Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: "Woody Sine"
The students will discover the shape of the sine function without creating a t-chart. The students will create a sine function using toothpicks. The students will then discover how the amplitude (height) and the period (number of compete...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Creating a Reflection
In this lesson, the learners will create geometric reflections. This is a hands on activity where the student will be able to conceptualize how geometric shapes are reflected across the x and y axis of a coordinate graph. This lesson...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Interpreting Documents on the Ahsge
Students will explore the documents that were used in shaping the United States, before, during, and after its creation. While studying these documents, students will use reading skills to interpret and analyze documents. By the end of...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Edible Alabama and Her Agricultural Resources
This is a great culminating activity after a unit study on the natural resources of the state of Alabama. Students will investigate some of Alabama's agricultural resources and create a multimedia presentation about one of them or recipe...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Volume
Students will learn the concept of volume by determining the amount of sand that is needed to fill the long-jump pit at their school (or any rectangular- or square-shaped container). This lesson will explain the importance of knowing how...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Thinking Hobbit
This is an introductory lesson designed to stimulate student interest in reading The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. The lesson familiarizes middle schoolers with the physical traits and social codes used to guide hobbit behavior, and then...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Design a Quilt
Students learn to use pattern blocks to build a two dimensional design, and use the calculator to determine the value of the design.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Dimensional Figures
Students use the Explorer Draw application to draw two-dimensional figures. They understand how to write commands to draw squares and hexagons. They also calculate the perimeter of the figures drawn. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Rotations in the Plane
In this activity, students will explore the properties of rotations and the relationships between the original and image figures.
Other
Your Doctor: Sickle Cell Anemia (In Arabic)
Photos of slides and genetics charts accompany the text and explain the differences between sickle cell train vs. sickle cell anemia, symptoms of sickle cell disease, secondary diseases/conditions associated with sickle cell, mechanism...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: It's in the Bag
This lesson is a unique and fun way to review perimeter, angles, and types of adjectives. Students pick an object from the classroom that will fit in a paper lunch bag. They investigate their object and fill in the attached sheet. You...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Share and Share Alike (Equal Parts)
This Five E's AMSTI lesson plan equips students to divide an object into equal parts. A story and interactive whiteboard activity about sharing food demonstrate the idea of equal halves of circles, after which students attempt to half...
PE Central
Pe Central: People Puzzles: Communication and Cooperation Activity
Using large shapes and patterns, this physical activity requires that students use effective oral communication to complete the group task.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Geometric Shadows
Students will identify objects as translucent, transparent, or opaque. Upon seeing the shadow of the opaque object, students will identify the geometric figure created by the shadow.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: 4.4 Developing Geometry Understandings With Tangrams
Students use this interactive website to explore tangrams by connecting the pieces.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Circling Around
Students 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.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Determine the Vertices of Transformed Images
This hands-on lesson plan uses exploration and discovery to help students determine the coordinates of the vertices of various figures when translated, rotated, or reflected in a coordinate plane. The exploration phase will access...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Popcorn Bucket or Box?
In this exploration, students will apply their knowledge of finding volume and surface area of cylinders and rectangular prisms. Students will make recommendations to the local movie theater after determining which package is cost...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Cutting the Cheese
The students will find the area of each two dimensional figure on a net of a triangular prism. In groups, students will cut out the net and create a triangular prism. Groups will then discuss how to find the lateral area and the total...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Thinking Outside the "Box"
The students will find the area of each two dimensional figure on a net of a rectangular prism. In groups, students will cut out the net and create a rectangular prism. Groups will then discuss how to find the lateral area and the total...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Pump Up the Volume
In this lesson, students will be required to generate a formula for volume of a rectangular prism. Students working in cooperative groups will use prior knowledge for finding area of a rectangle to determine the "amount of area in a...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Discovering Pi
This lesson allows students to discover the number Pi. By measuring real life objects, students will get to see where the number Pi comes from as well as how the circumference formula is derived.This lesson plan was created as a result...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Painting the Pyramids
The students will find the area of each two dimensional figure on a net of a square pyramid. In groups, students will cut out the net and create a square pyramid. Groups will then discuss how to find the lateral area and the total...
PBS
Newton's Apple: Frisbee Physics
This teacher's guide from Public Television's Newton's Apple discusses and illustrates the physics principles governing the flight of a frisbee. Includes teacher lesson plans, activity ideas, discussion questions, and information about...