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Extension Activity Building a Healthy Classroom Community
Workout buddies aren't just for adults! Learners discuss the benefits of 60 minutes of physical activity each day and generate ideas for how they can accomplish this by working toward a goal with friends.
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No Foot, No Horse
Why do horses wear shoes? Why do people wear shoes? Using worksheets, which are embedded in the plan, learners write descriptive paragraphs about their own shoes, classify a pile of shoes, and also engage in math games about the variety...
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Real World Equations!
Help your math class "get the picture" in a quadratic equation lesson that integrates digital photography. Individuals take pictures to help them model the shape of an item or situation using algebraic equations. They discover how to...
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Circles 1, 2, 3, 4
Here is a way to help your charges identify circles and spheres. In this shapes geometry and technology lesson plan, students identify and draw circles and explain the related attributes. They recognize circles and spheres while...
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China's Population Growth
Learners collect data from China's population growth and determine the mean, median, and mode from the data. In this data lesson plan, pupils determine probabilities and use them to make predictions.
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Frequency Distributions
In this statistics worksheet, students solve 5 frequency problems. In four of the problems, the frequency table is provided and students construct one relative frequency table, one cumulative frequency table, and two cumulative relative...
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Height versus Shoe Size
Students find a correlation between a person's height and his/her shoe size. They have access to entering data into lists on a graphing calculator and can complete scatter plots. Students read and interpret a scatter plot and use the...
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Sports Lesson Plan
Have your class participate in a variety of sports and craft activities using this resource. With sports as the theme, learners work on art projects. Students create soccer ball prints, a three dimensional football, and a sports collage.
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Eat Smart Be Smart
Get children's blood pumping with this primary grade lesson on the human heart. After learning about the important role this muscle plays in the human body, students monitor their heart rates and discover the importance of...
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Swish: Applying Statistics to Real Life
Sixth graders conduct on-line research of shot data and percentages for professional basketball players. They compare computed data to researched data and write a letter informing professional organizations of their findings.
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Courts and Bounds
Students relate what they know about boundaries on sports courts to explore range of space. In this domain and range lesson, students identify numbers needed to calculate ranges and use the problem solving strategy of making a table.
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Dribbling Math Challenge
Students practice foot dribbling and hand dribbling with control. In addition it helps to reinforce math concepts.
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Surveying During a Basketball Game
Tenth graders conduct a survey at a high school basketball game. They compile and present the data as histograms or bar graphs.
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Basketball And Mathematics
Eighth graders collect and analyze data about foul shots taken at basketball games.
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Computing Mean, Mode and Median
Ninth graders collect data on basketball player's heights and determine the mean, median, and mode for the data.
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Dribbling Math
Young scholars practice adding, subtracting and multiplying numbers while working on dribbling skills. They play the role of munchers and dribblers while adding, subtracting and multiplying numbers from a deck of cards.
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The Basketball Tournament
Students estimate how many games are played if six teams play each other once. They investigate their own way and discuss possible strategies they might use. They then share their findings with the class.
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Scale Basketball
Students discuss scale diagrams and maps as well as the use of spreadsheets to find the best scale to use in a model before practicing scale and ratio problems on their own.
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Motion Capture and Analysis
High schoolers capture the serve motion of a tennis player with a digital or video camera. Using transparencies or a software package, analyze the speed, acceleration, displacement and time of the racquet head and ball in the tennis stroke.
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Linear Equations in Two Variables
Create tables of solutions of linear equations. A instructional activity has pupils determine solutions for two-variable equations using tables. The class members graph the points on a coordinate graph.
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Tarantula Shoes
High schoolers read a book about Ryan O'Keefe, a young man who wants a pair of basketball shoes promoted by a basketball star. They explore about spending, saving, opportunity cost, and trade-offs as they study Ryan's decisions...
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Percentages in Word Problems
Eighth graders, after brainstorming all the places they see percentages in every day life (sales, basketball, grades, etc.), calculate percentages from bases and parts in word problems. They review their notes together on percentage...
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Chances Are-Part 1
Learners are introduced to the idea of probability by discussing the likelihood of events occurring. Pupils describe events that are certain, impossible, likely, and unlikely to occur. They determine the likelihood of an event occurring...
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Figure This Out
Students measure different parts of the human body. In this measurement lesson, students work in pairs to take measurements of human measurements which include: arm span, height, foot length, and wrist to longest finger. They also...