Amateur Athletic Foundation
Olympic Lingo
Instead of bingo, why not play some Lingo? This vocabulary game is just like bingo, but it's all about words and focuses on building vocabulary. The resource provides a blank Lingo card, a filled-in sample, and a vocabulary list. All of...
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Inclined Plane 1
In this scientific investigation worksheet, students follow the provided procedures to create an inclined plane paper model and then respond to 1 short answer question.
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1 VS the Mob
Students prepare to become the first to cover four adjacent products, horizontally, vertically or diagonally by selecting factors that make the needed products. They play this game to acquire a healthy appetite for competition between...
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Flag Folding
Students study the effects of combining, subdividing, and changing basic shapes to figure out the official method for folding the US flag. They complete a prediction sheet to determine how to get the flag folded so that only the blue...
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Brian's Pegboard II
Students are able to assess a problem and use systematic methods to solve the problem. They also find out all the possible outcomes for a sequence of events using tree diagrams.
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Accordion Book
Learners make an accordion book to show information that is associated with a particular learning event. In this accordion book lesson, students follow paper-folding directions to make the book. They fill the book with key facts and...
Union County Vocational Technical Schools
Engineering Drawing
Knowing the basics of drafting allows individuals to create drawings that show all the views and measurements necessary to allow others to visualize the original object. Pupils gain experience by drawing three orthographic views of an...
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Algebra Tic-Tac-Times
Use the strategy of working backwards to practice factoring polynomials and multiplying binomials in a game format. Play, and work to find which products combined with the available factors will result in the placement of four tokens in...
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Principles of Square Roots Lesson Plan
Middle and high schoolers investigate all the different places in math that square root is present. In this geometry lesson, pupils discuss square roots as it relates to a right triangle and construction. They go over altitude, rise,...
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Calculator Tricks: The Golden Prediction
Excite the class with a mathematical trick, a calculator, and a good number sense. They use the directions provided on each slide to make a list of numbers, use their calculator to divide, and find the golden mean. A little history on...
Illustrative Mathematics
Area of a Trapezoid
Here is a straightforward example of how to apply the Pythagorean Theorem to find an unknown side-length of a trapezoid. Commentary gives additional information on proving that the inside of the trapezoid is a rectangle, but is...
Virginia Department of Education
Adding and Subtracting Fractions
Your learners will enjoy playing a game as a motivator to learning and remembering the adding and subtracting of fractions.
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Getting It Right!
Pupils construct right triangles, measuring the sides and recording the measurements in spreadsheets. They analyze their measurements for patterns and research the Internet for information on Pythagoras.
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Magazine Holder
Students investigate ways to save our environment by creating a recycled product. In this sustainable materials lesson, students create a magazine holder by recycling a large cardboard box and gift wrap or wallpaper. Students explore...
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Around The Stop Sign
Students analyze a drawing of a regular octagon inscribed in a circle to determine angle measures, using knowledge of properties of regular polygons and the sums of angles in various polygons to help solve the problem. They use...
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Matrix Review
In this matrices worksheet, students solve 4 multi-step matrices problems. Students multiply matrices, find the determinant, inverse matrices, etc.
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Determinants: 2x2 and 3x3 Matrices
For this Algebra II worksheet, 11th graders find the determinant of 2x2 or 3x3 matrix and use the determinant to find the inverse of the matrix. The two page worksheet contains explanation of topic, a worked example, and three practice...
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Calendar Counting
Students demonstrate how to count by 2's. For this number sense lesson, students review skip counting on the hundreds chart and recognize the pattern of counting by 2's. Students use a reproducible of a calendar to color in the days as...
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Learning to Listen
Students examine communication and how to be a better listener. For this social skills lesson students complete several listening exercises.
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Science: Handwritten Personality
Pupils watch an episode of "Frontiers" and discover the scientific basis for handwriting analysis. In the video, they discover how size, shape, and slant of handwriting suggest personality traits. After a discussion, students offer...
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Finding a Line of Best Fit
Pupils engage in the practice of creating a scatter plot with the data obtained from measuring different resting heart rates. The data is used to create the table that is translated into a graph. The lesson gives instructions for the use...
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Technical Terms from Reading: Learning to Ski
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students answer 9 fill in the blank questions regarding a passage regarding skiing skills.
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Toothpick Art
Students review primary colors and practice making straight lines. In this visual arts lesson plan, students paint simple shapes as large as a toothpick, using specific primary colors. During the construction of the shapes students are...
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Trig Tic-Tac-Times
In this trigonometry worksheet, students play a skill review game that involves the problem solving strategy of working backward. The game is similar to tic-tac-toe using the trigonometric ratios. The one page worksheet provides the...