Classroom Resources

Red Riding Hood sits down and takes you behind the scenes of the learning concepts in this modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. This video is designed for parents to watch without their children to learn valuable co-viewing tips and tricks such as discussion questions, pausing points, and questions to ask children during and after the fairy tale video.

Designed to meet Grade 3 English Language Arts Standards: Reading Literature: Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.

You can access the story at the following location: Little Red Riding Hood Storybook Text

2018 Arkansas Teacher of the Year, Randi House, shares the story “Little Red Riding Hood” and helps students determine the main and supporting characters, the setting of the story, the problem the main character faces, and the solution to the problem. Accompanying this video are discussion questions that will guide students to use what they have learned and apply those skills to another well-known story, “Rumpelstiltskin.”

This resource will support students as they identify the setting and characters in a story.

In this interactive lesson, discover how literary techniques like setting, characterization, and conflict contribute to the overarching theme of a text. Through analysis of Lorraine Hansberry's iconic play A Raisin in the Sun, explore the importance of these different elements individually, then learn how each piece comes together to establish a theme.

Using this media collection, students explore the theme of loss within Shakespeare's plays, particularly focusing on Hamlet, Twelfth Night, and Richard II. Whether it is the loss of a loved one, loss of power, or loss of identity, students examine how Shakespeare’s characters cope with loss. Students also question whether or not Shakespeare’s own life (and loss) influenced his writing.

Be sure to read the Discussion Questions, along with the other materials under the Support Materials for Use with Students section to fully teach the standard.

Students will create a landscape collage with a dominant feature.  They will use their rubbings and painted art from previous lessons.  Assessment rubric, letter to parents, examples of artwork, and lesson plan included in PDF.  

In this activity from The Electric Company, students will review the components of and practice reading and creating bar graphs. Included are simple teacher-led activities and hands-on exercises for students.

In this video, teachers will learn classroom strategies for teaching decimal addition and subtraction in this professional development video from Making Math Matter.

In this video, teachers will learn classroom strategies for teaching how to interpret remainders in this professional development video from Making Math Matter.

In this video, teachers will learn classroom strategies for teaching how to multiply a whole number by a fraction in this professional development video from Making Math Matter.

In this video, teachers learn classroom strategies for teaching how to multiply a fraction by a fraction in this professional development video from Making Math Matter.

Watch how a graph is altered when key elements of the equation change. This lesson focuses on how to manipulate the equation of a line in slope intercept form to match the graphs provided deepening the understanding of both the slope and y intercept's role in the expression. This video was submitted through the Innovation Math Challenge, a contest open to professional and nonprofessional producers.

Explore the types of measurements that are used every day with Martha Speaks. This interactive story focuses on discussing what qualifies as a measurement and how each type of measurement can be used in everyday life. After the story, children can answer review questions in the interactive quiz.

Party planning for an elephant involves some hard work with Martha Speaks. This interactive story focuses on comparing and estimating measurements and nonstandard units of measurement. After the story, children can answer review questions in the interactive quiz.

Join 2020 Arkansas Teacher of the Year, Joel Lookadoo, as he explains how to solve addition and subtraction problems using a ten frame. The worksheet accompanying this video provides students with the opportunity to practice using a ten frame to add and subtract whole numbers within 10.

Following a profile of Elton Brand, an accomplished basketball player who uses math in his work, students are presented with a mathematical basketball challenge. In the challenge, students focus on understanding the Big Ideas of Algebra: patterns, relationships, equivalence, and linearity; learn to use a variety of representations, including modeling with variables; build connections between numeric and algebraic expressions; and use what they have learned previously about number and operations, measurement, proportionality, and discrete mathematics as applications of algebra.  This resource is part of the Math at the Core: Middle School Collection.

This video, adapted from material provided by the ECHO partners, presents the telling of the story, "Maui and the Creation of the Islands" by Tom Cummings of Hawai‘i's Bishop Museum. It features storyteller Kealoha Kelekolio, and is illustrated with images and graphics of the Hawaiian Islands.

This resource provides students with the opportunity to analyze stories an myths from diverse cultures.

In this lesson, students learn why non-standard measures can be useful even when measurements must be quite precise. This Cyberchase activity is motivated by a video segment in which the CyberSquad must lower Digit, the Cyberbird, from the ceiling to remove an audiotape from the voice box of a statue of Hacker.

In this video, viewers learn how to calculate area. Area is the measure of the surface inside a flat figure. Area is measured in square units. Multiply the length times the width to get the square units.

To find area, you must figure out how many square units will fit inside the shape. Patricia Wilkins, a landscape designer, explains how she calculated square feet for a project in her yard.

In this professional development video, teachers focus on the topic of measurement and have students apply inductive reasoning skills to devise procedures for using a protractor. This video can be used in conjunction with the What's Your Angle? lesson plan.

