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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Video Tutorial Learn to Enter an Equation and Graph

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This tutorial shows you how to graph an equation and find a particular Y value when given an X value.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: How High Will It Bounce?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students collect the height versus time data of a bouncing ball using the CBR 2. They find the relationship between the bounce number and the bounce height. They learn to graph scatter plots, calculate the maximum value...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: 100 or Bust

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students explore the operations of addition and subtraction. They use estimation, a place value chart, and a calculator to place seven randomly generated numbers in the ones and tens position in a place-value chart to...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Circulation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This StudyCards stack enables students to review the vocabulary and physiology of the circulatory system.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Linear Programming and the Inequalz App

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity uses the Inequality Graphing Application to take some of the frustration out of linear programming.It allows students to concentrate on the important part of the lesson, so they can learn the basic concepts with greater depth.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Absolute Values

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This set contains questions about graphs of V - shaped absolute value functions. Students are asked to determine maximum and minimum values, state whether the graph is opening up or down, and solve absolute value inequalities.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Maximizing the Area of a Rectangle

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is adapted from one of the TI books. Students measure lengths and widths of rectangles and record for the class to see. Each group's rectangle has the same perimeter, but different areas. After a discussion, students make...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Discovering Integer Rules (Multiplying/dividing)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will determine rules for integer operations using the calculator.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Freezing and Melting of Water

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Freezing temperature, the temperature at which a substance turns from liquid to solid, and melting temperature, the temperature at which a substance turns from a solid to a liquid, are characteristic physical properties. In this...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Enzyme Action: Testing Catalase Activity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use an O2 Gas Sensor to measure the amount of O2 produced when H2O2 is broken down by the enzyme catalase at different concentrations, pH values, and temperatures. They will also measure the enzyme's initial reaction rates.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Crawling Around: Parametric Plots

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students' will record the x- and y-coordinates of a rod moving in a figure-eight pattern. They will then use the recorded motion information to separately model the x- and y-motion as a function of time. They will plot...
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University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas: Dopamine

For Students 9th - 10th
Using dopamine as an example, the page gives a description of how neurotransmitters work and the effects of drugs and enzymes on neurotransmitter function.
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University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas: Neurons and Neurotransmitters

For Students 9th - 10th
A good description of how the neurotransmitters are involved in cell communication. Very good site.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Distinguish Between Summary and Critique (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn how to summarize a text in contrast to writing a critique that takes a position.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: What's Your Point (Of View)? Practice 6 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Identify point of view and understand how it shapes fiction.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Literary Terminology: Practice 5 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will practice using terminology critical for comprehension, interpretation, and analysis of poetry, drama, and fiction.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Development of Characters Through Literary Devices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Rcognize how literary devices such as character foils can create complex characters in a short story.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Relevant Information and Valid Inferences (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising an essay so that it contains relevant information and valid inferences.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Graphical Sources: Practice 2 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th Standards
Analyze the factual, quantitative, and technical data in graphs and charts.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze an Argument: Practice 1 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Analyze the quality, relevance, and credibility of evidence that supports or opposes an argument.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Famous Speeches for Rhetorical Structures and Devices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Analyze the persuasive impact of rhetorical structures and devices in famous speeches.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze the Relevance, Quality, and Credibility of Evidence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Analyze the quality, relevance, and credibility of evidence that supports or opposes an argument.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Teaching: Prewriting and Planning Personal Narratives

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This instructional activity focuses on prewriting and planning a personal narrative. The information can be used in all types of writing. It discusses brainstorming ideas, narrowing the focus, and developing the central idea. W.9-10.5...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Synthesize Ideas in Informational/expository Text

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will expand on your ability to read texts, synthesize them, and make choices based on the information you read. Finally, you will learn how to use textual...