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Your Tax Dollars at Work

For Teachers 5th - 12th
In order to understand how tax dollars are spent, young economists use given data and graph it on a circle graph. Circle graphs are highly visual and can help individuals describe data. A class discussion follows the initial activity.
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Using Bar Graphs to Understand Voting Patterns

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Bar graphs are used as a way to study voting patterns in the United States. A variety of statistical data is presented in the graphs, and pupils must interpret the data in order to make a report to the class. Three excellent graphs,...
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Favorite Season Circle Graph

For Teachers K
Students create a graph charting their favorite season. They discuss the difference in the four seasons and activities they participate in, in each of the seasons. They can also take a survey of their family members and add them to the...
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Making Graphs

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore statistics by conducting class demographic surveys. In this graph making instructional activity, students identify the family members of each classmate, pets they own, and favorite activities. Students organize their...
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A Cardioid for Valentine’s Day

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
It's Valentine's Day in geometry class! Celebrate the day of love with a heart-themed activity in which young mathematicians create a cardioid on polar graph paper.
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Why is This True?

For Teachers 7th Standards
Are wages based on race? On gender? Class members research wages for workers according to race and gender, create graphs and charts of their data, and compute differences by percentages. They then share their findings with adults and...
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Australian Settlers

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students interpret graphs and research events to identify links between events in the world and the arrival and plight of immigrant groups. They discuss the myths about immigration.
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Excel temperature Graphs

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students gather data about the weather in Nome, Alaska. In this Nome Temperature lesson, students create an excel graph to explore the weather trends in Nome.  Students will find the average weather and add a trend line to their graph.
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Graphing the Past Using Today's Technology

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders research statistical data regarding their current social studies unit. They write questions about the measures of central tendency, collect and analyze the data, insert the data into a spreadsheet, and generate graphs.
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FRED in the Classroom: Measures of Inflation

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Don't just tell class members about how to measure inflation, have them experience it firsthand by asking them to work with real data and construct graphs!
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Economics Worksheet Economic Systems and Circular Flow

For Students 7th - 12th
Agribusiness, human capital, productivity. Find out what your class members know about economic systems and terminology with this two-page economics worksheet that that asks kids to identify terms and concepts.
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Using Charts and Graphs to Study East Asia's Modern Economy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine East Asia's modern economy. In groups, classmates use the internet to compare the resources, products, and economy of specified countries. After collecting the data, pupils create charts, tables and graphs. They...
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Meatiest States: Graph Problem Solving

For Students 6th - 7th
In this graph problem solving worksheet, learners analyze a graph that shows commercial red meat production in five states. Students answer 5 word problems using the data on the graph.
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Weather "Whys" Lesson 2 Seasons

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore seasons.  In this cross curriculum weather and seasons instructional activity, students identify characteristics of the four seasons and sequence related pictures. Students listen to poems and stories about trees in...
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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month!

For Teachers K - 11th
Students use information from the U.S. Bureau of the Census to create a bar graph, a picture graph, or a circle graph showing the country of origin of U.S. Hispanics.
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U.S. Agricultural Subsidies and Nutrition

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Most young people don't spend a lot of time thinking about why some foods cost less than others. This resource uses clips from the documentary, Food, Inc. to explore the impact of agricultural subsidies on nutrition, health, and the...
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Math & Social Science

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners are given data and are to calculate averages and yearly totals of how many cars travel the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. They also make a graph of the data.
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I want a credit card--or do I?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars pretend to borrow $1000.00 on a credit card. They pretend to make the minimum payments for a year. When they're done, they make a pie chart showing how much of their payments reduced their debt, and how much was interest.
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Grade 5 Social Studies Booklet 1

For Students 5th
In this grade 5 social studies booklet 1 worksheet, 5th graders answer 35 multiple choice questions and 10 short answer question in standardized test format.
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Aboriginal Statistics

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders analyze statistics of Native Americans by creating graphs.  In this data analysis lesson plan, 4th graders define different statistical terms and practice finding those statistics from groups of numerical information...
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Black History Project

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore and analyze about famous African-Americans by listening to four picture book biographies. They generate a list of 15 famous African-Americans and then create a survey to rank them according to importance of...
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Getting to Know You

For Teachers Pre-K
Students read a book about understanding differences.  In this getting to know you lesson, students sit in a circle, roll a ball to each other and tell one thing about themselves when they get the ball.  Students read the book...
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Where in the World? Your Relative Location

For Teachers 5th - 6th
In this geography worksheet, young scholars complete a graph showing their location on the planet earth. Students determine what percent of all people on Earth are on their continent, in their country and part of their town.
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Thinking About Technology: What Is It? How Can It Help Us?

For Students 5th - 6th
What is technology and how can it help us? Using a worksheet, students read a list and choose practical applications of scientific knowledge, brainstorm examples of home, school and hospital technology, graph answers in a pie chart, and...

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