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This lesson plan, from the Contextualize to Learn project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is an exploration done with base-ten blocks. In this activity, students are paired up and work with base-ten blocks to show that the four digits of a four-digit natural number represents amounts of...

In this lab activity from the Biotechnology Alliance for Suncoast Biology Educators (BASBE), students will use a compound microscope to examine a few simple plant and animal tissues and explore the idea of different cell types that specialize in their form and function. Students then submit a set of...

Lesson Description: This lesson is the third of nine lessons from the Vocational Math: Contextualized for Construction course that was taught at Madison Area Technical College. During this lesson, students work in groups to measure plywood thickness and use that measurement to do calculations (on...

This polynomials lesson, from the Contextualize to Learn project at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, is part of a series of seven applied electronics math lessons. In this lesson students practice adding, subtracting and multiplying polynomials. Students practice factoring quadratic equations,...

Learning Unit Description: The Integrated Geospatial Education and Technology Training Project (iGETT) presents a series of Learning Units (LU) designed to incorporate federal land remote sensing data into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) instruction. The Evaluating Post-Fire Vegetation...

Learning Unit Description:  The Integrated Geospatial Education and Technology Training (iGETT) presents a series of Learning Units (LU) designed to incorporate federal land remote sensing data into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) instruction. This lesson uses GIS and remote sensing...

Lesson Description:  This lesson is the sixth of nine lessons from the Vocational Math: Contextualized for Construction course that was taught at Madison Area Technical College. During this lesson students work in groups, followed by whole class discussion, on volume problems contextualized for...

This resource, published by Georgia Tech Research Institute, features a mathematics and finance activity designed for eighth graders. In this activity, "students use linear systems of equations to explore the finances of funding and building a power plant using different insulation materials."...

Lesson Description: This lesson is the second of three in the Introduction to Agriculture unit of a precision agriculture education series provided by Northeast Community College. These lessons are intended to teach "... broad scale concepts of precision agriculture, the components that make it...

Lesson Description: This lesson is the first of three in the Introduction to Agriculture unit of a precision agriculture education series provided by Northeast Community College. These lessons are intended to teach "... broad scale concepts of precision agriculture, the components that make it...