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Curated OER

"Czech It Out" - A Look at Eastern Europe

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners research several countries in Eastern Europe. Students compare and contrast several Eastern European countries and then choose a specific country to research and prepare a class presentation with their findings.
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Curated OER

Science: Hurricanes As Heat Engines

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students conduct Internet research to track the path of Hurricane Rita. They record the sea surface temperature of the Gulf of Mexico during and after the hurricane and draw conclusions about how hurricanes extract heat energy from the...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Calculating Range for a Constant Velocity

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students read an explanation from the NASA Web-based "textbook", The Beginner's Guide to Aerodynamics, then use the information in combination with data from other Web sites to solve single variable equations for distance (range), time,...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Line Me Up. Analyzing and Creating Line Graphs

For Teachers 6th
Line graphs are used in our daily lives to show change over time.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Graphical Sources: Practice 2 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on practice exercises to understand and interpret the data in a graphic representations including pie charts, bar graphs, and line graphs.
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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.
Activity
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Graphical Sources: Practice 2 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
You will look at each of these types of graphs: bar graph, line graph, pie charts, as you work your way through the lesson.
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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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Other

Tulpehocken Area School District: Graphing and Analyzing Scientific Data

For Students 4th - 8th
Student worksheet with explanation of pie, bar, and line graphs, the parts of a graph, and the definition of mean, median, and mode. This summary is followed by an exercise for each type of graph within a scientific context.
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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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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Analyzing Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of how to analyze graphs. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check It"...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: A Lego Introduction to Graphing

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students use a LEGO ball shooter to demonstrate and analyze the motion of a projectile through use of a line graph. This activity involves using a method of data organization and trend observation with respect to dynamic experimentation...
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Earthquakes of the World

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource contains a lesson plan that utilizes data from earthquakes. Students are instructed to analyze and interpret line graphs that display the earthquake data.
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University of Waterloo (Canada)

Univ. Of Waterloo: Wired Math: Linear Graphing: Graphing and Analyzing [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The mathematics resource assesses students on linear relations. The activity has problems with graphing and analyzing linear relations. Some of the topics included are variation, scatter plots and linear relationships. The worksheet has...
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Khan Academy

Khan: Lsn 8: Interpreting Relationships in Scatterplots/graphs/tables/equations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on Interpreting and analyzing linear, quadratic, and exponential models and graphs. Students will use best fit lines to interpret contexts, distinguish whether contexts are linear or exponential functions, use the...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Walk the Line: A Module on Linear Functions

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
This module leads students through the process of graphing data and finding a line of best fit while exploring the characteristics of linear equations in algebraic and graphic formats. Then, these topics are connected to real-world...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Using Graphs to Analyze Data

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will demonstrate how to analyze and interpret data given in the form of a graph.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Using Graphs to Understand Data Quiz

For Students 6th - 8th
This is a quiz with five quick questions to check your knowledge of how to use graphs to understand data. It is self-checking.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Walk the Line: Straight Line Distance Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students' use a motion detector to create straight-line, or constant-speed, distance versus time plots, and analyze the linear equation that describes the plots.
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Rice University

Rice University: The Hand Squeeze

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will enjoy this data collection and class analysis experiment involving the time it takes for a hand squeeze to travel around a circle of people. From organizing the activity to collecting the data to making a table and graphing...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Charts Handling Data

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Reading graphs fit together with this engaging, colorful flipchart analyzing pie charts, bar graph, percents, and fractions.
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Math Graphs

Houghton Mifflin: Math Graphs: Equation of a Tangent Line 7 [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
The example analyzes the equation of the tangent line to the graph at the given point. The practice problem is available in PDF format.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: A Sweet Drink Adventure 7

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students determine how the temperature of water affects the dissolving time of a sugar cube. They create, interpret and analyze graphs of data, find an equation of the line of best fit, and relate slope to rate of change.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Forces and Graphing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This activity can be used to explore forces acting on an object, to practice graphing experimental data, and/or to introduce the algebra concepts of slope and intercept of a line. A wooden 2x4 beam is set on top of two scales. Students...