Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Scientific Investigation and Reasoning Data Organization

For Students 7th - 9th
Using interactive exercises, students will review how to construct tables and graphs in order to organize data.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Motion: Calculating and Graphing Students Walking Speed

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity students will collect and analyze data of their walking speed. They will compare their speed to an outside speed walker. They will determine their speed every 20 meters up to 100 meters. They will complete five trials to...
Lesson Plan
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Seventh Grade Mathematics: Data Sense

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This site has some interesting ways to collect and evaluate data. There are some activities about note taking, spreadsheets, surveys, and a cool bridge construction project. Teachers may want to use this site as a resource for some...
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Measuring and Graphing Toy Water Animal Growth

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Lesson involves scientific investigation and knowledge of units of measurement. Students will select and submerge a growing water animal toy, predicting and measuring its growth of at least three places of metric measurement of distance...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: At the Doctor's

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this simulation of a doctor's office, students play the roles of physician, nurse, patients, and time-keeper, with the objective to improve the patient waiting time. They collect and graph data as part of their analysis. This serves...
Professional Doc
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Eureka Math Parent Guide: Collecting and Displaying Data

For Students 3rd Standards
A guide to support parents as they work with their students in collecting and displaying data.
Interactive
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara

Nceas: Graph Types

For Students 3rd - 5th
At this site from NCEAS you can learn how to organize your data into pie graphs, bar graphs, and line graphs. Explanations and examples are given of each graph along with several questions that check comprehension.
Lesson Plan
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Growth Creature Lab Data Collecting

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Lesson plan completely explains how young scholars will collect data on the growth of an "alligator" and determine the relationship of the growth data to the Fundamental Theorem of Similarity and to topics in geometry in general. All of...
Unit Plan
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Categorizing Data

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Three lessons on different types of data (qualitative, quantitative, univariate, bivariate, biased data) as well as a practice activity and teacher resource.
Lesson Plan
Other

A River Runs Through It Learning Project

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
For this year long learning project integrating mathematics and science, students solve environmental problems using data collection and problem solving concepts. Designed for upper elementary gifted students. Interactive components and...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Graphing Our Snack Mix: Review of Graphing

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders review how to make bar graphs, line plots, and pictographs by tallying the contents of snack mix and building graphs to show their data.
Activity
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Olympic Records

For Students 5th - 8th
Can you work out which Olympics athletics event each anonymised graph of Olympic records data represents? This activity, aimed at Key Stage 3 (age 11-14), gives students the opportunity to make sense of graphical data and challenges them...
Activity
University of Waterloo (Canada)

Wired Math: Organizing Data Grade 7 [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th
A collection of worksheets that focus on data analysis and organizing data. Includes detailed examples, colorful visuals, and a link to a related game. Acrobat Reader required.
Interactive
US Department of Education

Nces Kids: Create an Xy Graph

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is where you can find a step by step explanation of how to create an XY graph. When you finish each step just click the next tab and you will find the next set of instructions.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Graphing Our Favorite Ice Cream

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders can collect and represent data with a unique scale.
Activity
Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Practice With Organizing and Interpreting Data

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Several problems are presented to test your skills in creating and interpreting frequency tables, pie charts, box-and-whisker and stem-and-leaf plots.
Activity
Utah Education Network

Uen: This Is Me Glyph

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students will collect and graph data using a glyph.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Exploring Distributions and Graphs Using Cooperative Learning

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Using cooperative learning methods, this instructional activity introduces distributions for univariate data, emphasizing how distributions help us visualize central tendencies and variability. Students collect real data on head...
Lesson Plan
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Project Sky Math

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teachers will be interested to explore the SkyMath module, and the 16 classroom activities at this site. In this program, students will collect and record real-time weather data to analyze. Data analysis, graphing, number relationship,...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Curious George: Hat Grab

For Students Pre-K - K
This Curious George game teaches children data analysis and graphing. Grab hats as people pass by so that George can graph the collected hats. Then answer a question about the hats!
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Scatter Plots

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Basic activity of collecting data and graphing sets of data to see if there is a relationship.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Dr. Seuss Graphs Part 1

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Favorite Dr. Seuss characters are something that students can collect data on, graph and interpret.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Determination of Boyle's Law Through Data Collection

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students develop an understanding of the mathematical relationship between pressure and volume of a gas. Students will practice data collection and graphing skills while also making the connection between force and pressure
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Data Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th
Given laboratory investigation data in the form of tables, charts, and graphs, students will analyze and predict trends from the data.