Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Using Roots and Affixes

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Determine the meaning of grade-level academic English words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic roots and affixes.
Handout
Other

Learn That Word: Root Words & Prefixes: Quick Reference

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Excellent reference tool listing prefixes and roots together alphabetically along with definitions and examples.
Activity
Education Development Center

Tv411: Tune in to Learning: More Roots and Their Families

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Part 2 of a series of interactive exercises concerning word roots and vocabulary skills. Site initially explains vocabulary and word roots, then allows students to complete interactive exercises.
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Greek and Latin Roots Introduction

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
During this mini-unit, students will learn common Greek and Latin roots. Several supplementary resources are provided for students' study beyond the lessons.
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That Quiz

That Quiz: Practice Test: Root and Exponents

For Students 9th - 10th
Test your skills at exponents, root and logarithms. Includes advanced challenges. There are nine levels and the test may be taken with or without a timer.
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: 4th & 5th Roots

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Radicals are also known as roots. Evaluate high-degree radicals. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Simplify Square Root Expressions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Practice simplifying expressions with multiple radical terms. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Other

Sweet Liberty: Roots of Cooperative Federalism

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth article on the roots of cooperative federalism, written by Dan Meador.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Quadratics by Taking Square Roots

For Students 9th - 10th
Solve quadratic equations of the form (x+a)^2-b=0. These can be solved using square roots. For example, solve (x-5)$2-4=0.
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Root/base Words

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Three activities including a matching game, a concentration game, and a word search puzzle for students to use while learning and practicing the meanings of various root words.
eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: American Foreign Policy 1890 1914: Turner, Mahan, and Roots of Empire

For Students 11th - 12th
Examines the development of American foreign policy in the latter part of the 1800s, and what Frederick Jackson Turner and Alfred Thayer Mahan did to further American imperialistic interests.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Solving Quadratic Equations With Square Roots

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Find a quick, concise explanation for how to solve quadratic equations using square roots. An example is given and clearly explained.
Unit Plan
OnlineMathLearning.com

Online Math Learning: Factor Polynomials With Complex Roots

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A collection of video lessons with example problems and solutions to help students learn how to extend polynomial identities to the complex numbers. Includes interactive widget for working on the modeled problems or trying your own.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Finding Roots With the Remainder Theorem: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson uses the remainder theorem to determine whether a given value of x is a root of a given polynomial. It is 3 of 5 in the series titled "Finding Roots With The Remainder Theorem."
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Retrieving 2/5 of Electro Root

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Jackie and Inez figure out how to break an Electro-Root into 2/5, one of the ingredients for the antidote to Motherboard's virus.
Website
African American Literature Book Club

African American Literature Book Club: Alex Haley

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a concise biography of Haley, the video [12:28] "Alex Haley Interview Roots (Merv Griffin Show 1977)" and links to six of his books.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Algebra: Irrational Square Roots

For Students 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find approximate solutions to equations involving irrational numbers.
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Other

Newton's Method

For Students 9th - 10th
Come to this site to discover how the formula for finding the (n+1) approximation for the root using the equations of tangent lines (Newton's Method). The site also explains when Newton's Method fails.
Handout
eSchool Today

E School Today: Photosynthesis

For Students 4th - 7th
Read about photosynthesis, what light and dark reactions are, the structure of a leaf, the conditions needed for photosynthesis to occur, where and how photosynthesis takes place, and how root structure impacts on photosynthesis.
Handout
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Algebra Review: Properties of Square Roots

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Find a quick, concise explanation of the properties of square roots. An example is given and clearly explained for each property.
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Curated OER

Root

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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Other

Dan's Math: Basic Skills Topics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
College professor Dan Bach offers a review of various basic topics in arithmetic, pre-algebra, and algebra. Order of operations, exponents, square roots, variables, and combining terms are just a few of the many topics covered.
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Other

Rose Hills Foundation Conservatory for Biological Science

For Students 9th - 10th
All about plants has information on plant parts--seeds, flowers, fruits, roots, and spores--and plant processes--seed dispersal, germination, pollination, and photosynthesis. You can also take a tour of this Los Angeles-based...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: The Religious Roots of Abolition

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson that looks at the role of Christianity in the fight to abolish slavery in the United States.