Curated OER
MOBILITY, Traveling Lightly: What’s My Footprint?
Students calculate their carbon footprint. In this environmental technology lesson, students listen to a lecture on climate change. Students brainstorm solutions to reduce environmental impact based on travel options. Students calculate...
Curated OER
Drops on a Penny
Eighth graders experiment to determine the number of drops of water a heads up penny hold. They create a stem and leaf graph of the class results and use the data for further experimentation on a tails up penny.
Curated OER
Environmental Mathematics
Eighth graders determine food that they would need to survive in the wild. They graph the best foods for their environments and rate the survivability rate for each member of their group.
Curated OER
Remembering Our Veterans Data Management Project
Seventh graders utilize data collected from various sources based on Canadian military statistics to consolidate their understanding of data management. Students plan and create a PowerPoint presentation using this data including in...
Curated OER
Data Shuffle
Students find an advertisement or newspaper using charts or graphs. They create another graph using the same information in a different format. They write a comparison of the two graphs.
Curated OER
Histograms and Frequency Tables
In this statistics instructional activity, students solve and analyze graphs. They use histograms and frequency tables to solve their problems. There are 2 multiple choice questions with an answer key.
Curated OER
What Do Bread and Beer Have in Common?
Students listen to an explanation of yeast cells and how they effect bread and beer. They discuss the ways alcohol affects the human body and participate in an indirect observation about cell respiration in yeast-molasses cultures.
Curated OER
Schoolyard Bird Project
Students observe and count bird sightings around their schoolyard throughout the school year.
Curated OER
Capturing the Wind
Learners collect and analyze data about wind speed. They build a Lego wind sail and measure the wind speed with a rotation sensor. They use software to analyze the data.
Curated OER
Travel Mug Design
Students create and develop a travel mug. They create visuals and a three dimensional infomercial. They apply an engineering design and demonstrate knowledge of thermodynamics involved in heat transfer. They illustrate Newton's Law of...
Curated OER
Tomb Explorer/Temple Explorer
Fourth graders build an explorer vehicle which they program through an obstacle course to enter the tomb or temple to discover artifacts.
Curated OER
Different Perspectives of Oregon's Forest Economic Geography
Learners locate the many forests located in Oregon. In groups, they use the internet to research employment data on wood products made in the state. They discuss how looking at information presented in a different way can change their...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Creating Box Plots
More practice making box plots to summarize data sets. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Reading Box Plots
Practice reading information presented in box plots. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Other
Nearpod: Displaying Data: Box Plots
In this lesson, students will learn how to create and intrepret box plots using the 5-number summary.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Box and Whiskers Activity
The students will be working in stations to construct and analyze box plots. All activities are of high interest and rich in content.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Learning Math: Min, Max and the Five Number Summary
Explore how to interpret a large set of data by dividing it up into smaller portions in order to answer statistical questions.
US Census Bureau
Us Census: Percentage of People Who Walk to Work in Cities and Population Size
Using census data, learners will create box plots to make inferences about the percentages of people who walk to work in cities of different population sizes (small, medium, and large). Students will use these findings to write a short...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Reading Dot Plots and Frequency Tables
In this exercise, students practice reading dot plots and frequency tables. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 2 Box and Whisker Plots
Use Glencoe's Math Course 2 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of Box-and-Whisker Plots. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the...
Math Planet
Math Planet: Stem and Leaf Plots and Box and Whiskers Plot
Discover how to use stem-and-leaf plots and box-and-whisker plots to visualize data by taking a look at examples and a video lesson.
University of Georgia
University of Georgia: Inter Math: Box and Whisker Plot
Description of box-and-whisker plots and their uses, along with a visual representation. There are links to related terms, everyday examples, more information, and the interactive checkpoint involving box and whisker plots located in the...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Comparing Data Displays
Practice interpreting and comparing dot plots, histograms, and box plots. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Other
Nearpod: Introduction to Data Representation
In this lesson on representation data, young scholars explore how to make dot plots, histograms, and box plots and learn about outliers in a data set.