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Algebra 2 simulations for Microsoft Word and for special education
Hollywood Movie Proposal: Summary of a Novel
Students will explore theme and create an iMovie movie trailer for a book they recently read.
PROJECT INTRO: Imagine that you are the author of the book you have just read. Suddenly the book becomes a best seller. A Hollywood movie studio wants you to make the book into a movie. The movie studio wants you to present a short trailer explaining the theme and central idea of the book. You must also explain why the story, characters, conflicts, etc., would make a good film. Suggest a filming loca
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3rd - 12th
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Consumer Math: On a Budget
Students will learn how to set a personal budget while building a clothing wardrobe for themselves.
Situation: A fire has destroyed all of your clothes. You must replace your entire wardrobe. The catch? You are on a strict budget.
How strict? $400.00. The less you spend, the more you win.
Skills: Finding percent; budgeting
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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IEP language sentece frames, scripts, and wording templates
If there is anything a special education teacher needs to writing IEPS is the most efficient time, it is this!!!!
Save time and write IEPS in 30 min or less!!!!!!
These are general sentence language frames to help guide you in writing each page of the IEP. You will be amazed how quickly you can write an IEP. There are sample goals and sample meeting notes too. Never again will you struggle with what to write or say. Just customize for each child.
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Not Grade Specific
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Measure Objects Using Trig - Clinometer Activity
This guided worksheet is the perfect lesson for students to experience trigonometry around their schools! Students can use the compass app on their iphones to measure the angles of elevation to calculate heights of different objects around campus.
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Transformations Discovery Activity
This is a discovery activity dealing with transformations of absolute value graphs, constant graphs, linear graphs, and quadratic graphs. Students will use sliders on Desmos Online Graphing Calculator to see how each variable affects the parent graph of a function. Students will then draw conclusions and answer questions about similar functions without looking at the graph based on what they discovered. Note: You will need computers. We suggest pairing students in groups of two.
Grades:
9th - 11th
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Investing in the Stock Market
This project was created for a consumer math class. It has the students selecting 3 stocks, and buying different amounts based on their budget (I chose budgets and had them draw from a hat). Students will then track the 3 stocks for a month (I have them back track dates on Yahoo! Finance's History tab), and then graphing their gains or losses. Students will then finish by summarizing their month.
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9th - 12th
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Planning a Healthy Meal and Shopping Template (Special Education)
This is a meal planning guide that incorporates the 5 basic food groups. Students will use a cookbook to decide on the main course of the meal, and from there will add on side dishes to help balance the food groups presented in the meal. Students will then make a shopping list of the needed materials. If applicable, they can shop for the food items at the store, working to find the total cost of purchase, use the "dollar up" method to pay, and calculate the amount of change they should get back.
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PreK - 12th
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Special Education Conflict Resolution through Art
This is a conflict resolution plan to help students confront stress through art. They are in control of the situation as they process the nature of the stress and how they can overcome the conflict. They will not have to find appropriate words, find an adult to help or face ridicule. It is completely independent and private. It allows them to self-regulate a frightening situation and recover from it.
Grades:
K - 9th
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Payday - Exponential Growth Board Game for Algebra
Payday is an awesome interactive board game similar to the game of Life. Students start with $400,000 and life events cause them to gain or lose money. At the end of each year, students calculate the yearly exponential growth to get their new balance. The first student to $1,000,000 wins.
