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Direct and Inverse Variation
Eighth graders participate in two data collection activities that involve direct and inverse variation. In the pre-assessment, 8th graders categorize numerical, graphical, and verbal representations as linear or nonlinear and determine...
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Simple Interest
Eighth graders practice finding simple interest and apply their findings to real-world situations. They work with percents in the form of commission and sales taxes. After completing an assignment during independent practice, they are...
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Soil Testing and Measurement
Students prepare their garden plot. In this gardening lesson, students use the Internet or book on plants to make sure the plants they have selected will be able to grow in their garden. The students assess and mark out the garden...
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Building a Bridge
Third graders discover architecture and functionality by constructing a bridge. In this bridge engineering lesson, 3rd graders utilize cardboard, straws, towel tubes and plastic bottles to create a model bridge similar to ones seen...
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Sit on It!
Learners design and create a chair. Students look at current stool design and come up with a prototype from donated materials. Learners then test their chair in various settings.
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The Changing Nature of Work, Employment, and Education in Canada.
Students identify the effect caused by change of employment and education. In this statistics lesson, students analyze data and draw conclusions. This assignment tests students' ability to use data correctly.
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Garden Variety Geometry
Students prepare to take the GED by reviewing basic math concepts. In this geometry lesson, students review vocabularies such as formula, perimeter, circumference and other important geometric terms. They convert between the English and...
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Brain Brands
Students explore the advent of neuromarketing as a means to assess the effects of certain brands on the brain activity of prospective buyers. They design their own experiments that test the power of certain brands on a sample population.
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Sun's Impact On Earth's Temperature
Students view NASA images and movies of Venus, Earth, and Mars to deduce weather patterns and manipulate computer models to test competing hypotheses. They manipulate computer models to investigate the influence of solar distance and...
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Anchoring Activities - Various Subjects (K-5)
Teachers create different activities and differentiate them to meet the students' needs. In this differentiation lesson, teachers do activities such as accelerated reader, sunshine math, problem of the day, around the world or vocabulary...
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Mathematics in Robotics
Students build and create using math. In this geometry lesson, students differentiate between congruent and similarity as they observe polygons. They create robots with different functions using properties of geometry.
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Money and Business
Third graders use play money to complete tasks that allow them to see if the budget they came up with works. In this budget lesson plan, 3rd graders create their own budget and test it out with the play money.
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Geometric Basketball Court
Students calculate the area and perimeter of a basketball court. In this geometry lesson, students differentiate between similarity and congruence of geometric objects. They test conjectures and use it to solve problems.
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Graphing and the Coordinate Plane
Students gain practice reading coordinates and plotting points by participating in the Coordinates! Game. They demonstrate and test their skills with graph paper and the Maze Game.
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Probability
Young scholars complete various activities for probability. In this probability lesson, students use coins, cubes, peanut butter and jelly, playing cards, number cubes, darts, and a Gauss Curve to study probability. Young scholars must...
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Arranging Decimals In Ascending/Descending Order
In this on-line worksheet, students complete 10 multiple choice questions where they arrange decimals in ascending or descending order. Students can check their answers at the end of the worksheet.
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Practice Quiz: Least Common Multiple
Use this least common multiple learning exercise to have your learners complete two mutliple choice questions containing one and two-digit numbers. Answers are provided online.
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Scientifically Speaking
Explore the connection between operations with scientific notation and the laws of exponents. Scholars work on a set of word problems involving operations with scientific notation. Along the way, they consider how the laws of exponents...
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The Submarine
Submerge yourself in the study of slope. Scholars investigate a situation involving slope and the rate of change of a submarine. An additional example further explores the concept of slope by changing one of the conditions of the submarine.
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Rotation
Rotate this resource into your lesson plans. Scholars rotate polygons in the coordinate plane by multiples of 90 degrees. They then compare the original and new figures to develop conjectures about coordinate points after rotations.
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Dilation
Open up your pupils' eyes and minds on dilations. Scholars perform dilations on a trapezoid on the coordinate plane. They compare the image to the preimage and develop generalizations about dilations.
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Math & Science
Students examine a list of ideas to draw from for lesson planning. They complete a quiz on Math & Science and hand in notes they have taken as a resource for lesson planning. They develop developmental appropriate practice...
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Topic: Math, Chemistry, and Food
Students listen as the teacher tells the story of Sisyphus rolling the stone up the mountain. Students prepare two batches of jello, one with fresh pineapple, and one with canned pineapple. While the jello is setting, students work on...
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Function Lesson Plan -- Asking for Repetition
Young scholars with disabilities are tested in the use of language and taught the skill of asking for repetition in order to gain clarification and thus improve comprehension. They are assessed according to the practice of asking with...