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Unit Plan On Quadratic Equations

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore a variety of ways of solving quadratic equations. Students choose from graphing, factoring, finding square roots, completing the square and using the Quadratic formula. They ponder in the end on polynomial equations.
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Quadrilaterals in the Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students find the coordinates of the vertices of special quadrilaterals placed in the coordinate plane. They find the coordinates of missing vertices of squares and parallelograms.
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Fact Families

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore fact families. In this multiplication lesson, students use a multiplication table to find the answers to several multiplication equations. Students form fact families from each completed equation.
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Shapes

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars differentiate objects based on contrast in physical characteristics such as color, texture, size and shape. They also recognize and sort objects by color families.
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"Sir Cumference and the First Round Table" by Cindy Neuschwander

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students analyze characteristics of various 2 dimensional shapes and explore their properties and use various vocabulary terms to discuss geometric relationships.
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Building Shapes From Numbers

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students experience how to illustrate some of the many connections between number and geometry. Through this 2-3 day focus on square numbers and triangular numbers, students make connections among mathematical topics.
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Polygons, Parallelograms, Quadrilaterals- Oh My!!!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners demonstrate their comprehension of shapes and their properties. They work in small groups. Students review the following terms: property, polygon, quadrilateral, and parallelogram. They read Shape Up! Fun With Triangles and...
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It Matters

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners use descriptive vocabulary to discuss the attributes of matter. Then, they sort objects or pictures by the type of matter they are comprised of. Finally, students match objects of matter with similar attributes and create a...
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Octagon Lesson Plan

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students investigate octagons using words and shapes. For this geometry lesson, students discuss the shape of an octagon using physical and symbolic models. They make conjecture about the shape and relate it to the real world.
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Area Unit

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students solve the area for parallelograms,squares, rectangles, trapezoids, and triangles. In this geometry lesson, students compare and contrast two dimensional shapes and apply their properties to solving real life scenarios. This is a...
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Precalculus Exam

For Students 11th - 12th
In this precalc lesson, learners write out definitions, identify functions, solve integrals and derivatives and graph trig functions as they relate to angles. This is a final exam for precalculus. There are 80 questions on this exam.
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Surface Area and Volume

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students are introduced to the notion of surface area and volume, learn the terminology used with surface area and volume and have experimented with the surface area and volume of different prisms.
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Matter for Minors

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use streaming videos, web sites, and hands on activities students to explore matter. They focus on how temperature affects matter and what the particles look like in the states of matter.
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Hello My Name is . . . Helvetica

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learners play various games to help create a classroom community. In this name recognition lesson, students combine their name recognition skills with newly learned art and geometric vocabulary. First learners discover vocabulary that...
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Genetics and Heredity: The Next Generation

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders work in teams to order events of DNA transcription and translation protein synthesis. In the second lesson, they put the steps of mitosis and meiosis in order using a concept map poster. They use modeling clay to create...
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Construction Regular Polygons

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Learners investigate the process necessary to construct regular polygons. They explore the degree measures of the angles in a regular polygon. Using this information and technology in the form of Cabri Jr., your pupils will construct...
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Beginning Fractions Equal Parts

For Students K - 2nd Standards
After looking at four examples of shapes divided into two exactly equal parts, junior geometers try their hand. One valuable thing about this worksheet is that the shapes are not only the standard circle, square, and triangle, but also...
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How Stuff Is Put Together (Chemical Bonding)

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders participate in a simple experiment that shows the ratio of elements that make up water.
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Introduction to Classification

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders design a classification system to categorize animate and inanimate objects. They discuss the advantages of grouping things as they classify buttons, leaves, shells.
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Geometry in the Real World

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders complete a unit of lessons on basic geometry concepts. They participate in a variety of activities, culminating in a project that involves publishing a booklet or a poster that presents the major geometry concepts from the...
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Candy Land

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity students pretend that they have been hired by a candy manufacturer to design a box for a new product they are beginning to market. The manufacturer has pre-determined the volume of the candy box. It is the students' job...
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Rep Tiles

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use pattern blocks of one shape at a time to try to create a similar shape. They compare the perimeter of the new figure with the perimeter of the original shape and look for a pattern. Students use the pattern to predict...
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CME Kinetic Energy and Mass

For Students 9th - 12th
In this kinetic energy and mass worksheet, high schoolers read about coronal mass ejections detected by the SOHO satellite. Students complete a data table that shows the relationship between kinetic energy, speed and mass. They convert...
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Unit Conversions-Energy, Power, Flux

For Students 8th - 10th
For this unit conversion worksheet, students solve 4 problems given a list of conversion factors for units of energy, power and flux.