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Measuring The Earth
Learners use their geometry and trigonometry skills to determine the distance between their school and another school.
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Fun Ideas for Getting A-Round in Math CIRCLES
Pupils see circles in real life and have fun with them
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Rovers on Mars
Students explore latest Mars rovers - Spirit and Opportunity. They investigate the nature of communications with the Rovers including use of Mars Orbiters as relay stations. They research needs of future missions and design...
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Can You Dig It?
Learners investigate a fossil site and diagram a site map. They role play as paleontologists.
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Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
Students research and chart the shortest course to circumnavigate the globe.
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The Sine Function
Students explore the concept of the sine function. For this sine function lesson, students use a plexiglass sine wave generator to visualize the sine function. Students use a computer program/calculator to adjust aspects of the sine...
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Polarization
Eighth graders study the basic facts of polarization. In this light waves lesson students demonstrate some activities illustrating interference patterns.
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Automated Vehicle Programming Design
Students design a program to make an automated vehicle perform a specific task. In this robotics lesson plan, students play the role of scientists competing to win a factory's contract. They present their algorithm to class.
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Red October
Fourth graders follow directions given in bearings. They invent their own maps using them and use a protractor to help them with their designs. Students
produce their own maps with instructions for navigating the maps. The channels...
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Globe Lesson 12: Global Time
Students explore the concept of global time. In this geography skills lesson, students use standard meridians and the hour scale on globes to determine global time as they respond to questions in this self-directed lesson.
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Musical Genre Pie Charts
In this pie chart worksheet, learners transpose musical genre data to the charts and then answer questions about the results.
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Plasmasphere
In this plasmasphere worksheet, students determine how long the plasmasphere takes to rotate around the Earth using two satellite images taken three hours apart.
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All About Quadrilaterals
In this all about quadrilaterals activity, students interactively answer 10 multiple choice questions about quadrilaterals, then click to check their answers.
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Rotational Symmetry
In this rotational symmetry worksheet, 5th graders determine if the two figures have rotational symmetry. This worksheet explains and provides examples of rotational symmetry.
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Three Tangent Circles
In this tangent circles learning exercise, students use pi to solve a problem involving tangent circles. This one-page learning exercise contains 1 problem. The answer is provided at the bottom of the page.
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What Are We Listening To?
Students gather data from a web site on number of music albums sold by genre for the last two years. They convert these figures to fractions, decimals, and percents, and display the results in bar graphs and pie charts.
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Clockwise
Second graders investigate angles through this series of lessons. They determine how angles turn in both clockwise and anticlockwise directions. They examine the characteristics of quarter half turns and how they can begin from any...
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Phase Changes
In this science worksheet, students examine the physical changes associated with the change of temperature and mixtures. The answers are included.
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Forty Mental Math Angle Problems
In this angle worksheet, students answer forty mental math questions divided into four problem sets. These problems require students to remember angle facts and so simple calculations mentally.
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Longitude
In this globe worksheet, students learn how longitude is measured on a globe. Students read the information before answering 5 questions. A globe will be required.
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Globe Lesson 6 - Longitude - Grade 6+
In this longitude instructional activity, students read a 3-paragraph review of longitude and respond to 13 short answer questions.
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Tides of Change
Students use the Internet to gather information on tides and then use this information to determine the period of revolution of the moon around the earth (part 1) and the relative pull of the sun and the moon on the tides (part 2).
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Islamic Patterns
In this geometry and religion worksheet, students examine a black line picture of an Islamic pattern before identifying the shapes in the pattern. They color the pattern by following the directions given at the bottom of the page.