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Using Excel to Draw a Best Fit Line

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create line graphs for given data in Microsoft Excel. Students follow step by step instructions on how to create their graph, including how to create a trend line. Students print graphs without trend lines and manually draw...
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Match The Graph Circles

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
High Schoolers engage in a study of circles and graphs that are related with the focus upon finding the center and radius. The lesson includes the suggestion of giving homework using circle problems before this one to create background...
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How Tall Is It?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students identify how tall a tree is. In this measurement activity, students use "luminometers" to measure a tree and complete a data sheet.
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99.86% - Measuring Our Sun's Mass

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students determine just how large the sun is. In this solar system lesson, students follow the prescribed steps to draw a box that represents the size of the sun and its mass compared to the entire solar system.
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Intersecting Lines and Segments of Measures

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Mathematicians measure intersecting lines-and circles, and create chords. In this geometry lesson plan, learners explore interrior and exterior chords created by tangent and secant lines. These segments can be inside the circleor outside...
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Number Scrolls

For Teachers K
Students write the number line. In this numbers lesson, students write numbers in numeric order on a number scroll. They find patterns within this number line. 
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Gender Equity in the Classroom

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Young scholars review employment statistics and wages over the past 20 years. They examine the Federal Work Force Laws. They apply formulas to find the rate of change in the minimum wage.
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Fraction Jeopardy

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students investigate basic concept of fractions by using a version of the game Jeopardy. The game is played using a television monitor or projector for the integration of technology. The lesson is highly engaging and can hold student...
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Survey Savvy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore various aspects of design innovation. For this design lesson, links are provided to three innovations from the Design for the Other 90% Web site in order for students to study and evaluate them. Middle schoolers...
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How to Round Numbers

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students exercise rounding numbers to the nearest tens, hundreds, and thousands. In this rounding numbers lesson, students participate in a rounding numbers activity, covering the concept of rounding in both addition and subtraction.
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The Ie Storm 1998: Maps and facts activity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers investigate the St. Lawrence River Valley, ice Storm of 1998.  For this middle school mathematics lesson, students interpret ice storm data from tables and maps.  Middle schoolers write about their own experiences of the...
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Keep Your Eye on the Sky

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine the different types of satellites, cloud formations and weather patterns.  In this weather lesson students use the Internet to research weather satellites, then write an article and create graphs. 
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Weathervanes in the Wind

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Students investigate wind and weather by creating a weathervane.  In this environment lesson, students identify the purpose of a weathervane and observe weathervanes in action on their campus.  Students create a weathervane and decorate...
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Strongest Polygon

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students define and identify shapes by name. In this geometry lesson, students construct, identify and compare polygons based on the number of sides. They classify each shape based on their angle sum theorem.
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Daily Time Ratios

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Young scholars track and record how much time they spend on each activity. In this spreadsheet lesson, students apply different functions using Microsoft excel to format cells and calculate the sum of their total time spent each day....
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Nebraska: Using Pictures

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create a scrapbook about Nebraska history focusing on Post Office murals. They choose their favorite murals and write a story to go along with the mural. In groups, students present their murals to the class and visit the...
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Earth Day Trash Survey Unit

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Young scholars develop a questionnaire to distribute via e-mail or Web page forms that visitors fill out based on the data they gathered during their clean-up activities.
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Adapting to those strange American ways!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students edit video tapes of two German immigrants according to the slant: How did you adapt to the strange American ways after immigrating to the Omaha area? Students work in groups to name ten problems immigrants might encounter in the...
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Money Madness

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders review coins and their values. In this coin recognition lesson, 2nd graders review the coin values as they read 'Smart' by Shel Silverstein. Students use class computer demonstrations to identify the coin's names, worth,...
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Making Estimations in Measurement

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students utilize their knowledge of measurement in making accurate measurements and estimations.
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Drops on a Penny

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders experiment to determine the number of drops of water a heads up penny hold. They create a stem and leaf graph of the class results and use the data for further experimentation on a tails up penny.
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Earth Day Trash Survey Unit

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students develop an action plan to prevent trash from becoming a problem in the future.
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Earth Day Trash Survey Unit

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Learners analyze the data from questionnaires to prepare a report. They distribute the report via e-mail or through a report published on a Web page to those who participated.
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Share Classroom Fat Data with Other Students

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students research eating habits in different places and in different cultures.