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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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NASA

Nasa: Using Radiosonde Data From a Weather Balloon Launch

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan allows students to learn about the layers of the atmosphere and to learn how to graph real atmospheric data.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Elephant Plant: Data and Graphs

For Students 5th - 6th
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real-life scenario involving plants. Those skills include interpreting data in a circle graph, interpreting data in a divided bar graph, and interpreting a bar...
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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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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Weather and Climate Data Exploration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore the relationship between weather and climate by graphing weather temperature data and comparing with climate averages.
Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Advanced Data Grapher

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Advanced Data Grapher can be used to analyze data with box plots, bubble graphs, scatterplots, histograms, and stem-and-leaf plots.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Using Graphs to Make Predictions

For Students 9th - 10th
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your ability to use graphs to make predictions. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Jumping Into Math, Measurement, & Data Day 1

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders apply measurement, graphing, and data skills to the real world context of physical education with standing jumps.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Rice Field: Data and Length

For Students K - 1st Standards
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario of a rice field. Those skills include understanding information displayed in column graphs, collecting data to answer a question, and measuring...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science Fair Central: Investigation Set Up and Collect Data

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief overview of how to gather both quantitative and qualitative data, complete with a sample data table.
Graphic
The Franklin Institute

Frankin Institute Online: Group Graphing

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This site from The Franklin Institute explores how to make a simple graph using a spreadsheet to portray survey data. It also gives a set of interesting sports-related web sites so that students can get statistical inforamtion.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: M&m's and Blogs: Interpreting Data!

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this hands-on, technology-rich lesson plan, students will interpret data. The students will define words involving graphs, create a bar graph using M&M's, and post information from their findings on the internet. The students will...
Website
NOAA

Noaa: National Data Buoy Center: What Are Tides?

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the National Data Buoy Center presents a brief description of the nature of ocean tides.
Activity
Education.com

Education.com: 1.md.c.4 Worksheets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] These worksheets can help students practice organizing, representing, and interpreting data with up to three categories. Choose from among 25 worksheets based on your student's needs.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Displaying Data

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Use this lesson, practice exercise, and teacher resource in planning instruction on displaying data. In the lessons, you'll find definitions and examples of ways to collect and organize data, quartiles, and box-and-whisker plots, as well...
Website
University of Auckland School of Computer Science

Morris: Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the graph data structure and how it is used to solve certain types of problems.
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Cuemath

Cuemath: Bar Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive guide for learning all about bar graphs with definitions, solved examples, and practice questions.
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Cuemath

Cuemath: Linear Graph

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A comprehensive guide for learning all about linear graphs with definitions, properties, their equations, how to plot or analyze them, solved examples, and practice questions.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Building Our Own Bar Graphs (Part I)

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders use data to create a tally chart and make a bar graph. This lesson includes a detailed plan, videos of students engaged in the lesson, and printable worksheets.
Website
NOAA

Noaa: National Data Buoy Center: What Are Tides?

For Students 9th - 10th
A very general introduction to tides and their cycles, with one link to a graph of tide data.
Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Making a Stem and Leaf Plot

For Students 3rd - 8th
A line plot may not be a useful graph for investigating variation so we must come up with a new representation based on groups of data. Construct a stem and leaf plot from a set of 26 data values.
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Other

Graph Pad: Data Analysis Resource Center

For Students 9th - 10th
The GraphPad Statistics Guide is both a guide to doing statistical analyses with GraphPad Prism 7, and a concise review of statistical principles, emphasizing clear explanations with very little math. The GraphPad Curve Fitting Guide is...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Class Surveys and Graphs

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Learners love graphing data that they "own". In this plan, the class will select a type of graph and create it using a class survey frequency table. Included in this activity are videos of the class engaged in the activity and samples of...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Bars, Lines, and Pies

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers will learn and reinforce skills for creating, applying and analyzing pie charts, bar graphs and line graphs.