Resources+by+Field+Trip

**Math in the Zoo**
[|Max's Fantastical Mathematical Zoo] Draw Max's Fantastical Zoo with shapes and your knowledge of animals.

[|Four Legged Animals School House Rock] Children remember their multiplication facts (of 4) using visuals and music.

[|Turtle Pond] Students guide a turtle to a pond using computer commands.

[|Cinci Zoo Materials] This is an excellent guide to creative activities at any zoo!

[|Think Quest] Just what you want!

[|Minnesota's Zoo]The resources on this page are arranged by the sites that we will be visiting and sites that are available to all teachers.

This site will help to answer: "How do zoologists know that an animal is extinct?"

Math in the Glendale Cemetery
[|Cemetery Math]A great site that is filled with mathematics

Word Problems Come Alive! This site has many different story problems

[|Watch a Class take a cemetery field trip] Norfolk VA students demonstrate what happens in the cemetery. Great ideas.

[|Cemetery Studies] This is an excellent source of ideas for teaching math in the cemetery.

Students will record and analyze birth, death, and age data in a local cemetery and make correlations between their results and the historical context in which their subjects lived and died.
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**Kaleidoscopes and Quilts at the Akron Art Museum**
[|How to Make a Kaleidoscope] From the National Geographic Kids site, easy and very understandable directions. Rotation and symmetry spiral together!

[|Foldables] An outstanding way to help students to see mathematics in multiple ways.

[|Quilts from Mathwire!] Excellent Resources and activities to help students make connections with underground railroad mathematics.

[|Quilts on Display] A beautiful set of quilts that can be seen in Washington DC.

[|Quilts in Geometry] This excellent site from PBS allows many opportunities for finding symmetries.

Quilted Patterns In her novel, //How to Make an American Quilt//, Whitney Otto writes, "What you should understand when undertaking the construction of a quilt is that it is comprised of spare time as well as excess material." Find the patterns that go beyond the math. [|Quilt Lesson Plans and so much more!]

**Math on the All American Bridge of Akron**
[|Picture of the All American Bridge] This is an arial view of the Akron All American Bridge

[|Information about the Bridge] More information regarding this beautiful bridge.

Math in Architecture
[|Architecture in Math]

[|Mathematics and Architecture and Art] Many wonderful applications are brought to the fore.

[|Architecture Lesson Plans] Great lesson plans to help you incorporate architecture in your classroom.

**Math and Baseball: Fit like a Glove!**
[|NPR: Baseball and Statistics]

[] A great resource of resources all on math and baseball for all grade levels
 * TeacherFirst **

The following grades 6-8 activities allow students to explore statistics surrounding baseball. They are exposed to connections between various mathematical concepts and see where this mathematics is used in areas with which they are familiar.
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[|**What Is Round, Hard and Sold for $3 Million?**] This activity challenges students to determine which is worth more today: Babe Ruth’s 1927 home-run record-breaking ball or Mark McGwire’s 70th home-run ball that sold in 1999 for $3 million. Compound interest is the main topic. [] [|**Who’s On First Today?**] In this activity, students use hits and at-bat statistics to determine which of two baseball players has a better batting average.
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[|**Baseball Fantasy**] These two activities from PBS Mathline have pairs of students act as co-managers of a baseball team. Each pair receives a pack of baseball cards. They compute and analyze the key statistical data of the given players, make decisions on who they want to keep and who they want to trade, arrange their lineups, and play simulated games. Students use the key statistical data to construct individual player spinners, determine the line up, and play a simulated baseball game. goal is to be the manager of the winning team of the Fantasy Baseball World Series [] Math Baseball—solve problems and see if you can hit the ball out of the park!
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[|Math Methods]