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What are My Chances?

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students calculate the chance of an event occurring. In this statistics activity, students use combination and permutation to calculate the probability of an event occurring. They differentiate between theoretical and experimental...
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The Probability Scale

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Learners collect data and make predictions. In this probability lesson, students perform experiments calculating the chance of an event occurring. They draw conclusion based on their data.
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Lucky Number

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students use data from simulations to make theoretical generalizations. They discuss possible relationships between several given events and gain understanding about their own mathematical intuition about likelihood.
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Finding the Probability

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders investigate the concept of probability. They use a clear objective that is a visual cue for what is required for the lesson plan. They apply the basic practices of probability to real life like situations.
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Action, Please!

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students share their knowledge about aluminum and aluminum recycling by sharing the information with the rest of the community.
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Planning A School Garden

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners discover how to plan a vegetable garden. Each student take responsibility for growing one vegetable from seed, to transplanting the seedling into the soil, and providing the plant with light, moisture, temperature and healthy soil.
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How Do You Get to School?

For Teachers K
Students, through a literature based assignment, explore basic modes of transportation and examine how different things move at different speeds.
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Algebra Match

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders identify the parts of an algebraic equation. They consider the many uses of algebra in daily life. They play a game, Algebra Match, where student pairs work to solve equations listed on index cards.
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Trash Pizza

For Teachers K - 6th
Students work together to identify items sent to landfills. They summarize percentages of the different items found in landfills. They create a pizza pie graph of all of the components found in landfills.
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Making Bar Graphs

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this bar graph activity, students answer short answer questions about bar graphs. Students answer 1 question about a bar graph about a cat, and 3 questions about a bar graph about U.S. rivers.
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How do We Treat Our Environment?

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore the concept of collecting data. In this data collection instructional activity, 7th graders survey others about their environmental habits. Students graph their data.
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Probability Review

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concepts related to probability. They review the key properties of statistics involved in the measurement of probability that includes mean, median, and mode. The lesson includes...
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Launching Rockets

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discuss experiences of watching a rocket launch either on television or in person before making paper rockets. They make and color rockets which they attempt to launch using a strong breath blown through a straw at the...
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Right Angles

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this right angles activity, students review various images of right angles. Students then find the angles and right angles for the given shapes and write them on the lines.
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Modular Packaging

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students. in groups of two or three, design a box that contain a product. They must utilize design skills, spatial relationships, measurement skills and problem solving in order to design the most economically advantageous packaging.
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Trash Pizza

For Teachers K - 6th
Pupils identify items commonly sent to landfills and summarize percentages/fractions of different items in landfills Students create a pizza pie graph of landfill components
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Brainstorming and Number Patterns

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders discover what it means to "brainstorm." They explore a given simple number pattern and then, working in groups, brainstorm more complicated number patterns. They display them around the room and then solve the number...
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Using Statistics to Uncover More Evidence

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders participate in an online Web lesson plan on ways of interpreting data. They conduct a survey and interpret the results in a journal entry.
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Sizing Up Hail

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students participate in an estimation and measurement activity to improve their estimates of the size of hail. They hold several different sized wooden balls and record their guesses of the ball's diameters. They compare their estimates.
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Exploring Measuring

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
In this measuring worksheet, pupils explore, examine and discuss the best strategy for measuring objects. Students calculate the answers to five measuring word problems.
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Animal Parade

For Teachers 7th - 12th
In this activity, students will work with positional words, reinforcing their understanding of the terms; left, right, before, after, between, first, and last.
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TAKS Quiz-Adjective of Quality

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this TAKS quiz learning exercise, students take an online quiz focused on adjectives of quality. Quiz may be graded online by clicking a link.
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Atlatl Lessons for Grade 7

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders examine force and motion. For this seventh grade mathematics/science lesson, 7th graders collect and analyze data regarding the use of an atlatl to throw a spear. Students describe and analyze the motion which leads to...
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Physical Science: The Three Billy Goats Gruff

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Explore science through problem solving and learning how to solve the problem of the story "The Three Billy Goats Gruff." Young investigators will learn how to construct a model and design a solution. They will also keep records of their...