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Area, Perimeter Word Puzzle
Students measure planes and solids. In this geometry lesson, students find the area and perimeter of different polygons.They complete a word puzzle to review their vocabulary words.
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Getting Started With Rhino
Students draw and print two-dimensional objects, by accessing commands and short cuts and options. They customize their modeling environment, create basic graphic objects - lines, circles, arcs, curves, solids, and surfaces, and draw...
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Worksheet 22 - Spring 1996
students examine the potential of creating the involute for a circle. They use the concept to create new parametric equations. They graph the picture for each.
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Centimeters and Meters
In this metric measurement learning exercise, students solve 4 story problems in which lengths are estimated. Students circle the better estimate from two choices and draw a picture to explain.
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Globe Lesson- The Revolutionary War
Pupils discover using globes. In this geography lesson, students use a globe to outline the original 13 colonies. Pupils also use a globe to measure the distance from London to New York City and determine how many days it would have...
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Seven Sets of Area Problems
In this area worksheet, students solve for the area of rectangles, parallelograms, triangles, trapezoids, kites, regular polygons, circles, and surface area. The worksheets is divided into seven different sets of problems.
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Surface Area with Polydrons
Students explore measurements by analyzing geometric shapes. In this surface area lesson, students identify the terms volume, weight, perimeter and area in order to find the requested measurements of specific polygons. Students utilize...
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Dream Bedroom Floor Plan
Students construct using Cabri software. In this geometry lesson, students convert between units and apply the correct measurements to build objects. They create the room virtually and manipulate the shapes to the desired measurements.
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Cooking a Few of my Favorite Things
Second graders publish a class cookbook of their own recipes. They explore the nutritional value of foods, calculate the measurements, and prepare a healthy recipe for the class.
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Angles
In this math learning exercise, middle schoolers measure a series of angles. Then they measure the angles in the triangles and determine the sum of the angles.
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Putting the 'pi' in Pumpkin Pie
Students use geometric formulas to divide a pumpkin pie. In this geometric formulas lesson plan, students review equations for area and circumference of a circle and divide a pumpkin pie to practice the formulas. Students use the...
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Estimation and Approximation
For this estimation and approximation worksheet, learners estimate multiplication and division problems containing decimals. They measure given objects, determine the possible error, the lower bound and the upper bound. Students gather...
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Toilet Plunger Sundial
Students build a sundial to measure the local noon time. In this third grade science lesson plan, students build a sundial out of common materials and align to measure the local noon. This lesson plan is a hands-on tracking of the sun,...
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Mini-Metric Olympics
Eighth graders participate in the mini-metric Olympics. In this measurement lesson, 8th graders solve real-world problems that require them to calculate length, area, and volume in metric units.
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Orbital Motion
Students use a formula to measure the eccentricity of an ellipse, then state Kepler's Law of Elliptical Orbits. They predict the solar energy received at different positions in a planet's orbit.
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Red Shift, Blue Shift
Pupils demonstrate how stellar spectra measures a star's motion relative to Earth along the line of sight.
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Tall Trees- Describing Trees
For this tall trees description worksheet, students choose a tree and write down words that describe that tree. They circle the words from a list that also describe the tree. They close their eyes, touch the bark, and describe it. They...
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Cups, Pints, Quarts and Gallons
In this measurement worksheet, students circle greater amounts, and write numbers that make sentences true. Houghton Mifflin text is referenced.
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Hover Above the Earth
Fourth graders build a balloon hovercraft, take direct measurements, answer critical questions, and make calculations using the data gathered in order to see the concept of acceleration as a change in velocity. They use a worksheet...
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Paper Parachutes
Students participate in a simulation of a parachute-jump competition by making paper parachutes and then dropping them towards a target on the floor. They measure the distance from the point where the paper parachute lands compared to...
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Area of Composite Figure.
Tenth graders predict the shape of a geometric figure in 3D. In this geometry lesson, 10th graders construct 3D shapes to perfect their knowledge of measuring and predicting. This assignment is also available as an online interactive...
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Student Heights
Students measure the heights of their fellow classmates and create a box and whisker plot to display the data. In this measurement lesson plan, students analyze the data and record results.
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Technology Lesson Activity: Fractions
Fifth graders practice using the English measuring system by creating fractions. In this parts of a whole lesson plan, 5th graders combine math key bars to simulate small parts of a bigger item. Students combine the pieces to create...
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Electric Field Mapping in 3D
Students create a 3D vector field map of an electric field. In this physics lesson, students measure the voltage inside an aquarium with water. They present their findings and map to class..