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PBS

Pbs Mathline: Sand Babies (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this engaging lesson, students use a variety of measurement strategies in creating their own Sand Babies. Students explore standard and non-standard measurements, area, data collection and analysis, and graphing. Adaptations are...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Beverage Tests

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students determine the pH of liquid samples. They get familiar with the pH scale, create graphs comparing pH levels, and compare data displayed as a scatter plot, a boxplot, a histogram, and a bar graph.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: A Tornado in My State?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will analyze data of tornadoes throughout the United States. They will create a bar graph of the number of tornadoes for the top ten states in the country and then calculate the median and the mode of the data.
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Rice University

Rice University: The Hand Squeeze

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will enjoy this data collection and class analysis experiment involving the time it takes for a hand squeeze to travel around a circle of people. From organizing the activity to collecting the data to making a table and graphing...
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Colorado State University

Colorado State Writing Center: Charts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The use of charts and graphs can improve your presentations, whether on paper or as visual aids. Here you can read about how to create line, column, bar, pie graphs, and scatterplots. Just follow the links to their respective pages.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Conic Flyer

For Students 9th - 10th
"This applet allows the user to create graphs of conic sections. Using slider bars, one can manipulate the function to change the constant values and view the effects of those changes."
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Ice Cream Sundae Survey

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Learners quickly realize the importance of learning how to read and find information in charts, graphs, and tables compared to finding the same information written in a paragraph. This is a fun, high energy lesson!This lesson plan was...
Handout
Purple Math

Purplemath: Stem and Leaf Plots

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Explains how to create a stem-and-leaf plot from a data set. Demonstrates how to format a clear stem-and-leaf plot.
Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Dinosaurs: Data and Chance

For Students 5th - 6th
Students can play learning games to explore how to label, read, and create graphs using a dinosaur theme.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How Tall Are We?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Kindergartners measure each other's height using large building blocks, then visit a 2nd and a 4th grade class to measure those students. They can also measure adults in the school community. Results are displayed in age-appropriate bar...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: M&m's and Blogs: Interpreting Data!

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this hands-on, technology-rich lesson plan, students will interpret data. The students will define words involving graphs, create a bar graph using M&M's, and post information from their findings on the internet. The students will...
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Who Is Working?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This activity teaches students what economists mean when they talk about people who are employed, unemployed, and not in the labor force. It discusses the Current Population Survey and asks students to pose as government survey workers...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: What Is Your Favorite Pet?

For Teachers 1st Standards
SWBAT create a bar graph to match a data set. SWBAT analyze the graph to find 3 pieces of information the graph shows them.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: What Is Your Favorite Little Bear Story?

For Teachers 1st Standards
SWBAT create a bar graph to match a data set. SWBAT analyze the graph for 3 pieces of information.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Taste Test

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students collect sample data and use the calculator to create pictographs, bar graphs, and pie graphs to demonstrate the favorite brand in the sample data.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Statistical Analysis of Lincoln

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this activity, students first work in groups to collect information about a set of pennies. They measure and record the mass for each one in a table using a spreadsheet program if possible. They also record its year and, for 1982...
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Math Is Fun

Math Is Fun: The Spinner: Your Decision Maker

For Students 9th - 10th
This handy math spinner does most of the work for you. You can choose whether to use numbers, dice, yes/no, etc., and how many sections there are on the spinner. Then you spin it and it tabulates the results, creating a bar graph as it...