Bowland
Highway Link Design
Discover a renewed appreciation for the highway transportation department. with a lesson that has scholars design a highway route that meets certain conditions, including traffic flow, curves, speed limits, financial costs, and...
National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network
Silver Nanoparticle Synthesis and Spectroscopy
Certain materials do not always maintain the same physical properties when they exist in the nanoscale. Help your classes to explore this idea through an experimental lesson. Scholars use spectroscopy with samples of silver solution...
National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network
What’s In Your Neighborhood?
Chart your way to an understanding of nanoscale. Using a Google map, learners estimate a radius around their location of 1,000 and 1,000,000 meters. Predicting what 1,000,000,000 meters would look like takes them off the charts!...
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Water Down the Drain
Did you know that leaky faucets waste $10 million worth of water? Conservationists perform an experiment and draw best-fit lines to explore how the US Geological Society determined this value.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Family Time: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 5)
Support English language development with a family-themed unit consisting of a series of lessons designed to get your scholars moving, looking, speaking, writing, and listening. Conversation topics...
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Metric and Customary Units of Length 2
In this math worksheet, students practice the skill of converting measurements. The answers are found through using the right conversion formula.
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Volumw Measurement, English System
Eighth graders biew each volume container and discuss where they have seen them in their home, and how they have seen them used. They explore the different names of volume sizes and their equivalents towards one another. Students...
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Integrated Algebra Practice
In this Algebra I worksheet, 9th graders solve problems involving conversions within measurement systems. The one page worksheet contains a combination of thirteen multiple choice and free response questions. Solutions are...
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Standard Metric Units-Length
For this metric conversion worksheet, learners convert smaller units of length to a greater unit of length. There are nine questions to complete with available space to show work.
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Metric Conversions
Students translate a mathematical idea from one form to another. They compare and convert a given measurement to another unit within the same measurement system.
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Metric Conversions
Students practice the fundamentals of converting metric measurements. They translate a mathematical idea from one form to another and compare and convert a given measurement to another unit within the same measurement system. Students...
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Dimensional Analysis
In this mathematics instructional activity, students apply dimensional analysis to solving each problem. They identify the conversion factor and describe a unique characteristic of a conversion factor. Students also identify the unit in...
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Metric Volume Conversions (B)
In this metric conversion worksheet, 4th graders convert each measurement from liters to milliliters or from milliliters to liters as indicated by the abbreviations in each problem.
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The Smallest Metric Measurements
In this metric measurement worksheet, students solve 15 problems in which three metric measurements in a series are analyzed. Students circle the smallest metric measurement in each problem.
Illustrative Mathematics
Making Cookies
Hooray for chocolate chip cookies! Ask your mathematicians to triple a chocolate chip cookie recipe and then reduce the recipe by one-fourth. Your class may need two days to complete, tripling the recipe the first day and reducing the...
CCSS Math Activities
Smarter Balanced Sample Items: 6th Grade Math – Claim 2
They claim there are problems on the assessment. The presentation provides 13 questions that demonstrate the problem-solving claim for Smarter Balanced assessments. Teachers use the resource to provide examples of problem-solving...
Balanced Assessment
Confetti Crush
In the first part of a middle school assessment task, learners analyze a given statement about the amount of confetti revelers throw at Times Square on New Year's Eve. The second part of the task requires learners to identify objects...
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Calculations
In this calculations learning exercise, students express numbers in scientific notation and determine the number of significant figures. Students find conversion factors to change units. This learning exercise has 8 word problems.
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Metric Measurements
Sixth graders convert metric units of measurement. Classmates observe the use of a mnemonic for conversions. In groups, 6th graders practice converting metric units. They use a chart to describe how to convert between metric units of...
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Exploring Customary and Metric Systems
Students investigate and measure using the metric and customary units. In this math lesson, students investigate which method is used most worldwide, the metric or the customary. They convert from unit to the other.
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The Way Science Works
In this science experiments and measurements instructional activity, students answer 6 questions about experimenting, SI units, and conversions. They convert 6 measurements from one metric unit to another.
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Metric Units of Mass and Capacity
In this metric measure worksheet, students solve 6 conversions, 3 comparisons and answer 5 questions about the best unit of measure for given items. Houghton Mifflin text is referenced.
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Distance in Space
Sixth graders explore space science by measuring distances between planets. In this solar system lesson, 6th graders view a Bill Nye video and discover the conversion between the metric system and imperial measuring systems. Students...
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24 Hour to 12 Hour Clock Conversion
In this time conversion instructional activity, students convert times in a 24 hour clock format to times using 12 hour clock convention. Worksheet includes link to answers and additional worksheets.