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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Living in the Mill: 3 D Objects

For Students 3rd - 5th
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario at a toy store. Those skills include describing the features of pyramids, prisms, cones, cylinders and spheres.
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Pizza (Italian) Restaurant: Prisms and Pyramids

For Students 4th - 6th
On this interactive website students practice various math skills including naming prisms and pyramids, drawing cross sections of prisms and pyramids, and exploring three-dimensional views.
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Handout
Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Reflection and Refraction

For Students 9th - 10th
Reflection and refraction are explained with an experiment that uses a sheet of paper, cardboard, and other common materials.
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Unit Plan
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Prism

For Students 9th - 10th
This MathWorld site defines many different types of prisms. It gives the formulas for the volume and area of a prism the site has many illustrations [Requires Java.]
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Website
York University

York University: Color and Color Vision

For Students 9th - 10th
York University provides an index page to several other pages on the topic of color and color vision. The pages are part of an online "book." Many graphics and explanations.
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Unit Plan
NumberNut

Number Nut: Light and Colors

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Discover the relationship between light and colors in this brief lesson. Links to related color identification activities, Color Memory Challenge and Identifying Colors Quiz. Immediate feedback given to responses that includes...
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Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Mixing Colors With Light Beams

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this activity students learn how to mix different colors of light to create different colors.
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Activity
PBS

Nova Teachers: Einstein Revealed: What's Your Wavelength: Classroom Activity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate the wavelength properties of visible light and the scattering effects of the earth's atmosphere on different wavelengths.
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Unit Plan
Other

Personal Site: Prisms and Antiprisms

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a personal site that explains the difference between a prism and an antiprism. Pictures of a heptagonal prism and a heptagonal antiprism help illustrate this difference.
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Interactive
Other

Csg Network: Csg Volume Calculator: Triangular Prism

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Use this calculator tool to find the volume in cubic units of a triangular prism.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Finding a Formula for the Volume of a Rectangular Prism: Lesson 2

For Students 7th - 8th
This lesson demonstrates how to find a formula for the volume of rectangular prisms. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Finding a Formula for the Volume of a Rectangular Prism."
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Finding a Formula for the Volume of a Triangular Prism: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson demonstrates how to find a formula for the volume of triangular prisms. It is 3 of 5 in the series titled "Finding a Formula for the Volume of a Triangular Prism."
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Finding a Formula for the Volume of a Triangular Prism: Lesson 5

For Students 7th - 8th
This lesson demonstrates how to find a formula for the volume of triangular prisms. It is 5 of 5 in the series titled "Finding a Formula for the Volume of a Triangular Prism."
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Types of Solids: Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson will define the terms prism, bases, pyramid, cylinder, and cone. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Types of Solids."
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Types of Solids: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson will define the terms prism, bases, pyramid, cylinder, and cone. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Types of Solids."
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Activity
University of Virginia Library

Prism: The Road Not Taken

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" and highlight details of sight in blue, time in red, and agency in green. When finished, click save to see how others marked the text as well.
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Activity
University of Virginia Library

Prism: On Self Knowledge

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read Kahlil Gibran's "On Self-Knowledge" and highlight details that are sacred in blue and details that are secular in red. When finished, click save to see how others marked the text as well.
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Activity
University of Virginia Library

Prism: Gettysburg Address

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" and highlight details that show logos in blue, ethos in red, and pathos green. When finished, click save to see how others marked the text as well.
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Handout
University of Virginia Library

Prism: Notes on the State of Virginia

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read the complete text of Thomas Jefferson's "Notes on the State of Virginia" and highlight rhetoric in blue, orientalism in red, and social Darwinism in green. When finished, click save to see how...
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Handout
University of Virginia Library

Prism: The Sneetches

For Students 3rd - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read the complete text of Dr. Seuss' "The Sneetches" and highlight things you understand in blue and things you do not understand in red. When finished, click save to see how others marked the text as...
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Activity
University of Virginia Library

Prism: My Own Heart Let Me Have More Have Pity On

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read Gerard Manley Hopkins' "My Own Heart Let Me Have More Have Pity On" and highlight internal references in blue, external references in red, and references to grace in green. When finished, click...
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Activity
University of Virginia Library

Prism: "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" Visualization

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed." Text highlighted in blue represents insightful details, red represents things that are difficult to understand,...
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Activity
University of Virginia Library

Prism: "The March of the Flag" Visualization

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Albert J. Beveridge's "The March of the Flag (1898)." Text highlighted in blue shows benevolence while red shows economic interest in red, and...
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Activity
University of Virginia Library

Prism: "Mine Is a Wide Estate" Visualization

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted James Still's "Mine is a Wide Estate." Text details that are neutral are blue, non-Appalachian are red, and Appalachian are green. Click on any word to see...