Students are involved and excited to play this game. This is a good formative assessment tool to see if student understand this algebraic topic. The student score sheet is a way to collect their work and asse
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9th - 12th
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Self-Advocacy for students with a hearing loss
Scenarios directly related to students with a hearing loss that promote great conversation in relation to self-advocacy. These can be used for student awareness or IEP progress monitoring. These are great activities to foster positive thought process about living with a hearing loss as well as having honest discussions about how to advocate for yourself. these questions are geared at a variety of levels and can be modified as needed. This set includes 21 different scenarios about having a he
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Not Grade Specific
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Making Phone Calls (w/Emergency Wallet Cards)
This started as a file with wallet-sized, EDITABLE emergency phone cards. Students need these in case they are on their own without a phone. Staff can carry a master copy during field trips. I added an 8-step lesson plan including the following activities: Sequencing cards (with suggestions for modification)Phone call script (carefully formatted for easy reading)Phone call scenarios for group and individual practice Data sheet, great for IEP data collectionThis is a .doc file so that you can edi
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Not Grade Specific
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Fireworks Show Entry Doc for Algebra I or II (Quadratics Project PBL)
Engage your math students in authentic, real world learning by helping them plan a fireworks show! This product includes two versions of an entry document to launch a PBL unit on quadratics. The document is a Microsoft Word Doc so you can make edits where needed. The first includes a more detailed plan for Algebra II students who will cover vertex, standard, and intercept form, transformations of quadratics, and solving equations with factoring, complete the square, and the quadratic formula. Th
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8th - 11th
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Also included in:Â Quadratics Resource Bundle (PBL PrBL Explorations + Projects)
Experience the Transportation Revolution: Lesson w Modified Reading + Extension
Experience the Transportation Revolution through the eyes of a businessperson. What business will make the most money? Contains reading and modified reading to allow all students access. Also has Extension project for HW or Gifted students/honors (with rubric). Teacher Copy with answers to make lesson easy to role out.
Do Now/Activator Activity explores vocabulary
Two readings give you flexibility with different students
Divide class into small groups and assign them a business for the
Grades:
7th - 10th
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Tectonic Plate Puzzles
With this activity, students will use a simple paper plate and the attached world map to model and label the major tectonic plates on Earth. Students will cut their maps and make puzzles for their partners to put together. While they are assembling their puzzles, they can manipulate the pieces to simulate Pangaea and the concept of continental drift. Additionally, students can use the pieces to demonstrate the movements within the plates that cause earthquakes and volcanoes.
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Grades:
4th - 6th
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CCSS:
Sometimes things break (personalized social story)
This product was designed to assist special needs students or younger students with internalizing that sometimes things break and it is okay. After using this with in several pre-k classrooms and special education classrooms, I have noticed that it was very effective in relating the message. Try it out! You have the ability to change the student's name to personalize it and add their picture.
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Grades:
PreK - 7th
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Candy Statistics
Kids have a chance to open individual bags of M&Ms and practice calculating probability of different colors and solving probability problems both independent and dependent.
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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Probability Intro to simulation using dice
This is the perfect introductory activity to simulation and probability. It could be used in Algebra 2 and basic Statistics courses. It could also be used in 6th through 8th grade to introduce probability.
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Bartering Simulation
Students participate in a bartering simulation to help them understand the concept of bartering in the ancient civilizations.
Grades:
5th - 6th
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My Job at School- Social Story (Editable)
This is a quick social story that I wrote with one of my kindergarten students. On his copy, his name is on the front page (this copy is editable so you can add your student's names as well). We read this story each morning and other times throughout the day as well to remind him what he needs to do at school. I have this printed and laminated since we use it a lot.
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
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Virtual - Slope Intercept Learning Simulation
Using the simulation by phet, students can better understand how changing the slope and y intercept change their graphs.
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Grades:
7th - 10th
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Excuse Me! ( Editable social story about waiting and saying excuse me)
Student's with special needs and very young students need explicit instruction sometimes on what is social acceptable when interacting with others. This book helps with saying excuse me when needing to get the attention of an adult.
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Grades:
PreK - 12th
Stock Market Game
A great way to teach about the stock market! Assign each student a company to invest stock in. Each stock will be given a number. Take turns rolling the dice. When the number to your stock is rolled, your company gets a point and is making money! When your company makes money so you do you! At the end, you can decide to sell your stock and get the amount of money worth your points or keep it and hope it will make you more money. If you roll the a 6, you have lost all your money in the stock
Grades:
7th - 12th
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March "Math"ness Probability
I designed this activity to show how likely making a perfect bracket really is. It engages students in a fun probability activity where they can calculate a probability and also see probability in action. Students have to pick 16 teams (real or fictional) and determine who they think the winners will be in each game. After answering a few probability questions, they will use a die to determine the winners of each game. Then they will see if they would have won a bracket challenge.
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Grades:
9th - 12th
Self-Advocacy Situation Cards
Situations to be used with your students to practice self-advocating. These tend to be some of lifes' more tricky situations. Most situations occur in the school setting. Read the situation and have the student respond, the red are suggestions for responses.
Grades:
6th - 12th
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