Mathematics
Coordinate Geometry: Distance, Midpoint and Slope
Students use the distance, midpoint and slope formulas to find lengths and centers, test whether a triangle is isosceles, and check a rectangle’s diagonals.
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Arts
Intervals: Measuring the Distance Between Two Notes
Students name intervals by counting letter names and half steps, then build notes above a given note.
Science
Layers of the Earth: Journey to the Center
Students use a data table to learn the four layers of Earth, convert real distances to a paper scale model, and judge how far humans have drilled.
Social studies
Map Scale and Legend: Reading the Pinecrest County Map
Students read a map legend, find features by grid square, and use a scale to convert map distances to real distances.
Social studies
Mapping Marlow Island: Directions, Grid Squares, and Scale
Students use a made-up island map to practice grid coordinates, compass directions, and map scale.
Science
Reading Motion Data: Velocity-Time and Position-Time Tables
Students read two data tables for a moving object, find acceleration from slopes, find distance from areas, and sketch the graph.
Science
Speed, Distance and Time: Reading a Motion Table
Students calculate speed, distance and time from word problems and read a table of a walker’s motion to find speed in each interval.
Science
Speed, Velocity and Acceleration: Motion Problem Set
Students solve one-step motion problems for speed, distance, time and acceleration, then separate speed from velocity in a short walking scenario.
Career & technical ed.
The Math of Stopping: Reaction, Braking, and Distraction
Students use a simple model to calculate stopping distance at different speeds and find how far a car travels while the driver looks away.
Mathematics
The Pythagorean Theorem and Its Converse
Students find missing sides of right triangles in real-world situations and use the converse to test whether side lengths make a right triangle.
Health & physical ed.
Walk-and-Talk: Stride Math and Conversation
Students calculate steps and distance from stride length, then take a gentle pair walk (or stand-and-talk) while discussing how to build more movement into daily life.
Science
Waves and Sound: Wavelength, Frequency and Speed
Students match wave vocabulary, use v = f × λ and echo and thunder timing to find wavelengths and distances, and classify waves as transverse or longitudinal.