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Block Breakers
Students throw bean bags at stacks of blocks. They record the results and write the corresponding mathematical equations.
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Math Symbols
In this math symbols and signs instructional activity, students match the 15 symbols and signs in the left hand columns to word or words that match them in the right hand column.
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Conversions: Metrics Made Easy
Students convert standard units of measurement to metric units using tape measures, meter sticks, rulers, and online conversion calculators.
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Optical Illusions
Learners investigate optical illusions. In this optical illusions instructional activity, students explore perception. Learners analyze optical illusions and determine common misconceptions.
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Children at War
Students conduct Internet research to investigate the use of children in combat throughout the world. Students read personal testimonies and analyze media coverage of children in combat.
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Comparison of Human and Chimpanzee Chromosomes
Young scholars actively engage in the careful analysis of chromosome banding patterns and identify examples of inversion in homologous chromosomes.
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Classification of Clouds
Students view progressive slides of cloud formations and identify which type of cloud is shown as it forms. They estimate the cloud's height while viewing each image.
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Linear and Exponential Growth
Students explore the concept of linear and exponential growth. In this linear and exponential growth instructional activity, students collect data about China's population. Students model the data to determine if it is linear or...
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Using Rock to Teach Literary Devices: Jimi Hendrix “The Wind Cries Mary”
Students explore literary elements through music. In this figurative language lesson plan, students examine imagery and personification in "The Wind Cries Mary" by Jimi Hendrix.
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Multiplication and Division Drills
In this multiplication worksheet, students complete multiplication problems including numbers up to 3 digits. Students complete 16 problems total.
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Impressions in Clay
Students examine how fossils are created. They make impressions of different objects in clay and compare them to examples of fossils.
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The Invention of Faraday Cage
High schoolers demonstrate how Faraday's cage work by building their own electroscope. In this physics lesson, students explain how Faraday's cage work. They cite several applications of this principle in the real world.
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Stock: The Rise and Fall of Stock
Learners examine the uncertainties of investing in the stock market. They look at how company profits, good or bad news, and new competition affect share prices. They write and discuss journal entries about share prices before completing...
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Visiting Museums
Learners visit museums and gather information about dinosaur habitats, survival needs, and how they met these needs.
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Vocabulary Building - Brainstorming
Students learn new vocabulary words in ways that are fun and enriching. They brainstorm lists of words to be used in sentences, stories, or conversations.
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The Laundress
Learners explore the concept of work, and work typically assigned to women, through artwork depicting laundresses.
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Does the Chicken have Anthrax (Explain I)
Learners explain how each of the components of innate immunity function in the protection of the body. Following an investigation, they articulate how innate immunity functions.
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Economics: World Trade Patterns
Students examine world trade patterns and discover the role of commodities in trade. While explaining the benefits of trade, they create maps and flowcharts depicting the patterns of goods and people movement. Also, students write...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Number Line: Rational Numbers and Football
Students add and subtract plays on a football field to practice working with negative and positive integers on the number line.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Group of Pyramids: Multiplication: Skip Counting and Number Line
On this interactive site students practice with basic multiplication skills including counting forward by two's, skip counting to find the total number, and using a number line to solve multiplication problems.
PBS
Pbs: The Number Line: Rational Numbers and Football
In this interactive, students add and subtract plays on a football field to practice working with negative and positive integers on the number line. Each set of randomized drives consists of seven to nine plays and ends with a touchdown....
Cool Math
Coolmath: Coolmath4kids: Addition
A set of seven short tutorials on addition. Begins with a basic introduction to how addition works, and covers topics such as using a number line, place value, and regrouping.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Getting Froggy Wih It
Students will solve problems using a number line. Students will work collaboratively to create a "Town" with the main street consisting of a number line diagram. They will practice counting forwards and backwards, measuring and...
PBS
Pbs: Additive Inverse
This animated Math Shorts video from the Utah Education Network explains the term additive inverse and provides several examples that demonstrate the concept. In the accompanying classroom activity, students create equations and solve...