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Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Students tour Chandra's top galactic X-ray images. In this Chandra X-Ray Observatory lesson, students play games and complete puzzles based on the Chandra Mission and X-Ray Astronomy. Students listen to pod casts, question an...
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Find the Area or Missing Length of the Polygon
In this area and perimeter worksheet, students find the length or area of seventeen figures. The figures examined are triangles, trapezoids, parallelograms, rectangles, and hexagons. Some examples and solutions are...
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Get it Straight Mr. Decimal!
Students work with decimals. In this decimal lesson plan, students participate in a hands-on group activity that enable them to review to how to appropriately add and subtract decimals.
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Mathematics: One Hundred Plastic Ants
Third graders pick up plastic ants scattered on the floor. They take them back to their desks, count them, and add their totals to those of other students.
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Finding the Area of a Triangle
Fifth graders investigate the area of a triangle. In this geometry lesson, 5th graders practice finding the area of a triangle using the correct formula: 1/2bh.
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Survey Project
Eighth graders create a website using FrontPage. They use inserted forms to collect survey information and use Microsoft Excel and MS Word to create a presentation of the survey and the results.
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Exponents
In this exponent worksheet, students write exponential numbers in standard form, then multiply and divide exponents.
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Probability- Many Stage Experiments
Young scholars list the sample space of an experiment. In this statistics lesson, students calculate the number of favorable outcome in a given sample space. They define and apply mutually exclusive events versus not mutually exclusive...
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Planets an Introduction
Fourth graders investigate one planet, enter information into a database, and print the database sorting for each of the attributes.
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The Greatest Survival Story of All Time
Students use the Internet to read about an explorer's survival in the Antarctic. They try to find a better route for him to have taken.
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Investigations into Estimations
Learners gain the powerful tools of estimation, prediction, and averaging and discover the importance these tools have in daily living.
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Harry Potter Research Project
Students work together to complete a research project on Harry Potter. They write a research question and develop a survey to give to their classmates. Using the results, they create a graph and draw conclusions about the data collected.
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Finding Addition Patterns
Learners practice finding the sums of two-one digit numbers. In this addition lesson plan, students also record facts onto an addition chart.
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Finding Sums to 6
Students explore the additive identity property where they add multiple numbers to get to the number 6. In this number 6 lesson plan, students also work on their addition charts.
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How much is a movie worth?
Middle schoolers discover how much a movie is worth. They use decimals and percentages greater than 100 to complete this activity.
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M & M Madness
Second graders graph M & M's by color. In this graphing lesson plan, 2nd graders first predict how many of each color they think are in a handful of M & M's. Then they graph the amounts of each color on a computer program....
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How many cards do we need to display the dates of the month on the wall?
Students determine how many number cards are needed to display the dates of the month. In this place value notation lesson, students write numbers on blank cards to see how many are needed of each number to makes all the dates...
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Right Triangles and The Unit Circle
Young scholars solve right triangles using trigonometry. In this geometry lesson plan, students use the unit circle to identify different trig values. They identify the six trigonometric identities.
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Polygons and Plane Figures
Pupils choose a polygon to define and describe, and use Power Point and the Internet to present their polygon.
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Grid it, Map it
Students participate in designing a city layout using grids and coordinates. They work on a city space and create a grid on a life size layout on the gym floor.
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Functions
Students explore a variety of functions. They recognize and describe functions and use linear functions to describe situations. Students find the domain and range of linear functions and graph rational expressions.
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Arithmagons
Fifth graders explore patterns and relationships among the numbers that form arithmagons. They create and attempt different rules that can be used to solve arithmagons. Students use linear algebra to solve arithmagons.
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Pyramids & Prisms: Guler's Formula
Sixth graders compare and contrast two-dimensional shapes to three-dimensional shapes. After watching a demonstration, they make their own shapes using nets printed on paper. To end the lesson, they use the shapes they made and...
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Doing The School Run
Learners explore finding the percent of a numbers. They survey their peers to determine modes of transportation used in getting to school. Afterward, students organize information and create graphs and charts. They explore alternative...