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Value Venture
Learners examine how the value of an item may be different for different people and investigate how perceived value helps determine the price of items in the marketplace. They list what they consider to be the most valuable items in the...
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Electromagnets: Winding Things Up!
High schoolers explore solenoids and electromagnets. After building an electromagnet, students use a TI Graphing calculator, a CBL 2 interface and a magnetic field sensor to measure the strength of a magnetic field. They create a graph...
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Trouble in the Troposphere
Students Use data sets from MY NASA DATA to produce graphs comparing monthly and yearly ozone averages of several U.S. cities. They analyze and evaluate the data and predict trends based on the data. In addition, they discuss and...
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Specific Heat and Insulation
Students measure the air and soil temperatures at designated times. They graph the temperatures of each on one piece of graph paper with different colors. Students compare the information for the two line plots and analyze their results...
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Order of Operations
In this Algebra I activity, 9th graders use the order of operations to evaluate numerical expressions containing parenthesis and brackets. The one page interactive activity contains instruction, worked examples and ten practice...
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Graphing Scatterplots
Students examine scatterplots and determine the equation of a line using the slope-intercept method. Students interpret graphs, draw inferences, and sketch a curve of best fit for the graph. Based upon patterns in the graphs, students...
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The History of Rock and Roll: Part 8 - The 70's - Have a Nice Day - Lesson 1
Students discuss the technological advancements in music that emerged during the 1970's and how they were used. They see how technology in music influenced the artists and their music.
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The Peanut Wizard
Peanuts inspire this lesson about George Washington Carver, called The Peanut Wizard in the included informational text. Class members read about peanuts and George Washington Carver and create a timeline of his life. In addition, pupils...
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"Fish: Anatomy and Diversity in the Chesapeake Bay"
Students explore a variety of basic fish body form and their functions. They differentiate between different species of fish found in the Chesapeake Bay and St. Mary's River. In addition, they match pictures with descriptions using...
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Mystery Numbers- Enrichment Worksheet
In this mystery numbers worksheet, 1st graders fill in a square in each of 8 equations. They solve an addition problem and its inverse subtraction problem before writing the number on the blank line. They make up their own problems in...
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Rewrite to Add: Homework
In this rewrite addends worksheet, students learn how to rewrite addends to add the given addition sentences. Students use the graph to help them rewrite the addends and then solve the five problems.
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Grade 5 Basic Math
In this grade 5 math instructional activity, 5th graders answer a set of 22 multiple choice problem solving and estimation questions. Worksheet may be completed on-line and answers submitted.
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Vocabulary and Context Clues 1
In this vocabulary and context clues worksheet, students examine 20 sentences looking for clues about the meanings of the boldfaced words in each. Students identify the words that define the boldfaced words by underlining them. In...
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MS Math Order of Operations
Seventh graders create a mnemonic device which correctly represents the order of operations. They simplify expressions by correctly following the order of operations. Students use PEMDAS-parentheses, exponents, multiplication,...
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Compound Inequalities
Students solve problems with compound inequalities. In this algebra instructional activity, students solve inequalities using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. They graph-their solutions on a numbers line.
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Adding and Subtracting Integers
Students add and subtract integers. In this algebra lesson, students add, subtract, multiply and divide integers. They apply the properties of numbers as they solve equations.
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Adding Decimals with Hundredths
In this adding decimals worksheet, students add numbers with decimals in the hundredths place. Students complete 4 sets of problems.
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Adding and Subtracting Integers
In this integers instructional activity, students find the sum or difference of 30 problems. Students evaluate 6 expressions and substitute values for variables in 3 problems.
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Fractions: Adding Same Denominator
In this math activity, students look for the answers to the addition with fractions of the same denominator. There is a button at the top of the page for the answers.
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Cannot Buy Me Love
Young scholars investigate the concepts that are related to finance and how it is used in the world. They take part in activities that are focused around the use of a spreadsheet while using a T-chart to simulate a ledger of credits and...
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Links Away: Looking Back and Moving Forward
Students explore fact families. In this math lesson, students use links to model a fact family. Students solve addition and subtraction problems.
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Millennium Bridge
Students read and plot coordinates in all four quadrants and state where a shape will be after translation. They explore the concept of translation using a a four quadrant grid of the of River Tyne running through all 4 quads. In...
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Big Steps
Second graders practice developing strategies for mental calculation when counting in 10s and 100s. They mentally perform calculations involving addition and subtraction to be able to state the difference between numbers by counting in...