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Coordinate Seating: Using a Coordinate System
Fourth graders discover coordinate systems. In this mapping lesson, 4th graders create a coordinate system for theater seating. Students observe a video based on a theater's seating map.
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Apple Blossoms and Pollination
Students explore the concept of pollination. In this pollination lesson plan, students examine the parts of an apple blossom and then compare and contrast pollination and cross-pollination.
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Apple Logic and Problem Solving
Learners examine apple production in the United States. In this interdisciplinary lesson, students use problem solving strategies introduced to solve math problems associated with apple production in the United States. Student collect...
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Astronaut Diet
Students discover foods that astronauts eat in space and eat an actual astronaut meal. In this astronaut diet lesson, students discover how food is freeze-dried and packaged for use in space. Students compare an...
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Secant and Secant Segments
Students use the secant and secant segment theorem to solve problems. In this calculus lesson, students identify where the secant line crosses on a circle. They create circles and secants using cabri software.
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Finding the Area of a Parallelogram with Translations
Students calculate the area of a parallelogram. In this geometry lesson plan, students perform translation using a coordinate plane and coordinate pairs. They perform translation on other polygons.
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Finding the Area of a Parallelogram with Translations
Students calculate the area of parallelograms. In this geometry lesson, students identify properties of parallelograms and use to to solve problems. They create polygons using Cabri software.
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Exploring Geometric Mean
Students solve problems using geometric means. In this geometry lesson plan, students create altitudes in right triangles. They use Cabri software to move the triangle around and observe different sides and angles.
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Exploring Geometric Mean
Student identify the solution using geometric mean. In this geometry lesson, students create right triangles where the altitude of the triangle is the side containing the right angle. They modify shapes using Cabri software and observe...
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Investigating Trigonometric Ratios Through Similar Right Triangles.
49Students investigate the properties of right triangles. In this geometry lesson, students differentiate between similar and congruent triangles. They use the Pythagorean Theorem to find the missing angles and sides.
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Investigating Trigonometric Ratios Through Similar Right Triangles
Students identify similar and congruent right triangles. In this geometry lesson, students use trigonometric ratios to identify missing sides and angles of a triangle. They differentiate similar and congruent triangles.
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ACE Expert English Homework- July 12, 2006
In this ESL activity, students complete 8 pages of exercises designed for ELL students from Thailand. Activities included are writing sentences, completing dialogs, and matching phrases and pictures.
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You Are Here
Students simulate a course with and without a guide as if they were an airplane with and without air traffic control. They read and discuss the article "For Airlines, Hands-On Air Traffic Control". They discuss challenges that air...
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Virtually Toasting 2000
Learners use the Internet to explore millennium celebrations around the world and how these celebrations reflect the cities' cultures, histories and expectations for the future.
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Consumerism
Young scholars identify image and information ads, define consumer goods and services, explain teen consumer spending impacts.
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Who Were the First Americans?
Second graders explore Native Americans through a PowerPoint presentation.
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Mayan Culture Logbook
Students use the Internet to research Mayan culture, religion and economics. They develop a logbook to record their research.
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It's Close Enough: Rounding and Estimation
Second graders round to the closest five, ten, and hundred. They use place-value concepts of grouping based upon powers of ten (thousandths, hundredths, tenths, ones, tens, hundreds, thousands) within the decimal number system.
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SkittleGraphs
Second graders discover how to make a bar graph. Each student receives a bag of Skittles candy. They make a bar graph which documents the colors found in the bag. At the end of the lesson, the Skittles are eaten. Fun!
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Safety First
Students create a PowerPoint presentation on school safety. They are required to have illustrations and transitions in their slideshow. They develop a safety test for their classmates.
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Animal Research Project
First graders are introduced to the topic of researching by the librarian. Using a worksheet, they use various sources in the library to choose one animal from various groups. They complete a fact sheet on each animal and report their...
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Comparing the Density of Iron
Students use scientific measuring tools to collect and use scientific data. They determine the density of four different objects by using their data to explain why objects have similar/different densities even though they are both made...
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Creepy Crawlers
Students identify the characteristics of an insect and their habitat. They read books about insects, research different types of insects, and create their own insect art. The project also includes the creation of an insect song and...
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It's a Small, Small World
Students compare and contrast the different characteristics of animal-like, plant-like, and fungus-like protists. They list examples and describe the characteristics shared by the three protist groups. They create a brochure or slideshow...