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Math Simulation: Cost of Car Ownership

For Students 5th - 7th
For this math simulation worksheet, students will use a transportation price list to complete 2 summaries of the cost of car ownership. Then students will draw a picture of their car.
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Family Profile Record Sheet

For Students 6th - 7th
In this math worksheet, students learn real world math applications for budgeting expenses in a simulated family. Students make a family profile with profession choice and monthly income. Students then fill out detailed budgets which...
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Book Club Order

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students complete a simulated book order form for their class. For this book club lesson, students budget and plan an order form for their fellow students, discussing why they chose specific books.
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Simulated Road Trip

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students read the book, DEAR MR. HENSHAW. They implement problem solving strategies and cooperative learning to complete a simulated road trip. Students will use the Internet as a guide to help them complete the road trip.
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Sonar Simulation

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students compare and contrast side-scan sonar to other methods used to find objects underwater. In this underwater search lesson, students describe side-scan sonar and make inferences about the topography of an unknown landscape. This...
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Calculating Your Foodometer

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore environmental issues by completing a food production class activity. For this carbon footprint lesson, students discuss the types of foods they eat, where they come from and what types of methods are used to transport...
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Blubber Gloves

For Teachers 5th
The ways that animals adapt to their environments is quite remarkable. In this life science lesson plan, fifth graders take a look at some of the ways that aquatic animals that live in Arctic or Antarctic waters survive. They perform an...
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The Geometry of Real Images

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this math worksheet, students read the examples for using the techniques of mathematical modeling. They draw the angles in order to simulate the reflection of light while using a concave mirror.
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Size Riddles

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students investigate shapes and sizes by creating a riddle.  In this geometry instructional activity, students read one of two books and investigate facts about an object's size.  Students write a riddle using the facts they have read...
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Mixing Mixed Numbers Art/Creating Fractions

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore number values by participating in class math activities. In this fractions lesson, 3rd graders collaborate with classmates to discuss the technique of adding mix numbers while utilizing paper plates to help...
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Flight Dreams - Flight Factors

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Young scholars investigate the physics of flight by experimenting in class.  In this history of flight lesson, students define terms such as gravity, lift, and drag in order to better understand how a plane is able to stay in the air....
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Archaeology: Digging in the Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore how an archaeologist works and makes discoveries. In this archaeology lesson, students participate in a simulation in which they excavate broken pottery. Students use measurement, geometry, and observation skills during...
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Social Justice-Water in Developing Countries

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore how water shortage affects everyday life. In this social justice activity, students discuss information about water shortage in Ghana. A water shortage simulation/game is played in which a "Canadian" team starts with a...
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Theoretical Quantum Physics... For Kids!

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students explore quantum physics by participating in several class activities. In this space-time lesson, students discuss the concepts of time traveling and the anatomy of an atom. Students draw geometric figures and utilize string to...
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Inventions

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Use this lesson plan to discuss inventions that have changed your class's world and have impacted society. Middle schoolers investigate important inventions of their time and design an invention in a simulated business atmosphere. Modify...
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Time and Cycles - Dendrochronology

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the lives of trees by examining ring cycles.  In this plant life lesson, students identify the field of study known as dendrochronology and discover its history.  Students investigate a simulated tree ring and...
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Technology Lesson Activity: Fractions

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders practice using the English measuring system by creating fractions.  In this parts of a whole lesson, 5th graders combine math key bars to simulate small parts of a bigger item.  Students combine the pieces to create...
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Payment Parliament

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate how the economy works by role playing in their class.  In this money management lesson, students read parts from a script for use in a role playing lesson simulating the Federal Reserve and their payment processing....
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Modeling Oil and Gas Reservoirs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate energy by researching how oil reservoirs work. In this fossil fuels lesson, students conduct an experiment using a half full bottle of water, corn oil and oxygen, recording their data as the elements are mixed...
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Curiosity Shop

For Teachers 1st
First graders simulate shopping for needs and wants. In this money lesson, 1st graders examine Norman Rockwell's painting "Curiosity Shop." Students role-play shopping in a store and making purchases.
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Gravity - The Glue of the Universe

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Young scholars explore physics by conducting a class experiment. In this gravitational force lesson, students define several scientific terms associated with force. Young scholars utilize a styrofoam cup and marbles to simulate a...
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Cactus Wheel

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore plant biology by conducting field experiments outside of class. In this desert plant lesson plan, students discuss how cacti thrive in such dry climates and how dense their populations are. Students utilize action cards,...
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Fair Shares and Geometric Spirals

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students tackle the problem of how to divide a triangular piece of land fairly among four people. They decide whether their method of fair division always works or if it only works in special cases.
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Energy Conservation Lesson 1: Fossil Fuels and the Ticking Clock

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Pupils explore energy production by participating in a class discussion. In this renewable energy lesson plan, students discuss the differences between solar, coal, wind and fossil fuel energy sources and why some are better for the...

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