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Take Your Time
Your class examines the ways that they spend time by evaluating their own schedules. They create a peer research survey to gather information about their various habits. They analyze the data and compare/contrast the activities of...
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Researching and Compiling Survey Information
Bring Internet research and social issues to your language arts class in this activity. After investigating the topic "Media Violence and How It Affects Teenagers" on the Internet, middle schoolers work in groups to compile their...
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Every Vote Counts Lesson Plan
Learners conduct weekly opinion polls or surveys about topics that are important to classmates. Using the information gathered, they design a bulletin board display. On the display, they show the poll questions, the names of the groups...
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Where is Everybody?
Learners collect data from different grade levels at their school and develop thematic maps which show population density, and determine how this might affect the school and themselves in the future.
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Canadian Social Trends
Students use surveys to explore how to design graphs, tables, and diagrams. They discuss articles which can stimulate ideas for research topics, or surveys of their own.
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Graphing
Intended for a faith-based classroom, this instructional activity requires second graders to create a survey, conduct the survey in multiple classrooms, and graph the results. They can choose between creating a picture or bar graph, or...
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Louisville's Best Field Day Park
Students create a survey to hand out to determine the best field day park. Using their local area, they select five parks, if possible, that meet the criteria and calculate the distance and estimated time travel. They use this...
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Social Change
Pupils study a social issue involving gorillas, and work in groups to develop strategies to increase awareness of and problem solve a solution for the issue. They collect data using handheld computers and write a report.
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What Are Your Chocolate Eating Habits?
Students design and conduct a survey as an investigation of chocolate eating habits. They pool and analyze their results and consider which companies are making the largest profits based on the information gathered from their surveys.
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Tally and Graph
In this survey and graphing worksheet, learners take a survey of 10 friends by asking them to vote for their favorite musical instrument. They fill in a tally chart, track the tally marks, and develop a bar graph with the information.
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TV Survey - Data Collection and Analysis
In this data collection and analysis worksheet, 4th graders complete a tally chart about the number of hours that fourth graders watch television. They create a bar graph with the information, write a paragraph about the survey results,...
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Opinions, Please!
Students discuss the meaning and purposes of polls and surveys. After reading an article, they analyze the results of a poll given to residents of New York City. They create a survey of their own and analyze the data to write a written...
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Using a Questionnaire as a Tool for Management
Students survey other students, teachers, and administrators, using a provided questionnaire, to see what environmental problems the school may have. Students then compile the results, post the results, and decide what the biggest...
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Creating a Graph
Young scholars brainstorm favorite things to do during the summer. They survey classmates to collect data, arrange it in a chart, and create graphs using ClarisWorks.
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Surveys and Graphing
First graders survey different classrooms to determine types of products students would like to see sold at school, and create graphs based on survey results.
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Surveys and Samples
In this surveys and samples worksheet, students discover data collection techniques and write their own survey questions. Students use random sampling, convenience sampling, and systemic sampling and analyze their results.
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Analyze a Survey
In this analyzing data worksheet, students read a tally chart regarding survey information and respond to 4 analytical questions regarding the data.
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What's Your Favorite Chocolate Bar?
Young scholars complete a math survey. In this math graphs lesson, students complete a survey about their favorite candy bars. Young scholars create different kinds of graphs using Microsoft Excel to show their results.
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Random Samples and Surveys
In this random samples instructional activity, students answer 4 questions, including a bonus, regarding surveys and confidence intervals.
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Recording Data From a Survey Reteaching Worksheet
In this recording data from a surveys reteaching worksheet, 2nd graders review the use of tallies when recording data. They use the information to make a data table and a bar graph that displays the information.
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Favorite President Survey
In this president survey worksheet, students are given a tally chart. The question at the top is "Who is your favorite president?" Students have room to list the responses, and tally them up. No choices are given.
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Uk Kids 'Could Have Happier Life'
Students evaluate a survey done to determine the level of happiness in United Kingdom students. They look at the most common reasons students report for being unhappy and compare these results to similar surveys done in different...
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Survey Says…
Students design surveys to help them to better understand the behaviors and opinions of their peers on issues that are important in their lives. They survey and interview peers and write articles describing their findings.
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Opinion Surveys
Learners examine the factors that affect the accuracy of opinion surveys. They calculate probability and chance using data they have collected. They practice reading tables and graphs as well.