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High school trigonometry laboratories
Vector Addition "Road Trip" Lab Activity
Overview:In this activity, students will use both the tip-to-tail graphing method and the analytical components method of vector addition in order to determine the resultant displacement of two, cross-country, trips which each have three individual "legs."Materials:Ruler, Protractor, Pencil, Calculator, Handout
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10th - 12th
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Pythagorean Spiral Geometry Project
In a project combining high school geometry with creative design and art, students will discover connections between: Pythagorean Theorem, Special Right Triangles, Right Triangle Trigonometry, patterns, and design. This highly engaging project includes both a Pythagorean spiral creation and also requires students to show supporting math calculations to find hypotenuse lengths and central angle measures (SOH CAH TOA). This is always a favorite project of my students year after year!!A student s
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8th - 12th
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Ball Toss Projectile Motion Activity - On Level, Trig Based or AP Physics
This is an excellent activity to develop the mathematics of upwardly fired projectiles. It has low error, uses a free app for measuring motion and students must work as a team.Students work in groups of 4 to toss a tennis ball or similar item a horizontal distance of 4-6 meters between them and video capture the event. They then record the time data, measure the toss angle, calculate the vertical and horizontal components of motion and determine the resultant launch speed. It takes students 4
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9th - 12th
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Trig Bundle
This bundle includes: Radian & Degree Measures Vizual Notes and KeyRight Triangle Trigonometry Vizual Notes and KeyA Minimalist’s Unit Circle and a “Table of Nine” Translating Periodic Functions Vizual Notes and KeyGraphing Reciprocal Trig Functions including a splash page with a link to a Desmos activity and key.Graphing Sines and Cosines Investigation (typically taught before graphing reciprocal trig functions but included last due to page orientation)Also, don’t miss Trig Functions of Sp
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Drone Lab: Right-Angle Trigonometry, Law of Sines, Law of Cosines
YOU DO NOT NEED A DRONE FOR THIS LAB!!! This lab actually has two separate folders: one for teachers who have access to a drone (or even a helium balloon that is tied to a kite string!) and one for teachers with no drone. Any way you do it, you get a customized lab, designed to help your students use right-angle trig, law of sines, and law of cosines in real-world situations. If you are droneless, the whole simulation is set up for you. You can choose whatever drone heights you like and ente
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10th - 12th
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Angle Launched Projectiles Lab Bundle
How does launch angle impact the range, hang time, and maximum height of a projectile?
Allow your students to investigate and explore angle launched projectiles with this Angle Launch Virtual Lab (which uses and online applet from PhET) and Nerf Launcher Lab (which uses Nerf guns).
Whether you use the online, face-to-face, or both versions of this lab, your students will observe and analyze how 2D vectors, component vectors, projectile motion, geometry, and trigonometry come into play for proj
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7th - 12th
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Vector Addition Interactive Lab
This lab offers a fun and interactive alternative to traditional vector addition introduction and practice. Students will have the opportunity to add vectors using the components method, on a large scale, by measuring larger magnitudes outside of the classroom.Students will work in groups to determine the resultant vector from a predetermined origin to a terminal point, by adding the horizontal and vertical components of several measured vectors (both magnitude and direction) using the Pythagore
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8th - 11th
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Introduction to Visualizing & Graphing Sine & Cosine Using Pretzels Exploration
Help students make connections while introducing the graphs of sine and cosine using mini pretzel sticks or equivalent manipulatives. Within this lesson, students will be able to interact with both the sine and cosine graphs using manipulatives such as string and pretzel sticks as they form a tactile graph in groups or individually. A thorough instruction sheet is provided to ensure all students are equipped to create their own pretzel graph. You can also substitute spaghetti, straws toothpicks
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10th - 12th
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Trig Treasure Map Activity - Precalc Solving Triangles w/ Bearings & Directions
Help your students understand the concept of navigation using trigonometry. This lesson gives students adequate exposure navigational tools such as trig bearings and directions. Not only that, but it offers an excellent opportunity for enrichment through the challenge problem which is tiered into two difficulty levels - guided and unguided. Your students will love being able to make their own treasure maps while also learning key trig concepts such as finding missing side lengths using sine and
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10th - 12th
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Zip Lining Slope Between to Points Lab Activity
Goal: understand slope conceptually and calculate slope through any two points.
How do you plan to make the ratio of rise to run hands on and visual for students? How about by asking them to create zip lines? In this activity students will work in teams to create fast and slow zip lines using fishing line, paper clips, and any toy you can hang from the clip. Students will experiment with the ratio of rise to run as they must use the entire piece of wire for every zip line run meaning the onl
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7th - 10th
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Printable Trigonometry Lab - SOHCAHTOA - For use with free Clinometer app
Are your students struggling with understanding basic trig functions? Are you looking for something simple that will both excite your students and strengthen their basic trig skills? If you answered yes to any of those questions then this "trig lab" will be perfect for you! Before starting this your students should be familiar with sin, cos and tangent and finding missing side lengths.
