Standards and Assessment Lesson Plans

7th graders research recycling activities at schools across the country using e-mail. They research the waste management and recycling program at their school and problem solve to create an environmentally sound program for the future.

Students explore the concepts of solving systems of equations.  In this solving systems of equations lesson, students pass envelopes of sample problems around the classroom.  Students solve the system in the envelope, then pass it to the next person.  Students solv the systems in the envelopes using substitution, graphing, and tables.

Learners work with Vernier real-time data collection probes. In this data collection lesson, learners conduct time and distance experiments while collecting data and calculating averages. They use Vernier CBR probes and apply the appropriate formulas to investigate speed, acceleration, weight, and mass.

Students collect data and graph their results, then analyze the graphs. In this geometry lesson, students examine slopes and their graphs and discuss the relationship between the lines and the slopes.

Learners practice telling time. In this time lesson, learners tell time to five minutes using an analog clock. They count by 5 minute intervals and discuss elapsed time. 

In this lesson learners combine their study of physics with their study of best practices when writing to inform. They communicate with experts using e-mail before creating a brochure based on their study of universal gravitation.

Students participate in an activity in which they practice paraphrasing sections of primary and secondary documents. They are to share their paraphrasing with the class to help with their confidence speaking in front of a group.

Students take part in various activities ranging from creating a human clock, to small group problem solving to reinforce the concept of telling time accurately to five minutes on an analog clock.

8th graders use rates and ratios to solve real life problems involving density, distance, speed and time. In groups, pupils perform hands-on activities to determine stride length and time it takes to walk a specified distance. Using the collected data, pupils use rates to solve other distance problems. They graph and diagram solutions.

Learners develop the skills to examine a group of objects and determine possible ways to categorize them. They analyze and classify data in different ways allowing them to sort them into groups.