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Effects of Environment on Memory

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the effect that environment has on memory. They analyze their own study habits and draw conclusions about their work behaviors. Baseline capacity is established for the subjects' ability to memorize an increasing series...
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Memorable Singer 1929-1949

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners examine how Louis Armstrong's fame spread from the African American community to the whole world. They examine how his singing style influenced both popular and jazz musicians by participating in guided listening of his musical...
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Curated OER

What Lives in the Open Ocean and Where Do They Live?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners explore oceanography by participating in a flash card activity. In this ocean inhabitant lesson, students define a list of ocean related vocabulary terms and answer ocean geography study questions. Learners utilize organism...
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Baylor College

Pre-Assessment Activity: What Do You Know About Microbes?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
In an introductory lesson, youngsters take a pre-assessment quiz, get a grasp of a gram of mass, and then estimate the mass of microorganisms that live within a human body. Using Glo Germ™, a material that allows you to simulate the...
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Embedded Math

The Unit Circle

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
You and your learners will enjoy having a nicely organized, typed up unit circle, all filled in with degrees and radians as well as cartesian coordinates. 
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the Naturalist's Notebook

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders, after brainstorming what they already know about trees and what effect the seasons have on them, create a model of a hollow log. They participate in a young naturalist's notebook writing activity while walking outside...
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Math Solutions

Factor Game

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Learning about factors and multiples is all fun and games with this simple math activity. The lesson begins with the teacher and class playing the Factor Game together as young scholars figure out the rules and uncover key vocabulary as...
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Mathematics Vision Project

Quadratic Functions

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Inquiry-based learning and investigations form the basis of a deep understanding of quadratic functions in a very thorough unit plan.  Learners develop recursive and closed methods for representing real-life situations, then apply these...
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Mathematics Vision Project

Circles: A Geometric Perspective

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Circles are the foundation of many geometric concepts and extensions - a point that is thoroughly driven home in this extensive unit. Fundamental properties of circles are investigated (including sector area, angle measure, and...
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West Contra Costa Unified School District

Writing Exponential Functions Based on Data

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Give your class a concrete example of exponential growth and decay using this hands-on activity. These Algebra II lessons allow for the exploration of exponential growth and decay models, as well as the discovery of the patterns of each....
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EngageNY

Multiplying and Factoring Polynomial Expressions (part 2)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
If you can multiply binomials, you can factor trinomials! This is the premise for a lesson on factoring. Pupils look for patterns in the binomials they multiply and apply them in reverse. Examples include leading coefficients of one and...
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EngageNY

Equations Involving a Variable Expression in the Denominator

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
0/0 doesn't equal 0! Begin this instructional activity by allowing the class to explore the concept of dividing by zero. The introduction allows for discovery and provides meaningful examples of dividing by zero. This understanding leads...
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EngageNY

Solution Sets to Simultaneous Equations (part 2)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Do you want your budding mathematicians to be able to explain 'why' and not just 'do'? This lesson encourages an understanding of the process of elimination. Pupils are expected to understand how and why the elimination method is a valid...
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EngageNY

Exploring the Symmetry in Graphs of Quadratic Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Math is all about finding solutions and connections you didn't expect! Young mathematicians often first discover nonlinear patterns when graphing quadratic functions. The instructional activity begins with the vocabulary of a quadratic...
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Computation of Limits

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students discuss the importance of limits as it relates to calculus. In this calculus lesson, students define limit and memorize the three rules of limits. They work problems to enhance their understanding of how limits function.
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Product Rule

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students define the product rule and use it to solve problems. In this calculus lesson, students review rules they learned and memorize the new rules as it relates to derivatives. They solve problems through differentiation by proving...
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Logariths

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students analyze, discuss and memorize the properties of logs. In this calculus lesson, students apply the rules of logs while playing a timed game to see which group can write the equations correctly. They walk away from this lesson...
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Science Observations

For Teachers 1st
First graders investigate change by analyzing a photograph. In this scientific observation lesson, 1st graders view a photograph of a baby and attempt to memorize the details. Student view the photo a few minutes later, trying to...
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Numbers Make Sense

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore number values by completing estimation problems in class. In this place value lesson plan, 2nd graders identify the use of decimals in numbers and how they relate to fractions or parts of a whole. Students utilize...
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Jump Rope For Health and Literature

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders practice memorizing a whole poem or an excerpt of it. Individually, they recite the poem to the class and then perform the poem while completing a jump rope routine. To end the lesson, they work with others to develop a...
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Curated OER

Memory/Physiology Lab Activity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the nervous system and how physical distractions influence mental performance. They work in pairs as a researcher and subject and memorize a series of words with no distractions. After repeating the list of words,...
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Curated OER

In the Desert

For Teachers Pre-K
Students explore earth science by completing several environment activities. In this desert lesson, students identify where the U.S. deserts are and what types of wild life inhabit them. Students utilize arts and crafts to create a...
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Borrowing Narrative Skills from Mr. Fletcher: Using a "Prompts in Reverse" Technique to Inspire Your Writers

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Help your class find their writing voices with this lesson which uses the work of Ralph Fletcher to guide a "Prompt in Reverse" activity. Using the chapter "First Pen" from Fletcher's Marshfield Dreams, learners decipher what they...
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Discovering Pi/Welcome to Pi Day

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore pi. In this circle measurement lesson, students define and identify radius, diameter, circumference, and perimeter. Students work in groups to measure several plastic lids and record their findings. Students compare the...

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