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PBS

The Lowdown — Exploring Changing Obesity Rates through Ratios and Graphs

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Math and medicine go hand-in-hand. After viewing several infographics on historical adult obesity rates, pupils consider how they have changed over time. They then use percentages to create a new graph and write a list of questions the...
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Curated OER

Problem Solving: Metric Conversion

For Students 6th - 7th
Using a table, students solve 12 word problems about the weights of various foods at the grocery store. The solve addition and subtraction problems as well as convert kilograms to grams.
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PBS

Pbs: The Lowdown: Exploring Changing Obesity Rates Through Ratios and Graphs

For Students 6th - 8th
In these KQED Lowdown infographics, explore how adult obesity rates in the United States, as measured by body mass index (BMI), have dramatically changed in the past half-century. A circular graph and a pictograph depict data by decade,...
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WebMD

Web Md: Obesity

For Students 9th - 10th
WebMD's entry on obesity provides a lot of great information. Content discussed includes what causes obesity, risk factors, how obesity can be diagnosed, symptoms of obesity, how it can be treated, and much more. Links to related...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Sensors and Scatterplots

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore the use of several biomedical engineering sensor devices, and then use the collected data to create and analyze scatterplots of the different variables to determine if any relationships exist between the measured...
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Other

Online Conversion

For Students 9th - 10th
Conversion calculators galore! Convert just about anything from one measureable unit into another measureable unit here with over two dozen calculators. Each of the links is specific to a measureable quantity. Some examples include...