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A,B,C

Ch.1
Ch.2
Ch.3
Ch.4
Ch.8

7-2
3-8,3-9
2-7,2-9
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# Tools
pg 90, 91
# Tools pg 100, 101
TRB **C-1 pg 82-84,88
TRB C-1 pg 64-78

Best Practices by Harrison County Teachers

techSteps Eighth Grade Project -
Reading - "Digital Storytelling"

M.O.8.1.3

SASinSchool: Project-Is This Number Exact of Approximate?
Odyssey 8063
MRS. M'S MATH MANIA
Students can click on this informational Web site and then solve problems based on the information they obtain. The sites visited feature sports scoreboards, chocolate chip cookie recipes, roller coasters, and more!
http://www.tlgrant.r9esd.k12.or.us/math/magill/mania/mathmani.html

ABC Math Directory:
This is a great site for printable worksheets, activities, and manipulative (Adobe Reader 7.0 format) from basic to advanced skills. It offers real world problems relative to middle school students.
http://abcteach.com/directory/basics/math/

Chocolate Fever:
Students will calculate the amount of time needed to travel to Hershey Park and budget
the appropriate amount of money for food, travel, lodging, and miscellaneous expenditures. Students will keep a trip agenda, travel log, and a trip journal. They will collect evidence that supports their decisions for the agenda. This unit has 5 lessons.
http://www.thesolutionsite.com/lesson/871/summersmsB1.html

O-OOPS! Game
Students must match correct value cards with the expression
by following the order of operations.
3-4 players per group
www.rice.edu/armadillo/Algebra/Lessons/Order/oopsgame.html

M.O.8.2.3

SASinSchool: InterActivity-Solver-Simple Equations
SchoolKit E273
Odyssey 76256
Thinkfinity
The Product Game:
There are 4 lessons and two games, which work well together by helping students see the relationships between products and factors.
http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=U100

M.O.8.2.7

SASinSchool: Interactivity-Grapher Linear Equations
SchoolKit E247
Odyssey 76263
Number Cracker
Help Mr. Cracker obtain the secret code before the insidious
Prof. Soup catches him by guessing what number comes next in a series of numbers.
http://www.funbrain.com/cracker/index.html

M.O.8.2.9

SASinSchool: Web Lesson-City Populations and Linearity
SchoolKit E240
Odyssey 76280
Taming Word Problems
This is a great site for decoding word problems with a Harry Potter theme.
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/word_problems_quest.htm

Word Problems for Kids
This Web Site contains word problems for students and teachers. The problems are classified into grade levels from Grade 5 to Grade 12. You can try any problem you like and if the problem is a little difficult you can get helpful hints by following the hints link.
http://www.stfx.ca/special/mathproblems/grade8.html

techSteps Eighth Grade Project -
English - "Database Analysis"

M.O.8.2.7

SASinSchool: Web Inquiry-Now that I can color outside the lines, how do I decide which side of a line to color?
SchoolKit E247
Odyssey 76386
Number Cracker
Help Mr. Cracker obtain the secret code before the insidious Prof. Soup catches him by guessing what number comes next in a series of numbers.
http://www.funbrain.com/cracker/index.html

M.O.8.2.9

SASinSchool: Web Resources-Lines and Linear Equations
SchoolKit E240
Odyssey 76280
Taming Word Problems
This is a great site for decoding word problems with a Harry Potter theme.
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/word_problems_quest.htm

Word Problems for Kids
This Web Site contains word problems for students and teachers. The problems are classified into grade levels from Grade 5 to Grade 12. You can try any problem you like and if the problem is a little difficult you can get helpful hints by following the hints link.
http://www.stfx.ca/special/mathproblems/grade8.html

M.O.8.3.4

SASinSchool: How do you know when an object is symmetrical to a line or around a point?
SchoolKit E1
Odyssey 76263
Thinkfinity
Building a Box:
This lesson uses a real-world situation to help develop students' spatial visualization skills and geometric understanding. Emma, a new employee at a box factory, is supposed to make cube‑shaped jewelry boxes. Students help Emma determine how many different nets are possible and then analyze the resulting cubes.
http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=L570

Translations, Reflections, Rotations
Students explore the world of translations, reflections, and rotations in the Cartesian coordinate system by transforming squares, triangles, and parallelograms.
www.learnnc.org/lessons/DeborahBourne2112003101

M.O.8.3.5

SASinSchool: Web Inquiry-What do slides, flips, and turns have in common?
unitedstreaming
Discovering Education: United Streaming: Project Mathematics: Similarity
This video segment introduces similarity as the basis of all measurement. It reveals the secret of map making and scale drawings, and also explains some aspects of photographic images. Similarity helps explain why a hummingbird's heart beats so much faster than a human heart, and why it is impossible for a small creature such as a praying mantis to become as large as a horse. (12 segments at a total of 26:00)
www.unitedstreaming.com

