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Line Best Fit
Students identify the line of best fit. In this statistics lesson plan, students analyze graphs and plots to identify positive, negative or no correlation. They find the line of best fit for different scatter plots.
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Graph Around the Room
Students discuss the importance of taking care of their bodies. They brainstorm ways to take care of their bodies. They create a graph.
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Measures of Space I: Lengths and Areas
Students discover how to measure in one and two dimensional space and calculate how much space any object of a given dimension occupies. After a discussion about dimensions, students work with Zome System Creator Kits to build one and...
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Modeling Population Growth
Students investigate the reasons for taking a census and determine the problems that are involved in the process. They examine the population figure for Montana and Lake county before using the information to complete the included...
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Pictograph to Bar Graph
Second graders explore organizing data to make it useful for interpreting picture graphs and bar graphs. They use Graphers software to create a pictograph and a bar graph.
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Make My Number
Fourth graders relate decimal fractions to common fractions and practice writing decimals as fractions. Through inquiry and game play they write decimals and fractions using the correct form. The first team to correctly answer the...
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Decimal Fractions
Students use rounding and compensating with whole numbers and explain how to use the empty number line to show additions and subtractions. They round and compensate in relation to decimal subtraction
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Keyboarding - Fractured Fractions
Sixth graders use keyboarding skills to find the "fractional part" of a word.
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Tracking the Storm
Students discuss the different types of storms that can hit land. They locate specific coordinates on a plane grid. They discuss lonsgitude and latitude to plot the coordinates of a tropical storm. They practice finding coordinates...
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Puzzled?
First graders practice identifying simple geometric shapes. As a class, they discuss positional words and review the words for simple shapes and their characteristics. They work together to create their own puzzle using the shapes.
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Spacing Out the Solar System
Sixth graders practice applying their problem-solving skills as they measure circular objects and make connections to planets. They identify and describe measurable attributes of objects and units of measurement and solve problems...
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Fraction Trains
Students examine how multiples of the denominator indicate that a fraction can be renamed as a whole number, and convert improper fractions to mixed numbers. Independently they read examples, and complete a variety of problems on a...
Teach Engineering
What a Drag!
Stop and drop what is in your hand! Pupils investigate how form effects drag in the 12th part of a 22-part unit on aviation. Groups create equally weighted objects and determine which one falls the fastest by collecting data.
Teach Engineering
Household Energy Conservation and Efficiency
Are your household devices eating up a lot of energy? Pupils investigate household energy efficiency through a set of activities. They find ways to improve energy efficiency and reduce consumption. This is the 21st installment of a...
Illinois Valley Community College
STEM Activities for Middle School Students
Use STEM activities within the class to provide connections to concepts. The resource includes activities that range from working with buoyancy to building rockets and launching them. Other activities involve the engineering design...