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Classifying Candy III
Students create a classification tree based on grouping candy with eight different properties. This allows students to understand how living things are classified.
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Angles Measure and Classify
In this angles activity, students solve 6 problems in which an angle is measured with a protractor. Students mark if the angle is acute, right, obtuse or straight.
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Angles measure and classify
In this angles worksheet, students measure angles with a protractor and figure out if it is acute, right, obtuse, or straight. Students complete 6 problems.
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Pondering Polygons
Seventh graders use block letter writing to help classify polygons. They use their own names which helps to keep them engaged during the instructional activity. Finally, 7th graders play a classification game naming different polygons.
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Angles And Triangles
Seventh graders participate in a lesson plan that is focused upon the concepts of classifying different angles and triangles. They practice classifying triangles according to its kind that includes types of angles, congruence, and...
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Quadrilaterals and Other Polygons: Practice
In this polygons activity, students classify each polygon in as many was possible. Students then write polygon or not a polygon to classify each figure. Students find the measure of the missing angles and complete two test prep questions...
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Quadrilaterals and Other Polygons: Homework
In this polygons worksheet, students classify each polygon in as many ways as possible. Students then write polygon or not a polygon to classify each figure and find the measure of the missing angles. Students finish with one word problem.
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Feathered Feeders
Students investigate variation in bird beaks and the interrelationships of form and function by classifying birds with similar beak shapes, inferring about the possible bird foods based on beak shapes, and locating and identifying...
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Look At Those Leaves
Students observe leaves. In this plant biology lesson, students examine leaves and classify them according to size, shape, and color. Students learn more about the leaves by visiting suggested websites.
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Make Your Own Shape Puzzles
Students manipulate puzzle pieces to make them fit into the correct spot. They also learn the shape and design of several shapes and classify and sort shapes.
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Snowflake Detectives: What Crystal Shape Can Tell Us
Middle schoolers classify snowflake crystals using geometric descriptors. They hypothesize about the temperatures at which the snowflakes were formed using a temperature/shape chart. They collect and examine snowflakes before drawing and...
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Create a Hubble Tuning Fork Diagram
Add a little color to the universe. Learners recreate images of the galaxies using real data and Photoshop software. They display their images in a Hubble tuning fork diagram by classifying and categorizing their shapes.
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Angles
Fourth and fifth graders investigate angles and name them according to the criteria for obtuse, acute, and right angles. They examine a human-made yarn pattern on the floor of their classroom and identify angles, vertices, and types of...
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Science: Fossil of a Carbonized Plant
Students classify leaves by shape and margins and use them to create models of plant fossils. By using paper over a leaf, they simulate fossilization of organisms onto sedimentary rocks. Following instructions on worksheets, students...
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What is a Hurricane?
Middle schoolers research hurricanes on the Internet. In this hurricane lesson, students use the Internet to find out the basic shape of hurricane winds and classify three characteristics of hurricanes. Middle schoolers then classify at...
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Nets And Surface Area
Upper graders investigate how to find the surface area when using two-dimensional shapes. They conduct an investigation in groups while working sample problems given during class discussion with the teacher. They also review how to...
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Relations
Students identify, compare, and analyze shapes and numbers. In this analogies and comparison math lesson, students warm up by completing 4 worksheets to familiarize themselves with analogies. In small groups, students are challenged to...
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Clay Tile: Art Deco Style
Students analyze and classify sets of pictures using a mathematical classification system and create original works of Art Deco tiles using this new knowledge and four types of symmetry.
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Hardware Sort
Students classify various hardware items using the attributes of the objects. In this classification lesson, students group objects based on their attributes and explain their classification key.
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Patterns Everywhere!
Learners recognize and demonstrate the patterning of numbers and objects in our environment. They create a pattern using geometric shapes and find a missing number in a sequence.
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Variation in Human Skin Color
High schoolers explore factors that control variation in human skin color and the implications of this information for human society. They understand that skin color is no longer considered a credible scientific standard by which to...
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What Is An Insect?
Students find and classify insects. They collect insects, study them with a hand lens and identify its body parts. Afterwards, they discus various types of insects and thier Orders such as beetles, butterflies and moths, grasshoppers, etc.
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Seed Sensations!
First graders examine seeds. In this Science lesson, 1st graders classify and dissect seeds. Students sprout their own seeds in the classroom.
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The World of Living Things
The World of Living Things is the focus of this biology presentation. Students view a presentation which introduces them to cells, parts of cells, microorganisms, and simple vs. complex animals. They see that they are classified as a...