Percent Increase and Decrease Quiz

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FREEBIE: Back to Square 1-4-5 (Scientific Knowledge and a Double Square Puzzle)

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Start the Science class with one (1) square. It's simple, because one square is unambiguous. But then challenge students to take four (4) polygons and arrange them together to make a square shape. A-ha! That's trickier. Like Science, there can be many hypothesis on how they fit together, but the best solution solves the puzzle. If it doesn't work, it's back to square one. This lab activity gets students/student teams to think about the nature of science, and also, to show the importance of being

6th - 12th, Higher Education

Basic Principles, Other (Math)

NGSS

MS-ETS1-2

, 3-5-ETS1-3

, 3-5-ETS1-1

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Perfect Purple Paint Group Task

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Montessori for the Middle

In this engaging color-mixing activity, students collaborate in heterogeneous groups to recreate the perfect purple paint discovered for a special room project. Originating from an 8 oz (1 cup) container, the challenge is to scale up the paint for larger 16 oz (2 cups) and 32 oz (4 cups) containers. Using red and blue food coloring, students explore ratios to achieve the identical shade, documenting their findings on a graph. The hands-on experiment encourages teamwork, critical thinking, and pr

5th - 8th

Math

CCSS

8.SP.A.2

, 6.RP.A.1

, 6.RP.A.3