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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Probability

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] What is the likelihood that an event will occur? Using the dice tool, students created spinners, tally tables, and building their own ice cream treats and pizzas.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Probabilty

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This very detailed flipchart teaches This very detailed flipchart teaches probability while providing a lot of practice and instruction. It includes spinners, cubes, shapes, patterns and is a great...
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Can Teach

Can Teach: Spinning Short Vowel Word Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Fun game helps young readers develop their reading skills by playing an engaging game with spinners.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Experimental Probability

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This interactive learning activity allows students to explore experimental probability using spinners and dice. Teacher resources are included.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating the Water Cycle: Using Plants to Study Evaporation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this science activity, students investigate the water cycle by testing the water evaporated from leaves (transpiration). They investigate concepts of evaporation and the movement of water through the different states of the water...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Probability What Are the Odds?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson introduces students to experimental and theoretical probability using spinners and trials with pennies. Students also research careers that involve probability, and create a video presentation. It provides an assessment and...
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OER Commons

Oer Commons: Experimental Probability

For Teachers 7th - 8th Standards
Young scholars will extend their understanding of probability by continuing to conduct experiments, this time with four-colored spinners. They will compare experimental results to expected results by first conducting an experiment, then...
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Experimental Probability

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Experiment with probability using a fixed size section spinner, a variable section spinner, two regular 6-sided dice or customized dice.
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Chateau Meddybemps

Chateau Meddybemps: Fun With Letters

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This interesting site has a variety of activities and games to use in the classroom or at home to teach letter recognition, phonics, and beginning writing skills. Learn about individual letters at the Alphabet Soup Cafe, create an...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Spin Me Along

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore probability and patterns in fractions, decimals, and percents by spinning three spinners and recording and analyzing the results.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: What Are the Chances?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this activity, students determine the probability of a spinner landing on a certain number in eleven trials. They also learn to change the weightage and find subsequent effect on the probability.
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Defenders of Wildlife

Defenders of Wildlife: Keep America's Tuna Dolphin Safe

For Students 9th - 10th
This site not only contains fact sheets on the bottlenose, spinner, and spotted dolphins, but also examines the whole issue of dolphin conservation. You will learn how tuna fishing is hazardous to dolphins and how eating tuna can be...
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Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Conduction, Convection, and Radiation

For Students 6th - 9th
Guess the letters with this thermal energy transfer spinner game.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Simple Probability

For Students 6th - 8th
Practice finding probabilities of events, such as rolling dice, drawing marbles out of a bag, and spinning spinners. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Myth of Arachne

For Students 9th - 10th
Iseult Gillespie shares how one such unnerving transformation befell the spinner Arachne.
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Other

Business Insider: How a Top Houseware Brand Reinvents Kitchen Gadgets

For Students 2nd - 8th
Founded in 1990, Oxo is beloved by design nerds for the way that the company takes everyday objects (like the salad spinner) and finds sometimes subtle, but always clever, ways to reinvent them. The designs are based on the principle of...
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Crazy Choices Game

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Compare theoretical and experimental probabilities, using dice, cards, spinners, or coin tosses. Three different probabilities can be compared at once.
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CGFA

Carol Gerten Fine Arts: Gustave Courbet

For Students 9th - 10th
This gallery of Courbet's work includes well as a brief biography. Be sure to click the link at the bottom for more information.
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Earth Life

Wonderful World of Insects: An Introduction to the 32 Orders of Insects

For Students 9th - 10th
A very thorough look at the world of insects. This site examines the 32 orders of insects and gives a complete explanation of the characteristics of each order. Text is supplemented with pictures.
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Defenders of Wildlife

Defenders of Wildlife: Fact Sheets

For Students 9th - 10th
Here you can find fact sheets on over 50 species of animals. Find an animal by where it lives in the world, and learn all about it.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Clymene Dolphin

For Students 4th - 8th
The Clymene dolphin is distinguished from the very similar spinner dolphin by the shortness of its beak and its color pattern. Like spinners, they "spin," leaping high out the water and rotating (not a somersault, but a sideways roll)...
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Super Teacher Tools: Home

For Students 3rd - 8th
Follow links on this site for learning games in the style of Jeopardy, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and Speed Match. Links are also available for classroom helpers like a seating chart maker, a group maker, a random name generator,...
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PBS

Pbs Kids: Cat in the Hat: Spina Ma Jigger

For Students Pre-K - K
Spin the spinner to see what activity you will complete! Will it be popping balloons? Coloring a picture? Or building sandcastles? Spin and see!
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PBS

Pbs Lesson Plan: Chances Are Talking Probability (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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...

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