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High school measurement research for GATE
3-D Name Project: Isometric Drawing
This engaging project develops students' understanding of crucial geometry concepts of volume, surface area, and spatial visualization. The comprehensive 21-page handout will provide everything you need to help your students foster these skills: isometric drawing paper, examples, full instructions, answer keys, and actual student samples. The Common Core connection is also included. You and your students will be rewarded with eye-popping examples of the beauty of mathematics.The activity include
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6th - 9th
Pi Day Activities - Notes, Worksheets, Task Cards and an Assessment
Use this resource for your Pi Day Celebration! Included you will find guided notes, a discussion activity, a vocabulary activity, task cards, an assessment, worksheets and a card board pizza circle activity. Your students will have fun learning about Pi!Below, you will find a brief description of each resource that is included in this mini-bundle!Find Someone WhoThis engaging activity has students discussing and summarizing the circumference and area of circles. Students will circulate throughou
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6th - 9th
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Constructing Triangles - Mini Unit
A 4 day mini unit on constructing triangles using a ruler, protractor and a compass. Common Core standard 7.G.2. May used as low as 5th and up to 9th. Students learn basic construction with simple steps. You will really be able to see if students are able to use a protractor with accuracy and for construction in addition to measuring. Day 1 includes a simple task that is done in class and one construction to be done independently. Day 2 includes step by step construction using a compass and two
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5th - 9th
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Scientific Method: Mystery Box Lab "Think Outside the Box"
This lab encourages the students to "Think Outside the Box!"
This lab is an excellent way to start a school year in the science lab!
It introduces the students to the scientific method, exposes them to the lab and tools/equipment commonly used, and is always a fun challenge!
The lab is easy to set up, low cost, and really fun for the students. The materials can be used year after year.
This lab allows teachers to cover a variety of important science topics including:
Scientific Method
Measu
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5th - 9th
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Losing Your Marbles: Function Connections You Can See
This visual demonstration/lab helps students make complete sense of functions. Topics addressed include slope, y-intercept, rise & run, slope-intercept form, domain & range, independent & dependent variables, and line of best fit. Whole number, fractional, and positive and negative slopes are addressed.
Adaptations make the lesson accessible to both younger and more advanced students.
The download includes complete instructions, activity masters, answer keys, Common Core alignment, a
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6th - 9th
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Human Mission to Mars Class Project
This class project involves groups of students selecting unique crew responsibilities to complete a larger goal of landing a human on Mars. Student requirements include scale model drawings of spacecraft, model construction, and unique problem solving. Each group of students work on their own part of the mission, but must collaborate with the rest of the class to make sure that the larger mission objectives remain synchronized. Covers many next generation science and engineering standards, in
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3rd - 12th
Spring Action Lab: A Bouncy and Engaging STEM Lab
Students will enjoy putting their learning to work in this engaging lab. Using springs or rubber bands, students measure and record data as they try to get a bucket to touch the floor by adding weights. Then they use their data and its graph to make predictions and write equations that will help them predict the outcomes. This simple and inexpensive lab will help your students learn graphing, t-tables, measurement, linear functions, and the physics of tension forces. This can be used as a stand-
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5th - 9th
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Teaching Area Formulas: Making Geometry Make Sense
Students will move through a seamless transition from finding the areas of squares to rectangles, parallelograms, triangles, and trapezoids.. The area formula for each polygon will build upon those they have already learned ensuring more retention and understanding of the formulas.Then they will apply these formulas to find the areas of complex shapes — the areas of states — as they apply their skills to problem-solving situations.
ENVIRO LAND - A DESIGN BRIEF
This design brief was developed as a general engineering brief but can be used for a variety of other purposes. For example, some students at the middle school level may still have difficulty in creating an overhead projection and as a result may have difficulty in reading and interpreting maps. An activity like this could prove helpful in identifying these students. Enviro-Land might also be used to reinforce the environmental issues the students have been studying as well as a venue for puttin
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6th - 9th
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NGSS:
HS-ETS1-2
, HS-ETS1-3
, MS-LS2-1
, MS-ETS1-1
, HS-ETS1-1
Also included in:Â ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE DESIGN BRIEFS
Operation Dream House
In this activity students will design, furnish, and decorate their dream home using the concepts of perimeter, area, and measurement. This project will help build student math skills and create a little fun along the way.
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5th - 12th
THE PI PROJECT: THINK OUTSIDE THE CIRCLE! Application,research & history of Pi
This activity is a 9 page project, which involves application, practice questions, research and the history of Pi. It is always interesting to teach the history of math, along with the formulas!. The ancients have contributed so much to our modern world. Use this for an assessment grade, or a unit grade, or for a project. Math is truly amazing! Who invented the integers? Who initiated pi? It is classical to teach the math in context with its history. Students appreciate math more, when t
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4th - 10th
Florida Freshwater Springs and an Ecotourism Activity
Students will read about Florida's Springs. They will then use their knowledge of metric measurement to find values on a ruler that represent the average discharge of water for a sampling of 15 first magnitude springs.
Students will research the top 15 springs and determine which one they would like to base an ecotourism business. Students will learn the importance of sustainable business by practicing in such a manner that the environment is the same or better than the way they found it.
