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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Using a Coordinate Grid

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
In this Cyberchase video segment, the CyberSquad must locate each other using a map's grid to construct a coordinate system using letters and numbers.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Memory Game: Drawing a Grid of Tiles

For Students 9th - 10th
Creating a memory game by drawing a grid of tiles including the use of object-oriented principles and the Fisher-Yates shuffle.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Perimeter in Grid

For Students 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video and attempt practice problems on how to find the perimeter of a shape using a grid.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Finding Locations on a Grid

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will be able to use a letter/number grid system to determine location on a grid.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Area in Grid

For Students 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video overview and attempt practice problems on how to find the area of a shape using grids.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Smart Buildings, Transport, and Grids

For Students 9th - 10th
The advantages and security risks of "Smart" uses of technology in buildings, transportation, and grids are discussed.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Calculating Rectangular Area

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, the CyberSquad measures Judge Trudy's land claim by using tarps, fence posts and a grid made with rope.
Lesson Plan
University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Introduction to Slope for Middle Years Mathematics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This collection of five middle school math lessons covers the topic of plane geometry, specifically the concept of slope. The first lesson introduces students to plotting points on a Cartesian grid using a Geoboard. Lesson two moves them...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 5.g Battle Ship Using Grid Paper

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
The purpose of this task is to give students practice plotting points in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane and naming coordinates of points. Aligns with 5.G.A.1.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Exploring Standard Form of a Quadratic Function

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore y=ax^2+bx+c using the transform graphing application. Teacher calculator is used with Navigator to send device settings, the equation format and initial coefficient values to all students. Worksheet includes all student...
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National Gallery of Canada

Cybermuse: Introduction to Pictorial Space

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A site featuring the work of Cezanne, Monet, Picasso, and Mondrian, among others, that explores pictorial space in a composition There are lesson plans for ages 4-18, and a great section where works are juxtaposed for comparison. Use the...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Introduction to Maps

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students are expected to: explain the purpose of a map; identify and use a compass rose; use a grid to locate objects on maps; and use a map key. Activities are hands-on with students manipulating...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Single Variable Expressions: Neighborhood Block

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will solve single variable expressions using a grid of a neighborhood. Click challenge me to answer a question about the grid and click learn more to explore single variables and watch a video.
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Other

University of Akron: Research Challenges Location of 'Tornado Alley'

For Students 9th - 10th
Geographer Michael Frates redefines the concept of Tornado Alley by using a grid system to map tornado activity in the U.S. Download the Tornado Alley map and locate the other tornado active areas: Hoosier Alley, Dixie Alley and the...
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Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: Make an Alien Mask Using Ordered Pairs

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This website gives you the ordered pairs you need to make an Alien mask using graph paper.
Interactive
TeacherLED

Teacher Led Interactive Whiteboard Resource Two Quadrant Graph

For Students K - 1st Standards
Use this interactive white board activity to explore coordinate planes and graphing ordered pairs.
eBook
Other

The Lancashire Grid for Learning: "The Ugly Duckling"

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Perfect to encourage elementary-aged independent reading, use this children's tale as a read along. Or for those who need assistance, listen in narrated audio.
Interactive
Other

Virtual Composer

For Students 9th - 10th
Compose music with this interesting online tool. To compose, you click small boxes on a grid. The grid is continuously scanned with a line that passes over your clicked boxes which in turn plays their sounds. You can listen to other...
Interactive
Channel 4 Learning

Channel 4 Maths: Mathszone

For Students 3rd - 8th
Can you help Ben and Mai escape their captors and foil the robbers' getaway plan? Test your mathematical aptitude in this captivating, interactive, adventure game that uses a PDA/calculator to solve math clues. Students will activate...
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State Energy Conservation Office-Texas

State Energy Conservation Office: Learning About Photovoltaic Systems [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains how photovoltaic systems work and how Texas homeowners are using them. Discusses how a homeowner can use solar energy and still be on the electricity grid system.
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Other

Ns Dept. Of Education: Blackline Masters, Math Essentials 11

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Mathematics templates here support a Grade 11 Math text used in Nova Scotia. There is an assortment of blackline masters ranging from Celsius thermometers and Canadian coins to fraction circles and number lines. Many of the templates...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What's Wrong With the Coordinates at the North Pole?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students complete a self-guided exercise in worksheet format combined with Google Earth that helps them explore practical and observable differences between different projection and coordinate systems. The activity improves their skills...
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Three by Three

For Students 3rd - 8th
Push your problem-solving skills to the limit. Arrange 3 red, 3 blue and 3 yellow counters into a three-by-three square grid, so that there is only one of each color in every row and every column.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Picturing Percents

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students represent percents on a 10 X 10 grid. They use the grid and the calculator to generate patterns that lead to methods for calculating percentages.

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