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Teach Engineering

Exploring Energy: Energy Conversion

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
The energy is not really lost, it is just converted to a different form. Pupils learn about the conversion of energy in the fifth segment of an energy unit with six parts. Learners develop an understanding of the conservation of energy...
Activity
Teach Engineering

Making Moon Craters

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
Create an egg-citing study of energy. Pupils investigate the effect of height and mass on the overall amount of energy of a falling object. The fourth segment in a six-part series on energy uses a weighted egg falling from different...
Activity
101 Questions

Best Reflection

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Which is the best reflection of them all? Given four diagrams, pupils determine which one shows the most accurate reflection of a quadrilateral. Two images provide the distances of each vertex from the line of reflection, as well as the...
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Concord Consortium

Area Upgrade

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Imagine a world built of triangles. A performance task asks scholars to consider just that. They use their knowledge of special segments of a triangle to make decisions about the area of triangular plots of land.
Assessment
Concord Consortium

Detective Stories

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
The truth will always come out. A short performance task has learners considering a witness statement given to a detective. They apply special line segments in triangles and Ceva's Theorem to prove that the witness is actually lying.
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Corbett Maths

Perpendicular Bisector

For Students 8th - 11th Standards
Where should the statue be located? The resource explains how to use a compass and straight-edge to construct the perpendicular bisector of a line segment. Using an exam question, the narrator models how to solve an application problem...
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California Education Partners

School Supplies

For Students 5th Standards
Make sure to get enough for everyone. The three-part assessment task requires scholars to calculate with decimals. Learners determine the cost of school supplies and whether the teachers have ordered enough. The assessment is the sixth...
Assessment
Concord Consortium

Outward Bound

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Just how far can I see? The short assessment question uses the Pythagorean Theorem to find the distance to the horizon from a given altitude. Scholars use the relationship of a tangent segment and the radius of a circle to find the...
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EngageNY

Curves from Geometry

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Take a another look at ellipses. The seventh segment in a series of 23 in a Precalculus module continues to investigate the graph and equation of an ellipse from the previous lesson. Scholars investigate the fact that the sum of...
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EngageNY

Inverses of Logarithmic and Exponential Functions

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Revisit the relationship between logarithms and exponentials. Learners review the notion of logarithms as the way to solve exponential equations in the 21st segment in a Pre-calculus series of 23. Pupils use the knowledge to prove that...
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EngageNY

End Behavior of Rational Functions

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Connect end behavior to previous learning. Pupils connect finding the end behavior of rational functions to finding end behavior of polynomial functions. The 13th segment in a 23-part unit starts with finding the end behavior or power...
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EngageNY

Graphing Rational Functions

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Put everything together in a picture. Scholars take what they learned in the previous three lessons in the 15th segment of a 23-part unit to graph rational functions. They find the end behavior, the horizontal and vertical asymptotes if...
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Flipped Math

Unit 9 Review: Area of Polygons

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
It's time to show what you know! Individuals first review finding the area of polygons using the formulas from parallelograms to regular polygons. They then brush up on finding the area and circumference of circles, as well as reviewing...
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EngageNY

Composite Area Problems

For Teachers 7th Standards
The 21st segment in a 28-part series provides learners with area problems involving composite figures. To find the solution, pupils must decide whether to add or subtract areas. The composite figures are composed of quadrilaterals,...
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EngageNY

The Area of a Circle

For Teachers 7th Standards
Introduce learners to two methods to estimate the formula for the area of a circle. The first method uses a sector of a circle to form a rectangle, and the other uses grids to estimate the area. The problems in the 18th segment of a...
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EngageNY

The Most Famous Ratio of All

For Teachers 7th Standards
Pupils develop a definition of a circle based upon its radius in the 17th segment of a 28-part series. They determine the relationship between the radius and the diameter of a circle. To round out the instructional activity, they use the...
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EngageNY

Writing, Evaluating, and Finding Equivalent Expressions with Rational Numbers 2

For Teachers 7th Standards
The 20th segment in a series of 25 has learners work with percentage problems to generate equivalent expressions. Pupils find discounted prices using numerical and algebraic expressions. The task then requires individuals to find the...
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EngageNY

Unit Rate as the Constant of Proportionality

For Teachers 7th Standards
What do unit rates and constants of proportionality have in common? The lesson plan addresses this question and introduces the concept of constant proportionality to the class. Individuals find that the unit rate and the constant of...
Worksheet
NASA

Atomic Numbers and Multiplying Fractions

For Students 5th - 8th
Here is a way for beginning chemists to review the skill of multiplying fractions! A segment of the periodic table of elements is presented at the top of the page, from which learners obtain the atomic number to use in six calcualtions....
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National Wildlife Federation

The Wheel of Trouble

For Teachers K - 2nd
What kind of troubles affect turtles? Learners create paper plate wheels to show four different hazards to sea turtles. Pupils color four segments of a picture to represent the overharvesting, changing beaches, pollution, and fishing...
Worksheet
Math Worksheets Land

The Area of Rectangles - Guided Lesson

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Geometry novices will enjoy this approach to finding area, as they aren't required to include units or a formula. The main objective here is to segment a rectangle into columns and rows to create squares, which then are used to find the...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Find the Words

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
Before kids become readers, they can build foundational pre-reading skills using visual worksheets like this one. Learners examine six words with corresponding pictures, circling the words and guessing what they say. They use the images...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Comparing Areas

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
Before your scholars know how to multiply side lengths to find an area, give them some practice in simply counting units. They examine shapes that have already been segmented into units, counting them to get the area. There are three...
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DK Publishing

Counting Caterpillars

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
These caterpillars each have a number sequence printed on their segmented bodies, but some numbers are missing! Look at the completed caterpillars as an example, asking kids to notice a possible pattern. They should observe that the...

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