Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Can You Count on Cans?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
How can a canned food drive be connected to math? It's as simple as counting and organizing the cans! Children demonstrate their ability to sort non-perishable foods into categories that include soup cans, vegetable cans, boxed items,...
Organizer
Curated OER

Favorite Vegetable Survey

For Students 2nd - 4th
What's your favorite? Use this chart template in your lesson on data collection and graphing. Learners record classmates' favorite vegetable in a survey, and then graph the results. A labelled graph is provided here- print both pages...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Fall Leaves

For Students K - 6th
In this fall leaves worksheet, students identify the colors of leaves and determine the number they have of each. This worksheet may be used in elementary grades, for color identification and counting purposes. For the middle school...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Digital Statistics

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Research data analysis by creating charts in class. Define the differences between an "average" and "range" while examining measurement data based on student height. Utilize computer software to create a height graph which is shared with...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Invasives and Marsh Birds

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students are taught that invasive plant removal can have a variety of impacts. They are shown this by using graphs. Students view maps of vegetation change on Iona Island. They discuss implications of changes on marsh birds using data...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Graphing and Analyzing Biome Data

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore biome data. In this world geography and weather data analysis lesson, students record data about weather conditions in North Carolina, Las Vegas, and Brazil. Students convert Fahrenheit degrees to Celsius degrees and use...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Tiger Math Graphing

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Learners practice various skills using the book Tiger Math: Learning to Graph from a Baby Tiger. After listening to the story, they create a pictograph using data collected from the text. They also color a picture of a tiger,...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Monopoly Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students relate the concepts of linear functions to the game of monopoly. In this algebra lesson, students solve problems with ratio and proportion. They collect data and graph it.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Dealing With Data

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students collect, organize, and display data using a bar graph, line graph, pie graph, or picture graph. They write a summary describing the data represented and compare the graph to another graph in the class.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Batchelder News Channel Data Mix Up!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students look at data in graphs with missing labels and use what they know about graphs to label the topics, titles, and axes of the graph. In this graph lesson plan, students pretend they are news reporters and have to fix their stories!
Worksheet
Curated OER

Evaluating Data

For Students 6th - 10th
In this data worksheet, students learn how to organize the data collected during an experiment and practice finding patterns. Students graph a table of experimental data and complete 1 short answer question.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

From Playing with Electronics to Data Analysis

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Learners collect and Analyze data. In this statistics lesson, students identify the line of best fit of the graph. They classify lines as having positive, negative and no correlation.
PPT
Curated OER

Fast Talker - Ch 2 project

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Tongue Twisters?!  Create scatter plot graphs based on timing fellow classmates saying tongue twisters.  Then investigate, display, and analyze the relationships based on functions.  Wrap up this activity by making a...
Worksheet
Curated OER

World Oil Reserves: Assignment

For Students 7th - 8th
Understanding and analyzing data is a critical skill. Included here are three worksheets a list of countries with the largest oil reserves, a graph of the same, and an assignment. The class uses their data to create a bar chart then...
Worksheet
Math Worksheets Land

Pie or Circle Graphs - Matching Worksheet

For Students 3rd Standards
It's one thing to be able to read a pie graph, but it's another to analyze a pie graph and match it to its data table. Use a multiple choice activity when challenging learners to practice this skill. With six...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

When Will We Ever Use This? Predicting Using Graphs

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Here are a set of graphing lessons that have a real-world business focus.  Math skills include creating a scatter plot or line graph, fitting a line to a scatter plot, and making predictions. These lessons are aimed at an algebra 1...
Assessment
CCSS Math Activities

Social Security Trust Fund

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Will Social Security still be around when you retire? Given data on the predicted balance of the social security fund over time, scholars plot the points on a coordinate grid and determine if a quadratic regression fits the data. They...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Figure This! Math Challenges for Families

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Young mathematicians complete a family math challenge packet. They will complete a packet of mixed math activities. They work with graphs, comparing numerical data, tessellations, and probability.
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Kenan Fellows

Reading Airline Maintenance Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Airline mechanics must be precise, or the consequences could be deadly. Their target ranges alter with changes in temperature and pressure. When preparing an airplane for flight, you must read a maintenance graph. The second lesson of...
Lesson Plan
University of California

Heating and Cooling of the Earth's Surface

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Scholars collect data from heating sand and water before forming testable hypotheses about why sand heats up faster. Afterward, they develop and run experiments to test their hypotheses.
Lesson Plan
EngageNY

Graphs of Quadratic Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
How high is too high for a belly flop? Learners analyze data to model the world record belly flop using a quadratic equation. They create a graph and analyze the key features and apply them to the context of the video.
Lesson Plan
American Statistical Association

Happy Birthday to . . . Two?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
How many people do you need in a room before two likely share the same birthday? Scholars consider this puzzle by analyzing a set of data. They ponder how to divide the data and determine the proper size of a group for this event to...
Activity
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Teach Engineering

Exploring Acceleration with an Android

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Small groups use rubber bands to accelerate an Android device along a track of books. They collect the acceleration data and analyze it in order to determine the device's velocity. 
Unit Plan
Intel

Play Ball!

For Students 8th - 12th Standards
Math and sports meet on the baseball diamond in the first STEM lesson in a series of six that asks pupils to collect and perform comparative analyses of data specific to baseball. Following the analysis, scholars create a presentation...