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Peoples Education: Make Inferences in Science [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 4th Standards
This online textbook selection focuses on how scientists make inferences from evidence. Students are given a reading passage about underwater exploration and are asked to make inferences based on the text. The passage is followed by...
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Fractal Explorer

For Students 7th - 8th
The fractal explorer shows how a very simple pattern, when repeated can produce an incredible range of images. From organic tree like structures to rigid geometric forms. Fun to use and lots of mathematical concepts involved.
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Website
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Quick Math: Graph Equations and Inequalities

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This resource is from the QuickMath website that illustrates how to graph equations, inequalities and a system.
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OER Commons

Oer Commons: Reviewing the Properties of Multiplication

For Students 7th Standards
Seventh graders use properties of multiplication to prove that the product of any two negative numbers is positive and the product of a positive number and a negative number is negative.
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OER Commons

Oer Commons: Reviewing the Properties of Addition

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students review the properties of addition and write an example for each. Then they apply the properties to simplify numerical expressions.
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OER Commons

Oer Commons: Understanding Fractions & Decimals

For Teachers 7th Standards
Seventh graders use number lines to solve addition and subtraction problems involving positive and negative fractions and decimals.
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OER Commons

Oer Commons: Model Integer Addition

For Students 7th
In this OER Commons resource students will use the Hot Air Balloon interactive to model integer addition. They then move to modeling addition on horizontal number lines. They look for patterns in their work and their answers to...
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Great Lakes Now Virtual Field Trip

For Students 6th - 8th
Embark on a virtual field trip that covers three main components: coastal wetlands, algae, and lake sturgeon. The videos are short and targeted at middle schoolers.
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Activity
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The Happy Scientist: Bread Bubbles

For Students 6th - 8th
This experiment is about bread. If you have used my website for long, you know that I like experiments with food, especially when it is tasty food. We regularly bake bread, and there are few smells that are better than the smell of...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Saints, Snakes & Pirates

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks passage provides a brief biography of St. Patrick, the man credited with bringing Christianity to Ireland. A questions sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
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Article
Read Works

Read Works: The Importance of Muhammad Ali [Abridged]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Abridged from the full text located at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, this passage provides biographical information about the famous boxer and Civil Rights advocate, Muhammad Ali....