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It's Not Easy Being Green

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students complete a unit that focuses on their school's waste production. They conduct a litter survey, collect the waste produced in their classroom for a week and generate a waste-audit, and identify how their school can minimize...
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Solving Equations Reducible to Quadratic: Extra Practice 34

For Teachers 8th - 9th
In this math worksheet, students solve problems involving radicals in six problems. The other ten problems require students to factor quadratic equations and solve for the given variable. Two problems involve negative exponents.
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Solving Equations Reducible to Quadratic

For Students 9th - 11th
In this solving equations instructional activity, students solve given quadratic equations. This four-page instructional activity contains 16 multi-step problems. Examples and explanations are provided at the beginning of the...
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Equivalent Fractions (A)

For Students 4th - 6th
For this mathematics worksheet, students solve a number of problems by finding the missing numbers in each on the equivalent fractions given. There are 24 problems to solve on the sheet.
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Arithmetic of Fractions

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Never forget how to add, subtract, multiply, or divide fractions with a two-page document detailing each operation. 
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Simplifying Fractions

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Encourage family participation at home with a reference tool designed to support learners' practice of simplifying fractions. Two pages offer detailed descriptions and labeled examples. 
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Identifying Ratios

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
Kids complete three different activities to better understand how to identify ratios and then write them in simplest form. Ratios are represented by fraction strips of two different colors. Pupils write what ratio of blue to red is...
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Fraction Models

For Students 3rd - 4th
Approach fractions with these visual models which serve to reinforce numerators and denominators as well as simplifying improper fractions. Scholars examine segmented shapes and fill in a fraction to represent the shaded region. For the...
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Recycling-Taking it Easy on the Environment

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners review the garbage/landfill graphs included with the lesson. They discuss the information on the graphs and discuss which garbage products come from their homes. Students collect examples of over packaging to share with class...
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Making Cookies

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Hooray for chocolate chip cookies! Ask your mathematicians to triple a chocolate chip cookie recipe and then reduce the recipe by one-fourth. Your class may need two days to complete, tripling the recipe the first day and reducing the...
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Solid Waste Recycling

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students plan a "no garbage" lunch and hold a classroom contest to sort grabage into what can and what can't be recycled. They assess the importance of reducing the amount of garbage in the environment and set up a book recycling program.
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Worms, Nature's Recyclers!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars study what worms need to survive in different environments. They study how worm composting improves soil and reduce waste. They discuss composting techniques and present a puppet show about a worm's life.
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Colds and Germs

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students determine how diseases are spread from one person to another. They investigate the importance of hand washing to reduce the spread of common colds and other diseases. They listen to teacher read alouds and complete an inquiry...
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Splat! Boom! Pow! the Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students relate abstract expressionism and cultural influences on 1960's art. They use images appropriated from comic books to create a painting in the abstract expressionist style by changing the scale of the comic and reducing content...
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Turtle Hospital

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Pupils explore techniques to rescue and rehabilitation of stranded and injured sea turtles. They examine the turtle's impact on the environment. Students discuss ideas to reduce the number of stranded marine turtles.
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PALM TREES Technology :Literacy Challenge Project

For Teachers 7th
Do you have a class set PDAs? Seventh graders use the Note Pad function on their PDAs to brainstorm writing prompts. After three minutes of listing their favorite foods, class members use the Note Pad Eraser to reduce their list to the...
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Biomanipulation

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students explore the effects of aquatic trophic relationships on water transparency. They observe and explain the effects of reducing nutrient inputs on agal density on water transparency.
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Test Taking Tips

For Students 7th - 12th
Assessment, and for some the accompanying test stress, is a part of classroom life. Show your class members how to prepare for exams and steps they can take to reduce anxiety. Although the referenced PowerPoint is not included in the...
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Buckle Up! Bumper Stickers

For Teachers 1st - 9th
Students, after researching information about their state's child safety laws, advocate passenger safety recommendations by creating original bumper stickers designs. They create bumper stickers to publicize how to reduce the risk of...
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Multiplying Rational Expressions

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
In this rational expression worksheet, students simplify rational expressions. They write the product and quotient in lowest terms. This two-page worksheet contains five problems.
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Add and Subtract Fractions with Like Denominators - CA Standards Worksheet

For Students 4th - 5th
In this fraction worksheet, students solve 6 word problems that have to do with adding or subtracting fractions with like denominators. All answers are to be reduced to simplest form.
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Ratio and Proportion: Simplifying Ratios (2 of 2)

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
In this assignment, math stars simplify ratios. The first half just displays numbers, whereas the second half describes real-world scenarios with ratios to be written and reduced. The publisher mentions CCSS.Math.Content.6.RP.3, but it...
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Reduction to Common Denominator #2

For Teachers 4th - 10th
Elementary and secondary learners compare fractions that have uncommon denominators and add and subtract fractions that have common denominators. They practice reducing fractions and getting denominators to be the same so they can add...
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Media Timeline

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners complete a media campaign worksheet about the awareness of people with disabilities. For this disabilities lesson plan, students write a campaign to reduce fear when making people aware of disabilities.

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