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The Old Man and the Sea: Questioning Strategies
Readers learn to ask questions about text with an activity based on Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. As they read, class members craft questions based on Bloom's Taxonomy and then find the answers themselves.
Canadian Civil Liberties Education Trust
Seeking Refuge: Then and Now
Participants examine refugee law and policies and read several case studies to prepare for a discussion of this hot-button issue. The packet includes a wide range of materials representing a variety perspectives.
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Evolution Study Guide
Thirty short-answer questions comprise this detailed review of evolution theory. Many of the questions ask scholars to define vocabulary. Because short answers are required, this worksheet will take some time to complete. You could give...
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Volcanoes: Fourth Grade Lesson Plans and Activities
Young geologists begin exploring volcanoes of different structures and states: active, extinct, or dormant. During the lab, they make three models and compare different types of volcanoes, including composite, cinder cone, and...
Cornell University
Building a Compound Light Microscope
What better way to learn how to use a microscope than building your own? A lab investigation has scholars use lenses from magnifying glasses and sheets of cork to design their own compound microscopes. They calculate focal length...
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Out of the Dust: Questioning Strategies
Bloom's Taxonomy is a great way to address the many levels of comprehension. With explanations and examples of each level, you can create questions that focus on knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
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Worksheet 4 - function
In this function worksheet, students identify functions, express decimals as fractions and write decimals as a geometric series. This one-page worksheet contains six multi-step problems.
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Slinky Lab- Simulating the Motion of Earthquake Waves
Sixth graders simulate primary and secondary waves. In this earthquakes waves lesson, 6th graders experiment using a slinky to gain understanding of how waves are created during an earthquake. Students record observations in drawings....
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African-Americans in California's Heartland
Students read and view video about the pioneers moving west. In this African American pioneer lesson, students become familiar with the problems faced by the pioneers and African-American pioneers. Students complete...
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Worksheet 8 - Spring 1996
For this math worksheet, students sketch the graphs of the functions 1/x 2 and 1/(x2 − 1) over the interval [2, ∞). They rewrite the series using the Riemann sum.
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Comparison of Human and Chimpanzee Chromosomes
Students actively engage in the careful analysis of chromosome banding patterns and identify examples of inversion in homologous chromosomes.
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Stupid Quiz
Students listen and discuss word problems that promote students to demonstrate logical reasoning. In this logical reasoning lesson plan, students discuss 10 word problems.
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Worksheet 13
In this math worksheet, students define how for a given value of x, the series S(x) converges. Then they prove how convergence can be absolute.
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Teachers on the Horizon
Twelfth graders are given the opportunity to serve as cadet teachers for fourth and fifth-grade gifted students. In this career choices lesson, 12th graders discover how meaningful being a teacher can be.
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Making A New Nation
Eighth graders read standard road maps and topographical maps, and examine the lives of pathfinders who opened the trails to the West. They develop Living History presentations, role-playing a character from the past.
Math2
Math2.org: Series Convergence Tests
This is an excellent resource! It states all of the most common tests for series convergence. Examples are not included.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Divergence Test
This is a brief statement of a divergence test that can be used to determine whether or not a given series converges or diverges. Provides no explanation, but simply a statement.
Other
Seton Hall University: The Divergence Test
This lesson, which is provided for by the Seton Hall University, explains the divergence test.
University of Vienna (Austria)
University of Vienna: Sequences Convergent or Divergent?
Given a set of eight sequence formulae, determine whether each is convergent or divergent. After completing the exercises, the site returns a score to judge understanding of such sequences.
Mathematics Archives
Math Archives: Visual Calculus: Ratio Test
Visual Calculus offers a discussion and exercises concerning the ratio test for convergence of series.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Converging and Diverging Lenses in a Lab
This passage will test your knowledge on lenses.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Convergence Tests Summary and Study
Here is a summary of convergence tests. They are listed in the order that you should use/try them when testing for convergence or divergence.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Integral Test
This page gives a brief statement of the Integral Test for convergent or divergent series. This test is also called the Cauchy Integral Test or the Maclaurin Integral Test.
Mathematics Archives
Math Archives: Visual Calculus: Integral Test
Visual Calculus offers a discussion and exercises concerning the integral test for convergence of series. The site also discusses the power series test.