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Introduction to Earning Interest: What are APR and APY?

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Pupils explore saving and investing money.  In this middle school personal finance lesson, students define and use investment vocabulary, explore compound interest and its effect of savings, and compute simple and compound interest. ...
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Cooperative Building

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students increase listening comphrehension and use critical thinking skills. They take turns and show respect for the work of others. They cooperatively build a block structure.
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Extreme Acceleration

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore the concept of acceleration. They determine the acceleration rate of a roller-blader and graph the results.
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How Can we Measure the Rate of a Chemical Reaction?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine different types of chemical reactions. They explore how alcohol molecules affect the reaction rates. They answer discussion questions to end the lesson.
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Permeability and Porosity of Somerset County Sediments

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students predict and test the permeability and porosity of sediments in Somerset County, New Jersey. They discuss what how porous they think the sediment of HMS grounds is and why. Students walk around the HMS campus and collect six...
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Respiratory System

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students identify the parts of the respiratory system and how they interact. They define vocabulary words and draw an outline of themselves and label the parts of the respiratory system. They distinguish between healthy and unhealthy...
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Word Problems

For Students 6th
In this word problem worksheet, 6th graders solve 5 different word problems related to the data table shown. First, they determine the average of the overall scores as shown in the table and the mean of the overall scores. Then, students...
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Ratio and Proportion

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore ratios and proportions. In this ratios instructional activity, students work in groups to identify the ratio of boys to girls, as well as the ratio of vowels to consonants in their names. Given a bag of candy, students...
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Keyboarding - Keyboard Scavenger

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
Young scholars play motivational keyboarding games that reinforce finger families, proper technique, and accuracy. They can create personal word lists from various finger families.
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Worksheet 2 - Instantaneous Velocity

For Teachers Higher Ed
In this distance worksheet, students determine the distance between two objects, find the average velocity of an object, and define instantaneous velocity. This two-page worksheet contains six two-step problems.
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Variables and Expressions from Around the Cosmos

For Students 9th - 12th
In this variables and expressions worksheet, students solve 7 problems using different mathematical formulae to find the length of Earth's day in the future, the distance to the galaxy Andromeda, the temperature of a gas cloud emitting...
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How Hot Is It?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders practice estimating temperatures. They practice in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
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Water Anyone?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders measure cups, quarts, and liters.
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Hickory Dickory Dock: The Biological Clock

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners investigate the effect of day length on animal migrations. They view a Powerpoint presentation, identify their own personal migrations and cues, answer discussion questions, and test a hypothesis about seasons.
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A Real Difference

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use the Celsius and Fahrenheit thermometers to compare temperature readings. They use the Internet to find the temperatures of selected cities. After data is collected for five days, 5th graders graph the temperatures.
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Date a Rock!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students figure the number of half-lives since the sample solidified, and therefore the "age" of the sample rocks.
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Using Multiplication to Solve Word Problems

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students explore math functions by solving word problems in class. In this multiplication lesson, students utilize colored cubes and base blocks to visualize multiplication problems. Students identify the multiplication values within...
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Area Lesson Plan

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Young scholars manipulate a variety of materials and computer applets in order to explore area and the units used to measure it.
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Introduction to Science

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders investigate scientific methods to solve problems. They demonstrate creating data tables and graphs. They study the role of a scientist and the importance of safety in a science lab. They distinguish between an...
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There's a Volcano in my Backyard!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study Mount Ranier and its activity as a volcano.  In this investigative lesson students locate cities around Mount Ranier and complete an activity. 
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The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Treaty/Operation Barbarossa Student Worksheet

For Students 9th - 12th
In this primary source analysis learning exercise, students read a copy of the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Treaty and respond to 17 short answer questions about it as well as the reactions to it. Links to the text are included.
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Air Quality

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students determine potential sources of major air pollutants, explain how acid rain is generated and how it affects the environment, discuss global warming, and explore protective role of ozone and cause of ozone layer thinning. Lessons...
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The Babylonian Algorithm, Limits and Rates of Change

For Students Higher Ed
In this successive approximations learning exercise, students use the Babylonian algorithm to determine the roots of given numbers. They identify the limits of a function, and compute the rate of change in a linear function. This...
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Tracking a Hurricane

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students use knowledge of what satellite imagery tells to create a descriptive hypothesis of the ground phenomenon during a hurricane.

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