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Population Density

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use the scientific method to conduct an experiment and use varied methods to gather background information. They correctly use lab equipment and prepare tables and graphs that organize, conclude, and present their findings. ...
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Worksheet 15 Computer Lab

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
For this math worksheet, students discuss the natural frequency ω0 of the system and how it is the number of oscillations of the spring in 2π units of time.
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Forest Management Dilemmas

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discuss forest management dilemmas and make uninformed decisions as to whether they are appropriate management techniques. They draw bar graphs of the class opinion for each dilemma. They use media sources to become more...
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Inequalities lesson 4

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders graph solutions for inequalities on a number line. They solve problems combining like terms inequalities in one variable. Students check solutions to combining like terms inequalities in one variable.
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Shizuko’s Daughter: Graphic Organizer

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Help young readers align character relationships in an activity for Kyoko Mori's Shizuko's Daughter. After kids discuss the characters and how they relate to each other, they use index cards and a graphic organizer to outline the...
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Properties of Parabolas

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Learn to identify the properties of parabolas. Students define parabola as the locus of all points equidistant from a fixed point and a fixed line. Also, interpret the equation for a parabola in vertex form and gain a visual...
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How's the Weather

For Teachers 4th - 9th
"How's the Weather?" is an exercise that combines science and math as students graph the weather along the Iditarod Trail. They complete a double-line graph of the weather of a chosen checkpoint over the course of one week. Students...
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Compare Your Air

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will compare the data for different locations that they select and investigate trends over the course of a number of years. This will give the students an opportunity to apply statistical measures (mean, median,mode) to data...
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Geography: World Dynamics

For Teachers K - 12th
Students discuss and examine how the world is changing. After reading an article, they discover the immediate changes that have taken place and how they have effected living things. They complete a worksheet identifying the changes as...
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Responding to Alcohol: What's Important?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners examine the effects on motor functions in mice. They make observations and graph their data. They analyze the data and draw conclusions in each of the three experiments.
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DID YOU HELP CREATE THIS

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students examine whether their actions are positively or negatively affecting organisms and their habitats. They choose an animal to study then create a multimedia presentation including charts and graphs of data logger information and...
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Habitat Is Home

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Learners are introduced to the concept and components of a habitat. They discuss the key components of a habitat and describe how certain factors can cause disturbances in a habitat and change its population. Activities are leveled for...
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Investigating Motion

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students determine velocity using the slope of a time distance graph. They investigate a motion cart using a CBR unit and a TI 83 calculator setup. Using the graph generated, they calculate velocity.
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Picture a Nation

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students research immigration data from a specific time period. They create a graphic organizer that depicts the information and share the information with the class.
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Archaeobotany

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students study pictures of seeds and the conditions in which they grow during their study of archaeobotany. They infer ancient plant use by looking at archaeobotanical samples. They determine the change of plant use by interpreting a...
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Math: Collecting and Analyzing Date

For Teachers K - 7th
Children count how many of an activity they can do in a row, such as ball tossing and record the date and count. Children track over a period of time and graph results.
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Finding the Salt Front

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students discuss definitions of estuary, salinity, and the salt front. They listen as the teacher explains the Hudson River Miles and ways the upriver and downriver sections relate to the north and south. Students graph the salt front...
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Water, Water Everywhere

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students are introduced to the complex issues of water resources around the globe. In groups, they take on the role of a country and map out the location of water sources. They barter, sell or take over other groups to have access to...
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Sampling the Ocean Floor

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Learners sample goodies from an unseen ocean floor and try to accurately describe their composition. This simulation helps students explain the limitations of sampling and the problem of obtaining representative samples of sea floor...
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Survival Of The Fittest

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders examine the concept of an ecosystem and how there is a variety of representations of life that exist there. They look at the equilibrium that is reached in stable communities and how the variable of change in...
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Tracking Speed

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students collect data for a runner by measuring the time it takes for the runner to run equal distances. After collecting data, students average speeds and accelerations for the runner. Assignment is completed by graphing the data.
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How are Things Lining Up

For Students 10th - 12th
In this consumer math activity, students use the web to research and select a stock to buy.  Students track and graph the stock’s activity over a two week period.  The one page activity contains a blank graph and four...
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Beans and Birds: A Natural Selection Simulation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students examine the problem concerning the evolution of seed color in pinto bean plants "How does natural selection change the frequency of genes or traits over many generations"? Students work in teams to design an experiment that...
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The Effects of Color on Heat Absorption And Climate

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students conduct an experiment to determine the effects of soil color on its day and night time temperatures. In small groups, they prepare dishes of black soil, brown peat moss, and white sand. They record the temperature changes when a...