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Cigarette Smoking
High schoolers analyze the monetary cost associated with smoking cigarettes. They calculate the life expectancy associated with how many cigarettes are smoked a day. They complete story problems as well.
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Groundwater and Ecology
Students are presented a problem concerning an aquifer which may be in danger from overuse by agriculture/industry. They compile data and consult online data and experts in creating a proposal to rectify the situation.
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Season's Greetings
Students explore Earth's seasons using an interactive website. For this earth science lesson, students watch video segments and explain Earth's seasonal milestones. They discuss the factors that causes seasonal changes.
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Magic Mountain Coaster Computation
Students use the Internet to do research on the roller coasters at Magic Mountain Amusement Park. They must use mathematical formulas to calculate the highest and fastest coaster at the park.
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Rocket Physics
Learners investigate the relationship between impulse, momentum, kinetic and potential energy and aerodynamic drag. In this physics lesson, students calculate data taken from launching a rocket. They compare the theoretical and...
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MAPPING THE SCHOOL FOREST
Students measure distances and directions using paces and a compass. They determine their own pace, explore how to read a compass bearing, and how to take bearings on given sites.
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Closing the Case
Fifth graders collect data and prepare data displays using a survey with statistical information.
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Science: Trouble in the Troposphere
Students research a NASA Website and record information about an assigned city's tropospheric ozone residual monthly climate. In groups, they graph the information for the past year. They form new groups and compare their city's...
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Statistics and Probility
Seventh graders collect data and make predictions. In this geometry lesson, 7th graders work in tiers collecting data and plotting it. They make inferences and predictions about their collected data.
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Solid Waste/Recycling
Students see that when we throw away garbage, it usually ends up in a landfill. Landfill space is getting increasingly scarce, and every time we throw something away we throw with it the energy, the money, and the raw materials it took...
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High School Mathematics Problems from Alaska: Cigarette Smoking
Students analyze the monetary cost associated with smoking. Students use statistics to determine life expectancy and cost associated with smoking.
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Earth's Weather
Seventh graders learn how solar radiation, latitude, and other factors affect weather. They break into six groups and are assigned a topic to research and to present their findings orally.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Average Value of a Function Over a Closed Interval
This video, from Khan Academy, explains the concept of "average value of a function over a closed interval".
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Measuring Velocity of Objects Using Video Clips
In this activity, students learn to analyze video clips and extract data about the velocity of moving objects, reinforcing the concept of average velocity. After mastering the technique of using videos to measure velocity, students can...
Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: Tasa De Variacion De Una Funcion
In Spanish. In this interactive activity you will learn and understand the concept of average and instantaneous speed and calculate the average and instantaneous variation of some functions.
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Data: Moving Averages
Students watch an online tutorial on the concept of moving averages. After watching, students test their knowledge by attempting ten practice problems that increase or decrease in difficulty based on their answers.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Project Ideas: The Biomechanics of Pitching
The goal of this sports science fair project is to learn more about the biomechanics of baseball pitching. The student will investigate if stepping forward and the length of the step affects the speed of the pitch. The Science Buddies...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Short Run Production Costs: Foundational Concepts
Practice what you have learned about the difference between marginal cost, average variable cost, and fixed costs in this four-question exercise.
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Data: Use the Range and Mode
This site provides students practice with the concept of range and mode. Students can learn about the topic by completing an interactive tutorial. Students can then take a ten question timed test to practice the skill.
Other
Uw: Econ Research Lesson on Diminishing Returns & Increasing Marginal Cost
This site offers a lesson plan designed to teach the concept of "marginal productivity" by having learners produce "textbooks" in a simulated factory. Directions, charts, and questions are provided.
Stefan Warner and Steven R. Costenoble
Finite Mathematics & Applied Calculus: Average Rate of Change
The resource investigates average rate of change. Topics examined are the difference quotient and how to compute the average rate of change. Students learn about the calculus concepts through notes and examples.
Windstream
Ojk's Precalculus Study Page: Introduction: Average Rate of Change
A precalculus tutorial that explains the average rate of change with formulas and examples. Related links to other concepts.