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Mathematical Models with Applications: The Sounds of Music

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students use an electronic data-collection device to model the sound produced by a guitar string. They identify the graph of a periodic situation and use the graph to determine the period and frequency of sound waves.
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Introduction to Verbs

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students are introduced to a variety of new verbs. In groups, they practice conjugating the verbs and illustrate how they change forms based on subject and time period they are being used. After copying a paragraph, they identify all...
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Orienteering - The Fundamentals

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students investigate the concept of a compass and it has been used in the past and in modern times. They practice using it in the wilderness in order to test its importance in various exploring activities. Each activity is accompanied by...
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She Needs Less Shell

For Students 1st Standards
Supply your pupils with some practice of the short /e/ sound. They read brief poem that includes several examples of words that include this sound. Once they are finished reading, class members respond to three reading comprehension...
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Circles of My Multicultural Self

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners identify what they consider to be the most important dimensions of their own identity, and examine stereotypes.
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Sowing Seeds: the Beginning of the Fast Plant Life Cycle

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students plant seeds, observe and tend plants. They identify major plant parts, how to germinate and troubleshoot problems with plants; and, that plants need water, light, and soil nutrients to thrive. They create a Plant Growth Data Log.
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Identify Shapes and Matching Parts

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars identify real world objects as shapes they have learned. In this 3-D shapes worksheet, students identify shapes such as a cube for a box, a sphere for a globe, and a cylinder for a soup can.
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Identify, Sort, Classify

For Teachers K
Students identify, sort, and classify. In this kindergarten math instructional activity, students explore visual examples of sorting with 1 or more attributes. Students also practice solving problems that their instructors model.
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Literature Circle Reflections

For Teachers 6th - 7th
In this literature circle reflections worksheet, learners answer yes, no, or somewhat to how they read a certain piece of literature. They identify the contribution they made to the discussion and an important idea someone expressed. ...
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Working with Principal Parts: Chapter 1

For Students 10th - 12th
In this Latin vocabulary instructional activity, students select the Latin version of five verb phrases. Students are presented with the English version of a phrase and four possibilities of Latin translations.
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Polynomial, Rational, and Radical Relationships

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
This assessment pair goes way beyond simple graphing, factoring and solving polynomial equations, really forcing learners to investigate the math ideas behind the calculations. Short and to-the-point questions build on one another,...
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Inscribed Quadrilaterals and Parallelograms

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students differentiate between inscribed quadrilaterals and parallelograms. In this geometry activity, students identify the shaped of the polygons when it is inscribed inside of a circle. They calculate the missing angles of the...
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Shapes to Forms

For Teachers 1st
Here is a math lesson that is really a visual arts lesson in disguise! In it, pupils utilize their knowledge of geometric shapes and forms to create a detailed version of a cylinder. The instructions on how to go about the task are very...
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ExplorA-Pond:3rd Grade Shapes & Fractions

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students, using a map, drawing or aerial view of a pond, represent the shape of the pond using simple geometric shapes or fractions of those shapes. They identify the numerator and denominator in each fraction created.
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Rain Dance

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify part of the Native American culture and perform a "rain dance".
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Realism and Fantasy

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to the story, Bruno the Baker, where some parts seem real and some seem fake. They must identify the parts of the story as realism or fantasy. An interesting way to teach young readers these two concepts.
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Basic Orienteering

For Teachers 4th - Higher Ed
Students study orienteering. In this science lesson, students study the parts of a compass and use the compass to set a bearing and follow the bearing on the compass.
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Making and Describing Shapes

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Explore the concept of creating and describing 2D and 3D shapes.  Using geometry your scholars will describe the attributes of shapes and their properties.  They explore and discover what happens when you combine shapes and...
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Left and Right Worksheet - Vehicles

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this positions of objects activity, students practice recognizing left and right by circling the vehicles according to directions for 5 examples.
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Our World of shapes

For Teachers 1st
First graders listen to Shapes and The Greedy Triangle to identify and describe examples of geometric shapes.  In this geometric shapes lesson, look for geometric shapes in real world places.  Students make a mobile of shapes...
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Is there a stone in my soup?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners observe teacher's inappropriate classroom procedures such as tattling, pushing, or interrupting. In this showing respectful behaviors lesson, students respond to scenarios created by the teacher and address what the appropriate...
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Introducing Literature Circle Roles to Students

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Young scholars read a narrative selection and select a literature circle role. In this reading comprehension activity, students work in groups to identify vocabulary, make text connections, or other reading comprehension strategies....
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Spherical Geometry: A Global Perspective

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Learners investigate spherical geometry using a globe and an apple. In this spherical geometry lesson plan, students translate Euclidean geometry terms to spherical geometry terms using a globe. They answer 3 questions about spherical...
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The Nature of Science

For Students 7th - 9th
In this nature of science worksheet, students identify four statements as "pure" or "applied" science and they read a short story about an experiment performed by a boy. They identify various components of the experiment...