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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Looking for Pythagoras Lesson 2

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this second installment, students are tasked to determine the fastest route between two sets of coordinates on a grid, determine the total number of blocks a land vehicle must travel, and find the...
Interactive
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Jefferson Lab: Looking for the Top Quark

For Students 6th - 8th
In Looking for the Top Quark, each player receives six quarks that they hide on a grid. The players use coordinates to find their opponent's hidden quarks. The first player to find all six of their opponent's quarks wins!
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Drawing Polygons With Coordinates

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Practice drawing shapes on the coordinate plane. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Lesson Plan
Harvard University

Harvard University: Maps and Mapping

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This site is provided for by Harvard University. Students follow a map on a scavenger hunt, create a map of their classroom and their town, learn how to read topographic maps, and discover latitude and longitude in these inquiry activities.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Calculating Distance Using the Pythagorean Theorem

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This interactive exercise focuses on using the Pythagorean Theorem to calculate distance and plotting points on a Cartesian grid.
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Other

Math Mammoth: Children's Best Activities: Copy the Pictures

For Students 2nd - 4th
A collection of animal pictures with grid overlays for drawing practice. Students copy an image by drawing the contents of each square of the grid into a matching square on a second blank grid next to the picture. Each activity can be...
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University of Waterloo (Canada)

University of Waterloo: Cemc: Geometry and Spatial Sense: Transformations [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Accompanied by links to online activities and demonstrations, middle schoolers learn about the different types of transformations on a coordinate grid through this lesson plan. The lesson is designed to match the Grade 7 Ontario...
Lesson Plan
University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Introduction to Slope for Middle Years Mathematics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This collection of five middle school math lessons covers the topic of plane geometry, specifically the concept of slope. The first lesson introduces students to plotting points on a Cartesian grid using a Geoboard. Lesson two moves them...
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: A Cartesian Puzzle

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This one page website lets you practice plotting points on the coordinate grid. See if you can find the missing coordinates to complete the shapes. When you are finished the solutions are only a click away.
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Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Wrecks Factor: Factor Simple and Harder Quadratics

For Students 9th - 10th
In this game, you must send rescuers to ships trapped in the Bermuda Triangle by first decoding their coordinates that were given to you as quadratic expressions. As you decode the coordinates, you must draw a search area on a grid that...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Graphing Coordinates

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn step by step how to graph coordinates on a coordinate plane.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Practice: Rotate Points

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
In this set of questions, students use an interactive tool to rotate objects on a Cartesian grid. Help is available through hints and videos.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Practice: Reflect Points

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
In this set of questions, students practice using an interactive tool to reflect images on a Cartesian grid. Includes hints.
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Scholastic

Scholastic Instructor: Hip Hip Hooray for the 100th Day!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Scholastic.com provides a reproducible coordinate grid activity on a 100 grid to help your students celebrate the 100th day of school.
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Texas State Historical Association

Texas State Historical Association: Texas in Conflict, 1900 1920 [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 8th
An activity guide where students refer to the Texas Almanac, which is free to download, for information needed to complete assigned tasks. In this lesson, students read a section on Texas history between 1900-1920 and find the answers...