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Thinkmap Inc.: Visual Thesaurus

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The most visual thesaurus you will ever see! Watch words become alive and move in front of your eyes. This resource offers a trial version free, which only allows you to look up a certain number of words before it makes you pay....
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Google

Google Maps

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the entire world or your local area through Google's maps, Street View photos, satellite images, and in a 360-degree panorama. Take a virtual field trip to an Arctic town or a Pacific island, a famous landmark, a bird sanctuary,...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Making and Verifying Conjectures About Three Dimensional Figures

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will explore volume conjectures and solve problems by applying the volume formulas to composite figures.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Using Models to Connect to and Understand Volume Formulas

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] The student will use models to develop formulas and connect them to the volume of prisms, spheres, cylinders, pyramids, and cones.
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Wyzant

Wyzant: Algebra Help

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Heres a comprehensive review of the basics of algebra. WyzAnt includes lessons on varied topics, calculators that show step-by-step solutions, and interactive worksheets for practicing and testing your skills. Just choose a topic and use...
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Geometry in Space

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Twenty-four problems covering a variety of solid figure topics: dimensions, volume, surface and base areas. They are given with each step to the solution cleverly revealed one at a time. You can work each step of the problem then click...
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Teachnology

Teachnology: Math Shapes Teaching Theme

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Shapes Theme provides an excellent collection of free sample worksheets, teacher resources, lesson plans and interactive media for the elementary grades.
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BBC

Bbc: Bitesize: Ks2: Maths: Shape, Space, and Measurement

For Students 3rd - 5th
Interactive lessons featuring 2-D and 3-D shapes, angles, time, and symmetry. For each section, play a learning game, read a lesson that includes comprehensive vocabulary, and take a quiz to find out what you've learned.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Up and Down Stairs

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Work with this cube problem and see if you can find a pattern. Then you can check your solution with solutions already submitted.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: The Cylinder Problem: High School Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Using an engaging approach, this lesson requires students to record the volume of cylinders as a function of the radius. Students will construct and measure the volume of several cylinders and then begin comparing these shapes.
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Michigan Department of Education

Central Michigan University: 3 D Science Performance Assessment Tasks

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this well-developed lesson plan, students will develop a model of a wind turbine and present their models to the group. The students will further construct an explanation of the design to support that energy is transferred and...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Three Dimensional Figures

For Students 6th - 8th
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of three-dimensional figures. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check It"...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Creating Nets for Three Dimensional Figures

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Given nets for three-dimensional figures, the student will apply the formulas for the total and lateral surface area of three-dimensional figures to solve problems using appropriate units of measure.
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Cool Math

Coolmath: Coolmath4kids: Polyhedra Gallery

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A gallery of complex polyhedra with descriptions and characteristics.
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: The Art Zone

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Ten interactive activities that allow you to use the computer to create and manipulate works of art.
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Math Open Reference

Math Open Reference: Solid Geometry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A complete reference guide to solid geometry. The mathematics resource provides definitions and interactive activities that enhance further explanation.
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CPALMS

Cpalms: Exploring Cavalieri's Principle

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] For this lesson, young scholars use the geometry program GeoGebra to explore Cavalieri's Principle, specifically to investigate whether it applies when calculating the volume of oblique solids. Lesson...
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CPALMS

Cpalms: Building Graduation Caps

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this activity, students build geometric models of graduation caps using stiff paper. The activity requires the application of skills in finding surface area, understanding similarity, knowing the...
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Art With Mrs. Filmore: 1st Grade Art Lessons

For Teachers K - 1st
This site offers a variety of art lessons that use various media. Each project includes instructions and pictures of the students' completed artwork.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Searching Solid Shapes

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Lesson introducing the basic three-dimensional shapes (sphere, cylinder, cone, cube). Common items with those shapes are hidden on the playground for students to find and photograph. Pictures are then used to create a photostory....
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Moving Shapes [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
These activities will allow students to discover the concepts of geometry through shape exploration and the creation of choreographic sequences.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Self Portraits With the Touch of a Finger [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson, students will explore self-portraiture by looking at classical portrait paintings, such as Diego Velazquez's La Infanta Margarita or Raphael's Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. A close look at these works reveals...
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Cuemath

Cuemath: Polyhedron

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Introduces the concept of polyhedrons by learning the definition, types, and where they are found. Check-out the solved examples for better understanding and try your hand at solving a few interactive questions at the end of the page.
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Cuemath

Cuemath: Cone

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn all about the basic properties of a cone. This lesson targets the formula, volume, parts, and shapes of a cone and has interesting solved examples and practice questions.

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