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State Energy Conservation Office-Texas

State Energy Conservation Office: Learning About Photovoltaic Systems [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains how photovoltaic systems work and how Texas homeowners are using them. Discusses how a homeowner can use solar energy and still be on the electricity grid system.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Finding Locations on a Grid

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will be able to use a letter/number grid system to determine location on a grid.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Smart Buildings, Transport, and Grids

For Students 9th - 10th
The advantages and security risks of "Smart" uses of technology in buildings, transportation, and grids are discussed.
Lesson Plan
US Geological Survey

U.s. Geological Survey: Teaching About and Using Coordinate Systems [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Provides lessons and activities for teaching about the different types of coordinate systems including the Cartesian coordinate system, the Geographic Coordinate System, the Universal Transverse Mercator grid, and the State Plane...
App
National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Wallovers

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A wallpaper-designing program that turns your freehand drawing into repetitive patterns. A good introduction to repetition as a design principle and to grid systems.
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Other

Marine Geoscience Data System: Tools: Create Maps and Grids

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
Create your own custom maps and grids with the map tool available on this site.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What's Wrong With the Coordinates at the North Pole?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students complete a self-guided exercise in worksheet format combined with Google Earth that helps them explore practical and observable differences between different projection and coordinate systems. The activity improves their skills...
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That Quiz

That Quiz: Practice Test: Graph Points

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
This resource allows users to test their knowledge about graph points.
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PBS

Pbs: How Art Made the World: Human Body in Egypitan Art

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS documentary considers how ancient Egyptian artists chose to represent the human body and answers questions about how the cultural values of a society, such as the desire for order, shape its art. With close-ups of Egyptian art that...
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Other

University of Akron: Research Challenges Location of 'Tornado Alley'

For Students 9th - 10th
Geographer Michael Frates redefines the concept of Tornado Alley by using a grid system to map tornado activity in the U.S. Download the Tornado Alley map and locate the other tornado active areas: Hoosier Alley, Dixie Alley and the...
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K-5 Math Teaching Resources

K 5 Math Teaching Resources: Coordinate Grid Paper Set [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This pdf contains several types of blank coordinate grids.
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BBC

Bbc News: 'Big Bang' Experiment Starts Well

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch a narrated animation on the Large Hadron Collider, its experiments, structure, and computer system. Then, browse this site's sections to explore facts about and functions of CMS, ATLAS, ALICE, LHCb, the LHC Computing Grid, and the...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Traffic Jam

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson challenges young scholars to solve congestion and traffic delays in an intersection through modifying traffic signal operation. Students are required to collect traffic data, optimize the timing of a traffic signal via the...
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The Washington Post

Washington Post: Chuck Close

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow the evolution and creative process of the monumental work done by artist Chuck Close.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Coordinate Plane Word Problems (Quadrant 1 Challenging)

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Try some coordinate plane word problems focusing on quadrant 1. Miss the problem, and Kahn offers some tutorials for help.
Interactive
TeacherLED

Teacher Led Interactive Whiteboard Resource Two Quadrant Graph

For Students K - 1st Standards
Use this interactive white board activity to explore coordinate planes and graphing ordered pairs.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Drawing Polygons With Coordinates

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this exercise, students practice drawing polygons with coordinates. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Drawing Polygons With Coordinates

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Practice drawing shapes on the coordinate plane. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Area and Perimeter on the Coordinate Plane

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Find the area and perimeter of quadrilaterals using their coordinates. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Slope

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson provides class experiences with whole group instruction on understanding slope.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Slope Review

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart provides another day of review of finding the slope of a line.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Graphing Coordinates

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn step by step how to graph coordinates on a coordinate plane.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Southern California, 1911

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of Southern California from 1911 showing the major cities and towns, railroads, National Park boundaries, National Forest boundaries, Indian reservation boundaries, mountain systems, lakes, rivers, and coastal features. A grid...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: California (Southern), 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of Southern California from 1920 showing the counties and county seats, major cities and towns, railroads, National Park boundaries, National Forest boundaries, Indian reservation boundaries, mountain systems, lakes, rivers, and...

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