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Who Wants to Be a Media Center Millionaire?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Challenge your readers with a fun game of "Who Wants to Be a Media Center Millionaire?" Questions cover the novels A Long Fatal Love Chase, The Last Years of Merlin, and Out of the Dust. The first eight slides compose all the questions;...
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Curated OER

Summer Challenge

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this summer challenge worksheet, student choose the correct answer from the four choices they are given in 9 examples. They choose from ideas and items related to summer in each one.
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California Department of Education

An Online Tool I Can Use

For Teachers 6th Standards
Scholars explore the California Career Center website to gain insight into future career options. A scavenger hunt challenges pupils to locate multiple tabs and answer questions on a worksheet.
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Interactive
Arcademics

Koala Paddleboards

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
A multiplayer game challenges scholars to spell words. A voice says a word then participants race to spell the word quickly. Results display a scholars' rate and accuracy.
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Activity
DiscoverE

Build a Bobsled Racer

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Host a design challenge of Olympic proportion! Junior engineers build their own bobsleds using simple materials. The activity focuses on kinetic and potential energy and how the center of mass affects motion on a downhill track....
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PPT
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Keyword Challenge

For Teachers 1st
Sight word practice can be found here! First graders can read and practice spelling words such as get, said, and to. This is a handy resource to use as a center activity. Learners can practice using these words in sentences as well.
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Science Center Ideas for Students Who Finish Work Early

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
A science center can be a great way to extend the learning of students who finish their work early.
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Curated OER

Mirror, Mirror

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Geometry learners use hinged mirrors to discover that the regular polygons are composed of triangles tessellating around a center point. They sketch triangles on paper models of the regular polygons having 3 to 10 sides and compute the...
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Facing History and Ourselves

Verifying Breaking News

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The attempts of journalists to verify the events surrounding the shooting of Michael Brown take center stage as individuals analyze three of the initial newspaper accounts of the story. The whole class discussion then focuses on the...
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American Chemical Society

Chemical Reactions and Engineering Design

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Construction leads to habitat loss and local wildlife suffers. Scholars must build a reptile egg incubation device that meets many constraints. Various experiments help them discover the chemical reaction needed to reach the proper...
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Dilations in the Plane

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Tenth graders investigate dilations and explore the dilation transformation before investigating the properties of a dilation using Cabri Jr. Students extend the concept of dilatation to the coordinate plane.
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The Carter Center’s Work in Sub-Saharan Africa

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore the state of Sub-Saharan Africa. In this geography skills activity, students examine the work of the Carter Center in Africa as they investigate the strengths and weaknesses of linguistic, tribal, and religious diversity. 
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Scenario Challenge: Farenheit 451

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students choose books to preserve for future generations.  Students are given a scenario in which they are allowed to save only five books for future generations.  Students write a persuasive letter in which they try to convince the...
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Equations of Circles

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Using Cabri Jr. students construct a circle and determine the equation of the circle they drew by finding the center and the radius. Students use the distance formula to derive the equation of their circle.
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ellipses: The Ellipse

For Students 11th - Higher Ed Standards
Learners explore ellipses by changing the lengths and orientation of the major and minor axis. Using the interactive, they determine the equation of the ellipse and its eccentricity. Given an equation the scholars identify the center,...
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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Equations of Circles: Finding the Equation of a Circle

For Students 11th - Higher Ed Standards
It's all about location and size. With the aid of the interactive, pupils explore the relationship between the location and size of a circle and its equation. The learners use that relationship to determine the equation of a circle given...
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The Learning Tower of Straws Challenge

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students construct a tower as high as possible that can successfully lean without collaspling. They examine the effect that lowering an object's center of gravity has on the torque produced on an object.
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Properties of the Centers of a Triangle

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
High schoolers investigate properties of the four centers of a triangle and explore a special property of the circumcenter and orthocenter of a triangle. This lesson requires the use of Cabri, Jr.
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Weather Map Challenge

For Students 7th - 9th
In this weather activity, students use a weather map to answer ten questions about the information found on a weather map and what the symbols mean. They find the cities with the highest and lowest temperature as well as the cities where...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Phoneme Challenge

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
This phonemic awareness game is very similar to the classic card game war; partners divide picture cards, each taking half (included). They place one card face-up at a time and segment the phonemes aloud. Whoever has the most phonemes...
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Baylor College

Challenge: Microgravity

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
What a festive way to examine what happens to the heart in different gravitational situations! Small groups place a water-filled balloon in different locations (on a table top, in a tub of water, and held in a vertical position), drawing...
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Curated OER

Real-World Projects: Challenges from the Polymer Industry

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Two scenarios are presented for chemistry detectives to decipher. Both require the use of an infrared spectrometer and focus on the examination of polymer materials. In the first, lumps in polyethylene bottles are analyzed. In the...
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Intel

Plugging into the Sun

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
What's cooking? A sizzling STEM unit challenges scholars to build a solar cooker that can successfully cook an egg. The unit opens with a study of Earth's rotation, the sun's energy, and shadows. Pupils use a compass and thermometer to...
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EngageNY

Sequencing Rotations

For Students 8th Standards
Discover the result of a sequence of rotations about different centers. Pupils perform rotations to examine the patterns. They also describe the sequence of rotations that performed to reach a desired result in the ninth installment in a...

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