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Means of Growth
Students collect and graph data. In this statistics lesson plan, students analyze their plotted data using a scatter plot. They identify lines as having positive, negative or no correlation.
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The Gulf Oil Spill in the Classroom
Students explore the concept of environmental stewardship. In this interdisciplinary instructional activity, students investigate the media response to the Gulf oil spill as they examine live streaming video, interpret data, and share...
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Exploring Peano's Axioms
Students add natural numbers in axioms to prove addition theorems. In this axiom lesson plan, students add 3 + 4 to make the number 7.
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Positive and Negative Dominoes
Students play dominoes with regular dominoes rules with some modification. Every student keep score. Every count be used--not just the 5's as in dominoes. They count outside points using white dots as positive and red dots as negatives.
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I am the Greatest
Students participate in a game blending skill with chance to enhance students' understanding of the concept of place value. They explain that the value of a number increases when digits farthest to the left have greatest value.
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GET'N JIGGY WITH THE JITTERBUG
Twelfth graders research the history of the jitterbug dance through an interactive group project. The goal of the lesson is to get them to execute the dance steps independently with little outside help from the teacher. The steps are...
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Shopping
Students determine how much money they have in hand, find and read the price of a product, determine which product to buy, determine if they have enough money, and count out exact change or determine how much change is due.
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Miners
Students complete various activities related to mining and mining safety. They write an energy sentence, complete a word puzzle, cut and glue safety equipment on a mining character, solve a math code word puzzle, and complete a maze...
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Are You an Animal Safety Sleuth?
Students complete activities to investigate natural disasters and the impact on animals. In this natural disaster and animal safety lesson plan, students discuss the importance of safety procedures. Students use a map of their school and...
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Modular Packaging
Students. in groups of two or three, design a box that contain a product. They must utilize design skills, spatial relationships, measurement skills and problem solving in order to design the most economically advantageous packaging.
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Child's Play II: Loteria Game
Young scholars use flashcards to memorize the Spanish words for numbers. In groups, they write and solve addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems. They play another round of the game in which they can only give the...
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Designing Models to Simulate Actual Events Using a Table of Random Digits
High schoolers design models to simulate actual events using a tale of random digits. They estimate the likelihood of a particular outcome using results of simulation. Students investigate the uses of statistical methods to analyze data.
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Reading Comprehension: "Wild"
Develop reading skills in your middle school classroom with this short reading passage. Consider assigning your class a reading strategy to practice as they read the selection. Ten reading comprehension and vocabulary-in-context...
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Plate Tectonics: Second Grade Lesson Plans and Activities
Second graders explore convection currents and how they relate to the movement of tectonic plates. Then, young geologists reconstruct Pangaea with a worksheet and pinpoint plate boundaries on a map...
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Hazards: Second Grade Lesson Plans and Activities
Equip learners with safety knowledge in the case of an earthquake. After coloring the places to go to get help after a quake, and label places that wouldn't be safe to go after a quake, young geologists simulate three levels of...
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Maple Syrup Production
Learners make their own maple sugar and learn about how it is made on a grander scale. In this maple sugar instructional activity, students make their own maple sugar and learn about evaporation and what labor is put into making it.
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3-D Model of Lake Benthos
Students create 3-D models of Lake Benthos. In this scale drawing lesson, students create a 3-D model of Lake Benthos. Students work in groups to create the models. Students use the models to to encourage people to conserve natural...
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Maple Syrup Production
Students examine the steps of maple sugar production and the labor and effort involved from the tree to the final product. They participate in a taste test game, and if they have access to maple trees, make their own syrup and sugar.
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Fruitvale Extension
Pupils determine sources and extent of ground water contaminate, apply mathematics to model in real world simulation, and use technology to present results.
Math Drills
Math Drills: Time and Clock Worksheets
Download these free worksheets to sharpen your time skills. Sheets focus on elapsed time, telling time on analog clocks, calendars, and converting time.
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Math Drills: Unit Converter
Download these free worksheets to sharpen your skills in converting units. Sheets focus on converting between a wide variety of measurement units including mass, length, volume, temperature, time, and many more.
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Math Drills: Distance, Speed, and Time Quiz
An interactive quiz which provides students with a word problem involving distance, speed, and/or time. Students input their solution and have the program evaluate it. Hints are available if the student needs them, and explanations are...
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School House Technologies: Free Math Worksheets for Teachers
A collection of math worksheets covering a multitude of math topics.