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6th - 12th
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ECONOMICS/FINANCE: CHARTING STOCKS/FACTS ABOUT EXCHANGES ACTIVITY/ GRS.6-12, MG
Students get acquainted with 3 different securities exchanges by charting close of business prices on 3 different lithium stocks. The 3 exchanges are NYSE, NASDAQ, and OTC. Lithium is a metal in demand now. (Actually there are about 60 stock exchanges globally) There are famous quotes by American statesmen, and other men of wealth included in this activity. There are some questions to be researched about stock exchanges and their development, as well. Thanks ever so much for visiting and suppo
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6th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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Scale Diagram House Project
This is a scale model project. Students will find the actual dimensions of their house, perform the unit conversions and calculations and then create a 3D replica on a free software called Tinkercad, which is available to anyone online. The resource includes the workbook, where students will complete all their work, a teacher assessment sheet, and follow up questions. This project aligns with the concepts of Scale Reductions, Scale Enlargements, and Conversions. It is in an editable word documen
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7th - 12th
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Algebra: Creating Equations and Rearranging Formulas
Create a foldable graphic organizer to rearrange formulas and highlight a quantity of interest, using the same reasoning as in solving equations.Please follow me to hear about new discounts, freebies, and product launches.Visit my Beautiful Mathematics Store for more engaging math lessons.Love finding STE(A)M activities that get the class outdoors and appreciating nature? Try an activity from our Natural STEAM series:Natural STEAM Activity #5: Building a Bacteria BurgNatural STEAM Activity #4: R
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7th - 9th
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Design a Dream Vacation Cabin Geometry
In this mini-project, students will design and draw to scale (plan and elevation views) their dream vacation cabin. They will calculate areas of the flooring, siding and roofing. Then they will research the internet and choose materials, find actual costs, and calculate total materials costs for those parts of their cabin. Handouts including a guide for students and a simple rubric, are included. Pythagorean theorem is used to calculate roofing.
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6th - 10th
3D shape hunt and shape attributes worksheet
Year 5 mathematics and geometry 2 worksheets3D shape hunt worksheet - Take students through the school through a 3D shape hunt. Have students spot and draw 3D shapes around the school. 3D shape attribute - Using 3D models students fill in the attributes of 3D shapes.
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Bubble Gum Physics, Yum!
A STEM or STEAM lab that explains the fundamentals of science such as the scientific method, lab skills, and measurement. Students love this one because they are allowed to chew gum in class and they are so surprised by the results! The download includes an extension activity and a modified lab for students of various abilities. The download also includes teacher notes.
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5th - 9th
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Surface Area Inquiry Assignment - Remodel Your Bedroom
Students get to use their knowledge of surface area and other math concepts to renovate their bedroom on a budget! What a great way to give life to math concepts and relate them to the real world!Students will choose a budget to stick to for remodelling their bedroom. They can make their room renovation as extravagant as they want, within the budget provided. Maybe they want to paint their room several different colours, or perhaps they like wallpaper. On your floors, maybe they like hardwoo
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7th - 12th
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Back and Forth We Go!
In this fun lab activity, students will work with pendulums and determine what is important in determining the period of a pendulum. Students will discover ways that pendulums are used in our world and why they work as they do. This lab involves a great deal of math calculations and measurements. Working in groups of 3-4 is advised. Be sure to have all supplies ready prior to doing the lab. (ring stands, protractors, metric rulers, fishing weights or washers, string, scissors, cal
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7th - 10th
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Shapes test (flow, networks, area, composite shapes, volume)
An assignment test for an extension Year 8 or 9 class that covers flow through networks, area of shapes includes triangles, trapeziums, circles and circle segments, perimeter and area of composite shapes, the volumes of prisms and some worded problems.
The documents is 8 pages long in *.docx form.
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7th - 10th
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GEOMETRY: SET OF 12 MATH JOURNALING DO-NOWS/ FUN! CHALLENGING!
This is a set of 12 math journaling do- nows which contribute to the overall knowledge in geometry and the history of this amazing subject. Teaching math is fun! Hang them up on a bulletin board, use them for an extra homework tid-bit. Use this for an internet prep, as well. Thanks ever so much for visiting!
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4th - 10th, Adult Education, Staff
ASTRONOMY DO NOW: CIRCA ACTIVITY #6 : CALCULATING FAR AWAY PLANETS
Students take a look at two super earth- like planets which are identified by numbers.They calculate their distance in miles. This formula is easier because it does not have exponents. Thanks so much for visiting. An answer key is provided.
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6th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff
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SCIENCE CROSS-CURRICULAR WRITING PROMPT/PROJECT GRADES 9-12
TEACHERS: THIS IS A CHALLENGE PROJECT FOR YOUR AP MATH, GIFTED STUDENTS, AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.
USE THIS FOR A CONTEST, COMPETITION, OR A HOMEWORK PROJECT. IT IS A CROSS-CURRICULAR PROJECT THAT INCLUDES WRITING. HAVE A GREAT SCHOOL YEAR AMERICA! EXCELSIOR! P.S. THE STAFF CAN HAVE SOME FUN WITH THIS, ALSO!
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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