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Proportional Similarities

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students model the geometric relationship with graphing. In this geometry instructional activity, students differentiate between parallel, perpendicular, similar and congruent shapes. They use properties of polygons to differentiate...
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Circuits

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discover the differences between parallel and series circuits. They draw and construct the two types of circuits using wires, bulbs, batteries, sockets, and switches.
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Angles, Lines and Transversals

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students identify and determine angle pair relationships. For this geometry lesson, students identify different angles of parallel lines that are cut by transversals. They identify interior and exterior angles after watching a video.
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A Skinhead Comes Clean

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students draw parallels between the Nazi movement that inspired the Holocaust and the Neo-Nazi movement of today. They can also write and submit email questions to TJ via a Web site.
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Pioneers On and Off the Prairie- Willa Cather and Mary Cassatt

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine the written work of Willa Cather and the impressionist art of Mary Cassatt. They describe parallels in the lives and work of both women and creat a Powerpoint presentation.
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Solar Race Cars

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore the relationship between time traveled, distance and speed.  In this solar race car lesson students wire solar batteries using series and parallel circuitry. 
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Analyze a Street Map

For Students 4th - 6th
In this street map learning exercise, students analyze a section of a street map of Washington D.C, finding parallel streets, listing streets that form given shapes, and following directions. Answers on page 2.
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Organizing One’s Thoughts

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students take a closer look at the organization of written pieces. In this writing skills lesson, students examine transitions, repetition, parallelism, and other organizational patterns in writing. 
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Watts Up with the Heat

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students create a variety of simple, series and parallel electrical circuits to illustrate how electricity flows through different types of basic circuits.
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Language Arts: Ready, Set, Write

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Learn that stories have three parts by paralleling the introduction, the body and the conclusion to the life of an athlete competing in the Winter Games.
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Inside Out

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders, using a straight edge, determine whether a point is inside or outside of a given figure. With worksheets, 4th graders practice analyzing geometric relationships such as parallel to, perpendicular to, etc.
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So You Think You Got A Problem

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars find alternatives to conflicts that they, may confront in their everyday lives Through the use of literature, students are given opportunities to use parallel tasks that will instruct them on how to identify and correct...
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2 X 2 Linear Systems

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Pupils solve 2 X 2 systems graphically and algebraically. They investigate parallel systems. They solve application problems using 2 X 2 systems.
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Fracture Fundamentals: A Cheesy Analog

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Students make small cuts (fracture nuclei) in processed cheese food and then apply stresses perpendicular or parallel to the cuts to see how fractures grow. They make predictions before each experiment and explain their results to the...
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Introduction to Slope

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students distinguish between positive and negative slope. They calculate the slope of various lines. Students identify and generate perpendicular and parallel lines base on their slope.
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How a Circuit Works

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students explore the differences between parallel and series circuits by designing and constructing several different circuits. In small groups, they use miniature light bulbs, wires, and nine-volt batteries to build the circuits they...
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Topic 2.4 - Writing Linear Equations

For Students 7th - 9th
In this linear equation activity, students solve 18 problems regarding slope-intercept, linear equations, parallel lines and perpendicular lines.
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Measuring Angles

For Students 10th
In this measuring angles worksheet, 10th graders solve and complete 18 different types of problems. First, they find the measure of each angle shown. Then, students find the value of x in each set of lines. In addition, they determine...
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Sort Triangles and Quadrilaterals

For Students 4th - 5th
In this triangle/quadrilateral worksheet, students solve 6 problems that ask questions about lengths, parallel line and angles of quadrilaterals and triangles.
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Points, Lines and Segments

For Students 4th - 6th
In this point, line and segment worksheet, students use words and symbols to name given figures; when 2 lines are show, students label as parallel, intersecting or perpendicular.
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Woody Guthrie and The Grapes of Wrath

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine American idealism. In this literature and music lesson, students analyze the lyrics of Woody Guthrie songs as well as the themes of Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. Students examine parallels between the characters in the...
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Conspiracy after the Storm: Editing Dual Murder Plots in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students edit scenes from Shakespeare's The Tempest in documentary fashion and perform their edited scripts. In this play analysis instructional activity, students read through Act 2 and 3 and discuss how and why to cut lines in a play....
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Resistance

For Students 4th - 8th
In this resistance instructional activity, students use batteries, a breadboard, washers and more to make a parallel circuit and create resistance. Students then answer 7 questions.
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The Cuneiform Writing System in Ancient Mesopotamia: Emergence and Evolution

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students research the parallel development and complexity of writing and civilization in ancient Mesopotamia. In this ancient Mesopotamia lesson, students analyze the Cuneiform writing system in ancient Mesopotamia and how the...

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