 | A Grave Mistake 
Students will analyze data to trace the flow of contaminants in ground water. Students use number, number sense, and number relationships in a problem-solving situation. middle school, secondary.
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| A Package of Pringle
Students are consultants asked to help a fictional factory that produces potato chips. The company is having financial trouble due to waste in the packing department. Students must find the most feasible, inexpensive means of packaging the product to ensure safe delivery. Secondary.
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| Archeological Dig
Students on an archeological dig have unearthed several fragments of plates and need to find the diameter of the original plates. Secondary.
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| Are we that different worksheet
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| Are we that different?
Students will find poll data on two issues of interest from the internet or news publications. They will ask classmates the same questions and compare the results both quantitatively and graphically. Examples may be helpful. Middle school, secondary. Goes with Are We That Different Worksheet.
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| Are We There Yet?
Students learn to use and convert to metric measurements. Secondary.
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| Barbie Bungee Lab
Barbie has planned a vacation out west to bungee jump. She wants to make sure that the resort accurately calculates the length of her bungee cord. You are going to conduct some tests to predict how long her bungee cord should be for her “Ultimate Thrill”. Goes with The Barbie Bungee Drop lesson plan. Middle school, secondary.
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| Burn baby burn ( or not)
Students are a team of firefighters responsible for the water pressure during a structure fire and must calculate the needed pump pressure to insure that the fire will be put out, the hose remains undamaged, and the firefighters can handle the hose. Secondary.
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| Can you build the tallest structure?
Students use 3 sheets of plain white paper, one meter of tape and scissors to construct the tallest structure possible. Middle school, secondary.
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| Career Research Project
Students identify a career of interest, research it, interview someone currently employed in that position, shadow someone currently employed in that position, and create a brochure or presentation. Secondary.
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| Castaway or Survivor
Students stranded on the deserted island experiment with coins, paper and salt water in order to make a battery cell. Secondary. Goes with Castaway or Survivor Worksheet.
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| Castaway or Survivor Worksheet
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| Cereal for all
Students take a cereal box apart to determine the total surface area of the box and how much material is needed to create the box. Secondary.
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| Comparing Pulse Rates
Students find their pulse, count the number of beats in a 10-second period, and use number, number sense, and number relationships in a problem-solving situation. Middle school, secondary.
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| Double the Fizz, Double the...
Students use number, number sense, and number relationships in a problem-solving situation, including algebraic methods to investigate, model, and interpret patterns and functions involving numbers, shapes, data, and graphs.
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| Frame Yourself
Students create a frame for a picture of themsevles by determining the size of the frame and cutting it from poster board. Secondary.
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| Free Pizza
Students create their own pizza using choices of toppings. They are able to “order” their creation from the Internet and see a digitalized version of your pizza. They will use their order to calculate the area of various size pizza, determine the “best buy’, and cost per topping. Secondary. Goes with the Internet Pizza Server.
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| Friction Lab
Students play the role of a lab technician for a company that manufactures outdoor patio coverings, and they must determine the “slipperiness” of your company’s product by determining the coefficient of friction of each sample provided in both wet and dry conditions. Secondary.
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| Genetic engineering, cloning and ethical concerns
Students apply scientific principles to personal and social issues.
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| Gift Wrapping Mania
Students are the supply manager in the gift wrapping department at a department store and must calculate the amount of wrapping paper to order for the holiday season. Secondary.
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| Global Food Supply
Students research topics that relate to food supply of given country, and decide three factors that have the greatest effect on the food supply, then prepare and present oral report, using at least one visual aid. Secondary.
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| Going My Way Worksheet
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| Going My Way?
Students find the best route between two locations in a state and determine the length of time it will take to get there. Middle school, secondary. Goes with Going My Way Worksheet.
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| Granny's Blanket
Students make one portion of a granny quilt then assemble the parts so that they all fit nicely and from a larger blanket. Secondary.
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| How much electric power do you produce?
Students determine the dollar amount of how much money could we generate for our school, if the power company would pay us to generate electricity by a person climbing stairs. Secondary.
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| Internet Pizza Server worksheet
Goes with Free Pizza lesson plan.
