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Latitude and Longitude: Geography and Geometry!

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use latitude and longitude coordinates to pinpoint an exact location on the map. In this geography activity, 2nd graders utilize handouts from the Maritime Museum in order to gain practice in finding locations throughout...
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Car Maze competition

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Learners use graphs to calibrate an RCX car. They must then program the car to traverse a maze using their calibrations
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RCX Car Line Graph

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students develop a line graph based on distances that an RCX car drives in specified amounts of time. They then are given a specific amount of time for the car to drive and be asked to extrapolate the car's distance from the graph.
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Jelly Belly: What a Wonderful "Bean"!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars explore how jelly beans are produced. They discuss the origins of the jelly bean and view a video about how jelly beans are prepared, tested, shaped, finished, and shipped and estimate the amount of jelly beans in a jar...
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The Estimation Station

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students challenge "common knowledge" against newly learned estimation strategies and put those strategies into use. They consider variables in estimating different groups of objects and practice skills of representing numbers.
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M&M's Candies Worksheet Graph

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this graphing worksheet students will record data on a bar graph. Students will take a bag of M&M's and chart the colors they find inside this bag.
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Collecting Data and Graphing

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Pupils practice collecting and graphing data using interlocking cubes. In this graphing lesson, partners count cubes and graph them. They also use a meter stick to measure arm span and height then compare the results with the class as a...
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Spark Activity: Counting Laps

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students move around a makeshift "track" set up by the teacher, moving around it as many times as they can before the stop signal. Students begin by power walking and slow-jogging, then build up speed as they proceed. Students call out...
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Vegetable Creatures

For Teachers K - 5th
Students use different foods to enhance academic skills in all area contents.  In this food activity lesson, students use food, such as "bugs on a log" (raisins on peanut butter celery) to estimate and practice multiplication.  Students...
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Data and Graphs

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this data and graphs worksheet, students complete multiple choice questions about which bar graphs represent the data given and complete a bar graph based on data given. Students complete 3 problems.
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Big Time Lessons

For Teachers K - 2nd
Teaching students about time can provide a way to talk about sundials, different types of clocks, and even time travel.
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Lagoon Lake

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students develop skill in using co-ordinates. Up to eight cardinal points of the compass are used making this a useful activity in simple map and grid work. They utilize educational software to gain practice.
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Quadratics: vertex form

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students practice graphing quadratic equations to find the vertex of quadratic functions. They determine if the graph opens upward or downward as well as convert quadratic equations to vertex form from polynomial form. A lab version is...
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Survey and Share

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Young scholars practice collecting data by surveying other students. In this data collection lesson plan, young scholars decide on a question and collects data from 15 other students. Eventually the young scholars will end up graphing...

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