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Let's Take a Spin: One-Axis Rotation

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Investigate the effect of one-axis rotations on geometric figures. Scholars learn to use snap cubes and the right-hand rule to draw figures after rotations about the x-, y-, or z-axes. They try their hands at examples created by the...
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Virginia Department of Education

Attributes of a Rectangular Prism

For Teachers 7th
A change is coming. Pupils use unit cubes to investigate how changes in the length, width, and/or height affects volume and surface area. They extend the results to write and test predictions on the effect of changing multiple sides on...
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Biography Project: Research and Class Presentation

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
I Have A Dream ... that after the lesson, all individuals master the reading, writing, researching, listening, and speaking skills the biography project helps them develop. Martin Luther King, Jr. serves as a topic example for a model...
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Curated OER

Spatial Relationships

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the geometry concept of spatial relationships. They draw a replica of a cube. Students list the planes on the cube and go into further depth with identifying the parallel line in segments of the cube. The...
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Curated OER

Surface Area and Volume

For Students 6th - 7th
In this surface area and volume worksheet, students identify and complete each of 20 problems containing a different sized cube. First, they determine the surface area of each cube given the dimensions for height and/or width. Then,...
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Curated OER

TE Activity: The Boxes Go Mobile

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers create a mobile of boxes and cubes that they made in a previous lesson that can be accessed from this page. They design the mobile using method that an engineer would use to balance the items based on surface areas and...
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Curated OER

Three-dimensional Shapes

For Students 6th
In this three-dimensional shapes worksheet, 6th graders identify and complete 4 different questions that include various types of three-dimensional shapes. First, they identify the shape illustrated as it relates to a cube. Then,...
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Curated OER

Ways to Make 7 and 8

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this adding to seven and eight word problem worksheet, students use cubes to total numbers. Students solve six word problems.
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Curated OER

Various Volumes

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this volume activity, students create different sized cubes and compare the sizes by pouring sand from one cube into another. Students follow 4 directions and reflect on their findings.
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Curated OER

Nets

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this cube worksheet, students work with nets of a cube and determine which net makes an cube. Students answer 7 questions.
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Curated OER

Investigating: Finding the Volume

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore geometry by utilizing colored cubes in class. In this volume lesson plan, 6th graders identify the different shapes they can create using their colored cubes and identify the formula for finding volume. Students...
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Curated OER

Civil War

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars explore the Civil War.  In this U.S. Civil War U.S. history lesson plan, students participate in a cubing activity in which a variety of Civil War projects are described on a paper cube.  Young scholars roll the...
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Curated OER

Incomplete Plans

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students practice constructing a building utilizing snap cubes and an incomplete building plan and draw the missing view. They identify and compare relationships in two and three-dimensional representations/objects. Each student explains...
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Curated OER

Multicultural Holidays

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Learners create a cube exploring different holiday traditions. In this multicultural appreciation lesson plan, students research Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Kwanzaa holiday traditions. This lesson plan encourages the use of an...
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Curated OER

Graph the Dots

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this beginning graphing worksheet, learners roll two dot cubes of one color and two of another color. Students count the dots for each color and record the data on the graph.
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Curated OER

Making Patterns

For Teachers K
Students utilize skittles and unifix cubes to practice the recognition and creation of a variety of patterns. The created patterns are copied onto sheets and the colors are labeled.
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Curated OER

Subtracting Whole Numbers

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice subtracting numbers by using a visual aide.  In this number sense lesson, 2nd graders complete whole number subtraction problems by utilizing manipulative cubes to visualize the equation.  Students...
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Curated OER

Symmetry with Manipulatives

For Teachers 1st
First graders investigate symmetry in patterns by utilizing unifix cubes.  In this pattern lesson, 1st graders practice creating patterns that are perfectly symmetrical no matter which way it's looked at.  Students utilize...
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Curated OER

Family Names

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this fact family worksheet, learners examine a blank math cube with 10 squares. Students color some cubes red and some blue, then write a fact family for the numbers.
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Curated OER

Melt the Ice

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars examine and discuss how water changes from a liquid to a solid to a gas. They explore this concept by having an ice cube race, competing to see which group can change the solid water back into liquid water first.
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Curated OER

Make A Thunderstorm!

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create a thunderstorm by putting ice cubes and food coloring into a container and observe what happens to the food coloring. In this thunderstorm lesson plan, students discuss the cause and effects of thunderstorms and then...
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Curated OER

Measuring Lines

For Students K - 1st
In this measuring worksheet, students determine the length of lines using multilink cubes. Students measure seven different lengths.
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Curated OER

Dew and Frost

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this dew and frost instructional activity, students complete an activity including water, ice cubes, rock salt and more to see the difference between dew and frost. Students also answer 3 questions.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Mathematics Teacher September 2002

For Students 4th - 10th
In this algebra lesson, students analyze and play with a trimagic square. They play a game through addition and squaring and cubing. 

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