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Stream Gages and GIS

For Teachers Higher Ed
students interpret recent regional-scale climate events based on current stream flow, monitor changes in time, and to consider additional interpretations that could be derived if other data were in map form.
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Minimize Perimeter

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers practice calculating the perimeter of different sized rectangles. Individually, they identify the derivations of a function that can show the perimeter and determine how to minimize the perimeter within a fixed area....
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Minimize Perimeter -- Lecture

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to the concept of perimeter. As a class, they listen to a lecture describing the derivations of a function that describes perimeter. They calculate the minimum perimeter of a rectangle and determine the numbers...
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Reflections of a Linear Function

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students identify and reflect functions about the X-axis, Y-axis, and origin. They derive equations for reflected functions and graph the linear functions. Finally, students identify that f(x) can be reflected about each axis and the...
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Worksheet #5, Concavity,

For Students 11th - 12th
In this calculus worksheet, students determine the intervals in which a given relation is concave up. They determine the inflection points of a given formula. Students use the second derivative test to classify the relative extrema of a...
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AP Calculus Practice Exam

For Students 12th
In this calculus activity, 12th graders assess their knowledge of functions, integrals, trigonometric functions, derivatives, and limits.  The four page activity contains twenty-eight multiple choice questions.  Answers are not provided. 
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Calculus Test

For Students 11th - 12th
In this calculus activity, students assess their understanding and knowledge of limits, derivatives, differential equations, and other calculus topics.  The one page activity contains twenty-eight multiple choice questions.  Answers are...
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Lesson #84 Test on Chapter 5

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students review Rolle's Theorem. In this derivatives lesson students review for a chapter test on applications of derivatives. Links to two copies of the test are included with the lesson.
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Weighing In

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use a Slinky, rubber bands, paper, coins and cups to experiment with weight and its relationship to gravity. They discuss their results and develop a consensus on conclusion statements derived from their experiments.
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Mastering the Document-Based Essay Question

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use a primary source document from the Civil War period of history in order to derive meaning for an essay question. The essay is based completely on the document with no other research to support the content.
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You Can Count on Squares!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders engage in and explore to develop mathematical, specifically algebraic, ideas. Although the tasks are built around measurement, they are algebraic to the extent that they require 'formulae' to be derived form the geometric...
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Letters from the Frontier: Reading and Writing Primary Documents

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils examine historical documents about George Caitlin to derive meaning about his life and contributions. The lesson is multicultural and helps students to appreciate art and history.
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Thinking Systematically

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders solve real life mathematics problems. After reading a given problem, 6th graders gather and organize data into a table. They explore a pattern, and from this, derive a formula. Students solve the problems multiple ways...
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Splash

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students participate in a lesson that develops skills of reading comprehension. They work on the skills of using context and picture clues to derive meanings of words. The lesson concentrates on the high-frequency words of we, to,in, and...
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Hyperbolas

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners find the center, foci, vertices, and asymptotes of hyperbolas. They graph hyperbolas and determine the equation of a hyperbola with a horizontal transverse axis. They derive general coordinates for the foci of a hyperbola with a...
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Universal Gravitation

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students calculate gravitational potential energy for any situation. They use two scenarios to evaluate gravitational potential energy in relation to conservation of energy. They verify that the gravitational potential energy function...
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A.P. Exam Calculator Review

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students review ways to use the calculator to graph a function, solve an equation, calculate a numerical derivative, and calculate a definite integral. They practice using their calculator to solve a set of sample exercises. Students...
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Picturing The Past

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students engage in a instructional activity that is concerned with the interpretation of images. people. They look at photographs and derive stories from them and tell the personal significance to others in class discussion. The...
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Floppy And the Puppies

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders reinforce and focus on the meaning derived from the text as a whole and identify and describe the main characters, events and settings in a fiction piece of writing. They incorporate a wide-range of adventurous vocabulary...
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Words In The News--Chissano Wins Prize For Good African Leadership

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students read, discuss and derive vocabulary words from current events. After discussing the rigors of competition and personal experiences, students read about a prize for good African leadership. In groups, they research other...
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Scramble

For Students 6th - 8th
In this literacy worksheet, students unscramble the words to derive the correct spelling. The answers are found by clicking the button found at the bottom of the page.
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Root Word Pyramid

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this root word worksheet, students use the graphic organizer to help them learn the derivations from a vocabulary and its root word.
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Range of Trigonometric Functions

For Students 11th - 12th
In this trigonometry worksheet, students find the range of each trigonometric function using the derivative. There are 3 questions with an answer key.
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Patterns in Fractals

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students explore the concept of fractal patterns. In this fractal pattern lesson, students use an applet about the Hilbert Curve to answer questions about rectangles and other polygons. Students derive the fractal pattern when dividing...

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