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Alex: Dinosaur Fossils
Students will enhance their understanding of fossils. Students explore fossils by creating their own fossil imprints using Play-Doh and Plaster of Paris.
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Alex: Hanging Out With Prime Factorization
During this lesson, students will review factors, prime and composite numbers. Students will also create a mobile that show the prime factorization of the number of their choice. This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls...
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Alex: Camouflage Predation Challenge
Through this simulation, learners will understand the role of camouflage in keeping animals from attracting attention of their predators. Using newspaper and patterned wrapping paper, students will construct two habitats. Learners will...
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Alex: "Fantastic Fractions"
The students will use sugar-free Gummy bears to identify fractional parts of the whole. The students will create a graph using the information obtain.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science...
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Alex: "Shape Up or Ship Out"
In this activity, students will identify shapes that architects use to build houses. Students will then explore these shapes by building a model "dream" home.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and...
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Alex: You Scream, I Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream !
Fun and yummy lesson to do on a sunny spring afternoon. Have the students take a poll of their favorite choice of ice cream and create a bar graph showing the information. This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in...
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Alex: Introduction to the Light Microscope
This is a Microscope Internet Lab that can be used as a virtual lab for a whole class or as a make-up lab. The virtual microscope is a little more complicated than the microscope that is used in the labs but it will not be difficult to...
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Alex: "Ridin' Along in My Automobile"
Students will research prices of used cars to discover how automobiles lose their value over time. Students will create a chart to record their information, use their chart to graph their data, and find measures of central tendency of...
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Alex: Burn Baby Burn!
The students will review the concepts of electromagnetic spectrum, properties of light, and the transition from ground to excited state of electrons in atoms. In laboratory groups, the students will identify the characteristic light...
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Alex: Exponents and Division
This activity will introduce the exponent and division rule, the zero exponent rule, and the negative exponent rule. Students will make a human fraction to discover the division rule for exponents. The lesson will also introduce various...
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Alex: A Piece of Pi
This lesson uses graphing to help students understand that pi is a constant and is the slope of the line graphed on a circumference vs. diameter graph.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science...
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Alex: How Tall Is Hagrid?
This activity uses data collection method for students to mathematically compute the height and shoulder width of the character Hagrid from Harry Potter. Students will measure their own heights and shoulder widths to come up with a class...
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Alex: Balancing Chemical Reactions
Students will participate in a guided inquiry activity using manipulatives to learn how to balance chemical reactions. This activity was developed in cooperation with Michelle Holdbrooks at Thompson High School...
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Alex: Credit Cards Are "Interest"ing
Students will create a credit card, focusing on appealing terms and slogan. They will use their credit card to go on a shopping spree. The students will receive a "BILL" to discover/discuss the effects/application of simple interest....
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Alex: Rolling, Rolling, Rolling
This activity allows learners to review their knowledge of monatomic and polyatomic ions. After rolling the ion dice, the students will write the correct chemical formula and name for the compound "rolled".This lesson plan was created as...
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Alex: Continent Jump
Students will learn about animals that live on all seven continents. Students and teachers will use websites to learn additional information about the animals from various continents.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls...
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Alex: Building a Cell: Edible Cell Project
Students will create an Eukaryotic cell from materials that they can eat. Students will need to have a lesson on the types of Eukaryotic cells and its organelles before they complete this assignment. Students will construct these...
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Alex: How Sweet It Is
As part of the study of Matter, the students will determine the density of standard percent sugar solutions through hands on experimentation. In laboratory groups, students will graph a standardized curve of the experimental data. The...
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Alex: I'm Into Money!!!
Many students come to third grade needing to review and/or be retaught counting money and making change. This lesson will begin with a review of counting money. It will then introduce making change.This lesson plan was created as a...
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Alex: Let's Get Going!
By doing this lesson the students will have the opportunity to explore transportation firsts. By exporing this information, the students will make a timeline charting the year when the forms of transportation were invented.This lesson...
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Alex: Which Came First, Ice Cream or Refrigeration?
As students begin their study of states of matter, this hands-on activity demonstrates how the interaction of a solid and a liquid can reverse the initial state of each material.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls...
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Alex: Graphing Is Great!
Young scholars will explore graphing individually and in groups. They will also use an interactive activity to discuss slope and intercepts. To assess the lesson, students will use the floor tiles in the classroom as a large sheet of...
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Alex: Geometric Shadows
Young scholars will identify objects as translucent, transparent, or opaque. Upon seeing the shadow of the opaque object, students will identify the geometric figure created by the shadow.This lesson plan was created as a result of the...
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Alex: Making Measuring Meaningful!
This activity helps students recognize that measuring tools can come in many different shapes and sizes. The student's will develop creative-thinking, math, and social skills as they use nontraditional and traditional measuring tools....