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Trashketball review for ratios, fractions, decimals and percents.: This lesson will help the students with changing from ratios to fractions, fractions to decimals, and decimals to percents.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics); By David Crumm.

Pizza anyone?: Students survey their class and analyze data about favorite pizza toppings. This activity is meant to be fun and engaging, with the class participating and making decisions as a whole.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics); By Jack Hunter.

Phi: The divine proportion: In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 2.5; The "divine ratio" is valued by designers, artists, and architects because of its interesting and and unique properties. In this lesson for grade six, students learn about this ratio and use it to create a work of art.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics); By Kim Abrams, Mike McDowell, and Barbara Strange.

CareerStart lessons: Grade six: This collection of lessons aligns the sixth grade curriculum in math, science, English language arts, and social studies with potential career opportunities.; Format: (multiple pages)

See how they run!: The 100 meter dash: Middle level students will collect times as they run the 100 meter dash. These times will be depicted through various graphic representations (bar, circle, histogram). Times will be compared to current world records for the 100 meters. Students will decide which Math class ran fastest and support that choice in short essay form. They will also try to determine the faster gender based on the data collected.

This lesson plan is a unit filled with related lesson plans. One or two parts of this project could be completed as a stand-alone lesson, or the entire set of activities and extensions could be completed for an involved, integrated unit.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Mathematics); By Holly Smith.

Spin, toss, and roll!: Students will use hands-on experiments to find the probability that certain events will occur.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics); By Carol Baldwin.

Interdisciplinary Integrated Unit on DNA/Genetics Part B: Math: The second lesson of an interdisciplinary integrated unit on DNA and genetics, focusing on math. The other lessons in the unit focus on science and language arts.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Computer/Technology Skills and Mathematics); By Jane Lentz, Jimmy White, Marlene Smith, and Tori Goldrick.

Improving your technology utilization: A quick review can help you determine whether your school is making the most of its technology budget.; By Chris Hitch.

The drought causes conservation: The students will use their knowledge of the importance of water to learn about the hydrosphere. The drought being experienced will be explored through graphs and a personal plan for water conservation.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Science); By Linda Cummer.

Perimeter and area around the North Carolina zoo: Students learn about perimeter, area and scale drawings of various geometric shapes. As they learn they apply their knowledge to different animal enclosures at the North Carolina Zoo. To gather information about design of animal enclosures the classes visit the zoo. The students then compile all they learned by creating a scaled drawing and model of an human habitation exhibit for a zoo.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics); By Susan Hoercher.

Asian, African, or Australian inventors & inventions: The lesson integrates both Social Studies and Language Arts in a research and a creative writing component. The student will further understand inventors or inventions from Asia, Africa, and Australia, the focused continents in the 7th grade Social Studies curriculum, as well as have the opportunity to develop his/her writing, reading, and oral communication skills. The project also incorporates mathematics with an emphasis on percentages and graphing.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts, Information Skills, Mathematics, and Social Studies); By Jeff Rachlin and Melissa Reid.

Camp Earth bound: Problem solving and finding for fun: Students will work together in small groups of four to six students to solve the following word problems. Their solutions will require them to practice interview techniques and create a database and/or spreadsheet of their results. This information will be the basis of the answers to the following eight word problems. Skills such as area, cost, calorie count, ratio, percentage and scale, as well as persuasive writing will be applied.; Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)

Savor the rainbow: Use skittles to help the students practice the concepts of sorting data, recording data, writing the data collected in fraction form (part/whole), changing the fractions into decimals and percents, and taking the data collected and making a spreadsheet, bar graph, and circle graph of the data.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics); By Beverly Revis.

Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education: Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, 402 U.S. 1 (1971) was an important United States Supreme Court case dealing with the busing of students to promote integration in public schools.; Format: court decision/primary source

Experimental archaeology: Making cordage: In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.8; Students will make cordage and use an activity sheet to experience a technique and skill that ancient Native Americans in North Carolina needed for everyday life. They will also compute the amount of time and materials that might have been required to make cordage and construct a scientific inquiry to study the contents of an archaeological site.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)

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The golden ratio: In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students learn and understand the concept of ratio. They learn about the Golden Ratio, used by the painter Leonardo da Vinci in his work, while exploring different ratios to see whether the Golden... (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics); Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

United States Historical Census Browser: This site is a historical census browser (U.S., from 1790 to 1960) with capabilities for tasks such as producing tables of data by state or country, creating ratios between any two data categories, generating maps of selected data, and more. (Learn more); Format: website/general; Provided by: University of Virginia

Blue squares and beyond: In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students manipulate two rectangles to create examples of similarity and to study the effects on area ratios. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Mathematics); Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Understanding ratios of areas of inscribed figures using interactive diagrams: Using dynamic and interactive geometric figure, students understand connections between algebra and geometry. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Mathematics); Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Center for Education Reform: Information on the current state of education in America, including education facts, research, and articles and many resources about school choice and charter schools. (Learn more); Format: website/general; Provided by:

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