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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing Scale Drawings - Floorplan Your Classroom -
Grades: 6Subjects: Mathematics, Measurement & GeometryThe activities presented here allow students to study mathematics by doing real-life architecture to walk through the floor plan...Contributor: CTAP Region 4Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMeasuring Shadows
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Science, MathematicsIn this Science NetLinks lesson, students determine the pattern (length and direction) of shadows cast by sunlight during a seve...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkReal Estate Tycoon
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Engineering & Design, Economics, History-Social Science, Mathematics and 2 additional..This year-long project, from Illuminations, is divided into three parts and reinforces skills that lay a foundation for algebra,...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFinding Our Top Speed
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Science, MathematicsThis Illuminations lesson sets the stage for a discussion of travel in the solar system. By considering a real-world, hands-on a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMeasurement Terms
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: MathematicsThis lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, introduces relationships between measurement and geometry. The activit...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDo You Measure Up?
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: MathematicsIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students learn the basics of the metric system. They identify which...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDiscovering Gallon Man
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: MathematicsIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students experiment with units of liquid measure used in the custom...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOff the Scale
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, Mathematics, GeographyIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students use real-world examples to solve problems involving scale ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOrbiting Satellites
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Mathematics, Algebra & Functions, Science, Weather, Climate & AtmosphereIn this lesson, from Illuminations, students explore the concept of orbits, specifically the connection of Earth-orbiting satell...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShopping Mall Math
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: Number Sense, MathematicsIn this two-lesson unit, from Illuminations, students participate in activities in which they develop number sense in and around...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShops at the Mall
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Number Sense, MathematicsIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students develop number sense in and around the shopping mall. They...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCastles & Cornerstones
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: Engineering & Design, History-Social Science, Visual Arts, World History, MathematicsThis ARTSEDGE lesson explores the historic importance and function of castles in King Arthur's time, and introduces students to ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentScaling Away
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: MathematicsThis reproducible worksheet, from an Illuminations lesson, contains questions regarding the effect of multiplying by a scale fac...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0- Resource Type: Document
Scale Factor
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: MathematicsThis reproducible transparency, from an Illuminations lesson, features information about scale factors.Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0 
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDo I Have to Mow the Whole Thing?
Grades: 5 to 7Subjects: Algebra & Functions, Functions, MathematicsThis lesson offers examples of inverse variation. Students collect data and generate graphs before finding specific equations fo...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkConversion Calculator
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Unit Conversions, Mathematics, Measurement & Tools, Time, Measurement & GeometryConversions for weight, distance, temperature, area, mass, time, cooking, volumeContributor: CTAP Region 4Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentCST Review Jeopardy Grade 7 MG & SDP
Grades: 7 to 8Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematics, Measurement & GeometryA Jeopardy game using released CST questions in measurement and geometry, statistics, probability, and data analysis for grade 7.Contributor: Micheline LeBlancViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArchitects in Action
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: MathematicsIn this Discovery Education lesson, students will: 1. understand that ratios are used to create scale models of buildings a...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMetric Conversions - PBS Interactives
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: MathematicsLearn how metric and English symbols are used to measure and express mass, length, volume and temperature.Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMathline: Math at the Mall
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: Career & Technical Ed, Calculus, Number Sense, Finance & Business and 3 additional..This resource, from PBS TeacherSource, features a math lesson related to shopping malls. Shopping areas are places where student...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0