Assess height, weight, and volume using metric measurements. This interactive exercise touches on place value and focuses on the prefixes associated with metric measurement.

Modal auxiliary verbs indicate expressions of belief, attitudes, likelihood, permission, or obligation. They inform the function of the main verb and color the verb on a scale ranging from possibility to necessity.

This resource allows students to practice identifying modal auxiliary verbs.

This video illustrates a visual model for solving a word problem involving the division of fractions. The problem asks students to determine the length of a losing frog's jump in a jumping frog contest based on a comparison with the length of the winning jump. The accompanying classroom activity requires students to use visual models to work through the challenge problem presented at the end of the video, which also involves the division of fractions and comparison.

In this video lesson, students begin to analyze graphs of functions and use them to answer questions about a context. Students look at what happens over intervals of input values and learn that graphs can be viewed as dynamic objects that tell stories. They connect specific features of the graph with specific features of the contextual situation and investigate what happens over ranges of input values.  As students learn to interpret graphs in terms of a context and use them to answer questions, they learn an important skill in mathematical modeling (MP4).

Grade 8, Episode 9: Unit 5, Lesson 5 | Illustrative Math

Learn how Shakespeare invented the structure and character types we have come to love in modern romantic comedies in this video from Shakespeare Uncovered. In the play Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare’s Beatrice and Benedick banter back and forth as sparring partners who seem to hate each other, but underneath it, all, are actually in love. Helen Hunt reveals how the play inspired countless romantic comedies in Hollywood and gave voice to a new kind of heroine, full of wit and the power of words.

Be sure to use the Discussion Questions under the Support Materials to help meet the standards.

Deepen your understanding of multiplication and division of rational numbers. This interactive exercise focuses on the rules for finding the products and quotients of positive numbers, negative numbers, and fractions and then finding the solutions on a number line.

In this blended lesson supporting literacy skills, students watch videos and complete interactive activities to learn about fractions and learn how to perform certain operations with fractions. Students develop their literacy skills as they explore a mathematics focus on multiplying fractions by whole numbers. During this process, they read informational text, learn and practice vocabulary words, and explore content through videos and interactive activities.

The purpose of this lesson is to develop the rules for multiplying two negative numbers. Students use the familiar fact that distance = velocity x time to make sense of this rule. They interpret negative time as the time before a chosen starting time and then determine the position of an object moving with a negative velocity at a negative time. An object moving with a negative velocity is moving from right to left along the number line. At a negative time, it has not yet reached its starting point of zero, so it is to the right of zero, and therefore its position is positive. So a negative velocity times a negative time gives a positive position. When students connect reasoning about quantities with abstract properties of numbers.

This article explores the use of transitions in music lessons.  A transition creates a lesson that is streamlined and flows from one activity to the next.  It explains four types of transitions - thematic verbal transitions, directive verbal transitions, non-verbal transitions, and literacy transitions.  Students will perform songs and transitions during the lesson.  

Students will identify patterns that are the same and different.  They will create movements to identify when the pattern changes. Using the student worksheet, students will identify if patterns are the same or different. Video demonstrations are provided. 

Determine the relationship between graphic patterns and what they represent mathematically. This video focuses on how fractals can be a visual representation of negative exponents, which are a way to express repeated division. This video was submitted through the Innovation Math Challenge, a contest open to professional and nonprofessional producers.

In this video lesson, students see that angles do not need to be adjacent to be complementary or supplementary. Students are also introduced to and begin to use the term vertical angles for describing the opposite angles formed when two lines cross. They examine multiple examples and see that the vertical angles have equal measures. Students can relate this understanding to the fact that both angles in a pair of vertical angles are supplementary to the same angle in between. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to see the different ways of making pairs of supplementary angles in two crossing lines.

This unique resource introduces intermediate low to intermediate high Spanish students to 30 different Hispanic Americans that have helped shaped the history of the United States. The provided link takes students to a digital museum where they can learn about each person through memorabilia, videos, photos, and more. Each resource is provided in the target language.  This site is the perfect place for students to start, as they prepare presentations about these influential people. With 30 people to choose from, there are enough resources for each student (or pair of students) in a class to select one. Students can use this site to start their investigations into their chosen person as they use the target language to describe the importance of influential figures from the target culture, past, and present. To meet the community standards, students could each create a poster or visible display highlighting their person's role in US history. The displays can be shared with the school or community during Hispanic Heritage month to promote the target culture.

In this interactive lesson, students will build fractions from unit fractions by applying and extending previous understandings of operations on whole numbers. They will understand a fraction a/b with a > 1 as a sum of fractions 1/b and decompose a fraction into a sum of fractions with the same denominator in more than one way, recording each decomposition by an equation. 

The Odd Squad doctor needs an assistant! You can help cure the Odd Squad agents of their odd ailments by collecting data to make a diagnosis while learning about fractions, volume, coordinates, and greater than/less than comparisons.