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Altitude and Flight Forces
Students use the World Wide Web to access and use FoilSim. They also use the World Wide Web to access the NASA Glenn Web site for information relative to the factors involved with the flight of an airplane.
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Introduction to Descriptive Statistics
Students follow examples to study basic concepts of statistics. They work independently through the activities.
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Eating on a Budget
Students are "given" $25.00 to spend at a restaurant. Using the Internet, they must "order" a complete 4 course meal while staying within their budget.
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Congruent Triangles - Is This Enough Information?
Seventh graders examine congruence postulates and apply knowledge to triangles in the world around them.
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Best Guesser
Fifth graders develop strategies for estimating ages, and illustrate results by graphing and interpreting scatter plots to compare x and y coordinates.
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Japanese Family Crests
Learners create an artistic crest that represents either themselves, their group of friends, or their their family.
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Watch It Slide!
Students work together to examine inclined planes. They create a plan to raise rocks to build pyramids. They discover the changes that occur when the angle is increased or decreased.
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Mini Economy
Fifth graders listen as the teacher explains the Mini Economy to be activated in the classroom in the next few weeks. They examine how they to apply for jobs, make money, determine how to save it, and how monetary mishaps occur...
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A Fashion Extravaganza
Students decide what body measurements they need to make garments such as a pair of pants. They make a list, and work with a partner to take and record those measurements in centimeters. They discuss the use of centimeters.
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Teaching the Toki Kaku Dako
Students complete various readings and decorating, constructing, and flying a kite. They analyze how the parts of a system to together. Students comprehend the concept of area.
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Geometry: Classifying Angles
Learners measure, construct, and classify angles as acute, right, straight, and obtuse. Once they have completed an angle worksheet, students use a map of South Carolina to locate cities by constructing the aforementioned angles.
Fuel the Brain
Hundreds Board Blanks
Have your young learners enhance their counting skills with this hundred boards worksheet! Your class will get excited when they realize they can write in all the numbers and fill this board up!
Fuel the Brain
Egg Hunt Pictograph
If you did a hypothetical egg hunt in class, wouldn't it be great to see how many eggs were collected? Your youngsters will receive a list of "collected data" and create a pictograph.
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St. Patrick's Day Venn Diagram
In this St. Patrick's day worksheet, students bring to class objects that are green, gold, or shiny. Students sort the items into their groups and then use the worksheet to record the data.
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The Designed World
Students manage and retrieve numbers and letters that are logically sorted. In this logical information lesson, students do the flood game from the PBS website. Students answer questions about library books.
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Banking Services
Young scholars analyze the banking services and complete related activities. In this banking lesson, students review the services available at a bank and interview people for about the banking services they use. Young scholars shop for...
Fluence Learning
Writing an Opinion: Buddies that Bark or Purr-fect Pets?
Which animal is best for you—a dog or cat? Why? Engage third graders in an opinion writing assessment that prompts them to read facts about both pets, and then write and decide which pet is best for them.
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Rubber Band
Eighth graders investigate what would happen to the length of a rubber band as more and more rings were hung on it. They base their explanation on what they observed, and as they develop cognitive skills, they should be able to...
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Changes in Pulse Rate
Eighth graders practice making observations and collecting data after determining a baseline pulse rate then collect data on the changes in that rate with exercise. Students must organize their data and analyze their observations.
Fluence Learning
Writing About Informational Text The Berlin Wall
On June 26, 1963 President John F. Kennedy delivered his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech close to the Berlin Wall at the Rudolph Wilde Platz. On June 12, 1987 President Ronald Reagan Delivered his famous "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down...
Fluence Learning
Writing an Argument: Is Electronic Communication Helpful or Harmful?
Technology has undoubtedly improved the lives of people around the world—but has it improved communication? Seventh graders read two informative passages about the rise of texting and emailing versus in-person conversations before...
Fluence Learning
Writing About Literature: Exploring Themes About Conformity
Feeling the pressure to confirm is something any adolescent can relate to. Explore an essential theme with a response to literature assessment that prompts learners to identify main ideas with evidence and supporting details.
Fluence Learning
Writing About Informational Text: Beyond the Beyond—Galaxies
Everyone has a different point of view, even when it comes to the enormity of the universe. Two separate text passages explain the scope of a galaxy, prompting young readers to write an essay about each author's argument and how the...