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Scientific Notation
In this scientific notation activity, students convert 8 numbers from scientific notation to standard notation. They convert 8 numbers from standard notation to scientific notation. They solve 14 problems using the exponent function on...
National Research Center for Career and Technical Education
Hospitality and Tourism 1: Safety and Sanitation
Math and science come alive in this career-related instructional activity on sanitation. Along the way, learners explore bacterial growth rates using exponential notation and graphs. A link to a very brief, but vivid video shows just how...
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Scientific Notation and Metric Prefixes
For this physics worksheet, students complete 5 sets of unit conversion problems. They express exponential expressions to expanded form and vice versa.
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Scientific Notation, Significant Figures and the Factor-Label Method of Solving Problems
In this scientific notation, significant figures, and factor-label method, students solve 1 problem where they perform mathematical functions and identify their answer in scientific notation with the proper number of significant figures....
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The Battle for Ultimate Power
Students gain an understanding of how the powers of 10 and scientific notation can be used to represent the scale of things in the universe. They relate the number of stars in the universe to the number of grains of sand on Earth's beaches.
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Scientific Notation
Students explore the concept of expressing numbers in scientific notation. In this scientific notation lesson, students understand the importance of using scientific notation by finding real world examples where scientific notation is...
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Metric Practice Sheet
In this metric system learning exercise, students solve five problems including filling in a chart with the metric system prefixes and their meanings, converting numbers to scientific notation and converting from one unit of measurement...
Beyond Benign
The Big Melt: Arctic Ice Caps
Are the Arctic ice caps really melting out of existence? Junior climatologists examine the statistics of ice decline through four math-based lessons. Each activity incorporates data, climate information, and environmental impact into an...
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Scientific Notation III: Linear vs Exponential
Students examine the differences in exponential growth and linear growth of a system. They interpret data on graphs and develop their own charts. They answer discussion questions as well.
Colombia University NSEC
Lesson #3 ~ Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Here is a six-page script for your biology, chemistry, or physics class to read out loud as a way of investigating nanoscience. This particular lesson is actually a continuation of "Lesson #2 - Nanoscience and Nanotechnology," written in...
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Modeling the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Learners construct a model of an electromagnetic spectrum using play-doh and string. They use exponents and plot the radio/microwave, infrared, and visible bandwidths of the spectrum.
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Food Safety Unit Exam 1
Students complete seventeen question test about food safety which includes matching vocabulary terms, short answer questions and fill in the blank questions. Test is part of the Food Safety Unit produced by the College of Agricultural...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Scientific Notation
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Online tutorial explains how to express and manipulate numbers using scientific notation and other types of notation.
Chem Tutor
Chem Tutor: Chemistry: Scientific Notation
The learning resource investigates scientific notation. It provides a table with numbers written numerically, in words, and in scientific notation.
Concord Consortium
The Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench Zoom It
See examples of scales based on a range from ten to the twelfth meters to ten to the negative twelth meters. Examples range from parts of our solar system to the nucleus of an atom.