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Beaded Braids: Investigating Patterns & Ratios
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In this activity learners create patterns of hair beads.
Boomerang
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Learners trace, cut out and fly a boomerang, outdoors or in a large indoor space.
Tessellations
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In this activity, learners will engineer a new shape and use it to create a new pattern with no wasted space.
Hexagon Hunt
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This activity gets learners looking at 6-sided shapes in nature, including the cells of a beehive, as well as other shapes.
Stairway to the Sky
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In this math activity, learners use cubes to calculate how many blocks it would take to build stairways with different heights.
Fingerprints
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In this activity, learners examine their fingerprints and learn that they can be categorized by shape, but each fingerprint is unique.
Gotcha Game
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In this Cyberchase activity, learners play a simple game using 15 paper dragons (or any 15 objects). One of the 15 dragons is red. Learners try to make their opponent take the red piece.
Making a Translation Tessellation
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In this activity, learners slide shapes to create unusual tiled patterns.
Wear a Chimp on Your Wrist
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Learners construct a bracelet containing two strands of beads, which represents a double strand of DNA that codes for a gene. They match beads to the bases in a section of a chimp's DNA code.
Where Do We Choose to Live and Why?
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In this geography investigation, learners use a nighttime satellite image to observe areas of light across the United States and to identify patterns and spatial distributions of human settlements.
Size It Up
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In this artistic activity, learners blow up a smaller picture into a larger one, by using a grid.
Toothpick Patterns
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In this math activity, learners make toothpick designs by following simple patterns.