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Measuring Soil Temperatures at South Penquite Farm
Students investigate soil temperatures. In this graphing and earth science instructional activity, students insert temperature probes into different types of soil at varying depths. Students complete a data chart and construct a related...
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Food Labels
Students study Nutrition Facts labels. In this life science lesson plan, students explore Nutrition Facts labels, then determine and analyze the nutrients found in a variety of foods. Additionally students construct bug boxes used to...
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Pascal's Theorem
In this Pascal's Theorem worksheet, students prove 1 theorem. Students use GeoGebra to construct lines given three points and prove Pascal's Theorem.
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Take Home Question – Chapter 4
In this graphing linear equations instructional activity, high schoolers solve 8 short answer and graphing problems. Students graph linear equations, find their points of intersection, find the slope of each line, identify the...
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Geometry Take Home Question
In this triangles, parallelograms, and kites worksheet, students solve 4 short answer problems. Students find the area of the given triangle. Students construct parallelograms and kites by cutting out and manipulating the given triangles.
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The Konigsberg Bridge Problem
In this Konigsberg Bridge problem instructional activity, students solve 35 short answer problems. Students construct networks consisting of even and odd vertices. Students make conjectures about the number of odd and even vertices on a...
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Number and Operations: Webbing Our Way Through Numbers
Second graders explore estimation and place value. For this place value lesson, 2nd graders estimate and construct numbers while working with spider activities. Students use addition and subtraction to compare estimates. Resources and...
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Natural Forces
Learners assess the damage natural forces have caused Maryland's geographic features. For this state geography and ecology lesson, students work in a group to research ways in which weathering, erosion, and deposition have affected the...
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Creating Graphs
This graphing PowerPoint demonstrates how to use graphs to gather information. The slides contain examples of graphs and display the data clearly. This presentation also gives clear directions on how to construct various graphs by using...
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Pyramid in The Desert
Students investigate the Sierpinski triangle and calculate the ratio and area of the triangle. In this fractals instructional activity, students calculate parts of a Sierpincki triangle. They use Google Earth to help them construct the...
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Graphing Pasta
Students sort and graph various types of pasta. Using pasta construction paper patterns or real pasta, they sort the pasta by color, size, and type, and record the data on a graph.
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Reflections in the Plane
Have your class explore the concept of reflections as they use Cabri Jr. to construct a triangle and reflect it over a line. Learners reflect shapes across the coordinate plane and across the lines y = x and y = -x.
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Polygons
In this polygon activity, students identify similar polygons and corresponding sides. They use a compass and ruler to construct polygons, determine the sum of the angles in a given polygon. There are 4 multi-step problems in this...
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Using a Rectangle to Make Shapes
In his making shapes and describing their features instructional activity, students use rectangles to make a hexagon and an octagon. In this drawing instructional activity, students construct a minimum of two patterns.
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Make Shapes and Describe Their Features
In this shapes and their features learning exercise, students construct triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and heptagons using four designated shapes. In this problem solving learning exercise, students create as many of the...
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Making Number Stories
In this making word stories worksheet, students use addition problems to create word problems. In this short answer worksheet, students construct two word problems.
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The Effects of Sunspots on Climate
In this sunspots and climate change learning exercise, learners use a diagram of a tree stump and its rings to determine the age of the tree. They use sunspot data from the internet and they construct an Excel spreadsheet to compare the...
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Fly Me to the Moon!
In this Moon travel worksheet, students construct a simple rocket trajectory called the Hohmann Transfer orbit using a compass, string, paper and a pencil. Students solve 2 problems which include finding the number of hours it takes to...
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Maximum Power Point
Students investigate energy using a photovoltaic cell. In this electricity lesson, students collect data from current-voltage and power-voltage curves to determine if photovoltaic systems have an advantage over conventional electric...
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Angles
Students measure angles using a protractor. In this geometry instructional activity, students solve for the missing angles using equations set to the theorem of triangles. They measure missing angles through construction and identify...
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Graphing and Analyzing Biome Data
Students explore biome data. In this world geography and weather data analysis lesson, students record data about weather conditions in North Carolina, Las Vegas, and Brazil. Students convert Fahrenheit degrees to Celsius degrees and use...
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Polyhedra
Students analyze convex polyhedra through hands on methods. In this geometrical shapes lesson, students construct paper models of convex polyhedra and identify the different properties including the number of sides, faces and edges.
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Use Order of Operations to Evaluate Expressions—No Grouping Symbols
Students identify and explain different types of data collection and graphs. In this graphs and data collection instructional activity, students record their observations of a variety of data collection tools and graphs displayed in the...
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A Geometric Scavenger Hunt
Fifth graders connect their knowledge of polygons and polyhedrons. For this geometric shapes lesson, 5th graders identify and classify two- and three-dimensional objects. Students construct a polyhedron out of polygons and describe their...