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Shake It Up with Scatterplots
Middle schoolers identify how to use a scatterplot to compare two sets of data to determine if they are related. Then they identify and describe the definition of regression line (the "line of best fit"). Students also identify how...
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Plotting Coordinates #2
In this plotting coordinates learning exercise, students plot sets of coordinates on graphs, then name the shape the plots formed. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Plot the Coordinates
In this plotting coordinates worksheet, students plots sets of coordinates on graphs, then identify the shape the connected points have created. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Plotting Coordinates
In this coordinates instructional activity, students plot sets of coordinates, connected them and creating letters. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Masculine Heroes
What were the driving forces behind American expansion in the nineteenth century, and what were its effects? Scholars watch a video, read biographies, engage in discussion, write journals and poetry, draw, and create a multimedia...
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Compare and Contrast: Literary Analysis
Seventh graders are able to use active listening skills, take notes and identify literary elements of a short story. They use/create graphic organizer, compare/contrast literary elements from various stories and compare and contrast traits.
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The World Around Me
Combining visual and language arts, here is a resource that prompts middle schoolers to write stories based on pictures of their surroundings. They use digital cameras to take pictures of favorite areas in the school. Next, they choose...
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What's Your Shoe Size? Linear Regression with MS Excel
Learners collect and analyze data. In this statistics instructional activity, pupils create a liner model of their data and analyze it using central tendencies. They find the linear regression using a spreadsheet.
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Story Elements
Middle schoolers in particular will benefit from this simple presentation. Forty slides cover story elements like the protagonist, antagonist, and setting, and literary devices are also included. Some examples are given, but for the most...
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Express Yourself Lesson Seed 9: Climax
Conduct a close reading of chapter 9 of The Cay. Read the chapter again and ask pupils to respond to a list of included text-dependent questions. Finish the class with the provided writing assignment, which asks learners to use textual...
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Is there Treasure in Trash?
More people, more garbage! Young environmentalists graph population growth against the amount of garbage generated per year and find a linear model that best fits the data. This is an older resource that could benefit from more recent...
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How Tall is the Average 6th Grader?
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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Chain Together A Book Report
Individuals examine a book's components, including key events, characters, and vocabulary and develop "chain book reports" with their peers. Strips of paper containing the book's important events are staples together and hung.
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Introduction to Drama
Introduce your class to drama! You cast each pupil as a different character from a story you have read. They are given a general outline of the scene, act out the scene multiple times, then discuss the weak and strong aspects of each...
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Coming to Know F and C
Students collect temperatures using a probe and examine data. In this temperature lesson students complete an activity using a graphing calculator.
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Measures of Central Tendency
In this measures of central tendency worksheet, learners find the mean, median, and mode of 9 problems given different data sets. Students then solve 2 word problems.
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Use a Graph
Information is often presented in graph form. Can your youngsters read a basic bar or picture graph? Six word problems accompany three graphs. One graph is a bar graph and the other two are pictographs.
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Coordinate Plane Worksheets - Area of Rectangle
In this online math worksheet, students calculate the area of a variety of rectangles given the measure of their vertices. This excellent resource allows the students to check their answers, and to get "hints" should they run into...
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Drug Sales Soar: Bar Graph
In this graphs worksheet, students analyze a bar graph that shows retail prescription drug sales in the U.S. Students complete five problem solving questions about the data on the graph.
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Prince Ibrahima
Sixth graders read and utilize the facts from the story "Abd al-Rahmen Ibrahima" by Walter Dean Myers to analyze the main character's life which is ruined by conflict, jealousy, and greed. Journal entries are created in response to the...
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Statistics
Seventh and eighth graders solve and complete three various types of problems. First, they find the median rate using the box-and-whisker plot shown. Then, learners describe the inter-quartile range. In addition, they determine whether...
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Responding to Literature
Guide your class through a text with resources for before and after reading. Learners ask questions, discuss characters and plot points, point out elements of the reading that stood out, and compose brief summaries.
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Story Organizer
Kids can get all their plot points in line by filling out this graphic organizer with information from a story they have read. Pupils note down the title and author, the characters, the setting, and four events from the story.
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Fiction Organizer
Teach your youngsters about the elements of plot with this handy graphic organizer. Pupils note down the main character, the setting, the problem, and the solution of any fictional story they read.
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