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Using Excel to Reference and Graph Live Data from a Web Site

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers collect live buoy data about water temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico from the Internet and work individually to organize their data and create a line graph using Excel Spreadsheet. Students analyze their data and...
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Favorite Days

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students collect and organize data about themselves. In this data analysis activity, students discuss their favorite calendar dates and explore ways to display the data.
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Tables and Graphs Practice

For Students 7th - 10th
In this table and graph worksheet, students are given three scenarios with data. They construct a table and a graph for each scenario.
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Creating Circles

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students make a circle graph. In this graphing lesson plan, the teacher conducts a class survey, then demonstrates how to make a pie graph. When students are comfortable with the material, they use a worksheet to create their own graph.
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Graphs

For Students 7th - 8th
In this graphs worksheet, students solve and complete 9 various types of problems. First, they use a large scatter graph to complete a described trend in data. Then, students find the difference of negative numbers and place them in...
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Graphing Pasta

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars sort and graph various types of pasta. Using pasta construction paper patterns or real pasta, they sort the pasta by color, size, and type, and record the data on a graph.
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Steppin' Out

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students are presented with the question: "Do longer legged people run faster than shorter legged people?" Students conduct an experiment, collect their data, create box and whisker plots using a computer and graphing program, and...
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Get Your Numbers in Shape - TI-83

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
High Schoolers use the TI-83 calculator to produce a sequence, explore patterns and find a linear or quadratic equation for a given pattern. They use inductive reasoning to make conjectures about patterns. They find the Y-value of a...
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Gummy Bear Picture Graph

For Teachers 1st
First graders investigate picture graphs. In this graphing lesson, 1st graders create a picture graph with the x-axis being number and the y-axis being color. Students sort their gummy bears by color and use pictures of colored bears...
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Our Desert Backyard

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students make observations of their own backyard. In this environment lesson, students keep records of the plants and animals they see in their home or school yard. Students make notes of how the weather and environment changes over...
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What Are Erosion and Sediments?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers create experiments in class based on the erosion of Earth. In this erosion lesson, students perform a lab in class replicating the effects of erosion. Middle schoolers finally draw their own conclusions based on the...
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Quantitative Data

For Students 9th - 11th
In this algebra worksheet, students collect data using tally marks. They then record their data, graph it and analyze it. There are 23 questions with an answer key.
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Dynamite Data

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders rotate through a variety of stations designed to offer practice in manipulating data. They sort, tally and count items and then create bar graphs, tables, and pie graphs to record their findings.
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RCX Car Line Graph

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students develop a line graph based on distances that an RCX car drives in specified amounts of time. They then are given a specific amount of time for the car to drive and be asked to extrapolate the car's distance from the graph.
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Graphing Data

For Teachers 1st
First graders learn how to display data using a bar graph. In this bar graph lesson, 1st graders use data from a t-shirt color survey to make a bar graph. They also make an animal bar graph before interpreting the information.
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Squares in the Light

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Young scholars collect and analyze data using a graph. In this algebra lesson, students explain their findings orally and with a graph. They use their knowledge to solve real life scenarios.
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Line Graphs and Commercial Costs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate line graphs.   In this middle school mathematics lesson plan, students compare and contrast different types of graphs and create line graphs based on the data provided.
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Graphing Our Favorites

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use a computer program to follow directions and graph their favorite things into a bar graph. In this graphing lesson plan, 2nd graders have 30 choices of favorite things to graph.
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Graphing Data

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore the concept of graphing. In this data lesson, 1st graders gather information from a class survey and display their findings on a picture graph. Students also practice solving problems that their instructor models.
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"Colors" a poem by Shel Silverstein

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students collect data, graph it, and use the data to find measures of central tendencies, and find probabilities.
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Mean, Median, and Mode 1

For Students 8th - 10th
In this mean, median and mode activity, students use the measures of central tendency to describe given statistical data. Students identify the range of data, and match data to its representative bar graph. Two multi-step problems are...
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Graphing Dairy Production Statistics

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Young scholars collect data about dairy production. In this geometry lesson plan, students formulate and model problem solving. They collect data and plot it on a graph.
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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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Rainbows, Bridges & Weather, Oh My!

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Explore how real-world applications can be parabolic in nature and how to find quadratic functions that best fit data. A number of different examples of modeling parabolas are explored including a student scavenger hunt, the exploration...