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Curated OER

"Czech It Out" - A Look at Eastern Europe

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils research several countries in Eastern Europe. Students compare and contrast several Eastern European countries and then choose a specific country to research and prepare a class presentation with their findings.
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Curated OER

Self Portrait, What Nerve!

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students conduct an experiment to determine the distance between touch receptor fields in parts of the right-hand side of the body. They enter data into the data table.
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Curated OER

What's the Attraction?

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars experiment with magnets to determine the distances at which they attract and repel each other.
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Curated OER

Eye From the Sky

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars are introduced to the concept of aerial perspective and scale. Students will use satellite technology to view their neighborhoods and sketch the area surrounding their schools. They will take part in a neighborhood walk to...
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Texas Instruments

Say What You Mean!

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Students analyze data and identify the mean. In this probability lesson, students log data in the TI and construct scatter plots from the data. They identify properties of a scatterplot.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Line Me Up. Analyzing and Creating Line Graphs

For Teachers 6th
Line graphs are used in our daily lives to show change over time.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Bars, Lines, and Pies

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will learn and reinforce skills for creating, applying and analyzing pie charts, bar graphs and line graphs.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Class Surveys and Graphs

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Students love graphing data that they "own". In this plan, the class will select a type of graph and create it using a class survey frequency table. Included in this lesson are videos of the class engaged in the lesson and samples of...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: "Ridin' Along in My Automobile"

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will research prices of used cars to discover how automobiles lose their value over time. Students will create a chart to record their information, use their chart to graph their data, and find measures of central tendency of...
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Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Make a Living Bar Graph

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Student use simple data to line up in a living bar graph activity when they respond to simple questions in this lesson plan. They physically and visually represent the data. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.B.3 Draw a scaled picture graph and a...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Great Golly Graphs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson plan asks students to create a survey project including graphs, questions, tables, and data analysis. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation and extension as well as ways to manage behavior problems and reluctant...
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University of South Florida

Fcat: Human Number Line: Teacher Notes

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
This activity allows students to physically create a number line and work on adding and subtracting integers. This lesson can be adapted to include other concepts with real numbers.
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Other

Nearpod: Linear Equations & Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson on linear equations and graphs, students will learn how to graph linear equations and create linear equations based upon real-life word problems.
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PBS

Pbs Mathline: Sand Babies (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this engaging lesson, students use a variety of measurement strategies in creating their own Sand Babies. Students explore standard and non-standard measurements, area, data collection and analysis, and graphing. Adaptations are...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Who Is Working?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This activity teaches young scholars what economists mean when they talk about people who are employed, unemployed, and not in the labor force. It discusses the Current Population Survey and asks students to pose as government survey...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: A Piece of Pi

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson uses graphing to help students understand that pi is a constant and is the slope of the line graphed on a circumference vs. diameter graph.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Which Way Do I Go, George, Which Way Do I Go?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson will explore the process of graphing inequalities on a number line. It will also explore writing an inequality when given a graph. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Sets of Things

For Teachers 2nd
Multiplication sounds cool to second graders, but we have to know what it is first. Creating and counting sets is one way to get there.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Human Slope

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will participate in this discovery activity intended for them to uncover the role each variable plays in the graph of a line in the form y = mx + b. Students will actually demonstrate lines in slope intercept form on a life size...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Inequalities

For Teachers 6th Standards
If a < b, what do we know about a and b? If b < c < d, how could we show that on a number line? Students continue creating inequalities and graphs to represent situations.
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Other

Ctte: Geometer's Sketch Pad Activities

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site offers numerous activities for middle school and high school students to explore using Geometer's Sketch Pad.