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8th grade math simulations for Microsoft PowerPoint
Stock Market Crash Simulation Activity│1929 │Great Depression │PowerPoint Game
This interactive PowerPoint activity will review the climate of the 1920's and introduce the basic of trading on the stock market to your 5th graders.Students will work together in "investment teams" and trade on the stock market with their starting $1,000. The game winds its way through the 1920s, eventually crashing on Black Tuesday. I highly recommend using this as an activity to introduce the stock market crash. The first time I tried this activity, I had already taught about Black Tuesda
Grades:
5th - 8th
Student Run Newscast PBL (5 lesson plans, 5 news segments, 23 student jobs)
Student Run Newscast Project Based Learning This resource is a bundle of my 5 New Segment Project Based Learning Enrichment Packets, complete with job descriptions, graphic organizers and the writing process. Each one is centered around completing a news segment that when put altogether, creates a complete classroom news broadcast. Each segment includes engaging tasks, graphic organizers, informative writing lessons and research strategies that give students a voice and choice in their i
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2nd - 8th
Translations, Rotations, and Reflections (Transformations in Geometry)
This PowerPoint presentation uses animations to demontrate 3 types of tranformations: translations, rotations, and reflections. Students can actively create their own transformational shape that can then be translated, rotated, or reflected to build a tessellation. Turn Geometry into a fun art project where students can add color to their tessellation to create an image out of te transformed shape.
Common Core, Geometry, transformations, translations, rotations, reflections
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
"The Great Food Truck Project" - Rate, Proportions, and Percents Unit Assessment
A rates and proportions unit project, centering around the real-world use of percentages and rates. Students work with a small group to create their own concept for a food truck, including what food and drink options they would sell. Using inspiration for "The Great Food Truck Race" and "Sharktank" TV shows, students work to create a best-selling idea, that also showcases their own values as a "company".I hope to share more information and examples of how I use this project with my upcoming ye
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6th - 8th
STEM Predict Population Size & Test A Real Life Math Model mini bundle
Egg Ecology is a great way to bring some math into your biology class - or some biology into your math class!
In this lesson, students get to use the capture and recapture method on a population of wild plastic eggs that have been dispersed through the classroom habitat. Using data from the egg hunt, students predict the population size and then analyze how effective the mathematical model is. This is a great way to help show students how math concepts are applied in real life scenarios!
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Checking Account Simulation
Do you need a lesson to teach students how to balance a checkbook? A PowerPoint presentation is included instructs students on how to balance their own checkbook and then gives them some "real world" practice. The PowerPoint includes writing a check, using a debit card, and making deposits. Also included is the handouts that you will give students in order for them to participate in the simulation. One handout is a checkbook register and the other handout has blank checks that students will writ
Grades:
6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Interactive Population Ecology PowerPoint
This PowerPoint covers how scientists predict population size using the Capture-Recapture method.
It's perfect for:
1. Incorporating a little math into a biology class.
2. Showing students how real-life problems can be solved using science.
3. Introducing population prediction calculations when covering ecology.
4. Or, to use as an accompaniment to my "Predicting Population Size" lesson plan in which students capture and mark plastic egg "creatures" to see if math formulas really do work in the
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education
Solving Multi-Step Equations Interactive Lesson and Presentation
This interactive powerpoint presentation will get your students solving multi-step equations with ease, understanding the process of solving multi-step equations, and explaining multi-step equations to others. It is designed with special education students and other students who take more time to learn, in mind. When using this lesson and graphic organizer we went from about half of our students getting it, to about 95% of them being able to solve multi-step equations with ease.Supports 7th gr
Grades:
6th - 9th
Also included in: Solving Multi-Step Equations Partner Activities
Virtual Stock Market Game
Give your students a taste of Wall Street in this stock market simulation.
With 70 slides of educational entertainment, your students will get lost in the story, the drama and the competitive nature of trading shares.
This is not your average slideshow. Students will develop the Mathematical ability and business savvy to buy and sell shares while working intricately as a team. They will need to think critically, as they consider each of their choices based on an ever changing story line which
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7th - 12th
Caribbean Economy Simulation (Supply and Demand/Single Crop)
In this simulation, students will play the role of Plantation owner and will try to grow their sugarcane empire through buying and selling fields, paying workers' wages and government taxes, and reaping the profit after each harvest. However, it also demonstrates the law of supply and demand and teaches a lesson about diversifying your economy as the price of sugarcane fluctuates on the world market from harvest to harvest. Students wait in breathless anticipation as each harvest price is reveal
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6th - 9th
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Word Problems with Scientific Notation
This PowerPoint is a detailed description, explanation, and animation on how to solve word problems involving Scientific Notation. It includes the following: an introduction, prior knowledge skills needed, direct instruction, independent study, and an list of key terms and phrases to help students solve problems. You will not have to write anything on the board. Every animation will be made by a click of a button. Your students will definitely be proficient upon completion!
