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Name Fame

For Teachers 1st
First graders learn the uniqueness of their names by reading the book, Chrysanthemum, and completing other integrated math counting and graphing activities.
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The Wolf's Chicken Stew 100th Day Celebration

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students celebrate 100 by reading Keiko Kasha's, The Wolf's Chicken Stew, graphing, and making 100 pancakes.
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Bells 'n' Scales

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students work together to arrange bells in order from low to high and play songs. They discuss differences in pitch and musical notation.
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Problem Solving Strategies: Patterns

For Students 9th - 11th
What's next in the series? Mathematicians study figures, graphs, and statements to determine what comes next in this patterns worksheet. They experiment with a multiplication chart and draw their own figures to continue specific...
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Why Randomize?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Your statisticians draw several samplings from the same data set, some randomized and some not, and consider the distribution of the sample means of the two different types of samplings. The exercise demonstrates that non-random samples...
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Expanded and Standard Form

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Tens and ones, that's what this worksheet is all about. Learners break down 6 numbers into their 10s and units, transpose 5 numbers from expanded to standard form, and write 5 numbers in word form. This would be a good worksheet to...
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Standard, Expanded, and Written (A)

For Students 4th - 5th
Learners complete a number form chart by writing the numbers in standard, expanded, and written forms.
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Catch a Wave. . .

For Students 4th - 8th
Part of a larger online space science website, this page has a brief explanation of electromagnetic radiation and a chart of wavelengths as compared to common objects. There are four questions to answer about the information. This can be...
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Sampling for a Rock Concert

For Teachers 7th - 10th Standards
Over the course of three class periods, middle schoolers design an experiment to provide learner input to administration about which rock band to invite to play at school. They practice several random sampling exercises, all well...
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Triangle Inequality

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discover that the sum of the lengths of any two sides of a triangle must be greater than the third side. They are shown how a triangle is formed using three strips such as that the triangle is seen inside the strips.
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Investigation - How Tall is the Average Sixth Grader?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students will measure each other and record the data in inches. They will use a stem and leaf plot to display data and figure out the average height of the students in a class. The other statistical data will be collected like the mode...
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In Round Numbers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the concept of rounding.  In this rounding lesson, students use their calculator to round three digit numbers to the nearest 10 or nearest 100.  Students round fractional numbers to the nearest tenth,...
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How Tall is the Average 6th Grader?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Upper grade and middle schoolers explore mathematics by participating in a measuring activity. They hypothesize on what the average height of a male or female 6th grader is and identify ways to find the average mathematically. Learners...
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Rule of Quarters

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students memorize four key decimal values for quick and accurate conversion. They convert decimal foot measurements to inches and fractions using math tables, computation or memorization. They memorize decimal foot conversions.
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Postponing Intercourse vs. Having Intercourse

For Teachers 7th - 12th
The class brainstorms lists of reasons why young people would choose to delay having sex and why they would choose to have sex. They discuss the lists as a large group and reflect on which reasons would be "good enough" to decide to have...
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Essential Elements

For Teachers 9th - 12th
A color-coded periodic table identifies organic elements, major minerals, and trace elements. Oxidation states are highlighted and types of chemical bonding are annotated. The electron energy level chart is explained. Though not all of...
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Monsoon Winds to the "Land of Gold"

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students recognize environmental factors that influenced maritime trade routes and the establishment of major trading centers in classical times. They evaluate perceptions of the ancient world through ancient maps and primary source...
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Count By 3's

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this math worksheet, students practice counting by threes. Student fill in the missing multiples of three in three different hundreds charts.
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Unit Conversion Exercises

For Students 8th - 10th
In this unit conversion and radiation worksheet, students are given a chart with basic unit conversions for calculating radiation dosages. Students use the conversion factors to solve 7 problems.
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Slavery and the Underground Railroad

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders discover racism in our country by investigating the Internet.  In this abolitionist movement lesson, 3rd graders define the Underground Railroad and participate in an activity by logging on to an on-line History...
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Life Cycle of the Monarch Butterfly

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders access prior knowledge of the monarch butterfly and discuss what they would like to know.  In this Monarch Butterfly lesson,students read Monarch Butterfly and discuss the life cycle of the butterfly. Students gather...
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A Blending of Socialism and Capitalism

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students conduct Internet research on China's economic development and use a worksheet to organize their findings. They participate in class discussion and compare and contrast the economies of the U.S. and China.
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Thinking About Technology: What Is It? How Can It Help Us?

For Students 5th - 6th
What is technology and how can it help us? Using a worksheet, learners read a list and choose practical applications of scientific knowledge, brainstorm examples of home, school and hospital technology, graph answers in a pie chart, and...
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Taster or Non-Taster?

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students conduct a simple experiment to determine if a trait has been passed from a family member to them.