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Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Data: Data Analysis and Interpretation

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of data from collection to analysis. Includes a discussion of how the same data may be interpreted various ways by different individuals.
Website
NOAA

Noaa: Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System: Data in the Classroom

For Students 9th - 10th
NOAA Smart Buoys collect and transmit real-time weather, water conditions, and water quality data. Chesapeake Exploration gives teachers and their students unprecedented access to lessons designed around real-time observational data from...
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Math Slice

Math Slice: Chart Slice Special Test

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
A ten question test assessing data collection and analysis skills with bar graphs. Assessment is scored online. An excellent tool for assessment.
Unit Plan
Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Data: Statistics in Science

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of how statistics allows scientist to explore the degree of uncertainty that accompanies conclusions that are based on data collected during experimentation and research.
Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Misleading Graphs

For Teachers 4th - 8th
This lesson will challenge students to think creatively by having them design and build water balloon catchers from random scrap materials, while requiring them to take into consideration a multitude of variables including cost,...
Handout
NASA

Nasa Earth Observatory: Should We Talk About the Weather?

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover how scientists use the BOREAS to gather data such as heat, carbon dioxide, water vapor, and more to see what role these levels have on climate changes.
Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Lesson Plan: Scientific Method "The Big Ahah"

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson plan helps students understand and use the scientific method. It also helps helps students understand the importance of good scientific experimentation to the scientific method.
Activity
NOAA

Noaa: Be a Citizen Weather Reporter [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Report the local weather to your community after deciding which data to collect and reading some of the National Weather Service's forecasting tips for amateur weather reporters.
Handout
Other

Stat Soft: Getting Started With Statistics Concepts

For Students 9th - 10th
Definitions of the basic concepts in statistics. Great for review and discussion or for introduction into topics.
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BSCS Science Learning

Bscs: Heavy Metals in Waterways

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This inquiry focuses on heavy metals in waterways in Colorado. Students will learn about heavy metals and data collected about them from citizen scientists, and then analyze the data in tables and maps to identify possible evidence of...
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Other

Milwaukee Public Schools: Standard k.cc.4.c: Intervention Activity: Add One

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Observe students while they complete the following sheet to see how they discuss and match the numbers with the visual representation. Included is a score sheet to record data.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: A Look at Our Natural Environment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
During this lesson learners will have the opportunity to research, analyze, and collect data on how the natural environment influenced the Native Americans long ago, and how it still influences us today. Using information gathered from...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Representing Our Own Surveys

For Teachers 1st
After developing a survey questions and polling their classmates (in yesterday's lesson), 1st graders will now find a way to represent their findings and write a statement about what they noticed.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: School Leadership in Action

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This learning module includes several lessons designed to illustrate best practices in school leadership and spark conversation, reflection, and new thinking in schools and districts.
Activity
NOAA

Noaa: Build Your Own Weather Station [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Build six different instruments to collect meteorological data for the weather in your area.
Activity
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Lizard Evolution Virtual Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
Students explore the evolution of the anole lizard in this virtual lab. Students will collect and analyze data during the virtual lab that focuses on evolutionary biology and includes adaptation, convergent evolution, phylogenetic...
Handout
Other

Univ. Of Copenhagen: Centre for Ice and Climate: Preserved Fossil Dna in the Ice

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses how fossil DNA data that is collected from ice cores is used by scientists to reconstruct the composition of past ecosystems and their biodiversity, as well as climates. There is a great deal of other information on the website...
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BSCS Science Learning

Bscs: Frog Eat Frog World

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Using maps and graphs of large data sets collected in FrogWatch, students will determine the range, preferred land cover, and proximity to water of the American bullfrog to figure out the bullfrog's requirements for food, water, and...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Link Between Arctic Sea Ice and Solar Radiation Absorbed

For Students 9th - 10th
The Arctic plays an important role in regulating Earth's climate. The region reflects much of the Sun's energy and helps keep the planet cool. Data collected by NASA have revealed that sea ice in the Arctic has steadily declined over the...
eBook
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Chapter 7: How the Unemployment Rate Is Defined and Computed

For Students 9th - 10th
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Calculate the labor force percentage and the unemployment rate, Explain hidden unemployment and what it means to be in or out of the labor force, and Evaluate the...
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: S Ic Words and Music Ii

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Given a hypothetical situation, young scholars will decide if this is an experiment or observational study and why? They will also learn the importance of random assignments in this particular example. Explanations are provided.
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Lab Work Forces & Acceleration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Illinois Institute of Technology provides this site. The site contains a graphing activity which illustrates that a constant force exerted upon an object results in constant acceleration. Rolling carts and stopwatches are used to...

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