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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Data Organization

For Students 9th - 10th
Given field and laboratory scenarios and laboratory data, students will construct data tables and graphs, using repeated trials and means to organize data.
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Other

Royal Geographical Society: Discovering Antarctica

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource-rich website will help students understand the challenges that Antarctica faces, the history of its exploration and the relationship between Antarctica and the rest of the world. Activities reveal insights about how it feels to...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Discovering Psychology: Research Methods

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, you will explore how psychologists draw solid conclusions from the complex and often ambiguous phenomena they study -- how you think, feel, and behave.
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Other

I Naturalist

For Students 9th - 10th
Community-sharing site lets all the world's sharp-eyed naturalists, including school-age students, record their observations of the outdoor world.
Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Figure This: Does Drinking Soda Affect Your Health?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Try this "Real world," challenge taken directly from the today's health journals. Use your problem solving, data analysis, and number sense skills to figure out if soda intake among teenage girls is related to incidences of broken bones....
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Figure This: Misaddressed Mail

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Try this probability challenge from the NCTM Math Challenges for Families series. See if you can figure out the probability of putting three checks in the correct envelopes without looking. Also, discover how probability skills are used...
Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Figure This: Census

For Students 3rd - 8th
Try this real world challenge that focuses on data collection, data analysis, and problem solving with information from the U.S. Census Bureau. Discover how these skills are applied in real life situations in this one page activity from...
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Other

Center for Education Partnerships: The Marble Roll

For Students 3rd - 9th
In this Science-athon, students try to make their marble roll the farthest across a flat surface, using their knowledge of forces, motion, and energy to guide them through their apparatus design. Teachers must enroll online.
Interactive
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara

Nceas: Graph Types

For Students 3rd - 5th
At this site from NCEAS you can learn how to organize your data into pie graphs, bar graphs, and line graphs. Explanations and examples are given of each graph along with several questions that check comprehension.
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National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara

Kids Do Ecology: Data and Science

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about conducting your own investigation with these tips on following the scientific method. Find out how to state hypothesis, make observations, collect and analyze data, and display data to share results and conclusions of your...
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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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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Data Collecting Project Stats Class

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan provides the teacher with all the necessary handouts and directions to give a statistics class when they are ready to complete a thorough survey project. Broken into five parts, it takes the students through the...
Lesson Plan
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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University of Waterloo (Canada)

Wired Math: Organizing Data Grade 7 [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th
A collection of worksheets that focus on data analysis and organizing data. Includes detailed examples, colorful visuals, and a link to a related game. Acrobat Reader required.
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Goodwill

Gcf Global: Excel 2016

For Students 9th - 10th
A website with 33 links plus a quiz on how to use Microsoft Excel 2016. Topics include Excel 2016 Basics, Working with Cells and Sheets, Formulas and Functions, Working with Data, Doing More with Excel, and Extras.
Professional Doc
Other

Cajon Valley Digital Academy: Google Forms

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This digital teaching resource addresses the uses of Google Forms in the classroom. A video demonstration [3:30] and long slideshow provide applications of Google Forms in the Common Core classroom. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.7.
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Other

Visible Geology: Stereonet

For Students 9th - 10th
A lower hemisphere graph for the placement of geological data is called a stereonet. This site allows students to plot data on their own stereonet(s).
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Utah Education Network

Uen: 2nd Grade Act. 05: Olympics

For Teachers 2nd
Stuents will participate in the shared reading of Jump, Kangaroo, Jump by Stuart Murphy. After the reading, 2nd graders will fill out an Olympic events recording sheet.
Handout
University of Georgia

University of Georgia: Inter Math: Types of Data

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site has a concise definition of "Data," plus examples of data types and collection methods.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Statistics: Surveys and Sample

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn how to use surveying and sampling to collect accurate data.
Graphic
Rice University

Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Let's Graph

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
An introduction to bar graphs, both vertical and horizontal in nature. The interactive aspect of this site allows students to change the values of the data - their favorite cafeteria foods - and then see how the graph is changed.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: David Mc Candless: The Beauty of Data Visualization

For Students 9th - 10th
Listen and watch as David McCandless turns complex data sets into beautiful, simple diagrams. He suggests that information design is really important because we all like to visualize our information. [18:19]
Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Field Journal O Logy Card

For Students 3rd - 8th
OLogy cards are like virtual baseball cards about all kinds of science topics. This one is about collecting data in a field journal. There's a great example of how a field journal was used to discover an extinct species! See if you can...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Cyberchase: Bugs in the System

For Students 1st - 4th
Play with data- make a graph by catching bugs! Help the cyber squad clean up the mess.