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New York State Education Department

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 4

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Why is it important to use precise language? Participants explore this question in the fourth activity in a series of 15 on effective instruction. Perfect for all content areas, the activity promotes appropriate language choice through...
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REMC Association of Michigan

Remc Association of Michigan: 21 Things4 Students: 13. Dig the Data

For Students 3rd - 8th
This tutorial contains ten quests. You will learn to create spreadsheets and charts, use formulas, and make decisions based on data. The first five quests has students plan a party and in the last five, they collect and analyze data for...
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Data Collecting in the Classroom

For Students 9th - 10th
A list of two dozen questions students can easily ask eachother in the classroom to quickly collect data in hopes of using it in their study of making graphs. Some are opinion questions, while others require the counting of certain items...
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Other

Ocean Tracks: Fact or Artifact? Interpreting Patterns in Ocean Tracks Data [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Ever wonder where marine animals go? How fast they swim? How deep they dive? Electronic tagging has opened a new window into the world of the open ocean. Ocean Tracks gives you access to data collected by tags on real live migrating...
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PBS

Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Data Saves the Day Activity Plan

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Data comes to the rescue! Children will collect, analyze, and represent data as they try to dodge a series of catastrophes faced by characters from their favorite PBS Kids shows.
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Other

Dear Data

For Students 9th - 10th
Dear Data is a year-long, analog data drawing project by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec, two award-winning information designers living on different sides of the Atlantic. By collecting and hand drawing their personal data and sending...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Why Do We Need Data?

For Students 9th - 10th
We use data every day to help make decisions. Which cell phone has the most features for the best price? What were the reviews of the movie we want to see? Does the type of shoe I buy help me play a sport better?By looking at data and...
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Growth Creature Lab Data Collecting

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Lesson plan completely explains how students will collect data on the growth of an "alligator" and determine the relationship of the growth data to the Fundamental Theorem of Similarity and to topics in geometry in general. All of the...
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US Environmental Protection Agency

Epa: Air Data

For Students 9th - 10th
The AirData website gives you access to air quality data collected at outdoor monitors across the United States, Puerto Rico, and the U. S. Virgin Islands. The data comes primarily from the AQS (Air Quality System) database. You can...
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Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese Real Time Data Projects: Weather Scope: A Study of Weather and Climate

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Use real-time data to study factors that affect weather and climate, create weather instruments, and share data with students around the world.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Exploring Ocean Data Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Find "oceans of data" for students of all ages. NCTM, California, and Philadelphia standards are listed for each grade level along with lesson plans and other website resources.
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Concord Consortium

Common Online Data Analysis Platform (Codap)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
CODAP is a free, easy-to-use data analysis environment for students. Students can load their own data into an easy-to-use web-based data analysis tool to create their own datasets, share visualizations, and discover data-driven insights....
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NASA

Nasa: Precipitation Towers: Modeling Weather Data

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson uses stacking cubes as a way to graph precipitation data, comparing the precipitation averages and seasonal patterns for several locations. Variations on the lesson can accommodate various ages and ability levels. Students...
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Stanford University

Dreme: Data in the Preschool Classroom

For Teachers Pre-K - K
What are the important concepts involved in data collection and data use in the preschool classroom, and how can teachers support the mathematics of data? This article gives a brief description of the concepts that children need to grasp...
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Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Data: Data Analysis and Interpretation

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of data from collection to analysis. Includes a discussion of how the same data may be interpreted various ways by different individuals.
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Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Data: Using Graphs and Visual Data in Science

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of how data can be turned into visual forms which can help people comprehend information easier than observing numbers.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Interpreting Area Data From Maps vs. Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Graphical methods of data presentation are a key feature of scientific communication. This project asks the question, "What's the best way to compare the land area of states: a map or a bar graph?" You'll be measuring performance on two...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Scientific Investigation and Reasoning Data Organization

For Students 7th - 9th
Using interactive exercises, students will review how to construct tables and graphs in order to organize data.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Where Are the Plastics Near Me? (Mapping the Data)

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In a student-led and fairly independent fashion, data collected in the associated field trip activity are organized by student groups to create useful and informative Google Earth maps. Each team creates a map, uses that map to analyze...
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Google

Google for Education: Sorting Data

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this example students use data collected from their class and learn to sort it before calculating the mean, median, and mode. Additionally, students learn how to use spreadsheet functions to sort based on different criteria, leading...
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Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Data: Statistics in Science

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of how statistics allows scientist to explore the degree of uncertainty that accompanies conclusions that are based on data collected during experimentation and research.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body & Mind: Teacher's Corner: Collect & Analyze Safety Data

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore facts and figures for causes of injuries and deaths of children their age by conducting a classroom survey and analyzing the data. Students learn about different kinds of health data collected by the government, and...
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Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Data: Uncertainty, Error, and Confidence

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of how errors may affect data that has been collected for experimentation. Some examples are given.
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Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese Real Time Data Projects: The Stowaway Adventure

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Through this series of Internet-based learning experiences and activities, students will use real-time data to track a real ship at sea and monitor weather conditions. Includes a teacher's guide with problem-solving lesson plans...

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