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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Dragon Scales

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson plan, students create a class mural by using scale, ratio, and proportion. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: To Scale or Not to Scale? That Is the Factor.

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will learn to solve proportions and find missing sides of similar figures using the scale factor. This lesson is best taught before the concept of cross multiplication is developed. Not only will the student learn the process of...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Using Scale Factors: Drawing Your Body to Scale

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Teachers will use this lesson plan to review and apply skills involving scale factors. Teachers will use illuminations website to review scale factor. Then students will be given instructions to draw their bodies to scale.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Scale Drawings

For Teachers 9th - 10th
During this lesson students practice measuring and converting to scaled measurements. Students measure various places on campus, such as a classroom or the gym. They place their findings on a spreadsheet. After converting these...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Architects in Action

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Through this lesson, students will learn how to use ratios to create a scale drawing of their classroom's floor plan. It provides adaptations, discussion questions, assessment rubric, and suggested readings to help develop students'...
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PBS

Pbs News Hour Extra: Lesson Plan: Planets in Proportion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about the distance and relative size of the rest of the planets compared to the Earth and Sun. The lesson plan includes an assessment and extension activities.
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Other

Getting Life in Proportion: Scale and Mapping

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson learners will explore the use of pictures and maps to represent physical spaces. We will explore the concepts of scale and conversions between pictures, maps and real-world units. Conversions between kilometers and miles,...
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University of Arizona

Pulse: Industrialization, Chemicals and Human Health

For Teachers 9th - 10th
While students gain an understand of basic environmental toxicology, they explore the health impacts of industrialization on society in these lessons. This is a cross curricular unit that addresses standards for eleventh grade in math,...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Clock Tower

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This project resulted from the collaboration of a computer aided drafting teacher (pre-engineering), Chris Bond, and a math teacher, Lee Cable, (Hewitt-Trussville High School) to provide higher math expectations in CT and real life...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Land Surveying Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This project resulted from of the collaboration of a computer aided drafting teacher, Chris Bond, and a math teacher, Lee Cable, (Hewitt-Trussville High School) to provide higher math expectations in CT and real life application in...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 8.ee Comparing Speeds in Graphs and Equations

For Teachers 8th Standards
This task provides the opportunity for students to reason about graphs, slopes, and rates without having a scale on the axes or an equation to represent the graphs. Aligns with 8.EE.B.5.
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University of Arizona

Pulse: Powerful Explorations of Health and Energy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A cross curricular unit where students simulate an energy task meeting to discuss protecting human health through energy policies. The unit covers content for twelfth grade in math, physics, language arts, and government. Topics reviewed...
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University of Arizona

Pulse: From Global to City Air: Air Quality, City Design and Disease

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are challenged to design a healthy city in this unit plan. The cross-curricular unit covers content standards for ninth grade in science, language arts, world geography, and math. Students explore air quality and the impact it...

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