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Engineering For The 3 Little Pigs

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students engage in a instructional activity which demonstrates the importance of rocks, soils and minerals in engineering and how using the right material for the right job is important. The students build three different sand castles...
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Hide and Seek with Geocaching

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students locate objects using a Global Positioning System. In this global geography lesson plan, students explore latitude and longitude using a GPS in order to locate objects.
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Leaping!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students properly leap and measure their distance. In this leaping lesson plan, students practice leaping for accuracy and proper form. Students estimate their leaps and measure with rulers. Students determine distance covered by the...
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Teaching Fundamental Movement

For Teachers K - 6th
Students perform fundamental movement activities for flexibility and motor skills. In this movement lesson plan, students perform physical activity for all grade levels.
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Robotic Muscles

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students investigate how adding more pulleys affect the pulling power. In this physics lesson, students explain how pulleys work. They compare the work done by robots with and without pulleys.
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Pizza Fractions

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners investigate relationships among fractions and use cut out pizzas and fraction circles to compare equivalent fractions. They exchange fractional parts of construction paper pizza circles to use as many different fractional parts...
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Making a Two - Colorable Map

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners make a two - colorable map by following directions given to them. In this map lesson plan, students follow 5 sets of directions and discuss their activity.
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Tangram Tantrums

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students discuss tangram vocabulary, and act out slide, flip, and turn. They observe tangram puzzles on a web page, and solve their own tangram puzzles.
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Copy Cat

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine a Webmath page, and demonstrate how to copy and paste. They create a computer-generated template page presenting the attributes of two- and three- dimensional shapes.
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Valentine's Themed Activities For February

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Here are ways to make academics part of your Valentine's Day-related lessons.
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Equivalent Fraction Munch with Pizza Pie

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars demonstrate fractions and mixed numbers using concrete pictorial models of pizza. They relate symbols to the models.
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Perimeter

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students examine the concept of perimeter. Students calculate the perimeter of a random shape on a grid. Students develop a better understanding of the concept of perimeter. Students calculate the perimeter of shapes.
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Clock Arithmetic and Cryptography

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students perform basic operations in modular (clock) arithmetic. Students encode and decode messages using shift and affine ciphers. Students apply their multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction skills.
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Length, Perimeter, and Area

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students explore the concepts of length, perimeter and area. Students develop an understanding of length, perimeter, and area. Students calculate the area and perimeter of random shapes and calculate the area and perimeter of a triangle...
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Box Plots

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students review the concept of median, explore how to calculate quartiles for any size data set and experience how to build a box plot.
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Learning about Shapes with Tangrams and the Net

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Learners use tangrams, student literature, and Websites to explore shapes.
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Comparing Fractions

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students use the assistance of computers to explore reducing fractions. Using various internet activities, students experience comparing and ordering fractions. They develop methods to estimate the value of fractions.
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Estimation

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students estimate quantity, length, and area. Students practice making comparison estimations of different items and estimate whether or not the amount is greater or less than a certain amount. Students practice making estimations.
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Introduction to Arithmetic and Geometric Sequences

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students examine the concept of sequences. Students create a sequence using varied starting numbers, multipliers, and add on values. Students practice determining the starting values to use in order to produce a desired sequence.
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Visual Patterns in Tessellations

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students explore tessellations as well as various types of polygon. Students examine tessellating patterns in the world around them. Students examine tessellations by creating their own tessellations and completing the included worksheet.
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Geometry in Tessellations

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students examine tessellations and their geometric properties. Students explore the concept of tessellations and lines, planes, angles, and polygons. Students experiment with the area and perimeter of polygons. Students analyze...
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Replacement and Probability

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
Students explore sampling with and without replacement. They explore the effects on the probability of drawing a desired object. Students examine probability and the difference between sampling with and without replacement.
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Distance over Time

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students analyze velocity and how it is determined. They experiment with velocity in order to measure and calculate the magnitude of speed. They use examples in their novel "Skateboard Renegade" to relate velocity to real life situations.
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Playground Games

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Learners compete in playground games in order to review velocity and wave behavior in real life situations. They demonstrate understanding by calculating velocity in their "Playground Games" packet.