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Measuring Beads

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students compare the weight of the students's favorite soft toys directly and then indirectly using beads.
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Exploring Perimeter

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore perimeter. In this geometry and measurement lesson, students create squares and rectangles using given perimeters. Students construct four sided shapes with given perimeters using the computer program "Math Keys:...
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The Complex Numbers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this algebra worksheet, students solve 16 problems involving imaginary numbers. In the first three, students find the square root of 3 negative numbers in terms of i. Nine problems involve addition, subtraction, multiplication and...
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Main Idea with SENTEO Component

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore "main idea." In this main idea and details reading comprehension instructional activity, students view a Brain POP video about main idea and then identify sentences displayed on the SMART Board that would be included in...
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Hydroelectricity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Use a simple PowerPoint presentation to introduce you environmental studies class to hydropower. Hold a debate about the pros and cons of developing this form of alternative energy. Power up your class with this simple lesson on a topic...
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I Can Use a Worm to Count

For Teachers K
Kindergarteners use worms, puppets or other props to practice counting to 100. First, they listen to a read aloud of Count Worms by Roger Hargeaves. A worm pattern is used to count to 100, with each segment of the worm...
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To Quote or Not to Quote

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Introduce your middle and high schoolers to the correct use of quotation marks. They identify examples of correct and incorrect quotations in magazines and edit a paragraph in groups. Use this lesson plan as a way to reinforce...
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Volume Lab

For Teachers 5th - 8th
How can we find volume if it a shape isn't easy to measure? Investigate methods for determining this as the volume of regular and irregular objects is explored in several stations. Learners discover that when the standard formula for...
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Clothesline Sleuth

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
What fabrics are our clothes made of? Where do those fabrics from? Lead your pupils to discover the answers to these questions and more. Class members have a chance to play with various fabrics, invesitgating the materials and...
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Natural Beauty: Looking Sharp

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students create covers for their "nature journals" using watercolor techniques and the artistic ideas of color, depth, and focal point. This lesson can be used in the Science or Art classroom and meets national standards for both.
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Read My Expression

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students create a facial expression in clay using slabs of clay and coils that convey a feeling inspired by a poem in this excellent cross-curricular lesson plan suitable for the Laqnguage Arts or Art classroom. National Standards met...
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Haiku Movies

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars create a movie to illustrate an original haiku poem in this upper-elementary school, Language Arts lesson utilizing technology. The lesson meets state standards for Language Arts and includes a materials list and possible...
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Investigation - Design Your Own Spinner

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders use ideas of uncertainty to illustrate that mathematics involves more than exactness when dealing with every day situations. The main standard of this lesson is statistics and probability.
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Storing CD's

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students will solve a word problem as an in depth investigation,. The lesson is based upon standards that are foundational to further development of math skills. The learners use logic and higher order thinking skills to accomplish the...
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Budgeting for the Future

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders determine the net amount of an income for a fictional job. They must determine their net worth minus standard deductions. Students must then determine their monthly budget including, groceries, credit, and rent.
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Using Decimal Benchmarks

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students demonstrate some common operations done while using fractions based upon mathematical standards. They are also changing common fractions to decimals with estimation skills and the use of a calculator.
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Urban Heat Islands: An Introduction to Energy Transfer and Transformation

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Elementary school physical scientists explore kinetic mechanical energy by dropping a golf ball on different surfaces. They discuss how human made materials might react to light differently from nature made materials. This lesson plan...
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Graphing Linear Equations and Inequalities

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students discuss methods to solve equations and inequalities with one variable. As a review, they write Addition and Subtraction properties of equality and Multiplication and Division properties of equality. Students graph points, write...
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Cookie Creations

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Students research ingredients typically found in cookies. They write recipes for creative cookies, using standard measurements and imaginative ingredients. Students illustrate the ingredients for their recipes and the baked product. They...
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Measure Up! Capacity Chart

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students experiment with various containers to explore standard units of liquid capacity. They create a diagram to illustrate the liquids and units of measurement that each container holds. Each student is then challenged to compute...
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Weather Station Report

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this science worksheet, students participate in an activity using the sheet that increases the knowledge of weather and is based on achieving the academic standard of using a weather station.
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The Quadratic Formula

For Teachers 8th - 9th
In this algebra worksheet, learners solve 10 equations using the quadratic formula. In problems 5, 6, 9 and 10 students must first get the equation in standard form.
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Lead and Mercury: Comparing Two Environmental Evils

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers in chemistry or health courses look at the material safety data sheet (MSDS) and periodic table of elements to gather information about mercury and lead, two toxic materials that have been found in food products. They read...
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Tracing The Origins of Autism: A Spectrum of New Studies

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Has the occurrence of autism increased over the years, or do the changes in diagnostic criteria account for the difference? High schoolers read an article about autism spectrum disorders and the related epidemiological studies that have...

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