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High School Mathematics Problems from Alaska: Azimuth and Arc Length

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils track the Azimuth sunrise and sunset over time by creating a chart.
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School-Home Links: Ending Sounds

For Students K - 1st
For this ending sounds worksheet, students name each pictures and listen for the last sound. Students then write the letter for the last sound they hear.
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School-Home Links: Name Letters by the Sounds they Make

For Students K - 1st
In this letter sounds worksheet, students say the sound that each letter makes and then name the letter the matches the sound. Students then write their names and say the names of the letters.
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School-Home Links: Putting Sounds Together to Make Words

For Students 1st
In this word sounds worksheet, 1st graders look at each letter in each word. Students say all of the sounds the letters make in the word. Students repeat the sounds and then say the word.
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Investigating Nets and Polyhedra

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders create a net for a given polyhedron. They determine the corresponding polyhedron for a given net. Students investigate several polyhedra (cube, tetrahedron, and one of their choosing) and their corresponding nets. They...
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Reflections

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders create a reflection of a poygon using a Mira. They discover that a line connecting a vertiex of a polygon and the corresponding vertex of its reflection is perpendicular to the line of reflection. Students create a glide...
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Enhancing Friendships Through Photography

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students connect with pen pals through photography. In this digital photography lesson, students create photo booklets to share with pen pals. Students correspond with their pen pals throughout the school year. Students also create...
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Using e-mail to Communicate with Students in an Inner City; Celebrating Diversity through a Penpal Program

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students communicate with students at another school through e-mail to help them become better acquainted with using a PC and e-mail. In the second lesson plan, the same type of method is used to explore diversity among communities.
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The Strength of the Muscular System

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders investigate the strength of the muscular system. They explore voluntary and involuntary muscle movement and discuss the types of muscles: cardiac or heart, skeletal, and smooth. They visit stations to answer questions...
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Displaying Data

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Young scholars create a display map with data from a previous lesson. They incorporate graduated marks that identify areas of the school grounds that are good for planting based on density.
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Trading Pennies and Dimes

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders, while in the computer lab, explore the strategy of making and grouping to ten. They assess how to trade pennies for dimes and create original word problems along with corresponding number sentences to illustrate grouping...
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Boxer Rebellion

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Young scholars research China and the Boxer Rebellion. In groups, they gather information using the internet and other sources. Students participate in a simulation where they become foreign correspondents for a local television station....
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The Inner Voice: Writing as a Tool to Control Anger in the Classroom

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders write about their feelings and thought for 10 minutes. They color an image that corresponds with their feeling and present their feeling poster. They write about their thoughts and daily feelings to help them reflect and...
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Intermediate Matching - Educational Buildings

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this educational building worksheet, students draw a line from the names of educational buildings to the corresponding definitions. There are 7 terms and definitions to match up.
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Senior Historians

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders interview seniors to see what Boise, Idaho was like in the past. In this Idaho lesson, 3rd graders come up with interview questions and they meet with a senior "historian." They write about what they learned from this...
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Math is Beautiful

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students explore how geometry is used on the composition of artworks by artists from different cultures. This lesson is equally suited for a Math or Art classroom at the late-elementary or early-middle school level.
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Graphing Ordered Pairs

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders investigate the concept of ordered pairs as found in Algebra. They are introduced to the data set that corresponds to the coordinate system. Also students practice the graphing the ordered pairs using the x and y axis.
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The Grand Excursion GPS Map

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders investigate the uses of a global positioning system. They create waypoints and have to find them using the system. Students must review the geographical concepts of latitude and longitude. The media requirements of the...
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CHINESE NEW YEAR

For Students 4th - 6th
In this acrostic worksheet, students are given one line for each corresponding letter of the words "Chinese New Year". They are asked to write a poem, beginning the first word in each line with the appropriate letter.
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Living History Video Project

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders videotape an interview with a community member. In this service learning project, 5th graders are matched with a resident at a local retirement center. The students spend time corresponding with this person and ultimately...
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Letter Code-Multiplication Riddle

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this multiplication worksheet, students solve 12 single digit multiplication problems, using answers and corresponding letters to solve a riddle, then make up a letter code of their own.
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Morning Activity

For Teachers 1st
First graders show appropriate ASL hand signs to answer questions for the morning meeting. They show the day of the week, the weather, and mode of transportation to school using signs. They copy the sign of the day and use name cards to...
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Short a and short i

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students participate in a instructional activity used in order to strengthen reading comprehension skills. They use spelling lists in order to sort them to the corresponding studied sounds. Vocabulary is used and students read them in...
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How Much is that Name?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore money counting.  In this money problem solving lesson, students calculate how much money their name is "worth" using the corresponding alphabet letters which have been assigned a coin value.