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Fibonacci Sequences Icebreaker

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore Fibonacci sequences. In this math instructional activity, students identify the relationship between two numbers. Students use Fibonacci sequences to create algebraic equations.
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Shell Sort; Serving up Seafood

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students complete various small group activities to classify items and determine the types of combinations that can be made with these items. In the second lesson, students create menus for a restaurant to help them gain money sense and...
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Tessellations

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students identify and construct figures that tessellate. They investigate which regular polygons tessellate and how to modify them to make other tessellating figures. Students explore how naturally occurring tessellations have been...
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Adventure Into The World of Shapes

For Teachers K - 4th
Students view Elmer Holtzrichter's work Mystery Planet and discuss basic shapes and patterns. They create their own collage. and discuss the patterning they created. Students demonstrate how this pattern would sound with clapping and...
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Egg-streme Tesselation

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders view a video of tessellating an egg shape. They focus upon the problem solving strategies used and how tessellation geometry was used to construct the three dimensional figure. They create their own tiling patterns.
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Amazing Fibonacci

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students integrate the patterns of Fibonacci into music. In this geometry lesson plan, students apply the concepts of recursion, pattern and Phi or Golden Ratio to composing and playing music on various instruments. They lesson plan is...
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Falling Into Geometry Through Paper Art

For Teachers K
Students explore geometric shapes.  In this kindergarten geometry lesson, students create a fall quilt consisting of three different paper geometric quilt squares that when assembled form a scarecrow, a pumpkin, and a crow. ...
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Grade 5: Multiple Towers

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use interlocking cubes to build towers to represent factors of numbers and place the towers in the appropriate places on a Tower chart in order to look for patterns. They work in partner groups, and finish by writing...
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Sled Kite Proportions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars build sled kites. in this kite building lesson, students must read directions for kite building and enlarge the proportions of the given kite pattern. Young scholars focus on the angles and line of symmetry in their...
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Slope of Line

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this algebra worksheet, students calculate the slope of a line. They graph a linear equation given the slope and y-intercept and identify the slope and y-intercept given a linear graph. There are 15 questions.
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Slopes of Lines

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine a graph and relate it to the real world situation it depicts. They investigate changes in an equation and the appearance of a line. They investigate the connection between the graph of a situation and the meaning of the...
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Shapes and Introduction to Geometry

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students make a quilt. In this geometry instructional activity, students discuss patchwork quilts and learn some different geometric shapes and patterns that are commonly used. Students explore designs with triangles and squares and then...
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Is the Hudson River Too Salty to Drink?

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students explore reasons for varied salinity in bodies of water. In this geographical inquiry lesson plan, students use a variety of visual and written information including maps, data tables, and graphs, to form a hypothesis as to why...
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The Great Pollinators

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students discover the reproductive parts of a plant.  In this biology lesson, students identify and categorize several different plants they dissect in class.  Students record their information using a data chart.
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Surface Area and Measuring

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders explore volume and surface area through percentages. In this geometry lesson plan, 10th graders analyze the surface area of two and three dimensional shapes, then use percents and ratio to compare the two.
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Polyhedra

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students analyze convex polyhedra through hands on methods. In this geometrical shapes lesson, students construct paper models of convex polyhedra and identify the different properties including the number of sides, faces and edges.
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Creating a Reflection

For Teachers 4th - 7th Standards
Investigate geometric reflections in this geometry lesson. Create geometric reflections that show the reflection across the x and y axis of a coordinate graph. Learners watch a teacher demonstration before proceeding on their own. They...
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Equations Lesson Plan

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders play "What's my Rule" beginning with simple equations and working towards harder problems as student's gain confidence. They evaluate the equations by graphing them. Students identify the slope and y intercepts of the...
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Math: a World of Symmetry

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students expand their knowledge of quadrilaterals and identify basic symmetrical forms. Over three weeks, they explore the math, application, and discussion of symmetry. After conducting Internet research, students create symmetrical...
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Symmetries of Strip Patterns

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students study strip patterns and identify symmetry. They create a paper doll chain. They experiment with different shapes. They determine if their chain is a strip pattern. They create snowflakes with triangles.
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Problem Solving in Mathematics

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders discover that there are multiple strategies to be used in problem solving. They explain a problem solving situation in their own words and determine a possible strategy for solving the problem.
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Which Fish Where?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Here is a lesson plan outline that prompts elementary young scholars to graph and analyze data regarding fish caught along the Hudson River. They will review vocabulary and complete 2 worksheets which can be accessed by clicking on the...
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Fraction Strips

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Get a handle on equivalent fractions through the use of manipulatives. Using area models, sets, and length manipulatives like fraction strips and Cuisenaire rods, the class will gain a deeper understanding of equivalent fractions....
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Translating Transformations in Geometry

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers create an image using given coordinates and evaluate how the coordinates change when a slide or rotation takes place.