Growing a Garden

Students plant a garden and keep track of it. In this geometrical garden lesson, students collect data from their garden twice a week. They graph their finding and figure out how many square feet of growing space each person needs for food.

Learners engage in a study of area and finding the dimensions needed to construct a fence for a garden. They apply algebraic concepts and geometry to the problem while using the Texas Instruments graphing calculator. The lesson includes...

Here’s a reading comprehension assessment that will capture the interest of your learners. Stink bugs and the danger they pose to farmers is the subject of the passage, while the eight questions ask readers to infer, predict, summarize...

Inquiry-based learning and investigations form the basis of a deep understanding of quadratic functions in a very thorough unit plan.  Learners develop recursive and closed methods for representing real-life situations, then apply these...

What good are functions in the real world? Learners take real-world situations and investigate the associated function. Documentation of real-world scenarios helps learners connect key mathematical vocabulary words with certain functions.

Learners explore the problem of maximizing area. In this lesson,They investigate a classic problem situation requiring maximization of area. Numbers are input into a table, a scatterplot is generated, and conclusions are drawn. This...

An impressive presentation on pesticides. Learners are given an amazing amount of information on pesticides: what they are, how and why they are used, and how dangerous they can be if improperly stored or accidentally ingested. For any...

Students study how scientists have estimated the maximum height to which trees can grow, and assess the reliability of interpolation and extrapolation techniques by making predictions with particular data sets and analyzing accuracy of...

Pupils discover how to plan a vegetable garden. Each student take responsibility for growing one vegetable from seed, to transplanting the seedling into the soil, and providing the plant with light, moisture, temperature and healthy soil.