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Religion and Politics: The Battle Over the Judiciary
Students analyze the relationship between religion an politics. In this Supreme Court lesson plan, students examine the results of the 2004 presidential election and explore how the results impacted George W. Bush and his Supreme Court...
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Walking Down Main Street: The Changing Times of a Railroad Town
Students explore the historic district via a scavenger hunt. In this community history lesson, students complete a scavenger hunt using historic postcards and clues as guides. Students create a timeline demonstrating changes of the area...
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Indirect Measurement with Similar Triangles
High schoolers use similar triangles to find missing heights. In this using similar triangles to find missing heights lesson, students use proportions to find the heights of missing side lengths. High schoolers find the...
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Special Triangles and Circles
Students investigate special triangles and circles. In this geometry activity, students construct a perpendicular bisector and discuss angles of a triangle. They find the angle bisectors, vetex and the types of circle constructed.
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A Fraction of the Possibilities
Students review the conversion of fractions to decimals, develop strategies to compare fractions perform complex calculations using ratio techniques similar to the construction of fractions.
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Faith-Based Initiatives: Separation of Church and State
Learners examine the role of religion in everyday life. In this religion and ethics lesson, students investigate the use of government funds to support faith-based initiatives. The lesson calls for learners to conduct research, watch...
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Coordinates
In this coordinates instructional activity, 6th graders solve ten multiple choice questions by using their knowledge of coordinates on a grid. This is an interactive instructional activity.
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Faith-Based Initiatives
Learners consider the effectiveness of faith-based initiatives. In this religion and ethics lesson, students research issues relative to the separation of church and state. Learners investigate the Bush faith-based initiative proposal...
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Pairs of Angles
In this geometry worksheet, 10th graders determine the measures of various angle pairs: supplementary, complementary, and vertical angles. The two page worksheet contains a combination of twelve multiple choice and free...
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Altitudes and Orthocenters: Making Connections to the Nine-Point Circle
Learners practice various equations for constructing nine-point circles for triangles.
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Graphing Systems of Equations
In this Algebra II activity, 11th graders use graphing to determine the solution to a system of linear equations. The two page activity contains explanation and three guided problems. Answers are not included.
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Drawing a Perspective Floor
Tenth graders investigate the three D world of building. In this geometry instructional activity, 10th graders investigate math as it relates to the real world, increasing their perspective on mathematical concepts. They realize there is...
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Properties of Special Parallelograms
Students identify properties of parallelograms. In this geometry lesson, students label polygons as parallelogram or not. They define and label the properties of a kite.
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Orthocenter Of a Triangle
Pupils find the orthocenter of a triangle. In this geometry instructional activity, students identify where the altitudes meet in a triangle. They use Cabri software to explore acute, obtuse and right triangles.
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Solve a System of Inequalities
In this system of linear inequalities worksheet, students solve 5 problems with the graphing method and are given 2 examples with multiple steps to follow.
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Word Problems
Students solve word problems using mathematical symbols. In this algebra instructional activity, students collect data and analyze it. They analyze the data using a table or graph after plotting the data.
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Corresponding Sides and Angles of Similar Triangles
Students differentiate between corresponding sides ad angles of two triangles. In this geometry instructional activity, students identify the differences as well as the similarities between two triangles. They differentiate between...
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Three-Dimensional Figures
Sixth graders explore three-dimensional objects. Using various objects found in the classroom, they identify faces, edges, and vertices of objects. Students create their own objects. They describe the polydron, telling the faces,...
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Connecting Translations, Reflections, and Rotations
Learners differentiate between translation, reflection and rotation. They explore the 3 types of transformation using Cabri Jr. and build on previous knowledge in this instructional activity.
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Snow Cover By Latitude
Students create graphs comparing the amount of snow cover along selected latitudes using data sets from a NASA website. They create a spreadsheet and a bar graph on the computer, and analyze the data.
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Solving Problems Involving Chords, Radii, Tangents, Secants and Arcs within the Same Circle
Tenth graders apply their knowledge of angles related to a circle, radii, secants, tangents and chords of a circle. They practice using formulas related to a circle. They also apply what has been practiced to real life situations.
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Classifying Figures on the Coordinate Plane
Fifth graders use estimation to solve word problems. In this fractions instructional activity, 5th graders decide whether or not an answer to a work problem is reasonable by applying their knowledge of fractions, decimals and estimation....
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Globe Skills Lesson 5
In this map skills worksheet, students read a text selection about locations during the American Revolution and then respond to 8 fill in the blank questions.
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Cycles of Life
Students begin their study of insect life cycles by listening to a read aloud of Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar. They learn the vocabulary of metamorphosis including egg, larva, pupa, chrysalis, and adult. They observe actual...