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A Rounding Review
Fourth graders review rounding to the nearest ten, hundred, and thousand with this fun lesson centered around a visit to the computer lab.
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Jazz Festival
Sixth graders answer a list of questions giving a price list using their addition, multiplication, division and subtraction skills. They use a worksheet based on the Jazz Fest.
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What Do I Really Have to Gain?
Second graders further develop simple addition facts and their ability to record the facts.
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Dog Salmon Lesson Two
Students identify the inside parts of a dog salmon in English and Athabascan. They weigh each part of the salmon and determine the percentage of the whole that the part represents.
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Who's Going to the Convention?
Learners practice planning budgets as they create a budget for ten employees of a company to attend a professional convention. They use the Internet, and spreadsheet software to complete their assignment.
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"Slice of Pi with Neo-Excel"
Middle schoolers explore diameter, radius, and circumference. They define radius, diameter, and circumference on an online dictionary, identify objects in the room with a radius and a diameter, and calculate the radius and diameter of...
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Calculating the shortest distance between two points
Eighth graders find the length of the third side of a right triangle.
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Calculating the Shortest Distance Between Two Points
Ninth graders calculate the distance between two points.
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Foreign Stamps
Eighth graders convert the price of US stamps to those of a number of foreign currencies. They use conversion charts to make the changes.
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How Does Radon Get Into Your Home?
Middle schoolers complete an experiment in which they measure the radon level in their home. They examine the different types of units of measurement and practice using them throughout the activity. They calculate surface area on objects...
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Black Bayou Lake Measures Up
Students, in groups, estimate measurments and then select the tools needed and measure various items at Black Bayou Lake refuge.
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Calculus
Students make an inquiry with the aid of technology into the concept of functions. The emphasis of the lesson is on the interplay between the geometric and analytic information.
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What Does Waste Do to a River?
Learners develop a graphic way of visualizing the concept of a million by utilizing what had happened to the Nashua River due to the dumping of raw sewage in 1962.
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Rice (Gohan) Observations
Second graders investigate rice or gohan as it's called in Japan in a couple of experiments. They tally the results.
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Basketball And Mathematics
Eighth graders collect and analyze data about foul shots taken at basketball games.
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Constructing a Spectroscope
Students construct a simple spectroscope. They observe the emission spectrum produce by a source of light.
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Reflection of Light With Two Plane Mirrors- Double Mirrors Placed at a Number of Angles
Students place two plane mirrors at different angles to experiment with reflection. They make kaleidoscopes and periscopes.
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Finding the Percent of a Number in Fish Body Weight
Students use fractions to find the weight of fish. They use percentages to determine the correct amount to feed them. They organize their data into a graph and shares with the class.
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Simply Similar at Sea: Simple Triangles
Tenth graders answer a variety of problems based on similar triangle and learn about the rule of thumb. They will test the rule of thumb by estimating the distance to an object in the classroom.
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Virtual Field Trip/ Gasoline Cost
Students complete a word problem to determine the cost of gasoline per mile of their virtual field trip. They determine the travel time and gasoline costs for two routes and record the information on a data sheet. They check their work...
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Seeing Doubles
Pupils work with dominoes to recognize the number of spots on each side as they relate to addition facts. In this seeing doubles instructional activity, students make triangle shaped flash cards for the double facts. Pupils represent the...
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Wild and Wetlands
Upper graders identify the major characteristics of a wetland. They explore the human factors that change a wetland and write a descriptive paragraph about wetlands. This comprehensive lesson also has an interactive "Watershed Game"...
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Soils
Young scholars apply knowledge of soil, environmental impacts, economics, multiple human demands, and use given data for a proposed scenario in making land use decisions. They debate land use issues and/or scenarios and discuss a case...
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Mapping River Statistics
Students research different statistics to do with the Mississippi River. They answer questions about finding data and collect it by conducting research. The research is used to construct a data table. Then students use the table to...