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Alex: Transform Me! Types of Energy
Students will understand the law of conservation of energy and the transformation of energy from one type to another.
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Alex: From Knotty to Calculating
In this lesson, students will work within their math and English language arts classes to research the development of mathematical tools and their applications. A research paper will be produced for and graded by the English language...
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Alex: Camp Add 'Em Up Iii
Camp Add 'Em Up is a series of lessons for first grade students. Students will use prior knowledge of friendly numbers (two number combinations that make a "10") and "adding on" as they master the ability to add three numbers. In this...
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Alex: The Need for Speed
After viewing an introductory illustrated podcast on speed, distance, time, and velocity, young scholars explore distance-time graphs using interactive websites. Working in cooperative learning groups, students will investigate the...
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Alex: The Pattern of Graphing Linear Equations
The students will extend the knowledge of algebraic expressions from geometric representations and ultimately graph linear equations with understanding. The students will also develop a better understanding of algebraic expressions by...
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Alex: To Scale or Not to Scale? That Is the Factor.
Students will learn to solve proportions and find missing sides of similar figures using the scale factor. This lesson is best taught before the concept of cross multiplication is developed. Not only will the student learn the process of...
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Alex: Relationship Between Height and Length
In this lesson, eighth grade students will collect data. They will use this data to analyze the relationship between the height of an individual and the length of his/her foot. Students will use a line of fit to make predictions for...
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Alex: Geometric Man
The learners will explore angles, rays, line segments, perpendicular lines, parallel lines, and two-dimensional figures through the use of the book Shape Up! Fun With Triangles and Other Polygons by David A. Adler. They will also...
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Alex: Float or Sink?
Students will define density and use the density formula to determine the density, volume, and mass of various items using the correct units for each measurement.
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Alex: Circling Around
Learners will calculate the diameter, circumference, and ratio of a real world object. Students will create an electronic slideshow to illustrate the process of determining the diameter, circumference, and ratio of these objects.
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Alex: Multiplication My Way
In this lesson, students will explore the US Algorithm Method of multiplication using a unique way of describing it known as the Turtlehead Method. Students will collaboratively work together to complete story problems using the US...
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Alex: Get on Your Mark, Get Set, Go!
In collaborative/cooperative groups, students will review basic vocabulary and concepts for data and statistics. Students will create, collect, display, and interpret data in the form of frequency tables, bar graphs and circle graphs.
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Alex: Sponge Bob Round Pants? What's the Chance?
What are the chances of SpongeBob having kids with round pants? Working in cooperative learning groups, young scholars explore the concept of probability. Using interactive websites, students explore the possibilities of an organism...
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Alex: Getting Froggy Wih It
Students will solve problems using a number line. Students will work collaboratively to create a "Town" with the main street consisting of a number line diagram. They will practice counting forwards and backwards, measuring and...
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Alex: Focusing on Graphs
In this lesson, learners will solve systems of linear equations by graphing. Systems of linear equations are two or more linear equations together.
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Alex: The Counting House
In this instructional activity, students will recognize numbers 0-20. Students will place objects with the correct corresponding number.
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Alex: The Elephants Truncate Roots
Students will learn the process of finding where the square root of 2 is on the number line by truncating the square of a number between 1 and 2. They will also work with other square roots to learn how to order them on the number line....
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Alex: Multiply What You Hear!
Learners will record the sound that ten different objects make when they are dropped. The students will then use those sounds to create multiplication problems for other learners to answer.
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Alex: Conic Sections: Discovering the Degenerates
Through a mixture of online exploration, and teacher instruction, students will discover how the degenerate forms of the conic sections are formed and will be able to identify the degenerate case of each conic section.
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Alex: A Triangle to Remember
This lesson will introduce students to different types of triangles by using a clip from the movie A Walk to Remember. They will take part in interactive tutorials to strengthen the concepts of classifying triangles. The students will...
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Alex: Students Only! No Teachers Aloud
The students will be introduced to area and perimeter. The teacher will pose a real-life situation in which the students will have a chance to explore an actual section outside to determine the area and perimeter of a set location.
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Alex: Cows on the Clock
In this lesson students will calculate elapsed time using the storybook Click, Clack Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin. Students will identify the time pasted between two given times in a.m. and p.m.
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Alex: Pythagorean Theorem: Prove It (Part 2)
In this lesson, eighth grade students will use their new found knowledge of the Pythagorean Theorem and relate it to the world around them. They will work in cooperative groups to solve problems using the Pythagorean Theorem. Adobe PDF...
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Alex: Genetics: Peas to Blood Types
Students will complete an online tutorial about what makes up a person's blood type, how blood types are determined, and which blood types can transfuse safely.