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FUN WITH MAPS

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders learn map skills by showing the routes they travel from home to school and using that data to practice map reading and interpreting geographical information.
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Count On It!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners practice counting money. In this consumer math lesson, students identify the various U.S. coins and group them in various ways to equal a dollar. Learners will use the money they collected for a donation towards a non-profit...
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TAKS 4th Grade Daily Upkeep 10

For Teachers 4th
In this math worksheet, 4th graders look for the answers to basic review problems that focus upon the skills of reading simple word problems, and applying the interpretation of data.
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Identifying Lines of Symmetry

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students calculate the lines of symmetry using polygons. In this geometry activity, students graph, compare and estimate using collected data. They identify different attributes to the polygons based on their sides.
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Studying Special Segments in Triangles

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students investigate special segments in triangles. In this geometry lesson, students graph, compare, estimate and predict findings based on their data. They differentiate between similarity and congruence of triangles.
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And the Winner Is...

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders participate in an election project. They collect data to create a spreadsheet from which a graph is generated.
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Record 'The' Results

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders predict how many times they'll see the word "the" in a newspaper page and highlight all the "the"s they find. After reviewing definitions of range, median, mode, mean they create a Stem and Leaf Plot and a Back-to-Back Stem...
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Graphing Data - Temperature

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders measure and record temperature over a given time period. They compare the recorded temperatures to the 40-year recorded normal average temperatures for the same area. Students display and interpret their findings in a graph.
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Manatee Awareness Survey

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Pupils examine the public's awareness of manatees by taking a survey. They display the results of the survey as a graph.
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Melting and Freezing of Water

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students differentiate the three states of matter. For this chemistry lesson, students analyze graphs of heating and cooling curve of water. They complete a lab report and discuss results.
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Graphing

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders create graphs based on climate in South Carolina. They read and interpret information in a chart and construct a graphy from the information in the chart. They create a spreadsheet using Excel and publish 2 graphs.
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Graph Your Foot!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students measure their own foot and place the outline on a graph. They make connections between the size of their foot and the bar graph that represents it.
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Let's Graph It!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students graph the height of others in centimeters and inches, find the slope of line in order to calculate the conversion factor between centimeters and inches.
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Tag It and Bag It: Archeology Lab Lesson

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders practice analyzing, collecting and categorizing artifacts. Using charts, they organize and interpret information about the artifacts they classified. They work together to create a graph to represent class totals and...
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Graphing Speed

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers use LOGAL motion detector probe and observe a generated graph as a student performs various standard motions, and make measurements of time and distance. They suggest various time and distance measurements which a student...
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Explore the Transformations of Linear and Absolute Value Functions Using Graphing Utilities

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Students explore the concept of transformations.  For this transformation lesson, students use an applet that is an interactive absolute value graph applet.  Students manipulate the applet to examine the change in the function...
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Creation and Interpretation of Voter Participation Graph

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders research information about voter participation in the United States based on age. They develop generalizations about voting patterns in the U.S and use Microsoft Excel to analyze the information.
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Clouds and Solar Radiation

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students examine how clouds affect incoming solar radiation. They compare and contrast satellite images and incoming solar radiation measurements as methods to provide information about clouds.
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Graph Both Crusts

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders calculate the angles and construct a pie graph of the percentages of the elements in the continental and oceanic crusts. Then they analyze the results. They can be assigned the task of researching the percentages.
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Sampling Snoops

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students practice formulating a hypothesis and designing an experiment to test the hypothesis. They identify several sampling techniques they can use to test their hypotheses.
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How to Make Histograms

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students collect data and plot it using a histogram. In this statistics lesson plan, students interpret histograms. They find the frequency, percents and density.
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Natural Resources

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders begin the lesson by identifying the different types of natural resources. As a class, they discuss how environments are destructed and how the loss of one natural resource can affect the economy. Using a map, they label the...
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Cinco De Mayo

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students make a graph identifying the immigration of Mexicans to the US. In this algebra activity, students practice graphing as they review different trends in immigration over the past 100 years. They interpret and analyze their graphs.
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Long Island Sound

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Learners use the Internet to research the history of Long Island Sound. In groups, they identify the sources of point and nonpoint pollution and how humans are impacting the area. After watching a video, they discuss the role of...