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What's Your Favorite Chocolate Bar?
Students complete a math survey. In this math graphs lesson, students complete a survey about their favorite candy bars. Students create different kinds of graphs using Microsoft Excel to show their results.
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Three in a Row Calendar Game
Students explore a calendar. In this calendar and math instructional activity, students view a video clip about using a calendar. Students participate in a game in which a game board is used to identify days of the week, dates, and months.
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As Large As Life. . . A Poster of a Human Body System
Learners explore the major systems and functions of the human body. In this anatomy lesson, young scholars make life-size outlines of bodies, diagram body systems, and present their work to their classmates.
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Those Cells Look Good Enough to Eat
Students explore the parts of the cell. In this cell lesson, students use foods to create cell models that represent the nucleus, cytoplasm, cell membrane, mitochondria, ribosomes, vacuoles, endoplasmic reticulum, and Golgi bodies...
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To Infinity and Beyond...Magazine of Planetary Studies
Learners demonstrate their creativity by creating a magazine to express expository text. In this expository text lesson plan, students create a magazine in groups to creatively make text interesting.
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Air is All Around You
Pupils investigate the mysteries of air. In this science lesson, students participate in hands-on activities that require them to use the scientific inquiry model to study air.
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The Journey of the Magi
Students create storyboards. In this pre-Christmas special lesson plan, students produce a storyboard for a TV version of the poem, "The Journey of the Magi". Options to complete with or without technology are included.
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Native Americans: Thematic Timeline
In this Native American history activity, learners follow the provided directions to create their own interactive timelines featuring resistance struggles of the tribes.
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What Are You - Prime or Composite
Students explore the concept of prime factorization. In this prime factorization activity, students participate in an activity where they find the prime factorization and greatest common factor of a number derived from their name....
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My Peanut Butter is Better Than Yours!
Learners explore the concept of statistical data. In this statistical data lesson, students read an article about the dangers of peanut butter to those who are allergic. Learners perform a taste test of two different brands of peanut...
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"Like Terms", I Add Them
Ninth graders add and subtract polynomials. In this Algebra I lesson plan, 9th graders work practice problems as they view a PowerPoint presentation of the lesson plan. Both the horizontal and vertical methods of addition and...
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Battle to the Death: Adding Integers
Young scholars explore the concept of adding integers. In this adding integers lesson, students simulate the battle of the 300 spartans at Thermopylae. Young scholars use colored game pieces to represent positive and negative...
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The State Capital of Stem and Leaf
Students explore the concept of stem and leaf plots. In this stem and leaf plots lesson, students plot the 50 US states' capitals on a stem and leaf plot according to the first letter of each state. Students compare...
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Calendar Fun Operations
Middle schoolers explore the concept order of operations. For this order of operations lesson, students make a song about the order of operations in groups. Middle schoolers practice working problems using order of operations.
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Graphing Stations
High schoolers explore the concept of graphing stations. In this graphing stations lesson, students head to various teacher set-up stations involving slope, point-slope, standard form, parallel lines, etc. High schoolers work...
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It's Around There Somewhere! Perimeter, and Circumference
Explore the concept of building equations for perimeter and circumference. Learners use rulers to measure the perimeter of half a sheet of paper. Then fold the sheet of paper numerous times, each time measuring perimeter. ...
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We Love to Graph!
Students experience graphing points. For this graphing points lesson, students play an on-line game where they must name 10 coordinate pairs correctly. Students play a maze game where they maneuver a robot using coordinate...
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Line of Best Fit
Students explore the concept of linear regression. In this linear regression lesson, students do a Barbie bungee activity where they collect linear data. Students plot their data using a scatter plot. Students determine a line of best...
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What I Didn't Know...
Young scholars practice creating wikis. In this wiki lesson, students create a wiki about any math topic that they know nothing about. Young scholars learn about their topic and create a wiki that explains the math topic in detail.
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Ellipse
Students explore the concept of ellipses. In this ellipses lesson, they construct ellipses on their paper and follow directions on a worksheet that allow them to investigate an ellipse in more depth by looking at the major axis, foci, etc.
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Properties of Minerals
High schoolers explore the basic building blocks of our planet. In this minerals lesson students begin the process of forensics on the basis of investigation and drawing conclusions from observations.
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Density
Students observe a demonstration of regular soda versus diet soda. In this exploring density instructional activity students complete a lab on density and present a PowerPoint presentations of their results.
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Personal or Social Tragedy? A Close Reading of Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome
Young scholars complete close reading activities to analyze Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome. In this literary analysis lesson plan, students analyze key quotations from Ethan Frome and respond to contemporary reviews of the text. Young...
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Preparing for Poetry: A Reader's First Steps
Students complete poetry analysis using William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130" as a part of a study of figurative language. In this Shakespearean language lesson plan, students define literal and figurative language and practice paraphrasing...