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PBS

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Headphone Helper

For Students 3rd - 8th
This challenge is to design and build a headphone system to hear a musical instrument (real or homemade) better. Can you do it?
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Design Weather Instruments Using Lego Sensors

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will design and create a LEGO structure that will house and protect a temperature sensor. They will leave the structure in a safe spot and check the temperature regularly and chart it.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energetic Musical Instruments

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students will learn to apply the principles and concepts associated with energy and the transfer of energy in an engineering context through the designing and making of a musical instrument. The students must choose from a variety of...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Double Your Design

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students learn to use pattern blocks to investigate symmetry by building a design, making its mirror image, and using the calculator to determine the value of both the design made and its reflection.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Symmetry With Pattern Blocks

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students learn to use pattern blocks to build a design that has a line of symmetry. They use the calculator to determine the value of half the design. They predict and then find the value of the entire design.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Graphic Line Designs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use the x- and y-intercepts to find the equations of lines and create a line design using the slope-intercept form and the limited domain of the segment.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Surveys and Survey Design

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This set contains statistics questions regarding surveys and survey designs. The student differentiates between a systematic sample, a convenience sample, a simple random sample (SRS), and a stratified random sample.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Motion in Two Dimensions & Projectile Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is designed to assess the comprehension of concepts related to motion in two dimensions and projectile motion.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Segments Formed by Intersecting Chords, Secants, and Tangents

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This activity is designed to help students discover several important theorems concerning lengths of segments formed by intersecting chords, secants, and tangents.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Real Life, Real World Activity Architecture

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Architects and Interior Designers use scale drawings that represent the house or room they are designing. This activity uses Cabri Jr. Geometry software to create a scale drawing with dilations.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Sail Problem (Parallel Lines & Segment Relationships)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will explore the proportional relationships involved in multiple parallel lines being cut by transversals. These relationships are approached through exploration of a sail design problem, where students are to...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Quilt Block Areas

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students will draw and color scaled drawings of traditional quilt block designs. They then find the appropriate fraction, decimal, and percent of the overall design for each color.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Grandparents and Special Friends Day

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson was designed for our Grandparents and Special Friends day. It can be used for any visitation day, or an open house. The lesson is designed to review percent of a whole and the sector of the circle representing the percentage....
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Using Cbr in Egg Drop Competition

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Egg drop competition is a popular activity to reinforce the lessons in force and motion. In the activity, the students are asked to design a vehicle to carry the egg safely when dropped from a height of 10 feet (about 3 m) or more....
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Windows

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This is a partner activity. One calculator is used to explore and the other is used to continue the learn check. It was designed to help students understand the concept of windows and what happens with the various window settings. Using...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Let's Play Ball With Box and Whisker Plots

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is designed to help students make decisions about what and how information could be displayed graphically. The data set deals with salaries of professional baseball players. It is designed for students to determine if the...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Estimation Games

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use the calculator to compute products of numbers and to find answers to division problems. The activity is designed to help students develop number sense with the operations of multiplication and division.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Motion in One Dimension & Freefall Motion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is designed to assess the comprehension of concepts related to motion in one dimension and freefall motion.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Clouds

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is designed to assess a student's comprehension of a basic meteorological phenomenon.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Mole

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is designed to assess the comprehension of concepts related to moles.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Ionic Bonding/ionic Compounds

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is designed to assess the comprehension of concepts related to ionic bonding and ionic compounds.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Let's Integrate All Things Easy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is designed to help students deal with the method of integration by parts. In this method, students usually have trouble figuring out what they should set u equal to.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Molality / Molarity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is designed to assess the comprehension of concepts related to molality and molarity.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Forces

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is designed to assess the comprehension of concepts related to various forces.