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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Ed Online: Growing, Growing, Graphing!

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Young scholars explore the growth population of China and use graphs and equations to display data.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today for Ti Navigator System More of u.s.

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using the USA TODAY Snapshot, "More of U.S.," students will learn how to interpret data presented in a graphical form. Students will determine the rate of change (slope) and build a linear model (y = mx + b) from this data. The model...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers:costa Rica: Why So Many Frogs?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Explore the different stages in the growth of a frog, explain why organisms produce large numbers of young and determine the survival rate of a population of tadpoles under controlled conditions.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Tree Mendous Plots [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
To teach students how to use collect and use real-life data, use this lesson to create, populate and analyze graphs to interpret data related to the growth of plants from seeds. The lesson then asks students to create a story about the...
Website
Information Technology Associates

Nicaragua : People

For Students 9th - 10th
Excellent site about the people of Nicaragua, population, age structure, growth rate, death and birth rate, life expectancy, ethnic divisions, literacy, and more.
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Other

Algebra Lab: Applications of Exponential Functions

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains how exponential functions have applications in real-world scenarios, including a population of a city, the growth of bacteria, drug decay, and compounding interest. Includes four word problems to try, with hints and answers...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 8.ee Extending Definitions of Exponents, Variation 1

For Teachers 8th Standards
In this task, 8th graders examine the changes in the size of a population of bacteria during an experiment studying its growth. They learn how to talk about negative integer exponents and negative time. Aligns with 8.EE.A.1.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Is Urban Growth?

For Students 9th - 10th
How were cities formed? This article explains the formation of cities starting from the neolithic revolution to current times. It addresses such topics as urbanization, suburban sprawl, and urban growth models.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Business Cycles

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice what you've learned about the business cycle, and how different phases of it relate to GDP and the unemployment rate, in this four-question exercise.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: Business Cycles

For Students 9th - 10th
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms, concepts, and graphs related to the business cycle. Topics include the four phases of the business cycle and the relationship between key macroeconomic indicators at...
Handout
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Creeping Vole

For Students 4th - 8th
Creeping Voles are found in moist coniferous forests at all stages of forest succession, from old growth to recent clear-cuts. In fact, population density is probably higher in recently cut areas where more sunlight reaches the ground...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Worm Farming and Composting

For Teachers K - 1st
Students create a red worm composter. As the composter develops, they will make and record observations about its health and the growth of its red worm population.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Northeast China, 1971

For Students 9th - 10th
"Northeast China - the provinces of Heilungkiang, Kirin, and Liaoning - is the most important region of the country and a nationally significant and still-developing center of agricultural production. Most of the Northeast remained...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Nevada, 1904

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1904 of Nevada showing the capital of Carson City, major cities and towns, railroads, mountains, lakes, and rivers. "Nevada (Sage Hen State) - Created a Territory in 1861, declared a state in 1864. The real growth of the State...
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Curated OER

Unesco: United States of America: Olympic National Park

For Students 9th - 10th
Located in the north-west of Washington State, Olympic National Park is renowned for the diversity of its ecosystems. Glacier-clad peaks interspersed with extensive alpine meadows are surrounded by an extensive old growth forest, among...

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