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Lesson Plan
Teach Engineering

Discovering Relationships Between Side Length and Area

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Consider the relationship between side length and area as an input-output function. Scholars create input-output tables for the area of squares to determine an equation in the first installment of a three-part unit. Ditto for the area of...
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Interactive
PHET

Least-Squares Regression

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Less is best when looking at residuals. Scholars use an interactive to informally fit a linear regression line to data on a scatter plot. The interactive provides a correct best fit line with residuals and correlation coefficient to...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

What's the Perimeter?

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Find the perimeter of squares and rectangles with a straightforward learning exercise. An example at the top of the page shows third graders how to find the perimenter, along with the addition problem necessary to find it. Pupils then...
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Worksheet
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American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture

Shapes on the Farm

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Whether you live in the city, the suburbs, or out on the farm, shapes are everywhere in the world around us. Presented with an illustration of a farm, youngsters are tasked with coloring in all of the triangles, rectangles, squares, and...
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Lab Resource
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US National Library of Medicine

Monster Genetics Lab

For Students 6th - 10th Standards
Harness young scientists' knowledge of genetics with an engaging science activity. Students start by flipping a coin to determine the genotypes and phenotypes of two parent monsters, before using Punnett squares to determine the...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Overcoming Obstacles in Factoring

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
What do you do when factoring doesn't work? Learners complete the square when faced with quadratic expression that don't factor traditionally. They then use factoring by grouping to solve polynomial equations.
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Lesson Plan
Virginia Department of Education

Passing Traits to Offspring

For Teachers 9th - 12th
What makes each one of us unique? Lead your class in this exciting and educational activity as you uncover traits that show how each individual is different from another. Pupils explore facts about DNA technology and predict the...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Solving Area Problems Using Scale Drawings

For Teachers 7th Standards
Calculate the areas of scale drawings until a more efficient method emerges. Pupils find the relationship between the scale factor of a scale drawing and the scale of the areas. They determine the scale of the areas is the square of the...
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Lesson Plan
Kenan Fellows

A Farmer’s Challenge to Breed to the Greatest of Grapes

For Teachers 7th Standards
What does your class know about GMOs? Are they savvy to selective breeding? Challenge young minds to engineer the greatest crop of all time using a hands-on genetics unit. Learners discover the good and bad details of selective breeding,...
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Activity
101 Questions

Bubble Wrap

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Let your lesson pop by using the resource. After watching a video of a man popping a square piece of bubble wrap, young mathematicians determine the time it would take to pop other pieces of bubble wrap with given dimensions. The...
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Lesson Plan
Serendip

Soap Opera Genetics – Genetics to Resolve Family Arguments

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Did she cheat on her husband? Did the hospital switch the babies? Should they have children? As much as this sounds like the plot for a soap opera, all of these questions fit into a single lesson on genetics. Scholars read about three...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Factors

For Students 3rd - 5th
Factoring numbers helps prepare scholars for fractions and algebra, so build confidence by drilling this skill and promoting reflection in the process. Scholars start by listing factors for 18 numbers, none of which exceed 30. Next, they...
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Printables
Chapman University

Exact Values Poster

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Go to infinity and beyond and see what a repeating decimal actually looks like as it goes on and on and on and on. The poster uses rational numbers, imperfect squares, and the always popular π.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Magic Squares

For Students 4th - 8th
In this magic squares worksheet, students complete each magic square where each row, column, and diagonal have to be the same sum. Students complete 6 magic squares.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Tiananmen Square

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify and explain the Tiananmen Square incident of June 1989. Studentsl compare what it is to be an American Citizen (Democracy) vs. Chinese Citizen (Communism). Students identify and define various vocabulary terms,...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Dopey Dragon Shapes - square, circle, triangle, and rectangle

For Students K - 2nd
For this plane figures worksheet, students identify the squares, circles, triangles, and rectangles by coloring and tracing them and determine understanding by drawing and printing the names for the figures. Students complete eighteen...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Next Perfect Square

For Students 9th - 12th
In this secondary mathematics worksheet, students determine the algebraic representation for the next perfect square after a given number, x.  The one page worksheet contains one problem with the solution. 
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Chocolate Squares

For Students K - 8th
In this algebra worksheet, learners explore rectangular pattern as they divide up and cut chocolate bars in to 1x1 squares. There is an answer key.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Completing the Square Algebraically

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Using TI-Nspire, scholars rewrite quadratic expressions by completing the square. They change the equation into vertex form.  By the end of this lesson, they should be able to change any quadratic equation into vertex form. 
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Magic Squares

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this magic squares worksheet, students add up the sums of the rows, columns, and diagonals and they all have to be the same. Students complete 4 magic squares.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Magic squares

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this magic squares worksheet, students add up the sums of the rows, columns, and diagonals and they all have to be the same. Students complete 4 magic squares.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Magic Squares

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this magic squares activity, learners add up the sums of the rows, columns, and diagonals and they all have to be the same. Students complete 4 magic squares.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Magic Squares

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this magic squares worksheet, students add up the sums of the rows, columns, and diagonals and they all have to be the same. Students complete 4 magic squares.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Magic Squares

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this magic squares worksheet, students add up the sums of the rows, columns, and diagonals and they all have to be the same. Students complete 4 magic squares.

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