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PBS

Atlantean Dodgeball

For Students 6th - 7th Standards
Which team has the advantage? An imaginary story about a game of dodgeball in the lost city of Atlantis demonstrates the ways to compare two quantities. One coach compares the ratios of the numbers of players on each team while the other...
Assessment
Mathed Up!

Loci and Constructions

For Students 8th - 11th Standards
A General Certificate of Secondary Education math review has class members make basic constructions. Using a protractor and a ruler along with a compass, pupils develop drawings of triangles with given measurements. Scholars use their...
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National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network

Big vs. Little - Macro to Micro Lesson 4

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Make a big deal out of things the class can't see. Young scientists get an introduction to nanoscience in the fourth installment of a five-part series on scale. The instructional activity discusses current innovations in nanotechnology...
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Nemours KidsHealth

Obesity: Grades 6-8

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Screen time and fast foods, sugary drinks and greasy fries have lead to one-third of tween and teens being overweight or obese. As part of the Health Problems Series scholars analyze the nutritional value of the school food services menu...
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EngageNY

Computing Actual Lengths from a Scale Drawing

For Teachers 7th Standards
Class members take scale drawings and examine scales to determine distances in the actual objects. Pupils convert the scales of different units to scale factors that can be used in proportional equations.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Running Around a Track II

For Teachers 9th - 11th Standards
On your mark, get set, GO! The class sprints toward the conclusions in a race analysis activity. The staggered start of the 400-m foot race is taken apart in detail, and then learners step back and develop some overall race strategy...
Performance
Radford University

Box-and-Whisker Activity

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Think inside the box. Working in small groups, pupils design a study to answer comparing two data sets. Team members collect data and construct box-and-whisker plots and analyze them to prove or disprove their hypothesis. They develop...
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Museum of Science

Terrarium

For Students 1st - 6th
Make a premium terrarium. Learners create a miniature terrarium to study ecosystems. They use a clear container, along with rocks, soil, moss, leaves, woodland plants, earthworms, and bugs to construct their terrariums.
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PBS

Investigating Daily and Seasonal Weather

For Students 3rd - 5th
Talking about weather isn't just for making conversation. Young scientists gather evidence from an interactive activity to make connections between daily and seasonal weather. They analyze data from different areas and compare the...
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Cool Craniums

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Rise to the head of the class. Using mammal skulls, groups of pupils identify aspects of them. The teams make predictions on the classification of mammal the skull belongs to based upon the observations.
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Virginia Department of Education

Evidence of Evolution

For Teachers 9th - 12th
What an impression fossils make! In this activity, aspiring paleontologists view fossils and construct a timeline to further understand how the lack of natural adaptation caused historical organisms to become extinct. While they...
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Teach Engineering

Forms of Linear Equations

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Linear equations are all about form. The fifth part in a unit of nine works with the different equivalent forms of linear equations. Class members become familiar with each form by identifying key aspects, graphing, and converting...
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EngageNY

Law of Sines

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Prove the Law of Sines two ways. The ninth segment in a series of 16 introduces the Law of Sines to help the class find lengths of sides in oblique triangles. Pupils develop a proof of the Law of Sines by drawing an altitude and a second...
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EngageNY

Geometric Interpretations of the Solutions of a Linear System

For Teachers 8th Standards
An intersection is more than just the point where lines intersect; explain this and the meaning of the intersection to your class. The 26th segment in a 33-part series uses graphing to solve systems of equations. Pupils graph linear...
Activity
Under the Dome

Sphero Draw and Drive

For Students 7th Standards
Determine how far the ball rolled. The class watches a video of a person controlling a sphere rolling on the floor. Pupils develop some questions about the video and make estimates to the solutions of the questions. The teacher provides...
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Flipped Math

Angle Pairs

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Complement the class by identifying pairs of angles. With a vocabulary lesson, pupils learn the names and definitions of special angle pairs including adjacent, vertical, complementary, supplementary, and linear pairs. Using the...
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National Wildlife Federation

What's Your Habitat?

For Teachers K - 8th
How do human habitats compare to animal habitats? Individuals begin their nature discovery by drawing their own habitats that extend beyond their houses. Pupils ensure their drawings include the four habitat elements of food, water,...
Assessment2:53
Mathed Up!

Best Buys

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Which scenario is the better deal? Class members examine nine scenarios to determine which choice offers a better deal. Pupils decide whether they need to find unit costs or total prices to compare the two options.
Assessment9:45
Mathed Up!

Angles in Polygons

For Students 8th - 10th Standards
Show your class that finding angle measures is a regular calculation with a resource that provides 12 problems dealing with the measures of angles in regular polygons. Pupils use formulas for the sum of measures of angles in a polygon to...
Assessment
Illustrative Mathematics

Temperature in Degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Scholars develop the conversion formulas between Fahrenheit and Celsius with a task that presents the class with two known temperature equivalents between the two scales. Pupils use those two points to develop the linear conversion...
Assessment9:05
Mathed Up!

Enlargements

For Students 8th - 11th Standards
Make enlargements with and without centers. Pupils work through seven problems dealing with dilations or enlargements. The first couple items are strict enlargements without centers, while the others have centers. Class members also...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Can You Solve the Mystery of the Variable?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Solving a murder is like isolating a variable. Using a video on a murder mystery, the narrator introduces the idea of solving a literal equation for one variable. After solving several equations, the class comes up with a set of...
Assessment
Mathed Up!

Trial and Improvement

For Students 8th - 11th Standards
Try to find an estimate when the exact answer is not clear. Using the General Certificate of Secondary Education Math review resource, pupils learn how to find an estimate to a cubic equation. Class members use the trial-and-improvement...
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Pace University

Grades 7-8 Independent and Dependent Variables

For Teachers 7th - 8th Standards
It all depends upon the independence. The differentiated instruction lesson introduces learners to independent and dependent variables. Using real-world situations, scholars gain a conceptual understanding of the difference between the...