 1, Factoring Quadratic Polynomials Easy Part 2, and Factoring Quadratic Polynomials Easy Part 3. This video can be played to introduce a lesson on factoring quadratic polynomials. This video is 11 minutes and 09 seconds in length and can be assigned through Google Classroom.

This YouTube video will help explain how to teach factoring quadratic polynomials using a worksheet from Kuta Software. Kuta Software is free software for math teachers that creates worksheets in a matter of minutes. There are a series of three videos available to fully teach this concept. The videos are labeled Factoring Quadratic Polynomials Easy Part 1, Factoring Quadratic Polynomials Easy Part 2, and Factoring Quadratic Polynomials Easy Part 3. This video can be played as a continuation of a lesson on factoring quadratic polynomials. This video is 9 minutes and 24 seconds in length and can be assigned through Google Classroom.

This YouTube video will help explain how to teach factoring quadratic polynomials using a worksheet from Kuta Software. Kuta Software is free software for math teachers that creates worksheets in a matter of minutes. There are a series of three videos available to fully teach this concept. The videos are labeled Factoring Quadratic Polynomials Easy Part 1, Factoring Quadratic Polynomials Easy Part 2, and Factoring Quadratic Polynomials Easy Part 3. This video can be played as a continuation of a lesson on factoring quadratic polynomials. This video is 9 minutes and 24 seconds in length and can be assigned through Google Classroom.

This YouTube video will help explain how to teach multiplying polynomials using a worksheet from Kuta Software. Kuta Software is free software for math teachers that creates worksheets in a matter of minutes. There are a series of three videos available to fully teach this concept. The videos are labeled Multiplying Polynomials Part 1, Multiplying Polynomials Part 2, and Multiplying Polynomials Part 3. This video can be played to introduce a lesson on multiplying polynomials. This video is 12 minutes and 56 seconds in length and can be assigned through Google Classroom.

This YouTube video will help explain how to teach multiplying polynomials using a worksheet from Kuta Software. Kuta Software is free software for math teachers that creates worksheets in a matter of minutes. There are a series of three videos available to fully teach this concept. The videos are labeled Multiplying Polynomials Part 1, Multiplying Polynomials Part 2, and Multiplying Polynomials Part 3. This video can be played as a continuation of a lesson on multiplying polynomials. This video is 14 minutes and 12 seconds in length and can be assigned through Google Classroom.

This YouTube video will help explain how to teach multiplying polynomials using a worksheet from Kuta Software. Kuta Software is free software for math teachers that creates worksheets in a matter of minutes. There are a series of three videos available to fully teach this concept. The videos are labeled Multiplying Polynomials Part 1, Multiplying Polynomials Part 2, and Multiplying Polynomials Part 3. This video can be played as a continuation of a lesson on multiplying polynomials. This video is 20 minutes in length and can be assigned through Google Classroom.

A clause is a group of words that acts as a subject and a group of words that acts as a verb. A clause consists of a subject and a predicate, where the predicate is typically a verb phrase. This resource provides instruction and practice in identifying the function of phrases and clauses.

In this interactive lesson, students will learn how to identify the main idea that is directly stated in a paragraph and how to identify the facts, details, and examples that support the main idea. It uses short narrative texts and real-world examples for short skills checks.

Investigate sources of light and use various media such as time-lapse and live-action videos and a digital game to explore how objects in darkness can only be visible when they are illuminated by light. This lesson includes an interactive lesson that allows students to get a close-up view of how light moves away from a source and changes directions when its path is blocked by an object and encourages students to analyze evidence that shows how light interacts with objects of different materials.

This resource was developed through WGBH’s Bringing the Universe to America’s Classrooms project, in collaboration with NASA.

2020 Arkansas Teacher of the Year, Joel Lookadoo, talks about standard and non-standard measurements and shares a rhyme about how to take accurate measurements of objects. The worksheet that accompanies this video provides students the opportunity to put their skills to work as they practice measuring various objects in both standard and non-standard units.

This resource provides looping videos that demonstrate the writing strokes of each of the lowercase letters, including the proper approach strokes, letter formation, and line placement. The videos can be played during whole or small group instruction to demonstrate the proper approach strokes, letter formation, and line placement, while the teacher observes and provides feedback. These videos could also be used at a center rotation while students independently practice their printed handwriting strokes. 

After their carts collide in a hardware store, two teachers discover that they both bought the same items in different quantities. With limited information, this video demonstrates how to use an equation to determine the cost of each item. Regents Review materials are designed to help high school students prepare for New York State's Regents exams.

Let’s get ready to limbo! How low can you go? In order to be good at limbo, it’s important to be flexible. 2020 Arkansas Teacher of the Year, Joel Lookadoo, shows students that just as it is important to be flexible when playing limbo, it is important to be flexible when solving math problems. The worksheet that accompanies this video provides students the opportunity to practice using computational strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems within 20 with unknowns in all places.

In this video lesson, students use linear functions to model real-world situations. Students are given data for an almost linear relationship and develop a linear model. They use their model to make predictions and discuss the reasonableness of the model. Sometimes it is difficult to tell from the information given if a linear model is appropriate. When none of the given data perfectly fit by a linear function, students have to determine whether a linear approximation is reasonable and for which values it would be reasonable. Students also use piecewise linear graphs to find information about the real-life situation they represent. In situations where a quantity changes at different constant rates over different time intervals, students model the situation with a piecewise linear function.

Discover why the crucial factor that can determine whether your next workplace interaction goes well isn’t what you say, but how you listen, in this video from the Career Hacks collection. Host Camille talks with two professionals and learns what not to do in her next interview. She also learns simple things she can do to show respect to anyone she talks with and truly hear what they’re saying. This resource provides instruction and discussion on active listening skills.

Learn how to identify different types of conflict in literature in this animated video from WNET. This resource provides instruction in identifying internal and external conflict. 

Discover how authors use figurative language to enhance their writing and explore the differences between similes and metaphors in this animated video from WNET. Discussion questions below help students to further apply their understanding before analyzing a text.

Explore the literary technique of imagery to see how sensory language contributes to the meaning and feeling of a poem in this animated video from WNET. Discussion questions below help students to further apply their understanding before analyzing a text.

Explore how authors use symbolism to add a deeper level of meaning to their work in this short animated video from WNET. Discussion questions below help students to further apply their understanding before analyzing a text.

Learn how to identify theme in a literary work in this short animated video from WNET.

Explore the difference between tone and mood in this animated video from WNET through definitions and examples from poetry and prose. Discussion questions below help students to further apply their understanding before analyzing a text.