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The Great Archeological Dig
Learners explore biology by identifying a diagram. In this cell anatomy lesson, students read a story about archeology and conduct a fictitious archeology dig in class in which they search for animal cells. Learners define a list of...
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Soil Testing and Texturing
Students are introduced to soil textures and why they are important in examining soil quality. They find out how to feel the difference between soil textures. Pupils describe which soil texture is best for gardens and growing healthy...
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The Energy Grab Game
Eighth graders explore the scarcity of energy resources. They also explore the competition for natural resources and the inadequate distribution of natural wealth among the Earth's nations.
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Sitting on Nails-Boyle's Law
Students experience pressure as a force per unit area in this experiment with a board of nails. In this physics lesson, students discover Boyle's law as they perform experiments with pressure.
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The 45678 Problem
In this algebra activity, students solve a word problems using subtraction. They answer must contain a specific number in the final answer. There is an answer key.
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Moving-Math Hopscotch
Students engage in a hopscotch game where each square represents a number. In this mental math and movement lesson plan, students take turns playing traditional hopscotch, but add a mental math component where they add or subtract...
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Rays and Angles
Students view examples of a ray, opposite rays, collinear rays, angles, and straight angles. They discuss and demonstrate how to use a protractor and complete worksheet problems on rays and angles.
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Computation with Real and Complex Numbers
In this computation with real and complex numbers worksheet, students use addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to solve 26 problems with complex numbers to win a bingo game.
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Great Tasting Shapes
Fifth graders investigate the concept of median, mode, and range using a simple model for display purposes. They examine different shaped crackers out of a box and identify the ones that occur the most. Then the calculations for the...
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Patterns, Functions & Algebra
Students participate in numerous activities and games. In pairs, they play card games to find relationships between a random set of playing cards. After writing samples of Dear Abby letters concerning math problems, students create a...
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Around and Around We Go
Fourth graders discover that a polygon is a closed figure formed by line segments, and that the perimeter of a polygon is the sum of the lengths of its sides. They utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to gain lots of practice with...
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Tasters' Choice
Students taste foods, some of which are familiar foods and some of which are uncommon foods. They compare and contrast the tastes and graph their likes and dislikes.
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The Physics Professor
Help mathematicians see that a formula found in a physics book has an algebraic structure. Though the formula given in the resource looks complicated, learners are to break down the expressions and interpret each part separately....
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Booster (pg.12)
In this addition, subtraction and multiplication instructional activity, students fill in 3 numbers on a card so that each side of the square adds up to 90. Students fill in 2 circles with 2 numbers so that the total of all 4 numbers in...
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Having Fun Working with Fractions
Students participate in various activities that increase their understanding of and ability to solve problems with fractions.
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Translating Word Expressions to Algebraic Expressions
In this translating worksheet, students read a word sentence, and then translate it to an algebraic equation. Fifteen problems are provided on this one-page worksheet. Answers are provided on the right-side of the page.
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Booster (pg.10)
In this addition and subtraction worksheet, students work out and answer 2 word problems, answer 2 short answer problems and fill in the missing 4 digits in one addition and one subtraction problem.
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Factoring Completely
In this algebra activity, students factor out polynomials using the GCF. They identify special patterns or formula and factor those out first. There are 11 polynomial problems of different degrees.
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Self Space
Second graders investigate how to differentiate between self-space and general space of themselves and others.
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How Do You Pay a Complement to an Angle?
Young scholars observe and solve examples of the complementary angle theorem. They complete the How Do You Pay a Complement to an Angle worksheet, and write a response in their math journal.
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Picket Fence Around the Garden
Students design different shaped plots and determine the perimeter, area and shape of each. They compare the shapes that have the same area but may have different perimeters.
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Functional Analysis
Students perform functional analysis. In this pre-calculus lesson plan, students recognize the different elements of a function, graph a function and analyze it. They synthesize composites of other basic functions.
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Equations Worksheet
In this math activity, students create and solve equations with the help of Algebra Tiles. Then they apply formulas for geometry to find the perimeter of a polygon.
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SAT Grid Ins Practice Test 3
In this SAT grid in worksheet, students solve 10 practice SAT type problems. Students determine average, volume of prisms, sum of angles, etc.