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One Square Foot

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students identify, describe, count, tally, and graph life found in one square foot of land.
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The Cost of Life

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars research the salary for a career of interest. They consider what kind of lifestyle that career would provide and graph their information for comparison.
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Civil War Time Line

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students draw a time line on graph paper on a scale of one square to every five years beginning in 1770 and ending at 2000. They place historic events and inventions in their correct time period on the time line, and add their birthday...
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Animals In Your Neighborhood

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students make list of all animals they have seen in their backyards, neighborhoods, and around school in past week, graph animals using computer spreadsheet program, and compare graphs through email with students in another class.
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Favorite and Alarming Sounds

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students target which sounds can warn us of danger. Several objects are hidden behind a box or board. They have to listen to the sounds each object makes and guess what it is. They then make a graph of the number of students that prefer...
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How Much Water Do We Use In Our Homes?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students discover the amount of water used for everyday activities around their home in this lesson. They research the amount of water needed by accessing a provided internet link. They then graph the information they discovered and...
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Math and Cinderella

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students trace their feet and them compare the different sizes of classmates. They construct a bar graph showing the results of their classmates' feet size. They discuss what kinds of conclusions can be drawn from their observations.
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How Much Will This Cost?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students determine how much money is needed for a service learning project. They create a graph or chart to explain the budget for the service project. They complete budget worksheets as their plan goes into action.
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Pulse Rates

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students answer the question, "How will the intensity of exercise effect your heart rate?", using physical workouts and AppleWorks, or similar spreadsheet program. This lesson can conclude with the creation of a graph of data collected.
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Reduce and Reuse

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students conduct a lunch waste audit by recording each item they throw away at lunch. They graph class lunch waste. They use this information to devise a plan of action to reduce lunch waste. There is also an activity to make paper.
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Healthy Foods

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students illustrate their favorite food and add it to a food pyramid graph, after listening to Russell Hoban's story, Bread and Jam for Frances.
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What is a Tropical Rainforest?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars investigate amounts of rainfall in selected world rainforests by creating a bar graph showing rainfall in inches for each. They convert inches to millimeters, and solve word problems having to do with rainfall in selected...
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What is a Cloud

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders study clouds and how they are formed. They write acrostic poems about clouds and analyze and graph temperature data collected during varying degrees of cloud cover.
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Lesson: Journey of a Tree

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore the operation of a Christmas farm and how trees are shipped. After taking a tour of a Christmas tree farm and researching transportation, location and cost issues, 3rd graders create a map to show the distribution...
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Asian Americans: Where Do They Come From?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify 15 places (14 countries plus Hawaii) from which large populations of Asian Americans originate. They create a graph to help themselves visualize the places from which large populations of Asian Americans originate. Then...
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Comparing Temperatures of US REgions

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore regional factors that affect daily temperature. They collect data on three cities in the northeast, southeast and midwest regions of the US for two weeks. The Weather Channel website is used each day to collect...

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