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7th - 9th
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Pythagorean Theorem with animated proofs
If you want to impress the kids and at the same time explain Pythagorean Theorem to them, then you will succeed with this presentation. Explanations are backed by colorful animations and examples of tasks. It'll help you to understand the theory easily and practice as soon as possible. The proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem are also animated.Good luck in your difficult but noble work!COPYRIGHT TERMS: This resource may not be uploaded to the internet in any form, including classroom/personal websi
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6th - 8th
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Introduction to Rates and Proportions - Grocery Store Task
This activity is designed to introduce students to the concept of rates and unit rates, through a simulation-style grocery store activity. With a small group, students are given a grocery list, a “$20 bill”, and open access to five “grocery store aisles”. Students will travel the aisles with their “families” while shopping for their dinner ingredients. They have only $20 to spend, so they must find how much only 1 unit of each item costs, as they do not want to overspend. Using their receipt
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6th - 8th
Multiplying and Dividing Scientific Notation
This PowerPoint is a detailed description, explanation, and animation on how to Multiply and Divide quantities written in Scientific Notation. It includes the following: an introduction, prior knowledge skills needed, direct instruction, independent study, and youtube videos for enrichment. You will not have to write anything on the board. Every animation will be made by a click of a button. Your students will definitely be proficient upon completion!
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Grades:
7th - 9th
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Cross Sections
This PowerPoint is a detailed description, explanation, and animation of Cross Sections. It includes the following: an introduction, direct instruction, independent study, and 4 youtube videos that reinforce the skills and concepts. You will not have to write anything on the board. Every animation will be made by a click of a button. Your students will definitely be proficient upon completion!
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7th - 8th
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2 Dice Probability Bingo Game
Simple Bingo game where students can use a bingo game as an experiment to discover which values are the highest probability in either the sum of 2 dice or the difference of 2 dice.
Students fill in the sheets with values they think will come up. They get to fill in one square per round if the have a value that matches the sum/difference of the dice. After the first game is played, it should be played again to allow students to use their understanding to improve their chances. Eg. using more
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5th - 8th
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Financial Tradeoffs Discussion Prompts for Financial Literacy & Personal Finance
Here’s a quick and easy way to incorporate some basic financial literacy and personal finance (along with some critical thinking) into your middle or high school class (grades 7-10).These 8 prompts describe realistic financial situations about work, school, housing, weddings, cars, and retirement. Use them as research prompts, debate topics, or a simple classroom discussion (perfect for those 10-15 minutes you sometimes end up with at the end of a lesson). Only basic math skills and general fina
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7th - 10th, Adult Education
Constructing Triangles
This power point presentation shows students how to construct thriangles using Pencil, Ruler, Protractor or compasses. Step by step instructions are given for staff below each slide and my students tend to follow the instructions easily keeping up with sir. I then have them write into their books in their own words how they would construct the said triangle. This power point is three of my lessons put on one slideshow. Hence I would treat it as three lessons.
Grades:
6th - 8th
Conceptual Understanding for Operations: Rectangular Models
This PowerPoint includes animations for operations of whole numbers, decimals fractions and place value with rectangular models. You can demonstrate to students side-by-side the procedural and conceptual steps to add, subtract, multiply and divide rational numbers. To properly show animation, present to Presentation View. This item is designed to make teachers' explanation of operations meaningful and connect different levels of rigor. Topics include: place value, adding whole numbers, subt
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1st - 9th, Adult Education
FREE VERSION - Additive Inverse & Zero Pair Ninjas for teaching Integers
Do you need an interactive, fun, and engaging way to teach integers, zero pairs, or additive inverses? This PowerPoint is your answer, and will allow students to visually see what is happening when you add integers. It uses "good" and "bad" ninjas to demonstrate concepts of additive inverse and zero pairs.
If your student is not understanding how to add or subtract integers, please give this a try. Your students will love it! Mine do!
This is the free version where you are limited to 10 ninjas
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Grades:
6th - 10th
Days 1-5 Slides/Directions for SocioSim
The Socioeconomic Simulation can be framed as a financial literacy unit as well. Combining Math and ELA standards and cross-curricular group work, students can work with a variety of writing, reading, and math skills. These slides keep things organized, moving, and engaging as daily activities are presented and new challenges arise for the profiles in the group folders.
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
Also included in: Financial Literacy/Socioeconomic Simulation 5-Day Unit
Puzzling Pythagoras Mini Bundle: Script,Simulation & Interactive Puzzle Template
Powerpoint presentation created to guide an active and participatory lesson on proving the Pythagorean theorem and its converse, as well as working real life examples and understanding how you would use the Pythagorean theorem in 3D.
-visual simulation of how the puzzle they just solved proves the theorem.
-Last slide of powerpoint includes the printing template for the self discovery puzzle used at the beginning of class to visually and geometrically prove the Pythagorean theorem.
-slides come
Grades:
7th - 10th
Visual Substitution for a System of Equations
This powerpoint uses pictures of apples and bananas to represent a real-world system of equations. Using click-by-click animation, students can see how one apple can be replaced with three bananas because they are of equal value. This series of slides then lays the ground work for students to move from pictorial equations to symbolic equations using number and variables.
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Grades:
7th - 10th
Classroom Checking Accounts
Teach the students all about addition, subtraction, money, responsibility and so much more, all at the same time.
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3rd - 8th
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