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Plate Tectonics: First Grade Lesson Plans and Activities

For Teachers 1st Standards
A set of first grade geology lessons focuses on plate tectonics and movement of plate boundaries. During the pre-lab, learners experience three types of plate movement through a kinesthetic demonstration. The lab...
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Earthquakes: Fifth Grade Lesson Plans and Activities

For Teachers 5th
After learning about P waves and S waves, fifth graders view the intensity of earthquakes by examining seismographs and images of earthquake damage. Young scientists then forecasting future quakes by analyzing data about...
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Happy Lesson: The Earth's Crust

For Teachers 5th - 7th
This PowerPoint provides a multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank format for reviewing vocabulary and related content following an "earth's crust" science unit. The information is concise and age-appropriate and the font and colors are...
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The Mystery of the Disappearing Tracks

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders watch as the teacher projects a series of pictures on the wall showing bird tracks heading toward each other but not meeting, two tracks converging into one, and two tracks converging and then being scuffed up. They write...
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Challenge Sheet 9: Improper Integrals

For Students Higher Ed
In this integral worksheet, students evaluate improper integrals, use a convergence test to determine if the integral will converge or diverge and consider the area of a region bounded by a polygon. This one-page worksheet contains...
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Spherical Mirrors

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Young scholars view images in a spherical mirror and interpret the path of light. In this physics lesson, students view a large spherical mirror demonstrated by the instructor. They use shiny serving spoons to investigate the path...
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Plate Tectonics

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students watch a video about plate tectonics. in this Earth Science lesson plan, students watch a video clip from Bill Nye about Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics. They make a slight crack in a hard boiled egg and manipulate the egg...
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Introduction to Taylor Series

For Students Higher Ed
In this Taylor Series instructional activity, students explore functions with an infinite series. They complete an integral of convergence and explore the degree of the polynomials. This four-page instructional activity contains four...
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Basic Calculus II: Quiz 7

For Students Higher Ed
In this improper integrals worksheet, students explain the reasons each of three integrals may be considered improper. They evaluate each by determining if it converges to a number or diverges.
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Taylor Series

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this Calculus activity, students use Taylor's inequality to show that the series converges to sin(x). The two page activity contains seven questions. Answers are not included.
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All About Continental Drift

For Students 5th - 10th
In this earth science worksheet, students identify and locate vocabulary terms related to continental drift and geography. There are 54 words located in the puzzle.
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Introduction to Infinite Series

For Students Higher Ed
In this infinite series instructional activity, students explore the pattern in a series of numbers. They solve a sequence of partial sums and identify the limit. This two-page instructional activity contains explanations, examples and...
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Contemporary Workplace Inequalities

For Students Higher Ed
In this Contemporary Workplace worksheet, students answer questions about the differences for males and females in the workplace, then they fill in a chart about the labor market.
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What Happens on Average

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders are introduced to convergence of sequences based on averaging previous terms in the sequence. The power of the "fill-down" function in spreadsheets is exploited. By using various starting numbers, and inferring the limit,...
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Light and Optics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discover the relationship between lens shape and the formation of images in an experiment. They use three different size converging lenses and a diverging lens to calculate and compare the focal length of each. They graph and...
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Basic Calculus II: Quiz 8

For Students Higher Ed
In this infinite series worksheet, students use comparisons to determine convergence for improper integrals. They use the integral test for infinite series. Students state the reasons they believe a given integral is converging or...
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Series Review VI

For Students Higher Ed
In this college level calculus worksheet, students use the ratio test to determine if  a seriesconverges or diverges.  The two page worksheet contains six practice problems.  Answers are not included. 
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Mirrors and Lenses

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students identify the characteristics of mirrors and lenses. In groups, they describe the types of images formed by converging and diverging mirrors and calculate the magnification of a spherical mirror. They follow the same procedure...
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Worksheet 15: Integrals

For Students Higher Ed
In this integral worksheet, students identify improper integrals as convergent or divergent. They compute the area and volume of regions bounded by a graph. This two-page worksheet contains approximately twenty-five problems. This is...
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Action at Plate Boundaries

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars diagram the spreading of the ocean floor. In this earth science lesson plan, students read an article on plate boundaries of the ocean. Young scholars are expected to diagram the oceanic convergent...
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Review of Calculus BC II

For Students 11th - 12th
In this Calculus worksheet, students assess their understanding of various topics, including the derivatives of trigonometric functions, evaluating integrals, sigma notation, and convergent and divergent series.  The one page...
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Discussion Sheet 10: Improper Integrals

For Students Higher Ed
In this improper integral worksheet, students compute improper integrals, they determine finite improper integrals, and find the area of a region bounded by graphs. Students compute the arc length of a curve on the indicated interval. ...
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A Look at the Geological History

For Students 6th - 8th
In this geological history worksheet, students draw a cartoon strip to sequence how the North American continent grew. Students use information about continental drift to sequence events of how the different continents were formed.
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Using DNA to Explore Lizard Phylogeny

For Teachers 6th - 12th
In a fun and interactive two-day lesson, learners sort anole lizard pictures by appearance. Next, they watch a video about the anoles and re-sort based on the information in the video. In addition to physical characteristics, budding...

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