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| Job Shadow Presentation
The students will be excused from school one day to go shadow someone in a working environment.
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| Lengthy School Building
Students will learn to use the tangent ratio to plan the number of shrubs along one side of a school building. Secondary.
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| Meiosis
Meiosis is the process by which sex cells (gametes) are formed through additional cell division. Students develop and understanding of scientific concepts using facts, theories, principles, and models.
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| Mysterious Object
Students apply geometric concepts, properties, and relationships in a problem-solving situation in which they must construct a paper airplane. Secondary.
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| Pack It Up Worksheet
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| Pack It Up!
Students work for a company that produces a spherical product which has a diameter of 1 cubic foot. They determine the size of a rectangular container required to ship half a dozen of the spheres to a customer and make one of these containers. Middle school, secondary. Goes with Pack It Up Worksheet.
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| Painter's Paradise
Students determine the cost of painting a room, and then make a decision whether to paint it themselves or hire someone to do it for them. Middle school, secondary.
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| Painter's Paradise Worksheet
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| Penny half-life
Students are lab technicians at a government funded research lab. An unknown, radioactive substance has been discovered near the water supply of a major city. In order to assess the potential hazard, the substance must be identified. One of the identifying characteristics of this type substance is its half-life. Secondary.
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| Photo Finish
Students take a freeze-action photo of a race and use the photo to mark the ending place for each runner on a graph. The students then determine and compare the slopes and speeds of the two runners using the lines. Secondary. Goes with Photo Finish worksheet.
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| Photo Finish worksheet
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| Pre-Employment Test for Industry - Numerical Test
I use this test to help my Math for the Technology students to realize that math problems are really in everyday life. Secondary.
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| Predicting Trait Characteristics
Students will determine the odds or probability of a particular trait being inherited by the offspring of two parent organisms.
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| Predicting Trait Inheritance
Students develop an understanding of scientific concepts using facts, theories, principles, and models.
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| Rocket Lab
Students are writerw for a consumer report type magazine. Their task is to evaluate a model rocket given you for ease of assembly and performance. Teams assemble and launch the rocket and calculate the acceleration, maximum speed and maximum altitude of the rocket. Secondary.
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| Roller coaster tycoon
Students design a working scale model of a roller coaster incorporating concepts of velocity, acceleration, friction, conservation of energy, potential energy, and kinetic energy. Secondary.
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| Scale Drawings
Students sketch an enlargement of a cartoon using geometry and ratios. Secondary.
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| Scale It Down and Raise It Up
Students acting in groups bring information obtained from the groups together to act as a whole to construct the final model of a wall. Secondary.
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| Slope & Safety
Students learn to measure the rise and run to find the slope of each of the following: ramp, driveway, street parking, a set of steps, stairs. Secondary.
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| Smart Pills Graphing Lab
Students use number, number sense, and number relationships in a problem-solving situation. Middle school, secondary. Goes with Smart Pills Lab Worksheets.
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| Smart Pills Lab Worksheets
Worksheets for Smart Pills Graphing Lab.
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| Spring Constant
Students are quality control technicians for a spring manufacturing company, whose task is to randomly choose a spring and, using the Hook’s law device, measure the spring constant and determine if it meets specifications. Secondary.
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| The Barbie Bungee Drop
To create a mathematical model or equation relating the distance a Barbie doll will fall and the number of rubber bands making up the bungee cord. Goes with Barbie Bungee Drop. Middle school, secondary.
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| The Numbers Game
The students are given common daily numerical / alpha equations that they have to translate into real world meaning. Middle school, secondary. Goes with Numbers Game answer key and student worksheets.
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| The Numbers Game Answer Key
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| The Numbers Game Student Worksheet
Goes with The Numbers Game and Numbers Game Answer Sheet.
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| This is Your Life
Students develop biographies of famous people to understand the impact upon society and the environment of scientific and technological discoveries and the contributions of scientists.
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| What's In Your Burger?
Students use notation, rows/columns, basic matrix operations and in pairs work from an activity sheet and a McDonald’s Nutritional Guide (2001) to complete the questions on the activity sheet. Secondary.
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| What's in Your Burger Worksheet
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