Thinkfinity
Constant Dimensions:
Students will measure the length and width of a rectangle using both standard and non-standard units of measure. In addition to providing measurement practice, this lesson allows students to discover that the ratio of length to width of a rectangle is constant, in spite of the units.
http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=L572

Far Out Math:
An integrated thematic unit using hands-on activities to help students understand the relative sizes of the Earth and it's moon, demonstrate the immensity of the solar
system, and help students understand the three-dimensional space that exists beyond the boundaries of our solar system.
http://www.thesolutionsite.com/lpnew_bin/UI_Metadata/public/704

Exploring Similarity Using Scale Drawings:
The students will explore properties of similarity using models, measurement, and calculation.
www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/Mathematics/Geometry/GEO0003.html

M.O.8.3.6

SASinSchool: Web Resources-Similarity
SchoolKit E13
Thinkfinity
Polygon Capture:
In this lesson, students classify polygons according to more than one property at a time. In the context of a game, students move from a simple description of shapes to an analysis of how properties are related.
http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=L270

Sorting Polygons:
Students identify and classify polygons according to various attributes. They then sort the polygons in Venn Diagrams, according to these attributes. Extensions to fundamental ideas about probability and statistics are also included.
http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=L27

4-7
4-1, 4-6
4-1, 4-6
4-4
12-1 thru
12-3

techSteps Eighth Grade Project -
Social Studies - "Linear Data Deductions"

M.O.8.2.4

SASinSchool: InterActivity-Simplifier-Polynomials
Walk the Plank
Ever thought you could lose weight by the foot, not by the pound? Students will use data collection, graphing calculators, interpret data, y=Mx+b, graphing linear equations, and make predictions.
http://fcit.usf.edu/math/lessons/activities/plankT.htm

Student Worksheet for Walk the Plank
http://fcit.usf.edu/math/lessons/activities/plankS.htm

Wacky Water World
It is Saturday and the new water theme park has just opened. You and your friends are making plans to attend. You check the plans at the ticket counter, and since you have a limited amount of money, you want the best buy. Students will use linear equations, graphing calculators, interpret data, y=mx+b, graphing linear equations, graphing calculator commands, make predictions.
http://fcit.usf.edu/math/lessons/activities/wackyT.htm
Student Worksheet for Wacky Water World
http://fcit.usf.edu/math/lessons/activities/wackyS.htm

M.O.8.2.5

SASinSchool: Classroom Activity-Rational Scale Factors
SchoolKit E273
Odyssey 76260
Writing Rules for Patterns
Self-check quiz for rules and patterns.
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/math/studytools/cgi-bin/msgQuiz.php4?isbn=1-57039-850-X&chapter=1&lesson=3

Lego Learning:
This science/math unit uses high interest manipulatives in order to help students learn the basics of data collection, and data manipulation, graphing, and research.
http://www.thesolutionsite.com/lesson/9603/overview.html

M.O.8.2.6

SASinSchool: Web Lesson-Towers of Hanoi
SchoolKit E262
Odyssey 76285
Human Coordinate Plane
Students will be graphing coordinate pairs and representing lines and inequalities by arranging their desks in a square array to make themselves a human coordinate plane. Each of them will receive a card with an ordered pair (x,y) on it…
http://fcit.usf.edu/math/lessons/activities/HumanPT.htm
Student worksheet for Human Coordinate Plane:
http://fcit.usf.edu/math/lessons/activities/HumanLS.htm

M.O.8.2.8

SASinSchool: Classroom Activity-Measuring the Diagonal of a Classroom
SchoolKit E268
Odyssey 76291
Algebra vs. Cockroaches
In this interactive game, the student must determine the slope of the line that cockroaches are crawling along to destroy them.
http://hotmath.com/hotmath_help/games/kp/kp_hotmath_sound.swf

M.O.8.5.3

SASinSchool: Classroom Activity-Is there a best way to represent data?
SchoolKit E290
Odyssey 76284
Thinkfinity
Representing Data:
This unit focuses on the application of mathematics to real-world situations. Students must deal with data to complete an organized chart for the purpose of transferring information to a graph or for generalizing a rule.
http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=U73

State Names:
The students will determine the number of times that each letter of the alphabet is used when writing the names of all 50 states and understand how various representations, including steam-and-leaf plots, box-and-whisker plots, and histograms, can be used to organize the data.
http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=L579

M.O.8.5.5

SASinSchool: Classroom Activity-Sentences, Words, and Reading Level
Odyssey 76280
unitedstreaming
Discovery Education - Discovering Math: Statistics and Data Analysis (Grades 6-8)
From measuring central tendency to frequency and distribution using statistical measures for a variety of purposes to sample selection methods, this video introduces middle school students to more advanced concepts of statistics and data analysis.
(36 Segments at a time of 1:25:15)
www.unitedstreaming.com

