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Lockheed Martin: Making a Horizontal Sundial

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A website with directions on how to build a sundial for the Northern Hemisphere and information on how a sundial works. Includes three skill levels of construction.
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National Association of Geoscience Teachers

Nagt: Stratigraphy of Ponca State Park

For Teachers 6th - 8th
After a study of the principle of original horizontality and the law of superposition, and how to determine the ages of rock layers and how they are formed, students go on a field study to observe and gather information about rock...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Sine and Cosine

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This set of questions measures knowledge of amplitude, horizontal and vertical shift, and periods of sine and cosine graphs. Questions are multiple-choice and true/false; solutions are included.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Bf, a Sse Building a General Quadratic Function

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This task is a followup to the one called 'Building an explicit quadratic function.' For this one, students follow the same process with a general quadratic function. The operations take place in the opposite order and the goal is to...
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Nearpod: Rational Functions: Asymptotes & Graphing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will learn how to find holes, vertical asymptotes, and horizontal asymptotes graphically and algebraically.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Two Dimensional Motion and Conservation of Energy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this physics lab students look at conservation of energy to find the horizontal velocity of a sphere in order to predict where it will land.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Toothpicks and Transformations [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using calculators, students investigate quadratic functions using geometric toothpick designs in this lesson that with a review of transformations of quadratic functions, vertical and horizontal shifts, and stretches and shrinks.
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OER Commons

Oer Commons: Model Integer Addition

For Students 7th
In this OER Commons resource students will use the Hot Air Balloon interactive to model integer addition. They then move to modeling addition on horizontal number lines. They look for patterns in their work and their answers to...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Relative Dating of Geologic Materials

For Teachers 6th - 7th
A detailed set of exercises (downloadable) that guide students in developing an understanding of how scientists have created the geologic time scale.
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Internal Revenue Service

Irs: Income Tax Facts

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan will help students understand that taxation involves a compromise of conflicting goals and that people who have the same income may not pay the same amount in taxes.
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Internal Revenue Service

Irs: The Politics of Taxation Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan will help students understand that taxation involves a compromise of conflicting goals and that lobbyists can influence lawmakers' decisions about taxes.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Focused Observation: Recording Information Seen on a Hike

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students focus their observations during a nature hike by recording their observations on a sheet of paper which has been horizontally divided into thirds. Alongside the divisions is a stick figure with the top of the head touching the...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Gravity: Predicting Time to Hit the Ground

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will drop and shoot horizontally "Nerf" balls from a variety of known heights then record the amount of time it takes for the ball to hit the ground for each trial. They will plot height vs. time data and create a trend line for...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Gpe.5 Triangles Inscribed in Circle

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this task, students use ideas about linear functions to determine when certain angles are right angles. They use the fact that two lines (if not vertical or horizontal) are perpendicular when their slopes are inverse reciprocals, as...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Tracking Stocks and Distance on the Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 6th
Which stock price had the largest change? How do you know? What is the distance between (a, 5) and (a, -3)? Students continue tracking their investments and work on strategies for calculating length of horizontal and vertical lines.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Polynomial Subtraction

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will review the meaning of vocabulary relevant to subtracting polynomials such as opposites and the definition of subtract. They will be presented with examples of subtracting polynomials both vertically and horizontally. They...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating the Water Cycle "Snow Fun"

For Teachers K - 1st
In this teacher directed inquiry indoor lab students collect snow in a cup. They will estimate how much water will be in the cup after the snow melts. Students will then make predictions about what will happen to the cup of water. After...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F if Average Cost

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, students must calculate the average cost for a DVD recording for different numbers of DVDs and explain why the cost levels off as the number of DVDs goes up. Aligns with F-IF.B.4 and F-IF.B.5.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: The Absolute Value of Dance

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
In this lesson, students use a graph to choreograph a dance figure. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Connect With Coordinates

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Students will be involved in hands-on activities that will help them to learn to locate points on a grid. Students will also learn how to correctly read an ordered pair of numbers. Technology will be implemented through the use of a...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Connecting With Coordinates

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson will allow students to practice plotting points on a grid. Students will have an opportunity to play a coordinate game. This lesson is hands-on and allows for cooperative learning. This lesson plan was created as a result of...

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