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HOW BIG IS A BLUE?
Students compare the lengths of whales using different lengths of rope. They illustrate one whale in life-size proportion.
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Toying Around with Newton's Laws
Eighth graders identify balanced and unbalanced forces that affect the movement of objects and Newton's three Laws of Motion. Students also design a contraption utilizing Newton's Laws of Motion that will launch a marshmallow five meters.
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Testing the Waters
Students use test kits to measure the level of chlorine, iron, sulfide, and dissolved oxygen in tap (drinking) water and stream water. They post and evaluate the results of these water quality tests.
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Putting Your Best Foot Forward
Third graders measure their feet and their parents' feet, record data on computer-generated graphs, and calculate and record mean, median, and mode.
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Blindfolded Building
Learners build a Lego design and then work with a partner to reproduce that design. They guide the building of the reproduction by description only and then check their work.
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The Genetic Basis of Neurological Disorders
Young scholars explore neurological disorders. They examine the presence and absence of discernible genes. Students describe neruological diseases and draw faces of affected persons. They play a human neurology disorders learning game.
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The Cycle of Life
Eighth graders search for rites of passage in their own lives and study rites of other cultural groups in Louisiana and around the world. They assess how to recognize moments of importance in people's lives and find meaning in the stages...
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Tense Consistency
In this tense consistency exercise, students are given twelve sentences and asked to determine whether all parts of the sentence are written in the same tense. Students must correct the incorrect sentences.
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Intermediate Sentence Completion Exercise 35
In this intermediate sentence completion exercise 35 worksheet, middle schoolers working online, choose the correct word(s) to complete the sentence, with immediate feedback.
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Leaf Patterns
First graders explore the existence of patterns in everyday items. In this science and math integrated lesson, 1st graders match leaves with a name word card and organize them into four patterns. This lesson includes a reading of And the...
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Chapter 11 What's Your Preference
In this math worksheet, students record the results of a survey taken from family members about relationships and activities.
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Essay Writing
Students complete essay writing activities. In this essay writing instructional activity, students use an outline activity to learn about the advantages and disadvantages for various essay writing types. Students also break down the...
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Planning for a Healthy Life
Young scholars investigate the difference between diseases that are controllable and those that happen by chance. They discuss the chance of dieing in a war with that of dieing from a disease that has controllable factors. They complete...
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A Leap of Space
Students explore how smaller systems exist within larger systems as they build a collage of their place in space! Invite the students to display their posters and talk about their systems and systems of systems.
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The Genetic Basis of Neurological Disorders
Young scholars describe some aspects of known genetic defects on the human neurological condition. They participate in a variety of exercises including drawings, games, and analogies.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Making Predictions With Probability
Practice making predictions with probability with these problems.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway:using Theoretical and Experimental Probability to Make Predictions
Given an event to simulate, the student will use theoretical probabilities and experimental results to make predictions and decisions.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Who Will Probably Come to the Party?
Students use tree diagrams to find possible outcomes and make predictions for probability story problems.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Lions, Tigers, and Probability
Students explore the probabilities of simple events, such as rolling a dice, in this interactive web lesson.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Making Predictions With Probability
Practice predicting the number of times a certain event will happen. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
PBS
Pbs Lesson Plan: Chances Are Talking Probability (Pdf) [Pdf]
An introductory lesson in probability for students in grades three to five. The concepts presented in this lesson are interwoven, over time, into a current unit of study. Students examine closely the "language" of probability as used in...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Sampling and Prediction: Lesson 3
This lesson demonstrates how sampling can help predict outcomes. It is 3 of 2 in the series titled "Sampling and Prediction."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Sampling and Prediction: Lesson 1
This lesson demonstrates how sampling can help predict outcomes. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Sampling and prediction."
Cuemath
Cuemath: Probability
A comprehensive guide for learning all about probability with definitions, basics of probability, terms used in probability, probability formula, conditional probability, probability distribution, probability density function, law of...