Math-Sci-Guy

This bundle contains most of the materials I use to teach a Water & Energy unit near the start of 9th/10th grade Earth Science. It contains notes, labs, activities, handouts, quizzes, and review. Most answer keys are included at the end of each handout. Documents included in this bundle: Angles & Shadows graphing activity Energy & Phase Change Calculations worksheet Counting Porosity worksheet Energy Quiz Insolation Diagrams notes Energy Interactions illustrations Jeopardy Review Absorpt

This laboratory activity about Earthquake Depths is a great math-science crossover! It gives students practice with latitude & longitude and helps them process the fact that earthquakes don't just happen at Earth's surface but at varying depths. Specific skills practiced are plotting latitude & longitude coordinates on a map, plotting longitude vs depth on a graph, and visualizing the same data from multiple perspectives. This is real earthquake data from actual earthquakes in South America.

When asked which math topic is their least favorite, many students would say Proofs. This is understandable, especially when students don't have good examples to study. This packet contains nine proofs in various forms: fill-in-the-blank (for if you are just starting proofs with your class), unstructured (for classes who have been practicing proofs for a bit and don't need the help), and the answer keys (suitable to go with either previous version). I envision this packet as a transition betw

This is a single page (front & back) of fill-in-the-blank notes for teaching high school students how to identify the transformations of functions by looking at the equation. The answer key is included. Please do not re-post this on-line for others, and only give paper copies of the blank version to students. (Writing things by hand vastly improves memory & recall - make them fill in the blanks themselves!) Note: After this lesson, I assign the odd numbered questions from this worksheet

This printout gives students an opportunity to explore a (possibly) real-life situation, empirically determine the minimum number of moves required to accomplish the task, then gather the data and find a pattern to describe it. The activity is completely printable (which also gives students the opportunity to do something with their hands (cutting) and lets them practice fine motor coordination, though if you want to spice it up students could cut discs out of corrugated cardboard (

Here are some printable unit circle diagrams. One has all special angles and coordinates labeled on it in degrees and radians; one has blank spaces for all of the labels, and the third is also blank but without the spaces for radian angle measures. The first quadrant also includes the calculation for each coordinate pair, so you can discuss the pattern and how understanding the pattern removes the need for memorization of this entire page of data. The files are zipped PDFs.

In this lab, students graph yearly sunspot data and make predictions about the future of the sunspot cycle. Additionally, there is currently an interactive here ( https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/labs/lab/sun/research) where students can count sunspots and compare their numbers to the actual data. If you like this, PLEASE rate it (favorably?) and consider purchasing some of my other work.

This is a collection of common geometry formulas/equations that can be printed and/or posted for student reference, possibly given for use on a quiz, etc. This is the original MS Word document, so feel free to add or remove equations as necessary.

This printout of some NASA news article headings gives teachers the chance to discuss the crash of the Mars Climate Orbiter, which happened because one contracted company built part of the computer to think in metric units and another built a different part to think in imperial units. That's $193 million wasted because people didn't carefully label their units! The back of the printout has the SI unit prefixes, so this can be an introduction to them, and how metric conversion is so much simpler