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Equal Factors Over Equal Intervals

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Exponential functions and their growth rates are explored concretely using tables in a collaborative task. Then the successive quotient is explored algebraically.
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Create and Analyze Rectangular Patterns

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept of geometric patterns. In this geometric pattern lesson plan, students use Microsoft Excel to explore geometric patterns. Students analyze growth rates of pattern growth. Students create their own...
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Variations in Growth and Reproduction of Recently Transplanted Prairie Forbes and Grasses

For Teachers 12th
students recognize and name prairie plants without the use of a key. they determine that prairie plants have different life cycles that affect their rate of growth and reproduction
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Rates of Puberty Change

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders investigate the reasons for why individuals go through puberty at different times and rates. They conduct a personal worth role play to encourage diversity and self-acceptance. Group discussion is used for scaffolding the...
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Bacteria Populations

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Your young microbiologists will interpret and solve exponential equations in this real-world context task set in a hospital research scenario. Learners think in terms of the functions as well as their rates of change. 
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Population Biology Case Study

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are focused on the big question: What makes a population grow and how could that growth stop? They use these concepts to help answer the big question: carry capacity, density dependent v. density, independent factors, predation...
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Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics

Growing Up With A Mission

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
New Horizons began its journey to Pluto in 2006. Ten years later, it continues its mission. In that time, scholars have surely grown, but how much more will they grow by the time New Horizons reaches its destination? Find out with an...
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Integrated Algebra/Math B Regents Questions: Exponential Equations

For Students 9th - 12th
For this exponential equations worksheet, students solve 11 word problems in short answer and multiple choice format. Students write and solve exponential growth and decay problems given a word problem.
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From Asteroids to Planets

For Students 9th - 12th
For this asteroids and planets worksheet, students read about the formation of planets from asteroids. Students solve 6 mathematical problems including finding the rate of growth of a planet, determining the mass of a planet at a given...
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Bacteria and Illness

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers research information on bacterium and their relationship to food borne diseases. In this science lesson plan, students complete internet research to construct and analyze the growth cure of common bacterium and food-borne...
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Displaying Populations: Jellybeans, Paper and People

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate the factors affecting population growth. In this biology lesson, students collect data from the lab and graph them. They estimate population size using a mathematical formula.
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Safety and Sanitation

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Your microbiologists explore the graphing of exponential growth functions using bacteria, like e. coli and salmonella, in a well-written, career and technology lesson. 
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Population Connection

A Demographically Divided World

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Did you know that birth and life rates vary across the world? The resource, the second in a six-part series, discusses just how demographics differ across countries and why it might be the case. Scholars complete worksheets, watch...
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What Do Financial Market Indicators Tell Us?

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Explain the four categories of financial indicators (commodity prices, stock indexes, interest rates, and yield spreads), and help your class members understand how changes in this data can affect decisions regarding consumer spending,...
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Baylor College

Needs of Plants

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
What better way to learn about plant life than by creating a class garden? Young botanists start with a brief discussion about radishes before planting seeds and watching them grow. To determine the importance of water, sunlight, and...
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Introduction to Exponential Functions

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
This lesson begins with a review of linear functions and segues nicely over its fifteen examples and problems into a deep study of exponential functions. Linear and exponential growth are compared in an investment task. Data tables are...
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Growing

For Students K - 2nd
Growing is part of being a living thing. Kindergartners decide which illustrations represent the life cycle of a living thing, then put a check mark next to the correct pictures. They then examine their own growth on a height chart.
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WS 2.5 Dimensional Analysis

For Students 9th - 12th
Science students apply dimensional analysis to relate quantities in six different problems. They consider the cost of steak, a young man's growth rate, a medicine prescription, fuel efficiency, and more. This worksheet is a great way to...
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Bean Plant Growth

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify, monitor, and analyze how seeds grow into plants and reproduce seeds at a quick rate. Students record the rate at which plants grow. Students identify what plants need in order to grow. Students share and discuss their...
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The Correlation Between Human Population Growth and Dwindling Natural Resources

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders predict human population growth.  In this lesson, 8th graders discuss the length of time needed to double the human population, work in groups to chart population growth and predict population growth in the...
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Modeling Population Growth

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students collect data on population growth. In this statistics lesson, students graph their data and make predictions. They find the linear regression and the best fit line.
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The Effects of Environment on Plant Growth: Selecting Seeds for Survival on a New Planet

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders conduct experiments to compare seed germination and plant growth rates. They construct a hydroponic plant unit and a lighthouse. They care for the plants for a month and collect data for graphs. They write a report.
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Population Biology

For Students 7th - 12th
In this population worksheet, students will determine if 12 statements about demographic trends, including the effects of birth and death rates on populations, are true or not. Then students will match 6 population growth vocabulary...
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Life on the Edge: Land Use, Food Supply, and Economics in a Small African Village

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine the roles that natural events (such as droughts), population growth and other human factors play on land use and food supply.

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