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The Pony Express

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders answer four math questions based on their reading of a short story on the history of the Pony Express.
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Who Would Have Figured?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Pupils investigate what happens when a coin is tossed a few times versus many times. They analyze, in groups, the data from tossing coins, and the Law of Large Numbers.
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Equivalent Fractions Game

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students practice and review fractions in a game format.
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Coin Probability

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders, in pairs, receive three different types of coin bags. They pick coins out of the bag and tally what was picked fifteen times. They do it with all three bags for three separate tallies.
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Population Ratios

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students access web site and record various population statistics pertaining to a county in the USA of their choice. They use this data to set up and solve ratios. They compare data to make meaning of the numbers.
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What do Bison Eat?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify the three major categories of food eaten by bison. In groups, they collect examples of grass and forbs and press them. They complete a chart of the percentages of each type of food the bison eat in a day. They...
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Graphing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students collect data to create different types of graphs-line, pie, and bar graphs. They use StarOffice 6.0 to create graphs.
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Cleaning Air with Balloons

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars examine how a pollutant recovery method functions in cleaning industrial air pollution. They listen to a teacher-led discussion, conduct an experiment with balloons, static electricity, and pepper, and observe and record...
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Water, Water, Everywhere!

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Get kids excited about environmental studies with these exciting lesson plans about water!
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Data Analysis & Probability

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students make predictions based on survey results. They calcuate sample proportions. Students estimate the number of voters in their district preferring the democratic candidate using their sample results. They review sample proportions...
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Changing Fractions to Percents

For Students 5th - 6th
In this fractions to percents worksheet, learners solve 6 problems, converting fractions given to percentages. Students may click on hint or check answer buttons.
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World Education Statistics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use a spreadsheet from The Digest of Education Statistics and convert the statistics to percentages, and create a chart of their new data. Students discuss their findings about the disparities in educational spending among...
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Rain, Rain, Go Away

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students conduct a number of experiments involving evaporation and condensation. They view and discuss a video about the water cycle and then design posters about the rain based on the book "Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs".
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Parting Ways

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Young scholars become part of the solution as they practice figuring percents. The number of men versus women present in the room and their heights can be used to form the basis of this investigation.
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Free Cell

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use algebra to begin solving a problem. The problem has a real world application to engage learners. The main skill is converting fractions and decimals. Also finding the right number sentence for the word problem is...
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Which Color Will You Pick?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Young scholars create a spreadsheet to chart the different colors found in a package of M&M's or Skittles. They collect data, create appropriate charts, and use percentages to describe quantities.
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Currency Exchange Rates

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students, in groups, choose three countries from which to investigate exchange rates versus the US dollar. Using Internet research they follow daily exchange rates and compute the percentage change. They compile data and prepare and...
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How Electronics Come to Us: Distribution and Use

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students identify environmental challenges that can be solved throughout a product's life cycle. They experiment and examine how we can choose and use products in an environmentally responsible manner. Each student is also involved in...
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Escape The Hangman

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders investigate the concept of probability. They use the game of hangman to create engagement and context for conducting the lesson. They create a spreadsheet with data that is given. Students make predictions based on data.
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Play Ball

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students calculate baseball statistics and ball field dimensions. In this Pythagorean Theorem, percentages and metric conversion lesson, students are given formulas to find earned run and batting averages for White Sox baseball players....
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Precision Tools

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students discuss the appropriateness of using a specific tool to measure and define an object. After measuring the area of their classroom and the objects in it with the appropriate tools, they create a floor plan that makes the most...
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Probability

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders relate real life events with probability. In this probability lesson, 8th graders investigate using coin toss, discuss NBA shooting percentages and MLB batting averages.  Students also complete a worksheet.
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Venn Diagrams & Word Problems

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore the concept of Venn Diagrams through word problems. In this Venn Diagram activity, students solve word problems about groups of people using Venn Diagrams. Students use survey results about MySpace and Facebook in a...
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Cannot Buy Me Love

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students investigate the concepts that are related to finance and how it is used in the world. They take part in activities that are focused around the use of a spreadsheet while using a T-chart to simulate a ledger of credits and debits.