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Tessellating Tiles
Second graders Make, name and describe, using their own language and the language of geometry, everyday shapes and objects. They create and talk about geometric patterns which repeat (show translation), or which have rotational or...
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Poet-Tree (or shrub or forb)
Learners write poetry to describe a noxious weed. They form a personal relationship with, and a better comprehension of weeds. Students explain what the basic elements of a haiku are. They describe a particular weed, and comprehend...
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Broadcast from the Past
Students will be responsible for presenting (either performing live or videotaping and playing) a newscast dealing with an aspect of the Civil Rights Movement that connects to the unit topic of media and social justice. During the...
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Historical Figures
Student research a "Historical Individual" using the Internet. They print a minimum of five articles and organize them. They create a visual biography of their historical figure.
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State Symbols
Third graders examine the symbolism of the United States by observing different flags. For this U.S. History lesson, 3rd graders utilize the Internet to research state seals, flags, and other symbols that represent specific areas...
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Winding Up
Students make simple drawings to show how winding machines work. They gain knowledge of what winding mechanisms are and how they work and are assembled. This lesson is divided into whole group, individual and small group activities.
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December Celebrations
Students explore the various ways people in our country and other countries conduct celebrations during the month of December. They research the celebration they've chosen and will present this to the class.
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WorldWatcher Activity: Using Data to Investigate Issues and Solutions
Students use the WorldWatcher program to identify the issues affecting their country they have been using for these activities. In groups, they identify each issue and identify the solution or develop their own. They present their...
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Cultural "I Amm" Speech Project
Eleventh graders use the internet and other sources to research a selected individual. They explore important events, challenges, and the impact and influence the person had on US History. Using the information gathered, 11th graders...
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Biography Tea
Students. through a variety of library books on biographies, explore and assess the contributions of individuals to society. They choose one person to write a short biography on after reading their biography checked out from the library.
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Going Camping
Students explore the concept of budgeting. In this budgeting instructional activity, students pretend to have $120 to spend on camping gear for a camping trip. Students decide which items are absolutely necessary. Students calculate the...
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Choosing Where to Act
Students work together to reach a consensus about an issue. They examine a list of organizations and determine which ones meet a given set of criteria. They write supporting sentences for main ideas to end the instructional activity.
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Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Power Notes
Power Notes is a strategy that teaches students an efficient form of organizing information from assigned text. This technique provides students a systematic way to look for relationships within material they are reading. Power Notes...
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Palm Beach State College: Supporting Details Tutor Hints
A PDF giving notes and examples on major and minor supporting details and showing how they support the main idea of a text.
Paul Dawkins
Paul's Online Notes: Algebra: Graphing Functions
Detailed math tutorial features notes and examples that take a look at graphing functions including several examples of graphing piecewise functions.
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Paul's Online Notes: Complex Numbers Primer
This tutorial reviews complex numbers, notation associated with complex numbers, and the basic operations involving complex numbers. Topics examined are conjugates and moduli, polar form, exponential form, arithmetic of complex numbers,...
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Paul's Online Notes: Lamar University: Paul's Online Notes: Algebra: Rational Functions
Detailed tutorial features notes and numerous examples that illustrate how to graph rational functions.
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Paul's Online Notes: Algebra: Combining Functions
Detailed math tutorial features notes and examples that take a look at combining functions using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. It also discusses function composition. Includes practice and assignment problems.
Paul Dawkins
Paul's Online Notes: Algebra: Linear Inequalities
Detailed math tutorial features notes and examples that illustrate how to solve linear inequalities (both single and double) and also interval notation.
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Paul's Online Notes: Algebra: Lines
Detailed math tutorial features notes and examples that discuss graphing lines and introduces the concept of slope, the standard form of the line, the point-slope form, slope-intercept form, and parallel and perpendicular lines.
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Paul's Online Notes: Algebra: Absolute Value Inequalities
Detailed math tutorial features notes and examples that illustrate how to solve inequalities that involve absolute value. The process for solving inequalities with a (i.e. greater than).
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Paul's Online Notes: Algebra: Quadratic Equations Part Ii
Detailed math tutorial features notes and examples that illustrate how to solve quadratic equations using complete the square then use that to derive the quadratic formula.
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Paul's Online Notes: Algebra: Applications of Quadratic Equations
Detailed math tutorial features notes and examples that review applications involving solving a quadratic equation including distance/rate problems and work rate problems.
Paul Dawkins
Paul's Online Notes: Algebra: Circles
Detailed math tutorial features notes and examples that illustrate graphing circles.