Baseball Stats:
Students will use baseball data available on the Internet to develop an understanding of the different ways in which data can be analyzed. First, they will practice selecting data to perform calculations in response to pre-formulated questions. Then they will use the data to formulate and answer their own questions.
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/Lessons.cfm?DocID=10

techSteps Eighth Grade Project -
Science - "Animate a Change Process"

M.O.8.3.1

SASinSchool: InterActivity-Parallel Lines, Special Angles
Fun With Angles:
This site will help students visualize alternate interior, alternate exterior, and corresponding angles when coplanar lines are cut by a transversal.
http://www.learnnc.org/lessons/TeachersConnect6182002633

M.O.8.3.2

SASinSchool: Classroom Activity-All Nets are Not Created Equal
Odyssey 8084
unitedstreaming
Discovery Education: Maths Mansion: 33. A Very Fine Pet is a Polyhedron
This is a video (grades 3-8) where a group of children are trapped in Maths Mansion. To get out, they must take part in regular game shows to test their mathematics knowledge. In this episode, the children learn the attributes of polyhedra. Offers an interactive viewer’s challenge in the last segment. (9:19)
www.unitedstreaming.com

Solid Figures
PowerPoint helps to classify polyhedrons by playing interactive games.
http://math.pppst.com/geometry.html

M.O.8.4.1

SASinSchool: InterActivity-Volume, Prisms and Cylinders
Odyssey 8090
Thinkfinity
Using Cubes and Isometric Drawings
In this interactive geometry investigation, students explore polyhedra using different representations and perspectives for three dimensional block figures. In addition, students will examine area and volume concepts for block figures within this context.
http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=U166

Cubes Everywhere:
Students will construct and visualize two- and three-dimensional shapes, engage in explorations designed to enhance spatial visualization skills, and observe and identify characteristics of two- and three-dimensional objects.
http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=L616

unitedstreaming
United Streaming: Discovering Math: Geometry (Grades 6-8)
Defining Properties of 3-D Figures (7:57)
This video includes an introduction and examples of the properties of cubes, spheres, rectangular prisms, pyramids, cylinder, and cones.
www.unitedstreaming.com

Measuring Beast:
This is a 4-lesson unit that involves measuring in metric units, finding perimeter, volume and density. Students will be measuring daily the growth of a small animal (non living) that grows in water. These lessons will focus on an understanding of physical measurements, use of equipment, graphing and interpretation of changes, and physical relationships.
http://www.thesolutionsite.com/lesson/1116/EGJHSA1.html

M.O.8.4.2

SchoolKit E381
Odyssey 8091
Thinkfinity
Measuring Up
This unit explores the concepts of proportional reasoning, ratio, and indirect measurement. Students engage in a variety of activities that involve taking their own measurements, exploring different ratios, and examining similar figures. Students convert measurements into customary and metric units. These activities immerse students in problem solving, reasoning, and making connections to real-life situations.
http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=U148

unitedstreaming
Discovery Education: Discovering Math: Measurement (Grades 6-8): Problem Solving with Units and Conversion:
This video segment offers examples of a coliseum, travel and a balloon to solve and convert measurements. Total length of video – 9:42
www.unitedstreaming.com

M.O.8.1.2

M.O.8.5.2

M.O.8.5.4

techSteps Eighth Grade Project -
Math - "From Issue to Action"

M.O.8.1.2

Odyssey 8114
Tic Tac Toe Squares
This is a game for finding the square roots of numbers less than 1000.
http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/ttt.cgi?A1=s&A2=17&A3=0&INSTRUCTS=1

Square Roots and Cubes
Free presentation in a PowerPoint format for kids, teachers, and parents.
http://math.pppst.com/roots.html

Baseball Fun: Percentages, Decimals, and Fractions:
Students will learn the concepts behind fractions, decimals, and percents by using sports statistics found on baseball cards.
www.learnnc.org/lessons/adrianbustle4212004284

Surf to the Planets on the Internet:
Students will differentiate the distances between two planets, convert from miles to yards, use diameter to make conclusions, and calculate how long it will take to travel a certain distance when given the sped travel and the distance traveled.
www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/Mathematics/Measurement/MEA0013.html

M.O.8.5.2

SASinSchool: Classroom Activity-Probability Distribution
SchoolKit E362
Odyssey 76383
Thinkfinity
Boxed Up
Students explore the relationship between theoretical and experimental probabilities using an interactive tool known as a "box model." A "box model" is a statistical device that can be used to simulate standard probability experiments such as flipping a coin or rolling a die.
http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=L448

Probability: The Study of Chance:
Students will use the game, “Rock, Paper, Scissors” to learn the basic principals of probability.
www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/Mathematics/Probability/PRB0004.html

