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Problem-Solving Application: Use Formulas: Practice

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this formula worksheet, students use formulas to solve 5 word problems, showing their work. Houghton Mifflin text is referenced.
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Understanding Cloud Formation

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students view a demonstration that simulates cloud formation. They read a poem about clouds, participate in a class demonstration using warm water and ice and write a paragraph summarizing their observations.
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Exploring Indiana's Natural Resources

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders complete a variety of activities as they study the European exploration of the Midwest, focusing on Indiana. They map the path explorers took, comparing the British with the French. They research why the explorers stopped...
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Tally Time

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Students create a tally chart. In this math and health lesson, students discuss healthy foods and create a tally chart showing the number of students who like to eat healthy foods.
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Plastic Packaging

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students collect data. In this math lesson, students collect data about recyclable materials. Students develop a plan that will help the environment. Recycling plastic containers is discussed.
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Too Many Tamales

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students investigate Mexican holiday celebrations and compare them to American Christmas holidays. They conduct a Mexican Christmas Scavenger Hunt. The lesson uses a streaming video in order to engage students in the main objectives.
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The Grouchy Ladybug

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young scholars complete a Cirlce Map about time. They recall times during the grouchy ladybugs travels, and add dots on ladybugs using turn-around facts. Pupils correctly sequence the events of The Grouchy Ladybug. Students compose new...
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Space: Stars and Planets

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students observe and report that the moon can be seen sometimes at night and sometimes during the day. They describe how changes to a model can help predict how the real thing can be altered. Students explain the essential fact of the...
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Problem Solving - Use a Formula 21.7

For Students 4th - 5th
In this formula worksheet, students complete a graphic organizer, answering the questions relating to: understand, plan, solve, look back. Students solve 2 problems. Houghton Mifflin test is referenced.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Floor Plan

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
A multi-step problem has learners finding the actual area based on a scale drawing and then converting units at the end. Two different solution choices are listed depending on the preference on which step to start first. Both methods can...
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Vincent VanDuca

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create art with the Manduca by placing gel on their body and letting them walk over colored paper. They discover what their footprints and movements are like. They create a piece of art by using the Manduca markings.
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Building a Telescope

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students construct a simple refracting telescope. They calculate the magnification.
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Compare and Order Fractions and Decimals

For Students 6th
For this compare and order fractions and decimals practice worksheet, 6th graders sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems.
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Volume

For Students 4th - 7th
In this finding volume practice worksheet, learners sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve six story problems.
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Folding Circles

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Students investigate properties of circles. For this geometry lesson, students differentiate between similarity and congruence as they observe polygons. They investigate properties of two and three dimensional shape.
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Pumpkin Problems

For Teachers K - 4th
Students participate in a instructional activity that has the intention of working on estimation skills. They use pumpkins to estimate the number of seeds are inside. They collect data for each pumpkin and compare it to the estimation....
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Phylum mollusca

For Teachers 9th
This is an organized presentation that lists characteristics and features of their general body features. Mollusc is spelt with both a 'c' and a 'k' in various stages of this Powerpoint so an explanation by the teacher of Scientific...
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Sports Helmets and Impact Testing of Polymers

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students examine the importance of good quality safety gear. In this investigative lesson, students will tests various polymers, collect data, and analyze the data to determine which polymer is best for safety helmets. They will design a...
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Exploring Area and Perimeter

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Two students are blindfolded and each receives a cardboard square, one with pompoms glued around the edge and one with pompoms glued all over the surface. They identify what they feel. The class discusses perimeter and area of polygons....
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Map Adventures

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore the relationship between a scale drawing and actual distance. In this mapping instructional activity, students use an amusement park map to determine distances and what they would be like in real life.
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Pythagorean Theorem and Triangles

For Students 11th
In this geometry worksheet, 11th graders solve problems with right triangles using the Pythagorean Theorem. They find the missing angle or missing side. There are 15 questions with an answer key.
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Effects of Friction on a Moving Block

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate how friction affects the movement of a block across surface areas. They test five different kinds of surfaces—smooth surface, wax paper, a paper towel, course, and fine sandpaper. They predict and record the results...
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Soda Straw Weaving

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students investigate the loom and weaving process. For this weaving lesson, students use soda straws to make a bracelet or a bookmark. Students use the over-under pattern of weaving.
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Angular Size and Similar Triangles

For Students 8th - 10th
In this angular size and similar triangles worksheet, students use the properties of similar triangles and the ratios of sides to solve for unknowns in given diagrams.