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Hidden Jewels of Geometry
Students identify different geometric shapes, and arrange them artistically in original jewelry designs.
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Exploring Length and Perimeter
Sixth graders determine the perimeter of geometric shapes with a grid at technology based resource. While looking at figures on an overhead, they determine how much border they would need to go around a figure. They also complete...
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Congruency Basics
Fourth graders investigate congruent shapes. In this congruency instructional activity, 4th graders explore examples of congruent shapes. Students determine how to check for congruency by sliding or flipping the shape.
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Finding Your Way Around the I & M Canal
Fifth graders utilize a map of the I&M Canal (imbedded in this plan), and perform a series of tasks. They calculate distance, find specific points of interest and solve a set of story problems about the canal.
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Creating Communities
Learners design a community with minimal environmental impact. They rate each other's community's presentation using the "Planning and Zoning Commission Rating Scale".
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The Plant Restoration Project
Students discuss Restoration Ecology. They see that restoration can mean removing invasive, non-native plants and replacing them with native plants grown by Students.
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Rocky Observations
Young scholars examine two images of rocks, make their own observations of individual rocks through drawing, and explain how the same observation skills can be used in the study of geology.
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Optional Laboratory: Soil Particle Size and Texture
Students work together to perform experiments on different types of soil. They record the soil's pH level, color and texture. They develop hypothesis' on what they believe they will discover before beginning the experiment.
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Graphing Inertia: An Oxymoron?
Eighth graders investigate Newton's Law of Inertia in order to create a context for the review of the use of different types of graphs. They practice gathering the data from an experiment and put it into the correct corresponding graph.
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Testing Foods
Students perform an experiment using brown paper bags to determine which foods have oil in them. This task assesses student's abilities to make simple observations and inferences from them.
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Mystery Boxes
Students make observations about Mystery Boxes that their teacher has made up and describes the motion of the object inside the box and hypothesizes it's shape based on their observations.
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Color Dots 3
Students make simple observations, test mixtures, and make generalized inferences from their observations. They observe bleeding of colored inks with water.
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Instructors Lesson Plan for Impressionist Palette
Students examine the goal of the Impressionist Landscape quilter to interpret nature with fabric rather than paint. Students discover how to blend hundreds of small squares in a luminous "fabric painting." There is no appliqué, no fabric...
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Check Out Your Change!
Students examine a coin and write down details about the coin. They use appropriate tools and techniques to gather information. They employ logic to determine differences between the coins.
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PROPERTIES OF QUADRILATERALS
Young scholars examine quadrilaterals including properties, definitions, and names. In this quadrilateral lesson students apply the correct property to the different kinds of quadrilateral.
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Using Current Data for Graphing Skills
Students graph demographic information. In this graphing instructional activity, students choose what type of graph to create and what information to display. Links to examples of graphs and statistical data are provided. The graphs are...
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Plastics and Rubber: What's the Difference?
Students observe how to classify things into groups based on physical properties. In this plastic and rubber lesson students group and sort items to help them to better identify properties.
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Coefficient of Restitution
Students investigate variables that influence the bouncing of balls. In this exploratory lesson students observe how the manipulated and control variable are correlated by graphing the data.
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Automated Vehicle Programming Design
Students design a program to make an automated vehicle perform a specific task. In this robotics lesson, students play the role of scientists competing to win a factory's contract. They present their algorithm to class.
CPALMS
Cpalms: Measure Up! Measuring to Make a Line Plot
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will generate measurement data by measuring lengths using rulers marked with halves and fourths of an inch and show the data by making a line plot. This lesson includes an...
Other
Nearpod: Measurement: Length in Inches
In this activity, students will learn how to use a ruler to measure in inches and compare objects using the words "longest" and "shortest."
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Become a "Ruler" of the Ruler!
In order to practice basic sewing skills, students must be able to read and use a ruler for a variety of tasks. In this hands-on lesson, students will work collaboratively to demonstrate their mastery of how to read "English" units of...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Measuring Marvelously Standard Ruler
This lesson is used to instruct young scholars in the use of a standard "English" ruler for determining measurements. The students will read a standard ruler accurately to the nearest 1/16 of an inch. The student will measure different...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: A Perfect Sacred Sphere [Pdf]
In this lesson, 4th graders will explore protractors, rulers, balance both radial, and symmetrical, and concepts of angle measurements as they create their own mandalas.