Gizmo Probability:
Theoretical and experimental probabilities are investigated using an ExploreMath activity in which darts are randomly thrown at a dartboard. (Advanced lessons are also listed in the same format.)
http://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm?method=cResource.dspResourcesForCourse&CourseID=233

M.O.8.5.4

SASinSchool: Web Inquiry-What is probability distribution and when is it appropriate to use it to make predictions?
SchoolKit E363
Odyssey 76287
Thinkfinity
Dealing With Data:
The following activity, a project based unit on statistics, furnishes a vehicle for problem solving through real data collection and analysis. Students use the mean, mode and median to analyze their data and use graphs to represent their findings.
This can be modified easily for the middle school.
http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=L297

See How They Run!
Students will be randomly chosen per class period to run the 100-meter dash. A collection of times will be recorded and compared to the data of the other classes and world record times. They will display they data in various forms of graphs and make predictions on the gender with the fastest time and discuss bias.
http://www.learnnc.org/lessons/hollysmith11242004337#activities

M.O.8.1.1
M.O.8.2.1
M.O.8.2.2
M.O.8.2.3
M.O.8.2.9
M.O.8.2.10
M.O.8.5.1

techSteps Eighth Grade Project -
Math - "Outline Book Review"

M.O.8.2.9

SASinSchool: InterActivity-Grapher, Linear Equations
SchoolKit E240
Odyssey 76280

Taming Word Problems
This is a great site for decoding word problems with a Harry Potter theme.
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/word_problems_quest.htm

Word Problems for Kids
This Web Site contains word problems for students and teachers. The problems are classified into grade levels from Grade 5 to Grade 12. You can try any problem you like and if the problem is a little difficult you can get helpful hints by following the hints link.
http://www.stfx.ca/special/mathproblems/grade8.html

M.O.8.2.1

SASinSchool: InterActivity-Simplifier-Rationals
Odyssey 8064
Rags to Riches
This is a fun practice for 1-step, 2-step and multi-step equations. The game is similar in nature to "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire"
http://www.quia.com/rr/4096.html

M.O.8.2.2

SASinSchool: Web Inquiry-When solving equations, how can you know if your answers are correct before your teacher does?
SchoolKit E228
Odyssey 76375
Go Fishing!
Students will use their data collection, interpret their data, and use proportional reasoning to determine the number of animals in a population that scientists often use the capture-recapture method.
http://fcit.usf.edu/math/lessons/activities/GoFishT.htm

Go Finishing Worksheet:
http://fcit.usf.edu/math/lessons/activities/GoFishS.htm

M.O.8.1.1

Odyssey 76244
Thinkfinity
Too Big or Too Small
In this lesson, students develop number sense through a series of three hands-on activities. Students explore the following concepts: the magnitude of a million, fractions between 0 and 1, and the effect of decimal operations
http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=L252

Learning Math
This site is very helpful for student notes, homework help, and video for terminating and repeating decimals, converting decimals to fractions, fractions to decimals, and ordering fractions.
http://www.learner.org/channel/courses/learningmath/number/session7/part_a/repeating.htm

ACC Basketball:
The students will use basketball statistics to practice the process of converting fractions to decimals and then to percents. They will also apply their information to a spreadsheet to analyze their data.
www.learnnc.org/lessons/SusanDougherty5232002883

M.O.8.2.10

SASinSchool: Classroom Activity-One-Step Equations and Their Word Partners
SchoolKit E397
Odyssey 76237
Graphing the World Around Us:
This unit will show how different types of graphs may be used with several subjects. The different types of graphs used in the unit will be pictographs, bar graphs, line graphs, and the coordinate system. We will use these graphs to represent endangered
animals, depths/size of the Great Lakes, human population changes, and map locations.
http://www.thesolutionsite.com/lpnew_bin/UI_Metadata/public/5102

Exploring Geometry:
Students will create three-dimensional figures, construct a three-dimensional model of a city using similar and congruent figures and geometric transformations, create a two-dimensional representation of their city. Find the surface area of three-dimensional figures.
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/DM_exploring_geometry/

M.O.8.5.1

SASinSchool: Project-Decisions, Decisions
SchoolKit E359
Odyssey 76290
Thinkfinity
Adjacent Circles:
Students are encouraged to discover all of the combinations for a given situation. They use problem-solving skills (including elimination and collection of organized data) to draw conclusions. The use of higher-level thinking skills (synthesis, analysis, and evaluations) is the overall goal.
http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=L615

M.O.8.2.3

SASinSchool: Web Lesson-Variation and Rational Equations
SchoolKit E273
Odyssey 76256
Thinkfinity
The Product Game:
There are 4 lessons and two games, which work well together by helping students see the relationships between products and factors.
http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=U100