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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Cross Timbers of Texas, 1911

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1911 showing the cross timbers of Texas north of Austin. The map is keyed to show the Grand Prairie and Black Prairie regions.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Natural Regions of Africa, 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1920 of Africa and Madagascar showing principal physical features and natural regions. The map is color-coded to show lowlands, uplands and plateaus, the Kongo basin, the older, worn down mountains, and young, rugged...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Texas Regions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will identify 7 major Texas regions. The flipchart has links to the Texas Parks and Wildlife website with characteristics of each region. There are 20 Activote assessment questions at the end...
Activity
Other

Thomas Intermediate School: Southwestern States Activity

For Students 3rd - 5th
Teachers and students can find activities for the Southwest, the states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Oklahoma. The grade is based on the number of activities and the quality of work.
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University of Texas at Austin

Ut Library Online: Historical Map Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
This extensive collection from the University of Texas Library Online of detailed maps of many regions of the Earth.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ch. 18: Causes of Inflation in Various Countries and Regions

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Identify the causes and effects of inflation in various economic markets and Explain the significance of a converging economy.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: The Region Between Two Curves

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is an application of integration. Students use calculus to find the area of a region and the volumes of solids generated by the region. They use the CAS of their TI-89 and calculus to determine the exact answers.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Key Curriculum Press Algebra: Project the Mandelbrot Set

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will choose a small region on the boundary of the Mandelbrot Set and create a graph of that smaller region.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Irregular Polygon Centroids

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students explore finding the centroid of an irregular polygon by finding the mean of the coordinates of the polygon's vertices. Further, students find the centroid given that...
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Other

Cis: Shaping Texas: The Effects of Immigration, 1970 2020

For Students 9th - 10th
Examines trends in immigration to Texas in the decades from 1970 on, and the impact on the population of various regions and cities in Texas. Written in 1995, the projections it offers are for 1995-2020. The article also looks at how...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Quartic Regions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is an application of derivatives and of definite integrals. It introduces students to an interesting property of Quartics which students can verify using the CAS of their TI-89.
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Texas A&M University

Texas A&m University: Moments of Inertia

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is from the Math department of the Texas A&M University and contains wonderful information on Centers of mass and moments of inertia. Pictures, charts, graphs along with great text is all included.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Cubic Regions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This application of derivatives and definite integrals introduces students to an interesting property of cubics and a method of proving that property using the TI-89 scripts. They then use the CAS of their TI-89 to generalize upon...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Branch and Bound

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson is best used as an extension to linear programming in which the solutions to the proposed problem must be integers. The Branch and Bound method operates on the optimized point,...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: 18: Macroeconomic Policy Around the World: Key Concepts & Summary

For Students 9th - 10th
This section provides a summary of the key concepts discusses in Ch. 18: Macroeconomic Policy Around the World from the Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online textbook.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Location! Location! Location!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to Voronoi diagrams, which split a plane into regions corresponding to distances to given points. The lesson is framed in the context of splitting a city into...
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University of Texas at Austin

Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Maps from all over the world can be printed from this site. Find historical maps of the world; thematic maps; and world, continent, country, state, and county maps for your use.
Website
A&E Television

History.com: The States

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn unique facts about each American state. You can also read a more in-depth history of each state, watch videos and play a game about all the states.
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Texas State Historical Association

Texas State Historical Association: Texas Talk [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learn to appreciate the regional accent of a Texan, and to speak like one too. Includes a link to a Texas pronunciation guide.
eBook
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Ch. 18: Introduction to Macroeconomic Policy Around the World

For Students 11th - 12th
In this chapter, you will learn about the following: Diversity of countries and economies across the world, Improving countries' standards of living, Causes of unemployment around the world, Causes of inflation in various countries and...
Handout
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Llano Pocket Gopher

For Students 4th - 8th
One of several species of pocket gophers residing in Texas and adjacent regions, the Llano Pocket Gopher stands out as one of the smallest. Its back is russet brown in color grading to paler along its sides. Learn more about the Geomys...
Website
Digital History

Digital History: The Disputed Election of 2000

For Students 9th - 10th
Online summary of the dispute over the presidential election of 2000 and the outcome.
Article
A&E Television

History.com: Coahuila

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about Coahuila, one of Mexico's major steel producers, and also the region that straddles the Sierra Madre Oriental Mountains. Find out about the history, learn some important facts, and understand famous landmarks of the region.
Article
Nature Conservancy

Nature Conservancy: Nash Prairie Preserve

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the beauty of America's prairies and examine efforts to preserve this vanishing part of America's landscape.

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