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- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students watch a video that helps shows them how a diagram, flow chart, or blueprint can help them create a 3-d fish with the correct anatomy to live in a realistic environment. Full Review »
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- 6th - 9th
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Students apply ratio and proportion skills to create scale model houses. They display their houses and write positive comments about each student's work. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 11th - 12th
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Students design and build their own balsa wood model bridges. The technological development of bridges, the science principles that apply to bridge building, and the construction techniques and skills necessary for creating a bridge be explored. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students are contracted as architects in designing and planning blueprints for floor plans to build a dream home. The steps taken to create a blueprint are examined and peer conferences are held to check the work created. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 8th
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Students participate in a two-week real-life math unit. In pairs, they calculate salaries, taxes, and a budget, plan a vacation, buy insurance, make a will, and design a room. They conduct Internet research to plan the vacation, and write checks to balance their checkbook. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students create scale drawings, and ultimately scale models, of real-world objects in this Math lesson about ratios, proportion, scaling factors, and cross products. The lesson includes ideas for cross-curricular extensions and is equally suitable for the Math or Art classroom. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students research bridges and structures of bridges using both primary and secondary sources. They create a blueprint of the bridge and then create the bridge using warehouse supplies. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students design and draw a model playground to scale. They configure the layout to include a sandbox, slide, baseball field and other equipment. Their design includes adaptations for students with disabilities. Their designs are submitted in oral and written presentations, and the winning design will be used as a blueprint for a three-dimensional model. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students create and give oral proposals for the construction of a gazebo using a blueprint created with Geometer's Sketchpad. They then build a gazebo model using the blueprints created and provide evidence why it should be selected for construction in 8th grade. Students in 8th grade construct the gazebo based on the selected model. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students discuss past experiences involving multiplication and other preconceived ideas about math. They create a blueprint with multiplication designing a "XLand" complete with apartments, parks, schools, etc. Full Review »

