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With this activity, Happy Trails, students get plenty of practice with the properties of integer exponents (CCS 8.EE.1) without the run of the mill worksheet concept. Students get to move AND work on their math skills! The activity includes directions, 42 practice problems, and an answer key. By: tmccabe This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

How much water would you have to drink in comparison to a dairy cow? Or if you could dig a tunnel just like mole, how long would your tunnel be in one night's time? Your students will have fun setting up ratios and using proportions to find out some wacky facts about themselves. Extend the lesson by having students create their own picture book illustrating these wacky facts. Project rubric included. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Just telling our 8th grade students the volume formulas for a cylinder and a cone does not necessarily mean they are going to understand and be able to apply this Common Core standard. However, by using a discovery approach, students will be able to connect these formulas to some prior knowledge...the volume of a rectangular prism. This activity also reviews the basics of a cone and cylinder and the math behind making the nets for each. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribu