Mathematics Assessment Project
Middle School Mathematics Test 5
A middle school test contains two 40-minute sections covering material through algebra. All questions involve applied problem solving or mathematical analysis.
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What's the Time? #2
Challenge your class's time-telling skills with fifteen analog clocks, all with blank faces. They write the hands in the correct places, all with times to the nearest five minutes. An easy way to extend this assignment would be a group...
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Telling Time
In this telling time worksheet, students solve a total of 9 problems drawing minute and hour hand to match digital times shown beneath clocks. A website reference for additional resources is given.
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Telling Time #5
In this telling time instructional activity, students draw minute and hour hands on clock faces to match digital times beneath each. A website reference for additional resources is given.
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Telling Time #6
In this telling time worksheet, students draw minute and hour hands on clocks to match digital times shown beneath. A website reference for additional resources is given.
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Telling Time #4
In this telling time worksheet, learners draw minute and hour hands on clocks that show the digital times written beneath. A website reference for additional resources is given.
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Telling Time #3
In this telling time worksheet, students draw minute and hour hands on clock faces to match digital times given beneath each. A website reference for additional resources is given.
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Telling Time #2
For this telling time worksheet, students draw minute and hour hands to show digital times shown beneath a set of clock faces. A website reference for additional resources is given.
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Telling Time #4
In this telling time worksheet, students draw minute and hour hands to match digital times given beneath clock faces. A website reference for additional resources is given.
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Telling Time #3
In this telling time worksheet, students draw minute and hour hands to match digital times beneath clock faces. A website reference for additional resources is given.
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Time and Timetables
In this time and timetables worksheet, students examine clock faces and tell the time. They draw pictures and indicate the time on a clock. This 22-page worksheet contains approximately 100 problems. Answers are provided at the end of...
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Clocks and Time
Second graders observe and demonstrate how to tell and write time. They discuss different ways and things that tell time, then listen to a teacher-led lecture about the hands on a clock. Students complete a worksheet along with the...
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How About a Classroom Epidemic?
Have individuals wash their hands with soap and water, give one of them a yeast-covered piece of candy, and then have him shake hands with the person next to him. Handshakes continue down the line until everyone in the class has had...
Teach Engineering
Scale Model Project
Try your hand at scale models. Scholars create a scale model of an object using a scale factor of their choice. As part of the project, they give presentations on their processes and calculations. This is the last installment of the...
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Thirsty Rocks: Please "Porous" a Drink!
A simple activity goes a long way in demonstrating the property of porosity to your rock hounds. They will mass a specimen of dry sandstone and then soak it in a pre-measured amount of water. After seven minutes, they once again measure...
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Slope, Vectors, and Wind Pressure
A hands-on lesson using the TI-CBR Motion Detector to provide information to graph and analyze. The class uses this information to calculate the slope of motion graphs and differentiate scalar and vector quantities. There is a real-world...
North Carolina State University
Construction
Engineering design projects serve as great opportunities for collaborative problem solving. In this case, learners work in small groups designing, building, and eventually testing a structure that meets a teacher-specified objective. It...
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Blubber Mittens:Adaptation to Cold Climates
Students get a first hand look at the benefit of a "blubber layer" in cold climates through a simulation using vegetable shortening and icy water. Through this simulation, students examine how adaptations help organisms survive.
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What are the Rules?
Get young learners involved in the development of classroom rules! Students and the teacher discuss the purpose of having rules, including how rules provide order, security and safety. Then learners design pictures to accompany the...
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The Art of Science: Glitter Bottles and Oobleck
After having a class discussion on the three states of matter, young scientists utilize the wonderful substance, Oobleck in order to experience something that changes states of matter. They also create "sparkle jars" which...
National Security Agency
Equations and Expressions
Learners demonstrate their knowledge pictorially, concretely, and abstractly in this unit meant to last three hours over three days. Using hands-on activities, manipulatives, real-world applications, and problem solving, learners write...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lego Atoms and Molecules: Chemical Reactions
Show young chemists what a chemical reaction looks like with two parts of a hands-on experiment. First, learners conduct a wet lab where they observe the reactants (baking soda and calcium chloride, with phenolsulfonphthalein) before,...
San Diego County District Attorney
Emotions/Feelings
Three lessons delve deep into the topic of feelings and the importance of expressing one's emotions. Through grand conversation, hands-on learning experiences, and reflective writing, scholars interpret the ups and downs of everyday...
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Twirling in the Breeze
Blow classes away with a hands-on lesson investigating wind speed. Learners use common materials to design and construct anemometers. They then test their anemometers and collect data on the wind speed created by a fan.