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Use skittles as "dice" and record data of how many are S up when you roll them. Students learn that it is exponential.

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Give each student a mini Snickers bar and have them explain the different layers of the candy bar. Use this lesson to lead into relative age dating methods of rocks.

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Students are given "Which One Doesn't Belong" picture and record a response

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Give a prompt every Friday relating to content covered that week.

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Assign them a number for two truths and a lie. Demonstrate it first. They must analyze the number or convert form to find the lie.

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Stack paper cups separated with an index card with a string attached to it. Have students pull one string in order to have the cups fall in a straight line to stack inside one another to introduce the concept of inertia (Newton's First Law).

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All 6th grade math classes compete against each other during the month of March in a math madness bracket using the game 24.

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Set up challenges throughout the week - instead of letters to create words they are using numbers/terms to create expressions, categorize their expressions by the number of terms used

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Get very large plastic sheeting from Lowe's - cut holes in it large enough for studnets. Have students represent molecules and act out diffusion as water molecules. Can be redone with some student in hula hoops to represent larger molecules or charged molecules

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Turn off all of the lights, hang "seaweed" from the ceiling (cut up green plastic table cloths), project an underwater aquarium on the board, play ocean sounds overhead. Give each student a "rock" (black card stock paper with coordinates on them). Line up the students to symbolize the mid-ocean ridge.

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determine the height of the ball by using the time it hits after throwing it.

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Hang printed out flies all over the ceiling of your classroom. When they walk in they are instantly curious. This leads into the story about Descartes's inspiration for the coordinate system. Tell the story and then act out coordinate graphing on a life size quadrant 1 mat

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-Book Tasting Party: I set up my room like a cafe (playing dinner music, checkered table cloths, battery operated candles)and I have six different genres of books on tables. I set students on a timer and they rotate tables "tasting books." This gets students interested in books.

Test Prep
-Set up board games like candy land, shoots and ladders, trouble, etc. and put students into groups. Then, students can only play the game if they get the question correct.

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Tell students you will be "Mating" in class tomorrow. Explain NOTHING else : ) Next day -- Students have a cup that represents their "genes" they will find a partner - mate and get a new partner for the next 10 rounds. Overtime see how a population will change.

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No Talk Challenge - Ordering Rational Numbers

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No Talk Challenge - Ordering Rational Numbers

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Give each student a card with a rational number and challenge them to get in numerical order. Time them. Choose a student to check the work. Give new numbers and try again.

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Record myself on a shopping trip and ask them to determine if I am getting a good deal. (yes you look silly talking to yourself in a store...but it is amazing!)

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Making menus and setting up the classroom like a restaurant while using different objects like dry macaroni pasta for kids to insert commas in passages

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Demonstrate the formation of a polymer with hand-holding --> break the bond --> chain propagation.

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Divide the room into three sections and give them a country (either Austria, Great Britain, or Russia). Have them decorate their "station" in their colors and give a prize for the most patriotic display. After this activity, teach about nationalism and how it led to the start of WW1.

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Students bring their fav recipes. Pick one, change the recipe to serve more or less people. Make it! Or bring cookies to feed them after working with the recipes.

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Hand out target plastic bags when students walk into class. For the lesson they shop at Target in your classroom comparing unit rates and the better buy.

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Dance Party for types of Angles.
Have lines taped on the floor and music playing

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Students walk around school [and the neighborhood school is in] to identify as many different quadrilaterals as possible.

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Display one or more pictures on the promethean board and have students infer what we will discuss.
Extend by giving each child a vocabulary word or description of the specific topic as they enter the class that relates to the images. Have them guess which image goes along with the term they were given.

Before discussing with the whole group, give kids a chance to talk in pairs or small groups.

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Making food cells to learn the different organelles of a cell

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Making food cells to learn the different organelles of a cell

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Fill a small inflatable pool with plastic eggs (Y for male, X for female) that hold different chromosomes inside. Students will pair up with male and female eggs to create an offspring using their combined genetic data.

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Each student gets an envelope with different information. Must work together to connect all the information.

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Tell students that the dress code has changed for prom (to something restrictive). Channel the outrage. Why can't this happen in our gov't?

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-Sewer Lice - have box delivered during class that has FRAGILE LIVE SPECIMEN on the box. Inside have a flask with "living samples" (really sprite/mt dew with raisins. Show students that they are a new species and the are moving (they move up and down). Tell students they are edible and found in sewers - eventually eat one - very dramatically. Then throw one on a desk - eventually they will figure out its a raisin. Talk about characteristics of life (movement isn't alive). Talk about being a skeptic in science.

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Choose a recipe
Price shop - cost for ingredients
Double recipe or cut in half
Make it at home with family if possible.

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Design an car. Use their car to go through digestive system.