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What You Know About the Bermuda Triangle? Lesson PlanWhat You Know About the Bermuda Triangle? Lesson Plan
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Alabama Learning Exchange
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Grade
9th - 12th
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Math
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1 hr
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What You Know About the Bermuda Triangle?

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This What You Know About the Bermuda Triangle? lesson plan also includes:
  • Bermuda Triangle Sides and Angles (.docx)
  • What You Know About the Bermuda Triangle (.docx)
  • Video Walkthrough: Classifying Triangles by Angles and Sides
  • World of Teaching—Math PowerPoints
  • Classifying Triangles Practice Worksheet (.pdf)
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Get lost in the classifications. Using the backdrop of the Bermuda Triangle, pupils classify it by angle and side measures. They also learn information about the triangle and its history.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

acute triangles, equilateral triangles, isosceles triangles, obtuse triangles, right triangles, scalene triangles, the bermuda triangle, triangle classification

Additional Tags

math

Instructional Ideas

  • Determine the size of land mass by translating the Bermuda Triangle so that it is over land

Classroom Considerations

  • The class should know how to classify triangles
  • The first link to the Bermuda Triangle activity downloads an NCTM illuminations activity

Pros

  • Provides resources for intervention
  • Includes an answer key for facts about the Bermuda Triangle

Cons

  • The video on the Bermuda Triangle is not available

Common Core

HSG-CO.C.10 HSG-GPE.B.7

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