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Solar System Distance Activity
Students examine the distances between the Sun, planets, and smaller objects in the Solar System. They design a model using beads that shows the scale distances of the Solar System using astronomical units converted into a 10 centimeter...
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Planning a Healthy City
Ninth graders create a scaled model city. They create a blueprint that provides for the economic and cultural needs of a community. They identify where essential elements of the city should be located and explain the rationale for the...
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Lesson Plan Project
Students demonstrate the composing of a string quartet piece by working together in small groups to write a short composition based around a pentatonic scale for all four instruments. They evaluate their peers compositions by...
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Animal Body Coverings
First graders compare and contrast animals according to their various body coverings, (fur, scales, shells). Students discuss the different body coverings they have seen on animals. They conduct a sensory experiment in which they feel...
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Probability
In this probability worksheet, 6th graders solve and complete 3 different problems. First, they place the events on the probability scale shown. Then, students match the phrase to the best description of its chance of happening.
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Bringing Young Architects to Surface
Students work in pairs to design a building. In this architecture lesson, students take on the role of head architect to design and construct a 3-D scale model a building for a client. Students' goal is to meet the...
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Seeing Music, Hearing Waves
In this music activity, 11th graders incorporate fractions into their music scales and counting scales. They listen to the music being played and relate it to sine waves reviewing the trig function. There are 11 questions involving sine...
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Unit 14 - Loci and Transformations
In this transformations worksheet, students solve 25 short answer problems. Kids dilate, reflect, and translate points and figures in the coordinate plane. Students determine scale factors and lines of symmetry of figures.
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Subtraction (Single Digits)
First graders demonstrate subtraction process using an object (fish scales), set up a subtraction problem using fish scales, and apply the subtraction sign when separating sets of objects.
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Craters on the Moon
In this moon craters worksheet, students use a high resolution image of the lunar surface and calculate the image scale in meters per millimeter. They use the image scale to find the largest crater in the image, the smallest crater, the...
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Power Functions: A Question of Magnitude
For this power functions worksheet, students read about determining the brightness of stars using a magnitude scale. Students solve 4 problems including finding the magnitude differences of stars and determining equivalent magnitudes.
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Reflections on Earth: Exploring Planet Earth from Space
Students examine satellite images of Earth and contrast images at different scales. In this exploring Earth from space lesson plan, students use satellite images to contrast images at different scales, calculate distances from the scale...
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Eagle Nebula - Close-up
In this Eagle nebula worksheet, students solve 4 problems including finding the size of the nebula field, determining the scale of the image, determining how large the nebula is in millimeters and determining the size of the smallest...
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SDO: Measuring the Speed of an Eruptive Prominence
For this eruptive prominence worksheet, high schoolers read about a plasma ejection from the sun measured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Students solve 3 problems using the given diagrams of the ejection. They determine the scale of...
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LRO Sees Apollo 11 on the Moon!
In this moon image activity, students determine the scale of an image taken by the LRO satellite of the Apollo 11 landing site. Students calculate the sun's angle at the time of the photograph using the shadow of the Lunar Lading Module,...
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Who Has Seen the Wind?
Learners investigate the characteristics of wind. For this weather lesson, students use poetry and van Gogh's paintings to discuss the movement of wind. Learners are introduced to the Beaufort Scale and use the tool to measure the wind...
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