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Alex: Pythagorean Theorem: Prove It
During this lesson, eighth grade students will be introduced to the Pythagorean Theorem: a2+b2=c2. They will construct a right triangle on graph paper and draw squares on each side of the triangle. A quiz link requires Java, and another...
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Alex: Life Is a Breath of Fresh Air
In this lesson from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), air pollution and harmful emissions, such as smog, will be explored. Students will also create a leaf rubbing. This is one lesson from the "Take Pride Statewide"...
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Alex: A What? A What? A Quadrilateral
In this lesson, students will identify the characteristics of a quadrilateral. Students will have a chance categorize quadrilaterals into subgroups such as squares, rhombuses, rectangles, and nonregular quadrilaterals. This lesson using...
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Alex: Search the Perimeter and Secure the Area
This lesson will not only help students compare and contrast the concepts of area and perimeter, but it will also move toward the concept that area is maximized while minimizing perimeter with a square.
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Alex: Decimals: The Master of Many Disguises!
In Cooperative/Collaborative groups, this instructional activity will actively engage students to represent decimals in different forms. An "Essential Question" will be used to activate background knowledge and set the purpose for...
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Alex: Carlos the Centipede Needs to Buy Tennis Shoes!
For this lesson, Carlos the Centipede must buy new baseball shoes. His dilemma will be how to multiply decimals (money) by multiples of 10. To add to the dilemma, Carlos' baseball team needs to buy shoes too! Students will multiply...
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Alex: Carlos the Centipede Is Subtracting Decimals!
In this lesson, students will work in collaborative/cooperative groups to understand subtracting decimals. Students will use decimal grids to represent the difference of decimals. Emphasis is on using place-value, lining up the decimals...
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Alex: Carlos the Centipede Is Adding Decimals!
In this lesson, students will work in collaborative/cooperative groups to understand adding decimals. Students will use decimal grids to represent the sum of decimals. Emphasis is on using place-value, lining up the decimals and bringing...
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Alex: Water You Doing to Help?
In this lesson from "The Friends of Auntie Litter", (www.auntielitter.org), conservation of water resources will be explored. This lesson is one from the "Take Pride Statewide" series. *Lesson provided by Julie Danley and Pam Walston.
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Alex: Let's Calculate Flight!
Students will use stop watches to help understand elapsed time when they fly paper airplanes through the air. Students will then move on to using clocks. Students will work out elapsed time word problems using made up flight schedules.
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Alex: Geometry Journey
In this lesson young scholars review geometry vocabulary. The students get moving and journey through the school and take photos of items that represent geometry vocabulary. They turn these photos into a virtual field trip.
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Alex: Interpreting Functions
During this lesson, students will be introduced to interpreting functions. A function is a relationship between two sets: the domain (input values) and the range (output values).
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Alex: Bloodstain Pattern Doesn't Lie
Learners will formulate a hypothesis about the relationship (linear, direct, indirect, etc.) between the distance a drop of blood falls and the diameter of the splatter it makes. To test their hypothesis, the students will work...
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Alex: Function Machine
During this activity, eighth grade students will interpret the perimeter of a train of triangles, squares, trapezoids, or hexagons as a function (for each input, there will be exactly one output). Students will represent their data in a...
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Alex: The Elves Go on Strike!
Students will use their knowledge of elapsed time to determine if certain elves should receive a bonus. They will work cooperatively with groups to calculate elapsed time and present and justify their findings to their classmates.
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Alex: Conic Sections: Playing With Parabolas
Through a mixture of online exploration, and teacher instruction, students will discover how parabolas are formed and will be able to use the key components from a graph (vertex, focus and directrix,) to generate the equation of a graph.
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Alex: Nursery Rhyme Word Problems
For this lesson students will create basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division word problems using common nursery rhymes. Students will distinguish the key elements of word problems and incorporate those elements into a...
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Alex: Little Red Riding Hood's Journey to Grandma's
The students will listen to the story of Little Red Riding Hood and work subtraction word problems connected to the story. The problems are related to distance traveled. They will work cooperatively with partners and share subtraction...
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Alex: When Will Mr. "X" Meet Miss "Y"?
During this lesson, young scholars will solve systems of equations graphically. Students will graph various equations individually using graphing paper. They will work with a partner to solve several system of equation problems and then...
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Alex: Solving Multi Step Equations
In this lesson, students will work cooperatively to solve multi-step equations online. The program will allow them to solve the equations and then check their answers. Students lacking the needed skills to complete this assignment will...
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Alex: Shaping the Future
Students will utilize new found knowledge of architectural design and engineering to apply math and science skills in building a structure. By using interactive websites, they will create scale drawing plans and design and engineer a...
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Alex: Order Among Chaos
This lesson plan is designed to assist learners not only in using the order of operations, but also experimenting with how grouping and ordering affects answers. In groups as teams, the students will compete while finding algebraic...
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Alex: Angle Scavenger Hunt
In this lesson, students will explore straight, right, acute, and obtuse angles. Students will go on a scavenger hunt throughout the school to search for examples of these types of angles. The students will use digital cameras to record...
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Alex: Exponents Rule
During this instructional activity, eighth grade students will be introduced to the properties of integer exponents (i.e. multiplying powers, dividing powers, raising a power to a power). The students will view a slideshow presentation...