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NOAA

Through Robot Eyes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
How do robots assist ocean explorers in collecting data and images? The final installment in a five-part series has science scholars examine underwater images collected by robots and identify the organisms shown. Groups then calculate...
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Curated OER

Deliver

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students measure the mass, volume, length and area of various objects. They are assigned a letter. The task is assesses students' abilities to make simple observations and measurements.
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Curated OER

Instruments and Measurement

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners circulate through stations to determine the proper instrument to make a certain type of measurement. They must make measurements of mass, volume, length, area, electrical current, temperature and force.
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Curated OER

Density of Minerals

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners determine the mass, volume, and density of two different mineral samples. Students show data and calculations as well as answer questions about the mineral identities.
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Curated OER

Using Scientific Notation

For Students 8th - 10th
In this scientific notation worksheet, students practice calculating area, speed, and volume being sure to write the answers in correct scientific notation. Students complete 11 problems.
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Curated OER

How Does Cell Size And Shape Affect Transport of Materials

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders explore concepts of surface area, volume, and ratios, create spreadsheets to aid organization of data collected and provide graphing capabilities, and use NIH Imaging to enable calculations of microscopic organisms.
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Curated OER

Nanofibers: Why Go Small?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars explore the surface ratio of an object.  In this surface area to volume lesson students construct a data table, make calculations and create a graph. 
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Cornell University

Math Is Malleable?

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Learn about polymers while playing with shrinky dinks. Young scholars create a shrinky dink design, bake it, and then record the area, volume, and thickness over time. They model the data using a graph and highlight the key features of...
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Curated OER

Sun and Weather

For Teachers 6th - 8th
How is the Earth's weather created? Middle schoolers will explain how the Sun's energy is transformed into different forms. They will perform mathematical calculations of volume, mass, and temperature. They they will explain the...
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Curated OER

Introduction to Science

For Students 7th - 10th
In this science measurement worksheet, students practice calculating volume, density, and area as it relates to science experiments. This worksheet has 4 multiple choice and 2 problems to solve.
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Curated OER

Creating Gardens

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students are shown that numeracy is all around them. They use volume, and calculate the quantity of soil required to make a garden to given instructions. Students are asked how to calculate the amount of soil required for the garden.
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Curated OER

Measurement: Length, volume, and temperature

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars determine the temperature of the water in a cup, measure the length of a piece of cardboard, and measure out an appropriate volume of water. This task assesses student's abilities to perform measurement and reporting skills.
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Curated OER

How Much Water in Snow?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students determine the volume of water in a given amount of snow. They calculate a ratio for water volume per snow volume.
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Curated OER

Optional Laboratory: Calculating Board Footage in a Tree

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars work together to complete an experiment calculating the amount of board footage in a tree. They record their data and answer questions at the end of the lesson. They create their own hypothesis as well.
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Curated OER

Optional Laboratory: Forest Volume Cruise

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers examine the process in which to complete a forest volume cruise. They practice calculating the amount of lumber per acre of a given area. They share their results with the class.
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Curated OER

Significant Figures

For Students 9th - 11th
In this significant figures worksheet, students read about how to determine the number of significant figures and how to solve problems using significant figures. Then students complete 12 problems.
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Virginia Department of Education

Moles Lab Activities

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Want my name and number? It's 6.0221415 times 10 to the 23rd, and my name is Avogadro. Providing nine different activities, experiments, and labs, this lesson keeps Avogadro relevant to your class all year long. 
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Curated OER

Add and Subtract with Hudson River shipping

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Rivers aren't just a place for animals to live, they also provide industrial transportation. The class will examine the Hudson River on a map, discuss all the commercial vessels that use the River to transport materials, then complete a...
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Curated OER

Determination of the percentage of Acetic Acid in Vinegar

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students determine the concentration of acetic acid when the concentration of the base with which is titrated is known. They investigate how to weigh a sample using the balance, measure volumes using graduated cylinder, explore the...
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Curated OER

Spitzer Sees a New Ring Around Saturn

For Students 9th - 11th
In this Saturn's rings worksheet, students read about the Spitzer telescope that detected a new ring around Saturn. Students solve 6 problems including determining the formula for the area of a circle, finding the volume of the new ring...
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Curated OER

Water Pollution Lesson Plan: All Messed Up

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students map and calculate the area of the school parking lot and then the volume of water falling on the school parking lot. They map the route surface runoff will take to the nearest water body and describe the roles that human...
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Curated OER

Significant Figures

For Students 8th - 10th
In this significant figures worksheet, students read about how to determine significant figures in calculations and measurements. They practice identifying significant figures in five problems.
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Curated OER

Beads, Balls, and Beakers

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Learners analyze the amount of space required to pack round objects. In this geometry instructional activity, students practice using space economically by practicing packing spheres into beakers. They then translate this concept to...
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Curated OER

Animal Skin

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars investigate the skin surface to body area ratios for different animals.  In this seventh/eighth grade mathematics/science lesson plan, students explore heat transfer between an animal’s body and the environment.  Using...