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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What Do We Do With A Dirty Bomb?

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students examine composition of dirty bomb and its possible effects on a city, and investigate simulations of such an event; students use computational and problem solving skills to assess damage and prepare report proposing solution to...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Relative Ratios

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discover that proportions are made up of equal ratios each containing the same building blocks. They, using the Internet, apply their knowledge of direct relationships and proportions to problems in planetary science.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Invest In Yourself

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students learn about budgeting, saving, dept, financial management, opportunity cost, and self-regulation. In this financial management lesson, students apply their knowledge of finance components and create their own web based plan...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Around We Go!

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students make accurate measurements and calculations of measuring the area an perimeter of a section of the floor accordingly. They use appropriate measurement and calculation strategies to write a complete a clear explanation for how...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Perfect Principal

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students demonstrate their understanding of math skills. In this data analysis lesson, students complete a worksheet requiring them to calculate mean, median, and mode, and create and interpret graphs. Lesson is intended as an assessment...
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Assessment
Noyce Foundation

Toy Trains

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
Scholars identify and continue the numerical pattern for the number of wheels on a train. Using the established pattern and its inverse, they determine whether a number of wheels is possible. Pupils finish by developing an algebraic...
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Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Spy Game

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Turn students into detectives as they decipher encrypted messages.  Introduce your class to modular arithmetic and have a little fun encrypting and decoding secret messages. The activity does not hit many content standards, but would be...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Least Squares Fit Line

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Practice makes perfect! Learners estimate the least squares fit line for a set of data. They understand error involved in least squares fit lines, and solve application problems using least square fit lines.
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Lesson Plan
Eisenhower Regioanl Consortium for Mathematics and Science Education

Lesson 10: Integer Addition and Subtraction (for the TI-73 only)

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Using a number line on the floor made from masking tape and manipulatives, learners observe a demonstration of the addition and subtraction processes. After completing several worksheets, they solve three-term problems using calculators...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Take Away Bar 2

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students use an Internet tool, The Take-Away Bar" to solve subtraction problems. They use mental strategies to subtract a two-digit number from a larger two-digit number. Students write and solve subtraction problems. They describe...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Difference Bar 2

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Pupils use Internet software, The Difference Bar, to work out the difference between two numbers by breaking numbers into parts. Students use mental strategies to work out the difference between any 2 two-digit numbers. Pupils describe...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Measurement

For Students 7th
In this measurement worksheet, 7th graders solve 14 various types of problems that include completing a table with the base, height, and/or area of triangles and solving a number of word problems with measurement. They also estimate the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Six Faces of Garbage

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use the mathematics of surface area to approach the problem of garbage pollution from the classroom. After watching a video, students construct replicas of cereal boxes and compute their surface area.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Angles: Angles, Angles, Everywhere

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice estiminating and measuring angles. After watching a short video, they identify angles in objects in the classroom and their homes. In groups, they participate in activities in which they are given a scenerio and are...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sizing Up the Supersize Croc

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine and compare traits of humans and crocodiles.  For this crocodile lesson students use a ratio to estimate the height of a person and compare that to a crocodile. 
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Not So Happy 13

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this math worksheet, middle schoolers use the graphic organizer in order to solve the word problems that improve basic arithmetic skills.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Calculator Money

For Students 6th - 8th
In this math instructional activity, students use the calculator to solve the types of problems that use money. They also solve the given word problems.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Active Learning

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students practice using measurements and bar graphs to solve a running problem in this active Math lesson for various age levels. The lesson meets state standards in Mathematics and requires the use of "math journals" for final...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Variables and Slopes

For Students 7th - 10th
In this variable and slopes worksheet, students practice a warm-up activity involving variables V and X and using Euler's Method to solve a value problem.
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Activity
Science Friday

Make a Model of a Home Made From Shipping Containers

For Teachers 6th - 10th Standards
Build a scale model of a home built out of shipping containers. A hands-on activity has scholars watch a video about a home built from shipping containers and then design their own home. They build scale models of their designed homes...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How Tall is that Tree?

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students apply their math skills to develop an accurate estimate of the height of a tall tree. Three different methods are outlined. All grade levels should be able to perform the shadow method and the proportional method.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rounding Whole Numbers; Estimating Sums And Differences

For Teachers 6th - 9th
In this rounding whole numbers and estimating sums and differences worksheet, students problem solve and calculate the answers to forty two mathematical equations.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Chandra Studies and Expanding Supernova Shell

For Students 7th - 9th
In this supernova worksheet, students read about the expanding supernova shell that was discovered by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Students solve two problems including finding the scale of the given images and determining the average...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Disappearing Honeybees: Tracking Honeybee Decline

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars practice graphing and other math skills to track number of honeybee colonies present in United States since 1978, discuss major crops that are dependent on insect pollinators, and examine reasons for decline of United...