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Foods Around the World

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Bring the flavors of the world into your classroom with this tasty presentation on foods from around the globe. Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Lithuanian, Welsh, and Italian foods are depicted with descriptions and colorful photos. Tip:...
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The Number Line

For Teachers K - 1st
A simple idea is presented in this mathematics PowerPoint. Young learners see two number lines; 1 - 10, and 11 - 20. All of the numbers that belong on the number line are randomly scattered in the slides. Learners must place the digits...
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How Many in Each?

For Students K - 2nd
As you introduce your scholars to multiplication, these short word problems will give them quick victories. Each includes only three sentences and an image. For example, "Five boxes of candy. Four candies in each box. How many candies?"...
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Darwin's Finches

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Try a twist on the old finch beak and chopsticks activity by using M&Ms on a Twister mat. Spoons, knives, forks, and chopsticks represent beaks and are randomly assigned to your little birds, who must collect as much food as possible...
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It's Probably Probable

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Learners make predictions and draw conclusions from given information as they learn the meaning of probability in this vocabulary-rich, integrated activity that presents a variety of teaching strategies to motivate and reach...
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Kindness Cards

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers participate in the random acts of kindness program. In this acts of kindness instructional activity, students receive a card for each random act of kindness they are associated with. They receive monthly rewards and are...
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Interpreting Data and Statistics

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students define random sample and complete surveys. In this algebra lesson, students create surveys and define the way people analyze these results. They discuss random sample as it relates to the Great Depression and come up with their...
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Sampling

For Students 11th - 12th
In this statistics and probability worksheet, students solve problems that involve various sampling methods and procedures.  A calculator that generates random digits is required.  The five page worksheet contains eight...
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Data Analysis Worksheet

For Students 11th
In this probability instructional activity, 11th graders solve problems using simple random sample, cluster sample, bias, population and systematic sample. They match the questions to its definition.
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Heredity Mix 'n Match

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars randomly select jelly beans that represent genes for several human traits such as tongue-rolling ability and eye color. Then, working in pairs (preferably of mixed gender), students randomly choose new pairs of jelly beans...
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How You Become a Unique Individual

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students investigate how traits are passed from parents to offspring via meiosis and fertilization. They recognize that the combination of alleles forming a gamete is random.
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M & M Lab

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate how selection occurs in a random population. The concept is that selection affects evolution.They demonstrate how selection occurs and will analyze shifts in the populations. They design their conclusions with M...
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Evolution and Gene Frequencies: A Game of Survival and Reproductife Success

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Learners research the population of Bengal tigers and their existence as either dominant or recessive. They explore the presence of fur on these tigers and its lethal combinations. Determinating the effect of random mating in a...
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Data Analysis and Probability

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students design models to simulate actual events using various random devices. They estimate the likelihood of a particular outcome using results of simulation. In addition, they simulate the births of three children to a using a coin.
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Equations for Curves Passing through a Given Set of Points

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Learner use three random locations on the coordinate system and simplify the expression and assign result to the variable loc. They substitute guesses for the center and radius of the circle in the equation for the center of a circle and...
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Continuous Probability Distributions

For Students 10th - 12th
In this continuous probability distribution worksheet, students identify discrete and continuous distributions. They calculate the linear combination of the independent normal random variable and determine probabilities using exponential...
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Data, Data, Everywhere... and What Am I To Think?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners demonstrate good random sampling techniques for data collection, select and develop graphic presentations of data and analyze the data to solve a problem presented.
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NUMBER MATCH

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students relate the written form to the spoken form of familiar language (e.g., simple greeting, basic vocabulary, numbers, dates, time). They practice counting objects, identifying numbers when presented on flash cards in random order...
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Grade 1: More Land or Water?

For Teachers 1st
First graders listen as the teacher reads a story involving cross-continent traveling. Students collect a random sample by tossing an inflatable globe and recording whether they touch land or water each time they catch the globe in order...
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Companion Animals

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students identify ways companion animals are used to assist humans. Students identify zoonoses and list several types of. Students identify several aspects of responsible companion animal ownership. Students design, distribute, and tally...
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Who Is It?/Who Done It?

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students conduct an experiment that allows them to assess individual differences in random DNA sequences and apply those differences when solving a forensic problem. After discussing the polymerase chain reaction and its use to identify...
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Elements of A Story

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders read stories and identify the six elements of a story. As a group activity, they illustrate random examples of Frankinstein stories, identify the element illustrated, and post the picture in the appropriate station in the...
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Probability of a Single Event

For Students 4th - 6th
For this probability worksheet, students solve thirty-six fractional probabilities involving the rolling of a dice to specific scenarios, game spinners, sweets in a bag and random colors. Students check their answers online as they go.
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Basic Word

For Teachers K - 4th
Students create a poster of a weather-related word.  For this weather lesson, students randomly choose a weather word, define it, and draw a picture of it. They also use Word Art to create the title of their poster.