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Dealing with Differences
Students list at least ten things they have a hard time doing. After reading and discussing Be Good to Eddie Lee, Students, in cooperative groups, write at least six ways people can assist people with disabilities.
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Planets in Proportion
Students apply estimation strategies and proportional reasoning to determine a scale comparing the planetary bodies to Earth. They convert measurements of time and distance using scientific notation. Both the metric and customary units...
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Prescription for Trouble
Students consider the risks of the over-the-counter (OTC) drug use. In this personal health lesson plan, students watch "Prescription for Trouble," and discuss illegal use of drugs. Students complete a survey about OTC and illegal drug...
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Measuring Temperature
Students examine how to determine temperature on a thermometer. They read and discuss an informational handout, discuss examples of Fahrenheit and Celsius scales, and complete a worksheet.
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Sacred Giving: When?
Students explore the concept of sacred giving. In this philanthropy lesson, students research the tzedakah model as they read primary sources. Students also participate in a Jewish tzedakah and reflect on the experience.
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Grammar: Subject-Verb Agreement
Students review basics of subject and verb agreement, and write sentences in which the subject and verb are in agreement.
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Where's My Funny Paper?
High schoolers identify main idea of passages, reading selections, and cartoons.
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Personal Fitness Assessment
Students engaged in practice for a physical fitness exam. The practice is beneficial for overall student fitness. The instructor measures key factors of health that include height and weight.
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Water Quality Monitoring
Students comprehend the four parameters of water quality. They perform tests for salinity, dissolved oxygen, pH and clarity or turbidity. Students comprehend why scientists and environmental managers monitor water uality and aquatic...
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Greenhouse Effect and Temperature
Young scholars look at a visualization of absorbed solar energy and discuss its role in maintaining surface temperature. They examine greenhouse effect and its role in maintaining a climate in which humans can survive.
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I Need Room to Breathe
Seventh graders explore how exercise affects carbon dioxide levels in exhaled air.
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September 12 Journal Writing
Students write journal entries reflecting on their feelings about the attacks of September 11, 2001.
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A Visitor from Outer Space
Students read the handout, "A Visitor from Outer Space" and discuss the bill of rights. They complete the Bill of Right checklist individually or in small groups then complete a poll ranking each freedom. Students write reasoning behind...
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What is Wastewater Treatment
Students watch and discuss a video on wastewater treatment. They write a brief summary of the film and the discussion. Then they read a pamphlet on clean water and write a one page summary.
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Basic Trading
Students review the basic ideas of exchange. In groups, they discover the incentives for trade and participate in a simulation. They are given a packet of stamps which are worth varying monetary amounts. They discover the concepts of...
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Texas Instruments: The Normal Distribution
In this activity, students will apply the normal density function, normal cumulative distribution function, and inverse normal cumulative function to analyze a population with a normal distribution.
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Texas Instruments: The Normal Distribution
Students graph normal distributions, shade desired areas, and find related probabilities. They graph Normal probability scatter plots to check the normal (linear) shape of a data distribution.
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Texas Instruments: Normal Distribution
This set contains statistics questions regarding the normal curve, its distribution, and its applications. The student, using the correct calculation, transitions between observed x-values, standard z-scores, and normal curve areas.
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Texas Instruments: Plums and the Normal Distribution
This lesson demonstrates how the calculator's built-in numeric solver can be used along with the normalcdf function to answer a variety of Normal Distribution questions.
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Texas Instruments: Special Cases of Normally Distributed Data
Students perform single and two-sample t procedures to investigate special cases of normally distributed data. They explore inference for a least-square regression line, including the confidence interval.
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Shodor Interactivate: Normal Distribution
Change the standard deviation of an automatically generated normal distribution to create a new histogram. Observe how well the histogram fits the curve, and how areas under the curve correspond to the number of trials.
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Texas Instruments: Area Under the Normal Curve
This LearningCheck document is a good review of how to calculate the area under the normal curve given certain scenarios.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Normal Distribution
The mathematics tutorial investigates the normal distribution. The lesson consists of class notes, calculator tips, examples, and practice problems with solutions. The teacher resource includes an activity that examines the normal...
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Texas Instruments: Binomial Distribution
Questions cover the binomial distribution. Students identify characteristics of a binomial distribution and calculate probabilities for different ranges. Binomial mean and variance are covered in the link between the binomial and normal...