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Common Core 6.RP.A.1 cultural activities
Black History Month: FOUR Math Activities Bundle!
Black History Month: FOUR Math Activities Bundle!Get ALL FOUR of my Black History Month Activities: *including KOBE BRYANT*1. Hidden Figures: Math Activity (Evaluating ExpressionsThe activity gives a brief description of the three brilliant African-American women at NASA -- Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. This is a great activity for your class after watch
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6th - 8th
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Walter McAfee: Black History Month Math Activity (Ratios and Proportions)
Walter McAfee: Black History Month Math Activity (Ratios & Proportions)This is a math activity celebrating Black History Month. The activity gives a brief description of Walter McAfee. McAfee has been credited for calculating the distance from the earth to the moon using radar technology.Students will then answer 13 questions about outer space including the moon, and the planets in our solar system. Each question is aligned with the 6th grade common core standards about rates, ratios, ratio
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6th - 7th
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Also included in: Black History Month: Math Activities Bundle!
Ratios: Travel the World Long-term Project
This long-term, real-world project is one of my FAVORITES. I use it as a collaborative activity that spans over several weeks during math centers. It is rigorous, engaging and relevant.
Students solve problems using:
1) tape diagrams (bar models)
2) ratio tables
Students are given the exchange rates sheet (included) and there are 7 different countries that they will "travel" to with the goal of staying under $2000 in total. Each "country" has various questions for calculating money spent. I
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6th - 7th
STEM Canoe-building unit for Elementary
This lesson plan provides a fun and engaging way for students to learn about Hawaiian culture and traditional canoe building techniques while also enhancing their engineering and math skills. By building and decorating their own canoe models, students will have the opportunity to exercise their creativity and problem-solving abilities. Encouraging them to use accurate measurements and proportions will also help improve their math skills. Sharing their finished models with the class will allow fo
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
Math Global Awareness Project
Math is THE hardest subject to involve Global Awareness. In this project, students find out information about how people in a different country live. Students research population, clean water, homeless percentage, and minimum wage. Link to easier version -- all students research America instead of different countries.During this project, students will…Research informationCreate ratios from information givenCreate a double number line to help find equivalent ratiosUse a table to help find equival
Grades:
5th - 8th
Global Awareness Project (Easier Version)
Math is THE hardest subject to involve Global Awareness. In this project, students find out information about how people in America live. Students research population, clean water, homeless percentage, and minimum wage.Link to regular version -- students are given a country -- all students do not do America.During this project, students will…Research informationCreate ratios from information givenCreate a double number line to help find equivalent ratiosUse a table to help find equivalent ratios
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Grades:
5th - 8th
CHINESE/ LUNAR NEW YEAR- What is the Ratio? Task Cards
Bring Chinese New Year into your math class! These are designed for middle school Life Skills, particularly students taking the WA-AIM. This is not a test item, and does not meet the criteria to use in the actual assessment. However, they would also be useful for a resource, intervention, or gen ed math class needing additional practice in identifying ratios. These task cards contain pictures of items relevant to Chinese New Year- fire crackers, dragons, lions, red envelopes, lanterns, dumpling
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6th - 8th
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Also included in: WA-AIM Bundle for Middle School (Grades 6,7,8)- 1 NEW ADDED!
Day of the Dead Living Skeletons
This lesson integrates the common core standards for math (proportion) and language arts as related to social studies with the national standards for visual art. It includes a PowerPoint introduction to the Day of the Dead (El Dia de los Muertos), and step by step instructions for drawing a skeleton in proportion, dressing it up, and coloring it with both oil and soft pastels. It also includes a rubric for student self-assessment.
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6th - 8th
The Divine Me, A Culturally Responsive Lesson on Identity
This lesson is designed to help students express their identity through math and artwork. Identity is a key component of culturally responsive education. Use this lesson to connect to math or as a stand alone learning experience.
Concepts covered: Math/Ratios, Composition, Golden Ratio, Divine Proportion/Rule of Thirds
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6th - 12th
Math Test Prep
Need a spiral review to review all the 5th grade common core math standards? This resource contains slides of 6th grade math test questions (printable and digital versions) specifically written from the common core math standards. About the 6th Grade Math Test Prep ReviewThis resource was created to serve as a spiral review of 6th grade common core math standards prior to state testing.Included in this resource:✏ Skill alignment✏ Answer key
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6th
Adopt a Habitattitude
Adopt a Habitattitude(TM) is a series of classroom-tested, electronically available activities designed to be used by teachers and informal educators in grades 6-12. These innovative and engaging activities can help students learn about and prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species (AIS). In order to protect and sustain our water bodies for future generations, youth—our future decision makers and leaders—need to acquire relevant knowledge about AIS to become effective and responsible decisi
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Grades:
6th - 12th
NGSS:
MS-LS1-5
, MS-LS2-2
, MS-LS2-3
, MS-LS2-5
, MS-LS2-4
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