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Plant Parts and Plant Needs: Match, Sort, Explain
Students read a short passage on plant parts and growth needs, match each part to its job, sort foods by the plant part we eat, and explain what a struggling plant is…
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Project Cost Estimate: Planning a Bookshelf Budget
Students plan the cuts for a bookshelf on paper, compare board-length options, and build a cost estimate with tax from a provided price list.
Career & technical ed.
Reading a Floor Plan: Scale, Dimensions and Area
Students use a 1/4 inch = 1 foot scale to convert drawn sizes into real room dimensions, calculate floor area and flooring costs, and answer questions about plan symbols and dimension lines.
Career & technical ed.
Reading a Nutrition Facts Label: Do the Math
Students use a made-up nutrition label to multiply by servings, calculate calories from fat and percent daily value, and compare cost per bar.
Career & technical ed.
Reading Sixteenths: Ruler and Tape Measure Practice
Students practice reading U.S. ruler and tape-measure marks in sixteenths of an inch, adding and subtracting lengths, converting units, and fixing a common measuring mistake.
Career & technical ed.
Reading the Road: Sign Shapes, Colors, and Who Goes First
Students match sign shapes and colors to their meanings and use safe-driving reasoning on four right-of-way scenarios.
Career & technical ed.
Robot Logic on Paper: Sensors, If-Then Rules and Tracing a Path
Students learn how robots use sensors and if-then rules, then trace a simulated robot on a paper grid map, apply and/else rules to sensor readings, and match sensors to jobs.
Career & technical ed.
SAE Record Keeping: Income, Expenses and Profit
Students analyze a made-up student’s SAE ledger of expenses, income and hours to find total profit, profit per hour and profit margin, and judge what makes a good record.
Career & technical ed.
Safe Food Temperatures: Know the Numbers
Students fill in the safe cooking, holding and cold-storage temperatures, convert them to Celsius, and work two time-in-the-danger-zone problems.
Career & technical ed.
Scaling a Recipe Up and Down
Students find a scaling factor, multiply a pancake recipe up and down, convert units, and use unit rates to scale a muffin recipe.
Career & technical ed.
Shop Safety Detectives: Spot the Hazard, Choose the Protection
Students read shop safety rules, match jobs to protective gear, answer scenario questions and analyze an incident report to spot unsafe choices.
Career & technical ed.
Simple Machines by the Numbers: Levers, Ramps and Pulleys
Students identify the six simple machines and calculate ideal mechanical advantage, effort force, work and efficiency for levers, ramps, pulleys and wheel-and-axle examples.