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Suspension Bridges: Connecting Lives

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore bridges.  In this bridge lesson, students design and build a suspension bridge after visiting related websites and reviewing famous bridges in non-fiction books.  Middle schoolers follow the...
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An Introduction to Sequences

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders are introduced to arithmetic and geometric sequences. In this mathematics lesson, 4th graders produce a variety of sequences by varying the starting number, multiplier, and the add-on number.
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Anything I Can Do You Can Do Better

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students complete a two-week unit involving design and construction concepts. They watch a PowerPoint presentation about geometric shapes, draw the fourteen shapes incorporated in bridge construction, and in small groups design, build,...
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Beautiful Butterfly Tiles

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create a butterfly drawing that includes the elements of art and principles of design. They create artwork that can be made into ceramic tiles to be installed around the classroom doorways in our new addition.
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Lost Treasures of Tibet: Mandalas

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students examine the history of mandalas from Tibet. After reviewing the Designing a Mandala handout, they use geometric symmetrical shapes to create their own examples. Next, they write poems or essays and explain the meaning of the...
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Symmetry and Symbols

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students identify symmetrical and congruent elements in folk art. In this art and geometry lesson plan, students examine pictures of Masonic Plaque in the Form of a Royal Arch Tracing Board for evidence of congruent and symmetrical...
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Mandalas, Polygons and Symmetry

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students create a geometric pattern using mandalas, polygons and symmetry. For this geometry lesson, students analyze the mathematics involved in making the mandalas, including the shapes and symmetry. Students create their own mandalas...
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Symmetry in Paper Airplanes

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore symmetry.  In this geometry and scientific inquiry lesson, students design paper airplanes with middle line symmetry, as well as right, obtuse, and acute angles.  Students measure the plane's angles using a...
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Getting the Goods on Graphing

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students explore graphing. In this math lesson plan, students graph ordered pairs in the coordinate plane, write the coordinates of points shown on a plane, and create designs or pictures using ordered pairs.
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Grade 5: Testing for Tessellations

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use formal geometric language to describe polygons (and other shapes) that will tessellate the plane and those that will not. Students make generalizations about the characteristics of a polygon (or other shape) that will...
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Don't Fence Me In

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners examine historical information about the development of barbed wire and practice identifying geometric terms. After reading through background information, they participate in several activities that include making calculations...
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Coordinate Connections

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders complete several activities that involve coordinates and graph paper. They visualize and identify geometric shapes after applying transformations on a coordinate plane. Finally, 6th graders draw and label a coordinate...
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Bubbles: Science or Fun?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn through bubbles. In this science lesson plan, students test the effect of four differently shape wands and three geometric figures in a bubble mixture.
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Buildings in Our Community: What Do You See?

For Teachers K
Students investigate the architecture in their hometown by visiting buildings.  In this geometry lesson, students examine buildings through photographs and explain the different geometric shapes found in the architecture....
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Math Challenges

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students participate in a series of challenging math lessons designed to engage their critical thinking skills. In these real-world problem solving lessons, student solve symmetry and repeated pattern problems, make lists/tables to...
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Math Challenges

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students engage their critical thinking skills to solve challenging math problems. In these problem solving lessons, student work with tessellations, weights/measurement, reasoning, surface area, geometric shapes, and algebraic procedures.
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African Mask

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students make masks. In this African art instructional activity, students review background information about African art and the use of masks. Students use geometric shapes and other designs to create their masks.
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New Yourk State Testing Program

For Students 5th - 6th
In this math activity, students review algebraic and geometric concepts as they review for the final exam of 6th grade. There are 35 questions.    
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New York State Testing Programs Mathematics Test

For Students 5th - 7th
In this math learning exercise, students review algebraic and geometric concepts as they review for the final exam of 6th grade. There are 35 questions.
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Quilt Squared

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study West Virginia quilts. In this mathematics lesson plan, students use symmetry, geometric shapes, and patterns to create their own quilt square.
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Bedroom Redecoration Project

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
In this bedroom redecoration project, your young mathematicians become interior designers. They plan, draw, and determine finances for the project. They apply their knowledge of working with decimals, geometric shapes, and problem...
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Printmaking for Grades K-2

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students design and create their own stamps as well as practice the art of printmaking. They cut a variety of shapes from "Easy-cut foam" and glue them to a cardboard base to create their print.
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This Is My Home

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners listen to a read aloud of Mary Ann Hoberman's A House Is a House for Me before discussing the meaning of habitats and the different types of homes that people live in. Next, they pretend to be architects and design a home for...
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Castles and Cornerstones

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students become familiar with the style of architecture of medieval times.  In this architecture lesson, students design a model of a medieval castle including its cornerstone. Students understand scale in their representation.

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