Mary+Smith+-+Thinkfinity

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 * **Marco Polo: Internet Content for the Classroom**
 * [|http://www.marcopolo-education.org]


 * **Judge and Jury**
 * ** http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=L187 **
 * Students participate in activities in which they focus on the uses of numbers. The activities use the theme of games to develop concepts of measurement and statistics.


 * **Makeshift Measurements**
 * http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?id=L696
 * Students will verify measurements for standard size objects, use these objects to determine the size or spacing of other objects, and suggest additional objects that can be included in the class’ list of "makeshift measures


 * **Living Through a Drought**
 * http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/01/g35/drought.html
 * In this lesson, students will practice map-reading skills. Using a drought map of Afghanistan from National Geographic's [|Afghanistan: Land in Crisis] site, students will learn how to recognize drought, where drought can occur, and how drought affects the people who live in those places.


 * **The Busy Brain**
 * http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?BenchmarkID=6&DocID=51
 * To understand how the brain receives and sends signals to the body. This lesson introduces the brain, but not just the brain. It emphasizes how the brain interacts with the rest of the body.


 * **Reaction Time 1: How Fast Are You?**
 * http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?BenchmarkID=6&DocID=68
 * To identify ways in which experience and practice allow humans to learn new skills, using activities that test reaction time as examples.