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Investigation: Reasoning and Proof

For Teachers K
Students explore animal characteristics by creating illustrations. For this animal identification lesson, students read a list of animal descriptions which they draw using crayons or colored pencils. Students view their drawings and...
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Reasons for Seasons

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students model the tilt of the Earth as it orbits the Sun. They explain the meaning and characteristics of solstices and equinoxes. They explain that sunlight hits the Earth at different angles at different locations over the course of...
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Travel Problems

For Students 9th
This worksheet is actually an entire chapter focused on math problems involving, shortest path, minimum connector, traveling salesman, and Chinese postman problems. There are multiple activities, exercises, and examples to get students...
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Reason for the Seasons

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students study the seasons of the Earth. In this seasons lesson plan, students study the science of the seasons on Earth by studying the tilt and axis of the Earth's orbit. Students read background information and four experimental...
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The Treasure Hunt

For Students 7th - 10th
In this treasure hunt worksheet, learners determine a combination of events that satisfies given conditions.  This one-page worksheet contains 1 logic problem.  The answer is provideed at the bottom of the page.
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Reaction Reasoning

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders experiment with chemical reactions and examine what happens to the atoms when different reactions occur.  In this matter lesson students divide into groups and complete a lab experiment. 
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Return Intervals & Reasoning from Tabular Data

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners calculate derivatives from a set of data. In this calculus lesson, students estimate the limit at infinity. They complete a Return Interval handout at the end of the lesson.
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Quadrilateral Investigation

For Teachers 4th - 5th
A good classroom tool is always great to have around. This tool provides learners with an opportunity to view and investigate the properties of quadrilaterals. Each slide contains images of a square as it is dissected into various...
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Social Studies: Reasons Diseases become Epidemic

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers identify reasons diseases become epidemic and list them in web format. They explore additional questins to to better investigate the time periods mentioned: 14th century, America at contact and the Age of Industry.
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Trade Allows Us To Buy Products at Reasonable Prices

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discover that trade allows us to buy products at reasonable prices. They research information based on the group they belong to. They participate in a debate based on the different positions.
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30 Good Reasons for Trees

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students create their own book about the role of trees in the environment. They are to come up with a list of 30 reasons they benefit the environment. They hold a publication party to release their book.
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Persuasion Chart 2 Reasons-- 2 Facts

For Students 5th - 6th
In this language arts worksheet, learners use the graphic organizer chart to prepare for writing a persuasion paper. Students fill in spaces for topic, reason 1 and reason 2, and facts/examples for each.
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Mathematical Magazines

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars use ads from magazines to create data to be measured and apply the skill of estimation. They record the percentage of magazine ads that could be separated into different categories made by students through the use of...
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Think Like A Programmer! Puzzlets Cork the Volcano Curriculum

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Shared ResourceCommon Core Standards Connected   The standards listed below are standards from the Common Core Framework which map to learning opportunities with Cork The Volcano & Puzzlets. Source Link:...
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Identifying Similar Triangles

For Students 10th
In this identifying similar triangles activity, 10th graders solve 6 different types of problem that include identifying and comparing similar triangles. First, they identify the three ways that determine whether two triangles are...
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Mathematical Reasoning

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this data analysis instructional activity, students read a list of 4 criteria and then select the picture on the sheet that matches the criteria.
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Reasons for the United States Entry into World War I

For Students 9th - 12th
In this World War I worksheet, high schoolers complete a graphic organizer with details about the U.S. neutrality, German submarine warfare, and the Zimmerman telegram.
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ELL Rollover Accident- What Should Bob Do Next?

For Students 8th - 11th
In this ELL reading and reasoning worksheet, students read a short selection about a man who was in a rollover accident. They answer 5 true or false questions, before writing a short essay detailing whether the man should or should not...
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Plant the Beans

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this reasoning worksheet, students draw pictures of beans in empty jigsaw puzzles. Students use the number of beans specified; every part must have at least one bean and parts that touch can't have the same number of beans. There are...
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Summer Machines Activity: Cool Tools

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Learners examine and think about various tools in their surrounding environment to facilitate development of their primary observation and sorting skills. In this tool observation instructional activity, students first sort a variety of...
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Imperatives

For Students 5th - 10th
In this imperatives activity, learners read 7 reasons and examples of imperatives. Students then click on "continue with the exercises at the bottom" to choose the best imperative for 8 sentences.
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Anthony's sink or float game

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore the concepts of float and sink by playing a game where they build things on mud, water, rock and jelly. In this Anthony's sink or float game lesson, students discover what materials remain strong in various conditions....
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Math: Reasoning and Problem Solving using Voyages

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students plan a voyage as the captain of a tall ship in the early days of exploration and merchant trading. They choose 2 ships and 3 voyages for a total of 6 possibilities. They calculate the number of days and distance of their...
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Numbers Beyond Reason!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use the story of the discovery of irrational numbers to explore the different classes of numbers, the different ways in which numbers may be represented, and how to classify different numbers into their particular class.

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