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Lesson Plan: Figuring Sales Taxes

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students define and discuss sales tax, identify items for which they do or do not have to pay sales tax, research information online about sales tax in their state, and complete practice sheet that requires calculating sales tax percent...
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Literacy Foundations--LCP A

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students, after reviewing an extensive list of vocabulary terms, examine the proper ways to give accurate personal information orally and in writing. In addition, they practice writing with possessive adjectives.
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Fire!, Probability, and Chaos

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students explore the concept of probability. In this probability lesson, students simulate a controlled forest burn using an applet. Students vary the probability of trees burning and predict what will happen.
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Fraction Facts

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept of fractions. In this fractions lesson, students perform basic operations such as addition and subtraction with fractions. Students play a game on the computer called 'Fraction Four' that gives students...
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Introduction to Fractals: Geometric Fractals

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of fractals. In this fractals lesson, students discuss Sierpinski's Triangle using an applet. Students discuss the patterns involved with fractals. Students discuss the area of Sierpinski's triangle as the...
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More Complicated Functions: Introduction to Linear Functions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners explore the concept of linear functions. In this linear functions instructional activity, students translate linear functions from tables to graphs to equations. Learners use an applet to write a function rule for a linear...
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Recognizing Patterns

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept of patterns. In this patterns lesson, students use applets to manipulate tessellations. Students predict the next number in a sequence by recognizing patterns.
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Elapsed Time Two

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners study how to calculate elapsed time. For this elapsed time lesson, they determine how to calculate the ending time of an event when they are given the starting time and the elapsed time. They participate in direct instruction,...
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Cartesian Coordinate System

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept of the coordinate plane. In this coordinate plane lesson, students graph points on the coordinate plane using an applet. Students graph functions using an applet. Students play a Maze Game where they must...
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Chaos

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore the concept of probability. In this probability lesson, students use a applet that demonstrates chaos and probability of spread for a forest fire. High schoolers also play applets about the Game of Life and Rabbits...
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Perimeter

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students explore the concept of perimeter. In this perimeter lesson, students discuss how to find perimeter of various shapes. Students use the Perimeter Explorer applet to find the perimeter of various shapes.
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Figuring Elapsed Time

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students discover the concept of elapsed time. In this calculating time lesson, students utilize the Internet to complete record sheets based on the concept of elapsed time. Finally, the students answer questions on their own.
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Estimating With Fire

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Pupils solve problems with percents, decimals and fractions. In this algebra lesson, students convert between fractions, percents and decimals. They estimate their answers and calculate their answer.
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A Comparative Study of the Civil Rights Movement & the Grassroots Hip Hop Movement

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students identify, research, and discuss similarities between the Civil Rights Movement and the grassroots hip hop movement in America.
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Communicate Effectively on Health and Nutrition Topics

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students, after encountering an intense vocabulary list of health and nutritional terms, examine basic health care requests and issues that might come up in every day situations.
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Concepts of Time and Money

For Teachers Higher Ed
Pupils identify different denominations of United States currency and symbols associated with money and reading prices. In addition, in pairs they identify examples of currency from newspapers and magazines.
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Area

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Pupils examine the mathematical concept of area. These activities and discussions may be used to develop students' understanding of this mathematical concept and will enable pupils to calculate the area of a random shape on a grid.
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Area Explorations

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners explore the concept of area. In this area lesson, students find the area of irregular shapes with right angles. Learners break down each irregular shape into multiple regular shapes in order to find the area. Students...
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLANS--Maintaining Employment

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students analyze payroll deductions from their pay stubs to view a variety of government services and company benefits. After defining the vocabulary words on the board, they associate those words to certain sections on their pay stubs.
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Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam A Study of the Vietnam Era

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students examine letters that US service people wrote to their family and friends while they served in Vietnam. They examine the daily hardships and the role of medical personnel and helicopters. They write letters in response to those...
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The Tell-Tale Heart

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Rather than who done it, the mystery literary detectives have to solve as they examine the evidence found in Edgar Allan Poe's famous "The Tell-Tale Heart" is why did he do it?
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Connotation in Propaganda

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers assess persuasive techniques in propaganda. They identify and critique rhetorical devices in primary source documents (sources are not specified, but links to sites that contain various documents are included). Groups make...
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Synthesis of Information

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Locating and synthesizing information is an essential part of the research process but can be overwhelming for many young writers. Eliminate some of the stress and confusion, this resource suggests, by separating these steps. To focus...
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Conversations about childhood

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Encourage your class to discuss their childhood with other classmates using the six questions listed here. After sharing their answers, learners write a paragraph detailing general information about their childhood. This plan is designed...