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Managing Nutrients in Livestock Manure

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Livestock managers reinforce math and science skills while learning about the nutrients found in manure. They predict which animal produces the largest amount and which animal's manure contains the most nitrogen. Finally, they compare...
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The Ie Storm 1998: Maps and facts activity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the St. Lawrence River Valley, ice Storm of 1998.  For this middle school mathematics lesson, students interpret ice storm data from tables and maps.  Students write about their own experiences of the ice...
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Living in Base Ten

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore scientific notation and the structure of the metric system.  In this middle school mathematics lesson, students read How Much is a Million? by David M. Schwartz to introduce students to the need for scientific...
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Math and Money

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore financial literacy.  In this middle school mathematics lesson plan, students investigate income, taxes, and costs of living.  Students investigate banking and use straightforward computation to learn about...
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Chart This!

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students collect and analyze data.  In this middle school mathematics lesson, students collect data on three to four traits or favorites.  Students analyze their data and create a chart of graph for each trait or favorite they...
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Currency Exchange

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the currency exchange rate.  For this middle school mathematics lesson, student use proportions to exchange between the U.S. dollar and the euro.  Students come up with a product they would like to buy and...
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Pythagorean Theorem

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore the history of Pythagoras and his contributions to mathematics. In this middle school geometry instructional activity, students use one inch tiles to investigate the Pythagorean Theorem and to find the length of the...
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Estimating Distances

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate distance measurement.  For this middle school mathematics lesson, students find the average length of their pace and use their pace to measure various unknown distances in feet and miles.  Students relate...
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Australian Currency

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students investigate currency and exchange rates.  In the middle school mathematics lesson, students use ratio and proportion to convert from Australian currency to the U.S. dollar and vice verse.  Students create their own...
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Currency

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students investigate currency and exchange rates.  In the middle school mathematics lesson, students use ratio and proportion to convert from one type of currency to another.  Students solve problems involving currency exchange.
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Budgeting and Travel

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students plan a trip to the Olympics.  In this middle school mathematics lesson plan, students are given a worksheet describing the cost of necessities for their trip.  Students are given a balance and must purchase airline...
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Census Statistics and Graphing

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students graphically represent data from the Census.  In this middle school mathematics lesson, students investigate the housing characteristics of different tribes of Native Americans and compare them to the average American...
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Recipes and Ratios

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Young scholars use ratio and proportions to adjust recipe size.  In this middle school mathematics lesson, students investigate Native American food and adjust the recipe size for said foods to the number of servings needed to feed...
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4 Step Approach to Problem Solving

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore problem solving.  In this middle school mathematics instructional activity, students investigate the four-step approach to problem solving.  Students solve word problems by employing the four-step process and...
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Guess and Test/Make a Table

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore problem solving strategies.  In this middle school mathematics lesson plan, students investigate the guess and test and make a table problem solving strategies.  Students work in pairs to apply the problem...
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Ratio and Proportion

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students investigate ratio and proportion.  In this middle school mathematics lesson, students write ratios and find equal ratios.  Students use ratio and proportion to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy body proportions.
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Compare and Contrast Zoo Animals

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore similarities and differences between zoo animals through research on the Internet in this lesson for the middle school Science or Language Arts classroom. The lesson emphasizes the use of a T-chart or Venn Diagram.
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The Roman Empire

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use the internet to research a list of people, places and events from the Roman Empire (753 BC to 476 AD) in this lesson intended for a Social Studies classroom at the middle school level. The lesson suggests using...
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Building Perspectives App

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Learners explore a perspective application of the TI-73. In this middle school mathematics instructional activity, middle schoolers view the front, back, right, and left views of a city to determine the height of each building in a city...
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Why use the Pythagorean Theorem?

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore the Pythagorean Theorem.  In this middle school geometry lesson, 8th graders solve problems using the Pythagorean Theorem as they explore the definition of a theorem and attempt to determine the formula for...
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Middle Passage: a Journey of Endurance

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students determine that thriving African cultures engaged in international trade and exploration before the emergence of European civilization. The study ancient Ghana, its geographic locale, the diversity therein to include its people,...
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Life size figures - Moveable Murals

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create life-size human figures and decorate them in a collage style with torn colored pieces of pictures from magazines. They display them around the school, creating life-size murals.
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What About Fighting?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
What are the positive and negative consequences of violence? Elementary and middle schoolers discuss how some see violence as the answer to resolving conflicts. They identify the positive and negative aspects to using violence, and ask...
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Refining the Why? Turning Student Questions into Research

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Middle schoolers have years of experience when it comes to how their bodies work. Surely they have some questions as well. Here is an opportunity for them to practice the scientific method in an attempt to answer some of those questions....

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