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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Conics and Reflection

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students investigate the reflective properties of the parabola, the ellipse, and the hyperbola. They will look at applications that relate to both the collection of incoming signals and signals that are emitted from a source and...
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Cross Sections

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This activity utilizes the concepts of cross-sections of three-dimensional figures to demonstrate the derivation of two-dimensional shapes.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Conic Sections: Playing With Parabolas

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Through a mixture of online exploration, and teacher instruction, students will discover how parabolas are formed and will be able to use the key components from a graph (vertex, focus and directrix,) to generate the equation of a graph.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Conic Sections: Playing With Hyperbolas

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Through a mixture of online exploration, and teacher instruction, students will discover how Hyberbolas are formed and will be able to use the key components (center, vertices and the asymptotes) to generate the equation of a graph.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Ellipse

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan is designed for an Algebra II through Pre-Calculus classes and introduces the conic section- an ellipse. In this lesson plan students explore an ellipse, the set of points in a plane such that the sum of the distances...
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University of Georgia

University of Georgia: Lessons on Parabolas

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Nine lessons on parabolas are presented here. The lessons progress from the basics of parabolas (definition, algebraic representation of parabolas) to more advanced topics (ie. tangents to parabolas, parabolas in polar form).

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