Vista Murrieta High School
English II Research Paper Packet
If your school requires a senior research paper or if you are considering one for your class, then this resource is for you. The 43-page packet includes everything from a sample letter to parents to requirements, from topic suggestions...
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Using Random Sampling to Draw Inferences
Emerging statisticians develop the ability to make inferences from sample data while also working on proportional relationships in general. Here, young learners examine samples for bias, and then use random samples to make inferences...
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NFL Quarterback Salaries
Use statistics to decide if NFL quarterbacks earn their salaries! Learners study correlation coefficients after using technology to calculate regression equations. Through the data, they learn the meaning of correlation and correlation...
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Fighting in Hockey
At best, fighting in hockey makes the sport more entertaining; at worst, fighting could lead to death. Pupils read background information about the prevalence of fighting in hockey since the 1917 formation of the National Hockey League....
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Getting Percentible
This unit explores the connections between percentages, decimals, and fractions. It focuses on strategies for solving problems involving percentages and applies these strategies to real life contexts.
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Building Budgets
Students explore New York City's bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games. They estimate budget allocations for such a proposal while practicing the calculation of percentages.
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Pie Charts
Students create their own pie chart about their total health, being comprised of physical, social, and mental health. They label each section physical, social, and mental, and label each section with the percentage they are trying to...
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A Statistical Look at Jewish History.
Eighth graders study the relationship between fractions, decimals and percentages by completing activities. In this research analysis lesson, 8th graders look at different websites to figure out Jewish populations in different situations.
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Going Up Or Coming Down
Students find the percent of increase or percent of decrease. Through a teacher demonstration, they examine the methods of calculating percentages. Students solve real life problems.
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Water, Water Everywhere
Middle schoolers recognize that all of the water on earth cannot be used for drinking and that the percentage of ground and surface water is a small percentage. In this water lesson students identify ways to conserve water.
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The Atmosphere
Students calculate the percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere. They create a semi-scale drawing of the atmosphere.
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Chemical Formulas
Students examine the structure of molecules, their formula, and percentage composition of each element in the compound. They construct an organic compound with different functional groups using a modeling kit, and draw a 3-D structure...
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Location, Location, Location!
Students determine the probability of drawing coins from each of the three United States Mints. They measure the distance between the Mints and determine which is closest to them. They convert fractions to percentages.
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Grid and Percent It
Students explore percent. In this percent lesson, students investigate how to represent percentages on a hundreds grid. Working independently, students solve mathematical problems involving percentages.
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If .... Then Probably
Students are introduced to the concepts of probability and chance. Using data given to them, they organize and create a chart to display the information. Using this chart, they calculate the percentage of chance and probability and...
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Blue Planet: Coral Seas
Students create a poster about coral reefs. In this oceanography lesson plan, students teach the class about a given aspect of the coral reefs. Students create posters with images and facts about this habitat.
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Ratio, Percent, & Proportions
Seventh graders explore the concept of percents, ratios, and proportions. In this percents, ratios, and proportion lesson, 7th graders have 237 ounces of beads to weigh. Students work in groups to weigh the beads in a way so that each...
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Number: Fractions
Students explore equivalencies. In this decimals and fractions instructional activity, students examine number relationships and patterns as they compare whole numbers to decimals. Students complete a worksheet that requires them to...
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Sociological Methods
First year undergraduate sociology students can prepare for their exams with an application that provides practice questions in six categories: Quantitative and Qualitative Data, Sources of Data, Primary and Secondary Data, Positivism...
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Groundwater Resources
Students use digital maps to explore underground reservoirs. Individually, or in small groups, students access specified internet sites and research uses and locations of groundwater. Students explore the percentage of usable water,...
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Grade 10 ELA Module 3: Unit 3, Lesson 6
And that's a wrap! Scholars create their concluding statement drafts by examining model text with exemplar conclusions. In pairs, they discuss how transitional words and phrases add to sentence structure and consider how their concluding...
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Religion in Japan
Students engage in a lesson that has them investigate the major religions of Japan. The primary concern of the research is for students to search for the true meaning of tolerance.
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How Taxing are Taxes?
Learners explore the ways that taxes are levied based on taxable income. They analyze how a new series of tax cuts might affect people of different income levels and their tax rates.
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Clothing Store Word Problems
Students practice answering money word problems on shopping at the clothing store.