National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network
What’s In Your Neighborhood?
Chart your way to an understanding of nanoscale. Using a Google map, learners estimate a radius around their location of 1,000 and 1,000,000 meters. Predicting what 1,000,000,000 meters would look like takes them off the charts!...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Convert Customary Units of Length
Sports fans will really enjoy this unit conversion assignment. A table of standard measurements for football-related equipment is presented as the data for solving six word problems. For all of the problems, players will need to convert...
Teach Engineering
It's Tiggerific!
Spring into elastic potential energy with a instructional activity that provides background information on determining the elastic potential energy of springs and other elastic materials. General energy equations emphasize the...
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Dependence of Light Intensity on Distance
Hopefully you have a sensor interface for your physics class to use with graphing calculators when collecting data with a light sensor. If so, read on. Use this resource for learners to predict and then test whether or not the intensity...
Illustrative Mathematics
Margie Buys Apples
One of the most common, everyday applications of math is dealing with money. This single problem calculating how much change Margie receives is more involved than it appears at first glance. An understanding of how fractions and decimals...
Pearson
The Present of Be: Statements and Yes/No Questions
To be or not to be? That's not the question in this presentation, but it features ways to use the forms of to be in other questions. A great addition to your grammar unit.
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The Influence of Hip Hop
Learners consider the influence of Hip Hop on their own language use and various segments of American society; they reflect on and demonstrate their knowledge of Hip Hop vocabulary and its use.
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Teaching Social Studies in English
Case studies, an examination of images, and readings of passages from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child are used to spark conversations in ESL/ELD social studies classes about this highly-charged topic. Using a variety of...
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Metric Units of Mass and Capacity - Practice 6.5
In this metric instructional activity, students complete conversions, choose best measures for given items, then solve comparisons and 2 test prep questions. Houghton Mifflin text is referenced.
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Black Tiger Academy Martial Arts Fitness Unit – Lesson 18
“There are no short cuts to any place worth going."—Beverly Sills. Black Tiger Academy’s martial arts instructional activity 18 of 20 focuses on goal setting. Discuss the difference between short-term goals and long-term goals. Then...
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Purposes of Dating
So many options are included here for you to help your class explore dating, relationships, and types of love. These lessons are becoming more and more important due to media influences, so choose one of the 10 options to guide your...
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The Unit Factor and Dimensional Analysis
In this unit factor and dimensional analysis worksheet, students read about how to convert from one unit to another using unit factors and how to work with square units and cubic units using dimensional analysis. They practice solving...
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Mind Your Pints and Quarts: Making Sense of Liquid Measurement
Students convert among liquid measurement units. In this measurement lesson, students use Visual Thesaurus to gather information about customary units for liquid measure such as cup, pint, and quart, then students practice converting...
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Find the Ratio of Given Units
In this ratio instructional activity, students find the ratio of the given units. The units include centimeters, days, and inches. There are six ratio problems for students to complete.
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Unit Conversions
In this unit conversions worksheet, students convert units such as kilometers, meters, centimeters, feet, hours, and minutes. Students complete 22 problems.
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Unit Conversions
Eighth graders identify the different types of measurements and the instruments used to measure each type. After taking notes, they complete a bubble chart to examine the conversion between the units. To end the lesson, they practice...
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Time Conversions
In this online math worksheet, students make conversions between days, weeks, hours, minutes and seconds. When complete, students submit their answers and get instant feedback regarding their accuracy.
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Convert A Larger Metric Unit To A Smaller One
For this metric conversion worksheet, students solve 12 problems in which larger metric units are converted to smaller ones. Included are metric conversions of length and weight. No examples are provided.
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Unit Conversion Exercises
In this unit conversion and radiation worksheet, students are given a chart with basic unit conversions for calculating radiation dosages. Students use the conversion factors to solve 7 problems.
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Fraction Conversion 2 (With Percents)
Fifth graders determine how to convert fractions, decimals, and percents. For this conversion lesson, 5th graders use an on-line applet to practice making these conversions. They review how to make the conversions in a whole class lesson...
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Unit Fraction Problem
In this algebra worksheet, learners rewrite word problems using the unit fraction conversion method. They follow clues to determine the values of each letter and answer the question. There is an answer key.
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Units of Measure
In this units of measure worksheet, students mentally convert measured units within the metric system. This three-page worksheet contains two-pages. Answers are provided beside each question.
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Formulas of Common Acids
For this chemistry worksheet, students write the formula for the given ten names of the common acids. The acids include chloric, boric, and oxalic.
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Breaking News English: Weapons of Mass Destruction
In this weapons of mass destruction worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion...