Mathematics
Exponent Rules and Scientific Notation Workshop
Students apply exponent rules, convert between standard and scientific notation, multiply in scientific notation and solve a travel-time problem.
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Mathematics
Exponential Growth, Decay and Logarithms: Lab Data Case Study
Students use a bacteria-growth case study, a half-life problem and compound interest to practice exponential functions, then connect exponents and logarithms.
Mathematics
Factoring Basics: GCF, Trinomials, and Zero Products
Students factor out the GCF, factor simple trinomials and differences of squares, solve quadratics with the zero-product rule, and find factoring errors.
Career & technical ed.
Farm and Shop Safety: Spot the Hazards
Students read a made-up farm shop scene and a sample chemical label, identify hazards, explain what could go wrong and choose safer actions.
Social studies
GDP Basics: Measuring the Economy of Zandria
Students use the expenditure formula to compute GDP, growth and GDP per person for a made-up economy, and decide what counts in GDP.
English language arts
How Bats Find Their Way in the Dark: Main Idea and Cause and Effect
Students read an original science article about echolocation and answer questions on main idea, evidence and cause and effect.
English language arts
How the Writer Built It: Text Structure in a Passage About Honeybees
Students read an original informational passage about honeybee communication and identify the structure and purpose of each paragraph.
Communications & media
Inform or Persuade? Sorting Speech Excerpts and Appeals
Students sort original speech excerpts into informative and persuasive, match three persuasion appeals, and write a thesis for each purpose.
English language arts
Informative Paragraph: From Fact Cards to Finished Writing
Students sort eight fact cards about honeybee colonies into useful and off-topic, then turn the useful facts into a well-organized informative paragraph.
Business & personal finance
Investing Basics: Stocks, Bonds, Index Funds and Diversification
Students learn the basic types of investments, compare a concentrated and a diversified portfolio using made-up returns, and see how fees add up.
Technology & computer science
Is This Source Reliable? Judge Three Sample Websites
Students compare written descriptions of three fictional websites using author, evidence, date and purpose, and decide which are reliable.
Technology & computer science
Keyboarding Theory: Home Row, Posture and Typing Speed Math
Students learn finger assignments, ergonomics and the typing speed formula, then practice home-row finger placement silently on the desk.