AP Test Prep
College Board

Reasoning from Tabular Data

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Don't table the resource—use it now. An AP® Calculus curriculum module encourages the use of tabular data throughout the course. It provides some example topics, such as rate of change, net change, and average value of a function, where...
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Purdue University

Rock Steady: Designing a Sensor

For Teachers 6th
Bridge young mathematicians' knowledge of engineering and design. Pupils use two desks and a plastic sheet to simulate a bridge. After learning about energy transformations, they use available materials to design a sensor that detects...
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Science Matters

Hot Wire S’mores

For Teachers 4th
The proof is in the marshmallows. Believing that electric energy can transform into heat energy can be abstract, but a hands-on lesson gives pupils a concrete example. Young scientists cut marshmallows with copper wires before and...
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Radford University

Parallel Lines Task

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Transform the classroom into a coordinate plane. Scholars walk along parallel lines drawn on a coordinate plane on the classroom floor. They measure angles and slopes and use the results to develop criteria that would make the lines...
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Facing History and Ourselves

Insights on Democracy from South Africa

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
As part of their study of democracy, high schoolers listen to a podcast featuring two South African educators and their efforts to support the process of transforming the nation from apartheid rule into a democracy. Learners also read...
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Simon & Schuster

Curriculum Guide to: The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Joseph Conrad's novellas The Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer are the focus of five lessons in this Curriculum Guide. Lessons are designed to advance analytical reading skills, examine Conrad's use of "The Double" theme, the...
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American Statistical Association

Nonlinear Modeling: Something Fishy

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
There are plenty of fish in the sea, but only a few good resources on regression. Young mathematicians first perform a linear regression analysis on provided weight and length data for fish. After determining that a linear model is not...
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Penguin Books

A Teacher's Guide to the Signet Classic Edition of William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Was Antony "transformed/Into a strumpet's fool," as Philo declares? (I, i) Was Cleopatra "green in judgment"? (I,5) A guide to Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare's tragedy, provides instructors with a framework for teaching the play about...
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Overcoming Obstacles

Creating a Win-Win Situation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Win-lose? Lose-lose? or Win-win? The activities and games in the fifth lesson in the Resolving Conflicts module teach middle schoolers how they might use their problem-solving skills to transform a conflict into a win-win solution.
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Rochester Institute of Technology

Chemical Reactions and Electricity

For Teachers 6th - 12th
After a discussion of chemical reactions and electricity, scholars break into groups and follow a scripted activity to discover if fruit can power a clock. After a concluding discussion, the class a presented with a challenge.
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Science 4 Inquiry

Edible Plate Tectonics

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Many people think they can't observe plate tectonics, but thanks to GPS, we know that Australia moves at a rate of 2.7 inches per year, North America at 1 inches per year, and the Pacific plate at more than 3 inches per year! Scholars...
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Curated OER

Shapes in Motion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice moving different shaped objects through a series of transformations. In groups, they discuss other ways to manipulate the figure to achieve the same results. They solve multiple story problems in the same manner.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Reflections and Isosceles Triangles

For Teachers 9th - 11th Standards
Geometers explore symmetries of isosceles triangles by using rigid transformations of the plane. They complete four tasks, including congruence proofs, which illustrate the relationship between congruence and rigid transformations. The...
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Curated OER

Frieze Patterns And Tiles

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students investigate geometry with the use of a creative project. They review relevant vocabulary that includes turn, flip, side, and angles. Students also practice conducting transformations used as inspiration for the project. Then...
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Curated OER

Punch Patterns

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders duplicate patterns, guess pattern results and identify the symmetries created. They are given an instructional handout, 5th graders replicate the patterns demonstrated by folding the paper and punching the appropriate...
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Curated OER

Performance of routine movements

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore movement in dance routines. They observe movements and transform everyday gestures into choregraphy. Through activities, students develop improvisational skills. They evaluate and critique work.
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Curated OER

Eggs-ceptional Art

For Teachers K - 4th
Learners use white construction paper and cut out a large oval shape. They transform the plalin white oval shape into a colored-egg decoration, decorating it with any design they want to create.
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Curated OER

Worksheet 36-Spring 1996

For Teachers Higher Ed
In this math worksheet, students sketch the regions that give rise to three integrals. They find the volume of a solid in the first octant bounded by a defined cylinder and a parabaloid. Students change a function to polar coordinates....
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Curated OER

Graphing Linear Equations Cards

For Students 8th - 9th Standards
OK, so maybe graphing linear equations can be fun. This activity includes a set of linear equation cards to be cut and place face up on a table. Learners pick a card and match it to the correct graph card. This is a really fun way to...
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Curated OER

Building Understanding of Rate of Change/Slopes Using Alice

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students explore slope as a rate of change. In this eighth grade mathematics lesson plan, students investigate real-world problems to determine rate of change and transform it into a linear representation, thus determining slope....
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San José State University

How to Recognize and Eliminate Passive Voice

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
This handout presents the appropriate times to use the active voice and the passive voice with examples and a short exercise. After reading through the information and examples, pupils transform passive sentences into active sentences. A...
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Curated OER

Same solutions?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
This activity focuses in on the structure of an equation and how it compares to another. Young algebraists are tasked with grouping together equations that have the same solution by focusing on the transformation of the equations rather...
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Smithsonian Institution

Visiting a Museum

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Imperial storm troopers make a special guest appearance in this resource designed as a behavior primer for young visitors to a museum. 
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Curated OER

Glide Reflections

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this glide reflection worksheet, students draw and answer questions about reflections of different shapes. Students answer 5 questions.

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