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Website
Scholastic

Scholastic: I Spy

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
These interactive matching games for elementary age students combine visuals of familiar objects and rhyming riddles to create brain-teasing puzzles.
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Unit Plan
University of California

University of California: Geometry in Action

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page collects various areas in which ideas from discrete and computational geometry (meaning mainly low-dimensional Euclidean geometry) meet some real-world applications.
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Activity
Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Semiregular Tessellations

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This one page Mathworld site has a number of examples of semiregular tessellations. A definition and a small amount of related information is given at the bottom of the page.
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Activity
Maths Challenge

Maths challenge.net: Square Laminas

For Students 6th - 9th
Solve this square lamina problem using your visualization skills and other mathematical prolem solving strategies.
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Activity
Maths Challenge

Maths challenge.net: Mystic Rose

For Students 9th - 10th
Solve the problem of how many lines make up a mystic rose.
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Activity
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Structuring the Instructional Day

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an efficient way of structuring the instructional day using a learning strategy that involves visualization. As a brainstorming activity, students will visualize themselves going to a movie.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Science and the Brain

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Describe the "mush-brain" effect, and test blindfolded subjects for their ability to identify items by smell. Explore the effect of biofeedback to help overcome illnesses, and attempt the mind-over-body techniques of visualizing and...
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Activity
University of Virginia Library

Prism: The Outsiders

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read an excerpt from S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders and highlight characterization in blue, visualization in red, and symbolism in green.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Visualization and Other Reading Strategies

For Students 4th - 9th Standards
A ten-part learning module with links to images, videos, and texts about reading strategies.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Reading Comprehension Visualizing

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
A five-part learning module with links to images and web sites to help student improve reading comprehension by visualizing.
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Activity
University of Virginia Library

Prism: "Learning to Chunk" Visualization

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Roald Dahl's "Learning to Chunk." Details that show characterization are blue while details that appeal to visualization or the senses are red and questions...
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Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Wag Worms

For Students K - 1st Standards
Use this challenge to see how many unique shapes can be created using exactly 5 cubes. At this one page website you can also check your results.
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Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: A Puzzling Cube

For Students 3rd - 8th
See if you can figure out which symbols are on which cube face at this one page website. The solution is just a click away once you have your solution in mind.
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Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Three Cubed

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use the shapes provided and figure out how they fit together to make a 3 X 3 cube at this one page website. The solution is readily available right at the website.
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Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Cubes Cut Into Four Pieces

For Students 3rd - 8th
This one page website offers an excellent challenge involving a cube. Can you visualize it? Check out the solution right at the website.
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Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: All in the Mind

For Students 3rd - 8th
You will have to use visualization to help you solve this challenge. At this one page website, you will be able to check your solution.
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Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Roll These Dice

For Students 3rd - 5th
Sharpen your problem solving, sequencing, and spatial reasoning skills playing this interactive game, Roll The Dice. See how many different paths you can take to end up with the same result.
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Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Street Party

For Students 3rd - 8th
Sharpen your logic and spatial sense skills while working on this challenge. Solution included.
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Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Tessellating Triangles

For Students 3rd - 8th
The challenge at this one page website, involves tessellation and triangle. Should you accept this challenge, you will find helpful teacher notes and the solution available right at the website.
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Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Egyptian Rope

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
See how many different regular polygons you can make using the 12 knot Egyptian rope at this one page website. Check your solution right at the website.
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Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Green Cube, Yellow Cube

For Students 3rd - 8th
Think about the surface area of a cube. At this one page website, you use that information to complete the challenge. Solutions are offered right at the website.
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Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Dicey

For Students 3rd - 8th
If you can visualize a cube and turn it around in your mind, then this is the challenge for you. This one page website has the solution available to check your thinking.
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Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Figure This: Envelopes

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Explore tessellations with real world applications in this activity from the NCTM Math Challenges for Families series. Figure out what shape you would use to create a legal envelope from a single sheet of paper. Then discover how...