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"A Closet Full of Shoes" and Picture Puzzle Piece" by Shel Silverstein

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explain the concept of simple probability.
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What Are The Risks From Radon?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the health risks of radon in the home. They calculate the odds for each risk and use different forms of measurement. They work together to complete the activity and worksheet.
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GPS Receiver Basics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils practice using a GPS receiver. They walk in different directions and monitor their progress on maps. They enter specific locations and use information given to them to get them back to their original locations.
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Calculating Your Travel GHGs

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students calculate the amount of greenhouse gases they produce in a given day. Using an equation, they determine the emissions for different sized vehicles and calculate the amount resulting from a family vacation. They create a class...
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Chart This!

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students collect data and graph or chart the information. In this data organization lesson, students poll their classmates about certain topics and chart or graph the information to show the results of their research.
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Graph It!

For Teachers 1st
First graders use organized data to construct real object graphs, picture graphs, and bar-type graphs.
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Aerodynamics of Cycling

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers study aerodynamic forces - lift and drag - and see how those forces affect cycling performance. They see how those forces are calculated and how
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Motion Capture and Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the concepts and relationships of speed, displacement and time. They capture the serve motion of a tennis player via video or digital camera and analyze the speed of the ball and racquet head.
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Motion Capture and Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students capture the serve motion of a tennis player with a digital or video camera. Using transparencies or a software package, analyze the speed, acceleration, displacement and time of the racquet head and ball in the tennis stroke.
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My Own Store

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students cut and paste items to go with price tags, then swap with another student and purchase each item to show an understanding of pennies and nickels by recording correct combinations of coins.
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Going with the Flow

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students survey each other and determine their common interests. They examine the use of algorithms by various websites that are used to develop networks of interest groups among users. They then design proposals for a social networking...
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The Basketball Tournament

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students estimate how many games are played if six teams play each other once. They investigate their own way and discuss possible strategies they might use. They then share their findings with the class.
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And Around We Go!

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders conduct a survey and collect data to construct a bar graph that will then be changed into a circle graph. With the bar graph, 6th graders compare estimated fractions and percentages and estimate percentages. With the circle...
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Angle Measurement and the AD-1 Aircraft

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students represent and solve problems using geometric models and apply geometric properties and relationships. They also practice constructing and measuring angles. By constructing, drawing, visualizing, and comparing geometric figures...
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Reflections of a Quadratic Function

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are asked to explain the relationship between f(s) and f (-x). They are asked to determine how the equation of f(x) differs from the equation of f(-x). Students determine the conditions when f(x) is the same as f(-x). They graph...
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Reflections of a Quadratic Function

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students compare transformations of a quadratic function on a graph and determine equations of a quadratic functions based on a reflection. They graph a transformation of a function based on reflections. They etermine if a function is...
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Arranging the Elements

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students describe how elements are arranged in the periodic table. They compare metals, nonmetals, and metalloids based on their properties and on their location in the periodic table. Finally, students identify and describe the...
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Entry 1 Numeracy Practice--B

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this numeracy practice worksheet, students answer thirteen word problems by following the directives given as they read through each one.
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The World Around Us

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this writing questions and number words worksheet, students write questions for the statements and then write the numbers into words. Students complete 16 problems.
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Two-Step Equations

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners explore the concept of solving two-step equations. In this solving two-step equations lesson, students watch a short video about solving equations. Learners view a PowerPoint presentation about solving two-step equations....
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Above and Below

For Students Pre-K - K
In this above/below worksheet, students color shapes that are above or below other shapes, as indicated. A reference web site link in given.
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Explore the Mathematics of the Explorers

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Columbus and other explorers relied upon mathematical calculations using the Earth, stars, and ships speeds.
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Analyzing 3-D Shapes and 2-D Representations

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students can analyze 3-D objects better with actual physical models and by also drawing 2-D representations of them.
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The Young Basketball Player

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the history of basketball by reading and listening to a book entitled, "The Young Basketball Player." Afterwards, they create a trivia basketball game and write an interview for their favorite player. As a...

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