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Khan Academy: Hands on Activity Unit PlanKhan Academy: Hands on Activity Unit Plan
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Khan Academy
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5th - 7th
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Science
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Khan Academy: Hands on Activity

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This is a hands on activity asks students to design and build a certain number dinosaur parts in order to create a crowd of a given size. Apply combinatorics to design your own crowd of dinosaurs. Click on First Lesson before you begin the task.

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dinosaurs

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combinatorics, design challenge, math challenge, hands-on activity, khan academy, khan academy: hands-on activity, create a crowd of dinosaurs, first lesson

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Practice

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