Josh Church

This worksheet helps reinforce the effect of an outlier on the mean, median, mode, and range of a data set. Six data sets are provided. Students must calculate the mean, median, mode, and range of each data set with the outlier included, then with the outlier excluded. They must then determine what effect the outlier has on these statistics when included in the data set. A complete answer key is also provided.

This is an exciting lesson for middle school math students in which they learn to translate between algebraic expressions written in word form to algebraic expressions written with mathematical symbols. The theme of the lesson is World War II and the role the Navajo Indians played in the war effort. Students learn the importance of the Navajo language as a code during the war. Students train to become better translators and increase in rank from "Private", to "Colonel", and lastly to "General

This worksheet will help students review or practice how to convert between fractions, decimals, and percents. Hundreds grids are used to help students connect these three methods of expressing rational numbers. The grids also allow students to show a little of their creative sides. A full answer key is provided as well.

In this fun interactive sorting activity, students come to the board to identify examples of conduction, convection, and radiation. This SMART Notebook activity utilizes the "Activity Builder" function of SMART Notebook 11 and allows objects to be animated when sorted by groups. If a student successfully drags an example into the correct group it fades away, but it jumps back to the starting position if rejected. A printable foldable is included on which students can take notes during the act

This is a fun scavenger hunt in which students practice writing ratios in fractional form, with colons, and in words. Students make comparisons while writing ratios using commom items found in the classroom. The scavenger hunt may be modified to suit your own classroom.

This is an "I Have, Who Has?" game that reviews common pre-algebra vocabulary, from equations to inequalities to the coordinate plane. Thirty cards are provided with complete instuctions and an answer key. It is a great game for students to review in an active way!

Here is a Trivia! PowerPoint template for you to use in class just in time for Halloween! This is a seasonal Trivia! template I created to use when reviewing content. It has been customized with Halloween themed slides, and creepy sound effects and Halloween clipart that students will love. The template is ready for you to customize with your own questions and includes a PDF with basic instructions. Check out the free preview, but please purchase if you like it. The template was created usin

This is the Trivia! Holiday Pack just in time for the Holiday season. This Holiday Pack includes Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas "Jeopardy-Like" review game templates. Each game template includes holiday appropriate clipart and sound effects, and instructions are included with each. Best of all, you will save money when you buy the Holiday Pack instead of buying the templates separately! Each game template was created using PowerPoint 2010 and is ready for you to customize with your o

This "Tic-Tac-Toe" menu allows you to differentiate in the classroom when studying the topic of climate. Students pick any three activities in a row, either across or down. Upon completion of any three activities in a row, students will learn about the five factors that determine climate, the three climate zones, and theories about climate change.

In this exciting Halloween themed activity, students can sort words according to their part of speech. Students can identify examples of adjectives, verbs, adverbs, and nouns in this interactive SMART Notebook activity. The activity includes a Halloween theme, clipart, and sound effects perfect for you to use during the Halloween season. Included are 30 ghost examples, complete instructions and an answer key. You need to have SMART Notebook 11 installed on your computer to use. Want to see

“Load the Pumpkins” is a sorting activity template I created with SMART Notebook 11. The activity was created using the new “Activity Builder” feature of the software. This acitivity is a great seasonal activity for Halloween or Thanksgiving. Students will need to sort the pumpkins into two crates based on the labels on the crates and the pumpkins. This activity is ready to be customized with your own labels. Instructions on how to customize the activity are included!

Students will love reviewing relations and functions in this eye-catching and fun Trivia! review game. The game consists of 5 categories with 5 questions each, a Triple TRIVIA! problem, and a Final TRIVIA! problem to end the game. Included is the Functions TRIVIA! Game, a student Recording Sheet with empty tables and graphs, and Instructions. Topics covered in this review game are: -representing relationships (graphs & tables) -relations (graphs & tables) -linear functions (equations, graphs

This activity is a great way to practice and review problems involving percents during the holiday shopping season. In this activity, students’ task is to complete percent a scavenger hunt. Using the online version of the 2011 Black Friday circular from Walmart, students solve problems. This activity emphasizes two methods of solving percent problems; the equation and proportion methods. The six percent problems presented emphasize finding the “whole” when the “part” is known. In the proble

Here is a Trivia! PowerPoint template for you to use in class. This is a seasonal Trivia! template I created to use when reviewing content. It has been customized with Thanksgiving themed slides, and sound effects and Thanksgiving clipart. The template is ready for you to customize with your own questions and includes a PDF with basic instructions. Check out the free preview, but please purchase if you like it. The template was created using PowerPoint 2010.

This fast-paced and exciting relay game helps students review how to solve multi-step inequalities as a team. Instructions and an answer key of possible solutions are included.

Here is the Atmosphere Trivia! Game! Atmosphere Trivia! is a Jeopardy-like review game that will help your students review important vocabulary and ideas associated with Earth's atmosphere. Topics include layers of the atmosphere, atmospheric heating, air pollution, and more! Detailed instructions are included. Check out the free preview and please purchase it you like it!

Here is a Trivia! PowerPoint template for you to use in class in time for Christmas! This is a seasonal Trivia! template I created to use when reviewing content. It has been customized with Christmas themed slides, and sound effects and Christmas clipart that students will love. The template is ready for you to customize with your own questions and includes a PDF with basic instructions. Check out the free preview, but please purchase if you like it. The template was created using PowerPoint 201