I created this lab knowing that most of my students have cell phones. In order to complete this lab you wi
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7th - 12th
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Transforming Sine & Cosine Graphs - Practice / Lesson / Worksheet
Help students learn how to graph all the transformations of the sine and cosine graphs using this interactive practice guide. The practice includes how to adjust the graph's period, amplitude, midline, phase shift and strategies for coming up with a proper scale for each tick mark on the x-axis. A comprehensive answer key is included in the packet along with some sample strategies to teach to students if needed. This lesson corresponds to AP Precalculus Sections 3-4, 3-5 and 3-6
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9th - 12th
Also included in: Transforming Sine, Cosine, Tangent, Secant, Cosecant, Cotangent BUNDLE
Right Triangle Trig, Trig Ratios, Trigonometry, Everyday Math, Hands-on Activity
This everyday math activity is perfect for teachers looking to inject some hands-on math into the classroom. Perfect for learning about right triangle trig, this activity allows students to apply what they’ve learned about trig ratios to find the height of an object and then verify it by checking the %error. This investigation allows students to connect their learning about trigonometry to the real world. Loads of fun and easy to setup with the templates and instructions provided.The File Includ
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9th - 12th
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Graphing Sine & Cosine Investigation
Students learn so much when they discover the patterns in mathematics. This Geogebra investigation asks students to play with the values of a, b, c, and d in f(x) = a sin(bx – c) + d and g(x) = a cos(bx – c) + d individually to see the effects they have on the graphs of both sine and cosine.Students should have plotted the parent functions by creating a table of values prior to this investigation. These Vizual Notes are a great summary assignment following this investigation.If you are looking
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10th - 12th
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How Tall is That Object? Trig Activity
Unlock the mysteries of trigonometry with our engaging, hands-on activity designed to bring math to life for your students! This innovative lesson plan offers students the unique opportunity to apply their trigonometry skills in real-world scenarios by finding the height of various objects located around the school, inside the classroom, or even outdoors. Through this activity, students will embark on an adventurous journey into the world of angles and measurements. They will construct a clinome
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9th - 12th
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Modeling the Business Cycle with Trig Functions: Activity and Data Set
In this lab, students analyze GDP data from five fictional countries. To complete the activity, students:-- create scatterplots of their data using desmos.com/calculator (or other graphing utility)-- use their data sets to compute the parameters of underlying sinusoidal functions and use Desmos to compare their estimates to the data sets-- interpret the parameters of their equations in context by describing how the economies of each country compare and contrast to each other.-- are challenged to
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9th - 12th
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Guided Exploration: Trig & Inverse Trig Functions
35-item teacher-lead inquiry into properties and behavior of Trigonometric/Inverse Trigonometric Functions. Best used at the beginning of a unit on trigonometric/inverse trigonometric functions (before demonstrating how to solve textbook problems), this activity invites students to use inductive reasoning and class discussion to discover the big ideas behind graphing trigonometric/inverse trigonometric functions without a graphing utility.
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10th - 12th
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Physics Lab 2 - Adding Multiple Vectors by Graphical and Analytic Methods
The best lab you can do to teach your students how to add multiple vectors by graphical and analytic method. It shows the graphical method of adding vectors in step-by-step method starting from selecting the scale.
The graphical method is followed by the analytic method in great detail. An extensive discussion is available in breaking a vector in to two components perpendicular to each other. Students usually find it difficult to break a vector in its components.
Finally, the result is verified
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10th - 12th
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Stellar Parallax Lab
Stellar parallax is the apparent shift of position of any nearby star (or other object) against the background of distant objects. Astronomers can calculate this shift and by using trigonometry, they can calculate the distance to that object. This lab will have your students calculating the distance to a makeshift star by using parallax angles. This file has a detailed handout that outlines this lab, cut-outs, and a detailed teacher's manual. Enjoy!
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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HS-ESS1-4
Astronomy Lab: Eratosthenes and the Earth's Circumference
2500 years ago Eratosthenes, using some trignometry, determined the circumference of the Earth with stunning accuracy. Students will determine the circumference of their own circles using his same methods.
Time: 55 minutes
Materials Needed: paper, rulers, compasses, protractors
An answer key is included.
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10th - 12th
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Clinometer Activity - Application of Trigonometry
This is a hands-on activity I have my students do after introducing right triangle trigonometry (SOH CAH TOA). As motivation we discuss applications of trig such as forestry! I have a set of clinometers and 15 meter measuring tapes, but students can actually make their own clinometers with string and protractors! We do the two examples together in class, and then I have student practice using the clinometers. Then, they can go outside and take measurements of trees, buildings, flag poles, etc.
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10th - 12th
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Water Balloon Launcher Lab
This lab is very fun and exciting! The bonus is you get to go outdoors. You will use a standard water balloon launcher to calculate the maximum height a balloon went after being launch as well as the velocity of the balloon. There are two parts to the lab. Part 1 involves collecting data and building a graph. Part 2 is calculating velocity and maximum height. ENJOY!!
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7th - 12th
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Modeling Tides with Trigonometric Functions
In this activity, students analyze data sets about water depth through the daily tidal cycle. While completing this activity, students:-- create scatterplots using desmos.com/calculator-- practice computing the parameters of sinusoidal functions and check their work by fitting an equation to the scatterplot-- interpret the meaning of different parameters in context-- determine how a verbal description of changes to the environment would impact parameter values-- introduce a new term to a basic s
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9th - 12th
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Trig - Law of Sines - PARTNER PAIRS
Partners will work on separate columns of problems that will result in the same answer to check each others' work.There is a set of 10 problems for each partner to complete. 6 problems are on finding missing sides and 4 problems are on finding missing angles.The RELAY RACE has some of these same problems. The RELAY has 32 different problems. This product has 20 problems.Posted: 11/5/14 so 50% off through 11/8/14
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7th - 11th
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