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With Liberty and Justice for All
Fifth graders identify and define in their own words the first ten amendments to the Constitution. They are assigned a CDV or amendment from the Bill of Rights and create and present a one-minute skit demonstrating it.
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Our Favorite Pet
Students each have a turn, telling the class his or her favorite pet. The choices are cat, dog, fish or bird. Using the computer, the information from the tally be recorded on a spreadsheet and bar graph.
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Review for the Algebra One SOLs
Students review the standards for Algebra I. Using the text, they discover two problems that match each standard and solve them showing all steps on paper. They create a PowerPoint slide for each problem and go through the correct...
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Combined Gas Law
Students learn the combined gas law, undersand how it incorporates all of the different relationships that they have already learned, and manipulate it to solve numberical problems.
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Little Magic Squares
Students and teacher talk about arrays of numbers like the ones in A Square of Circles. They check to see that the rows all have the same sum; that the columns all have the same sum; and that the diagonals have the same sum.
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Squares Have Roots?
Young scholars define a square and connect this information to a square root. For this square root lesson, students make a chart listing square numbers and their roots.
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Inside the Vault-Employment Growth in America: What Determines Good Jobs?
Students examine employment growth and the economy. After a teacher lead discussion, students explore types of jobs and their correlation with education level. Job qualifications for both high-paying and low-paying careers are researched.
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Floaters and Sinkers
Fifth graders define density as the amount of mass per volume a material contains, compare the densities of several types of materials, especially those that sink in water compared to those that float. They use two different methods to...
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Exponential Functions: Half Life and Doubling Time
Students investigate the concept of exponential functions and how they increase in size over time. They simplify the functions in order to find the solutions that are possible and perform analysis of the curved line that is produced when...
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How Many Regular Polyhedrons Are There In This or Any Universe?
Students examine the idea of "regularity" as it pertains to geometry. In this geometry lesson students complete several assignments that are part of trihedral angles and regular polyhedrons.
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Absolute Monarchs and Constitutional Monarchs
For this absolute monarchs and constitutional monarchs study guide worksheet, students read a brief overview pertaining to the topic and then respond to a reflection question.
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Create your own thermometer
Students participate in an activity where they build a calibrated thermometer. In this thermometer lesson students complete this activity and take notes.
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Building Paper Bridges
Students construct a bridge that can hold 100 pennies. In this math lesson plan, students evaluate the strength of their bridges. They predict how much weight a bridge can hold based on its design.
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Pattern Using Unit Cells
Pupils explore the pattern of the unit cell. In this science lesson, students color the unit cells on a worksheet and create a pattern using unit cells.
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It's a Party! Solving Multi-step Equations
Students explore the concept of multi-step equations. In the multi-step equation lesson, students solve equations by the 'party method'. Students make a flip book that shows the steps in solving multi-step equations.
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How Light Moves
Students study the movement of light. For this light lesson, students work in groups to participate in a light and shadow walk around their neighborhood. Students brainstorm rules for light movement and watch videos about light travel,...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Fortune Properties
This lesson plan teaches learners how to recognize and apply the Identity Property and Equality Properties by simplifying algebraic expressions.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Properties of Equality and Congruence
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Use equality and congruence properties.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Properties of Equality
This video lesson reviews the properties of equality and demonstrates how to use them to solve equations. Students can check their understanding with an assessment.
Math Planet
Math Planet: Algebra 1: Properties of Equalities
Provides examples and a video lesson that illustrates the properties of equalities.
Texas A&M University
Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Beginning Algebra: Addition Property of Equality
A nice tutorial on using the addition property of equality. Provides 4 different example problems that are worked through step-by-step and also provides some practice problems.
Math.com
Math.com: The Basics of Algebra: Properties of Real Numbers
Students learn about the properties of real numbers through this algebra resource. A learning tutorial and practice problems to check for comprehension of the math concepts are included.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Geometry: Properties of Equality and Congruence
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept reviews properties of equality and congruence.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Algebra: Expressions and the Distributive Property
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Use the distributive property to write equivalent numerical and algebraic expressions