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Death by Particles

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Emerging epidemiologists define relative risk and read an article about the effect of particulate pollution on the cardiovascular health of women. They record the relative risk values, graph them, and answer analysis questions. This is a...
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Savings Account Introduction Lesson

For Teachers 6th - 7th
This teaching tool promotes a practical understanding of basic mathematical skills by having learners determine percents on interest. There are several worksheet options available as well as a guid on how best to use them.
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Finding the Area and Perimeter of Polygons

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders practice finding the area and perimeter of polygons. In this polygon area lesson, 7th graders brainstorm shapes and take a walk to locate shapes. Students record properties of shapes and use various shapes to make a...
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How High?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders play an estimation game to guess how sheets of paper are in a pile and then guess who high a stack of one million would be. They work in small groups to explore ideas for working out how high the stack would be.
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The Measurement of All Things: Atmospheric Detectives

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students identify the characteristics of aerosols. Using remote sensing, they participate in an experiment in which they determine how the sun's radiation and elements in the atmosphere interact with one another. They also research the...
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What's Your Function?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read the rules of how they can balance the scale by placing beans in the square, circle, and the triangle. Next, they balance 12 beans using the scale and then try to balance it with 15 beans, and then 18 beans. They then...
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Folding Paper

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars use the scientific process and their knowledge to obeserve, predict, and test their predictions under controlled conditions to verify their predictions and then make sense of these predictions. They also graph, write...
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Research Cruise Word Problems

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners examine life aboard the NOAA research vessel, Ronald H. Brown. They complete word problems related to the vessel, and then create three problems of their own.
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Transformations

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders recognize, perform and derive rules for basic transformations including translation, reflection and rotation. They also consider compositions, a combination of two or more basic transformations. Students explore both...
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What Makes a Dog a Dog

For Teachers 1st
First graders recall and verbally list the parts of a dog, or a chosen subject, based on observations using the senses. They discriminate between living and non-living subjects, and create artistic representations of the parts of a dog.
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How Does Temperature Change With Respect To Latitude and Longitude?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers research the concept of predicting the weather. The research focuses on how some weather facts intuitively make sense. Students answer key questions based upon the mathematical concept of covariance.
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Data Analysis, Probability, and Statistics: Exploring Websites

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students measure their pulse rates and place the number on the board. They arrange the numbers in order and discuss the differences between isolated facts and data. Students explore websites that relate to data analysis and report their...
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Guess My Piece -working with Legos

For Teachers K - 12th
Students participate in guessing their partners' hidden Lego pieces from their verbal clues. They work in partners to accomplish their goals. They are meeting a variety of math standards by completing this instructional activity.
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Raising an Animal

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Young scholars observe reproduction and behavior in several types of animals and nurture a sense of responsibility and cooperation. They then examine external features of several different types of animal groups.
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Place Value Practice (Tenths)

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars practice strategies solving problems with basic facts, framework, domain and early additive part-whole. They recall the compatible numbers to ten, solve problems with small numbers using a part-whole strategy and recall...
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Concept: Percent ... A Special Fraction

For Teachers 9th - 11th
In this percent worksheet, students review and study what percent means, what percent strips are, making sense of percents and estimating percents. Students complete ten word problems.
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Where Should You Turn?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders complete activities to study decimal numbers. For this decimal numbers lesson, 4th graders study decimal numbers to express numbers less than one and intervals. Students complete map and location activities to study the...
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Making Rectangles

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Students study rectangles. In this math lesson, students use numbers, measurements and geometry to draw rectangles of varying sizes.
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Numbers Up

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use Legos to build representations of a variety of numbers. They then sort and order their representations and pair them with the written number.
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Paint Plus

For Teachers 1st
Using the computer and the Paint program, Students explore the different tools available in the paint program, and then create a picture showing two sets of pictures and an equation.
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Shape It

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use math software and geoboard paper to design basic shapes. They write individual definitions for the geometric shapes based on what they see in the shapes. They apply their background knowledge of the shape as they write...
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The Nature of Mathematics

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students work in groups to describe plants using numbers. In this number lesson plan, students use numbers to define plants and then use numbers to write descriptions of themselves.
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A Real Difference

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use the Celsius and Fahrenheit thermometers to compare temperature readings. They use the Internet to find the temperatures of selected cities. After data is collected for five days, 5th graders graph the temperatures.
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Mathematics: The Star of David

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders determine the number of triangles in the Star of David.

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