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Sky Watching
Students trace how weather patterns generally move from west to east in the United States.
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A Bird's Eye View of our 50 States
Third graders focus on state birds as they learned absolute location (latitude/longitude) of each state, as well as their relative location (bordering states).
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Everything Has Parts
Students investigate and explore common objects to discover and identify their parts. They also are encouraged to discuss the need for specific parts and what happens when a part is missing from the whole.
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Save the Earth: It's Everyone's Home
Students explore how recycling helps save trees and protect the environment. In this environmental concern lesson, students color a handout of animals that live in forests. Students discuss how recycling paper can save trees and set up...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Match the Graph (Circles)
Students will learn about the equation for a circle by using a Study Cards stack. Later, students will attempt to match the graph of a circle from a digital picture, using the form learned previously, and approximating the center and...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Picturing Probabilities of Number Cube Sums
Students use ideas of ratio and proportion to investigate various ways to make a circle graph. Students create graphs to display the probabilities of the different sums that can be generated with two number cubes. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
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Parametric Unit Circle
This site provides definitions for different parts of a circle, pictures to more clearly represent formulas involving circles. Some of the formulas discussed include: area of a circle, area of a sector of a cirles, circumference, length...