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Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Tree Diagrams and Probability

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Aspiring statisticians create tree diagrams and figure probabilities of events based on those diagrams. They practice adding and multiplying fractions and explain complementary probabilities. Students use computers activities to make...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Simple Machines I - Inclined Planes, Wedges, and Screws

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine the physics behind and uses for inclined planes, screws, and wedges. They determine examples of how these simple machines are used in daily life. Working in three small groups, they move from station to station...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Present Perfect or Simple Past

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this present perfect or simple past learning exercise, learners choose the correct forms of verbs to complete the sentences and complete a word search. Students complete 3 activities.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fairly Simple Mineral Identification Exercise

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Students perform simple field tests on a variety of minerals and use their results and a given data chart to determine which mineral each specimen is.
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Activity
Stats Monkey

Everything I Ever Needed to Learn about AP Statistics I Learned from a Bag of M and M's®

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Candy is always a good motivator! Use this collection of M&M's® experiments to introduce statistics topics, including mean, standard deviation, nonlinear transformation, and many more. The use of a hands-on model with these AP...
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PPT
Curated OER

Plant Parts Chapter #3

For Teachers 9th - 12th
A few diagrams and bullet-point notes fill the 24 slides of this presentation on plant parts. The content is advanced enough for high school or college botany courses. The diagrams, however, are of substandard quality and quantity. You...
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Worksheet
Math Worksheet

Find the Midpoint of a Line Segment

For Students 7th - 10th
How many times can you find the midpoint of a line segment given two points? Well, more times than anyone probably needs to with these ten different worksheets, each with 24 problems. All the points used in the problems are positive and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Data Analysis & Probability

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers 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...
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Curated OER

Genetics

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Become familiar with the basic concepts of inheritance. Your junior high young scholars work through mulitple examples of crosses and calculate probabilities of trait occurance. The explain the concept that each parent contributes one...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Curses and Re-Curses! It's Happening Again.

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners study basic recursion by exploring patterns in the data they generate from two simple probability-based experiments. In the first, students flip a coin to discover how many times they must flip it before it lands on "heads."...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"A Closet Full of Shoes" and Picture Puzzle Piece" by Shel Silverstein

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explain the concept of simple probability.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How Machines Help Us Stay Healthy

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students visit different departments at a local hospital to see how machines help peoples such as the CAT scan machine. They build a model of such a machine that shows how patients are moved in and out of the machine.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Data and Scientific Graphs

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Learners conduct experiments and graph their data. In this statistics lesson, students collect data and graph it on a coordinate plane. They analyze the data looking for patterns and they discuss their findings with the class.
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Curated OER

You May Already Be a Winner!

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders flip coins and tally the outcomes. They play the You May Already Be a Winner! game with cards under their chairs. Some cards are winners, some might be and the others are not. They play to explain the probability concept.
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Lesson Plan
American Chemical Society

Defining Density

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Three simple activities kick off a unit investigation of density. Your physical scientists make observations on the volume and mass of wood, water, and rocks, and make comparisons. Though this is written for grades three through eight,...
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Breakfast Before School

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Are the events "I eat breakfast" and "I am late for school" independent events? Assess learners' understanding of independence in a simple context with this short worksheet. Use as an opener, as part of an assignment, or discuss together...
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Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Using Expected Values to Compare Strategies

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Discover how mathematics can be useful in comparing strategies. Scholars develop probability distributions for situations and calculate expected value. They use their results to identify the best strategy for the situation.
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Alex, Mel, and Chelsea Play a Game

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
This short probability question may look simple at first, but it is actually quite complex! Learners must understand independent events in context and must take into account several different scenarios. Use as an individual assignment...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fruit Fly Ranch Activity

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders describe how the traits of an organism are passed from generation to generation. They distinguish between asexual and sexul reproduction. Students identify traits through genes and those resulting from interactions with...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

M&Ms Count and Crunch

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice skills involving statistics and probability by making predictions on number of each color candy in one pound bag of M&Ms. They record both guesses and actual quantities, calculate percentages, and create bar graphs...
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Activity
DiscoverE

The Power of Graphene

For Teachers 6th - 12th
When you think electric circuits, your pencil probably isn't the thing that comes to mind. A simple experiment lets learners test whether the graphene in pencil lead is a conductor or an insulator. If the LED bulb lights up, a conductor...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

School Activities

For Teachers 1st
First graders place some specific types of objects (e.g., shoes, favorite food) on concrete graphs and pictographs. They listen and respond to others in a variety of contexts (e.g., pay attention to the speaker; take turns speaking in a...
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Handout
Tennessee Pediatric Society Foundation

Commit to be Fit

For Students 6th - 12th
Staying physically fit takes time, energy, and commitment...but it can also be a lot of fun! This list includes 11 simple ways to stay motivated to exercise and will help your young athletes commit to a life of fitness and healthy living...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Using Graphs

For Students 9th - 11th
Print and use this useful unit on basic algebraic functions, domain, range, and graphing. Tasks include, illustrating simple functions with a graph, and identifying the domain and range of the function. This twelve-page packet contains...

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