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Pbs Mathline: Is It Really News? Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use decimals, percents, and fractions to explore how much "news" is really in the newspaper. Printable lesson
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Pbs Mathline: Tiling the Plaza Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are given pattern blocks and are told to create a tile design for a building to use on the floor. Printable lesson.
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Pbs Mathline: What's Your Angle? Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Use an angle wheel to make estimates of the measures of various angles. Printable lesson.
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Pbs Mathline: Alphabits Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are given a baggy of Alphabits cereal to explore ratios and percents. Printable lesson.
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Pbs Teachers: Toothpicks and Transformations [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using calculators, students investigate quadratic functions using geometric toothpick designs in this lesson that with a review of transformations of quadratic functions, vertical and horizontal shifts, and stretches and shrinks.
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Pbs Mathline: Stressed to the Breaking Point Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore how much weight a spaghetti bridge can support and whether width and length matter. Printable lesson.
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Pbs Mathline: Mystery Liquids Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students gather data from two mystery liquids to explore linear functions. Printable lesson.
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Pbs Mathline: Busing Problem Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore system of linear equations by determining a busing route and minimize the cost for students to get to school.
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Pbs Mathline: Fill 'Er Up Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will pour liquids into different sized containers to test their predictions as to the amount each will hold. Printable instructional activity.
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Pbs Mathline: Perfect Fit Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Use pattern blocks to explore the shapes that can fit into the given shape.
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Pbs Mathline: Magic Box Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
As a teacher jumps rope, students determine the arithmetic pattern. Printable lesson.
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Pbs Mathline: It Takes Ten Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Students rotate from station to station completing activities involving measurement weight, length, and volume using metric measurement.
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Pbs Mathline: Wet Heads Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will record the number of drops of water in a stem-and-leaf plot that will fit on top of a penny. Printable lesson plan.
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Pbs Mathline: We're All Tuned in Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Determine which radio station is the best for local businesses to advertise their business through. Printable lesson.
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Pbs Mathline: Mirror, Mirror Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Determine which regular polygons tessellate by using mirrors. Printable lesson.
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Pbs Mathline: Bubble Mania Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Determine the area, diameter, and circumerfence of a bubble residue by creating a soap solution and blowing bubbles.
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Pbs Mathline: Sand Babies Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students will explore weight by using sand to represent their birth weight and use their length at birth to explore measuring length. Printable lesson
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Pbs Mathline: Perfect Fit Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Use pattern blocks to explore different shapes within a shape.
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Noaa: Pinnipeds: Seals, Sea Lions, and Walruses

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about seals, sea lions and walruses. Find out the status of different species on the endangered list and the major factors of these declines.
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Pbs Mathline: Aw Chute Lesson Plan

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will design and construct parachutes to determine the rate of descent using the distance formula. Printable lesson plan
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Puerto Rico Departamento De Recursos Naturales Y Ambientales

For Students 9th - 10th
In Spanish. The home of Puerto Rico's Department of Natural Resources offers information on the environment, events and local resources.
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California Department of Education: Cst Released Test Questions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The resource contains test questions from the California Standards Tests (CSTs). The questions are offered in PDF format for all subject areas.
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National Institutes of Health

Nih News Release: Marfan Syndrome Research

For Students 9th - 10th
Article describes characteristics of Marfan Syndrome and reviews research project involving mice with mutant fibrillin gene.
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Cbc World News: Week of 7 21 14: Prince George Turns One

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the first birthday of Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge's son George.

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