Curated OER
Does One Tree a Forest Make?
Students take a walk around the schoolyard looking at and identifying the trees. One leaf for each tree is collected. A chart is developed that represents the population of trees on the school ground. They keep journals and write an essay.
Curated OER
Multiple Intelligences Survey
For this multiple intelligences worksheet, students complete a survey asking them about different ways they like to learn. Students complete 24 questions. This should be a very enjoyable activity for students.
Curated OER
Sky Watching
Young scholars trace how weather patterns generally move from west to east in the United States.
Curated OER
A Bird's Eye View of our 50 States
Third graders focus on state birds as they learned absolute location (latitude/longitude) of each state, as well as their relative location (bordering states).
Curated OER
Do You See What I See?
Students observe and describe different objects seen under a microscope and compare the individual perspectives of what was seen.
US Department of Education
National Center for Education Statistics: Create a Graph Tutorial
This tutorial walks students through how to create different types of graphs using the Create a Graph tool available on the website. Covers bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts, area graphs, scatter plots, and dependent and independent...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Data Analysis Using Graphing
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart allows students to analyze data using appropriate graphs, including pictographs, histograms, bar graphs, line graphs, circle graphs, and line plots introduced earlier, and using...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Graphs
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart presents bar and double bar graphs, line and double line graphs, pictographs, histograms, and circle graphs with review activities and web links for practice.
The Math League
The Math League: Using Data and Statistics: Pie Charts
This introductory tutorial about statistical graphing with four examples of how pie charts (circle graphs) are constructed and read.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: All That Data
Students analyze data by finding the mean, median, mode, and range of a set of numbers. Line plots, bar graphs, and circle graphs are also included in this lesson.
PBS
Pbs: Mathline Creature Feature Lesson Plan [Pdf]
An interdisciplinary math, science, and language arts lesson plan that engages students in an exploration of statistics. Through a study of various forest climates, students utilize data collection and analysis, classification, and...