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Manipula Math with JAVA: Middle School Geometry

Manipula Math with JAVA: Middle School Geometry
Grades 5 - 10
Content Resource
This site uses interactive animation to explore geometric concepts for middle school and high school students. Each interactive program, or applet, presents a problem with opportunities for the student to do structured explorations. In the applets, relationships between variables presented in the problem can be manipulated, allowing the student, for example, to investigate the meaning of the Pythagorean Theorem or find the sum of the exterior angles of a polygon.

Bottled Model Lungs

Bottled Model Lungs
Grades 6 - 8
Instructional Resource - Best Practice
The purpose of this lesson is to build a model of the respiratory system and investigate the inputs, outputs, and interactions of the parts in the system. Through the activities in this lesson, students will learn about the respiratory system by comparing and contrasting models, building their own models, and giving one another feedback.(author/ts)

Listen, Look and Learn: An Information-Gathering Process

Listen, Look and Learn: An Information-Gathering Process
Grades Kindergarten - 2
Instructional Resource - Promising Practice
In this lesson, teachers use a variety of resources to model an information-gathering process for primary learners. Students listen to stories, read written texts, and examine photos and diagrams to answer key questions related to a topic of study.