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Candy Bar Survey

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders investigate the skill of graphing data by using candy bars to create context for the instructional activity. They use technology for graphing and organizing information like a spreadsheet. The instructional activity...
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A Thanksgiving Survey

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students conduct a survey. In this math lesson plan, students design and conduct a survey about Thanksgiving foods. Students display the collected data in a graph and use the graph to determine what food to serve for a Thanksgiving meal.
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Opinion Polls And Surveys As Research Tools

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders determine, evaluate, and use resources that are most appropriate and readily available for investigating a particular question or topic. Examples include knowledgeable people, field trips, prefaces, appendices,...
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A Thanksgiving Survey

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students take a survey then use the information gained from the survey to help plan a typical Thanksgiving dinner for our last day of class. They create a graph which corresponds the the data gathered during interviews.
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Student Learning-Strengths Inventory

For Teachers K - 12th
Students complete an online inventory to determine their strengths and weaknesses. They create graphs to show their results. They discover how they are unique from their classmates.
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Picturing George: A Pictorial Survey of the Life of George Washington

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create pictorial biographies of George Washington. Working in groups, they research various portions of Washington's life, highlighting significant events. After presenting their projects to the class, they are displayed for...
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Creating & Marketing a Commercial

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars explain the four P's of Marketing (product, pricing, promotion, and place) and how they are used in business and in society. They produce the remake of an old audio and visual commercial activity as a marketing activity.
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You Can Do It: Creating How-To Videos

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create instructional videos. in this video lesson, students choose a subject area and topic to make their own how-to video. They research this topic and film their video using a flip-camera. 
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What's Your Favorite? Survey And Graphing Project

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders create and edit spreadsheet documents using all data types, formulas and functions, and chart information. They collect and organize data that be portrayed in a graph that they create using EXCEL.
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Create Your School Lunch Menu

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Pupils develop their own school menu with as many healthy choices as possible. They keep a journal of what they eat on one day and then research nutrition. They present their new menu to the judging committee.
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Create a Career Flyer

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss as a class the many different careers and their positive and negative attributes. They create a tri-fold flyer which highlights positive aspects of the career in an artistic and visually interesting way. They highlight...
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Creating Artwork to Explain Environmental Change

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review artwork that relates to the environment and communicates a value. They view and analyze art by Andy Warhol, Eric Carle and Albert Bierstadt and then create original pieces with an environmental theme.
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Create a Career Flyer: Marine Mammal Rescue

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students study prerequisites for a career. After they explore a selected career, students create a tri-fold flyer describing the positive aspects of the job. Students include job description, skills, education, salary and work...
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Survey of Spanish and Latin American Artists

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders explore the art work of Dali and Picasso.  In this Art lesson plan, 10th graders analyze various pieces created by these men.  Students write a description of the painting they were assigned. 
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Creating Bar Graphs

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders design and label a bar graph using data taken from a class survey. They observe a teacher-led lecture, write and conduct their survey, and create a bar graph that includes identification of the minimum, maximum, mode,...
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Fast Food Survey Using Bar Graphs

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders conduct survey and sort data according to categories, construct bar graph with intervals of 1, and write a few sentences about their graphs.
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Constitutional Amendments Survey

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students conduct Constitutional Amendments Survey to create an opinion poll forum.
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Inventors Unit Survey

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students develop and conduct a survey for their inventors unit. They create a five question survey and tally the survey results, and create a graph using Microsoft Word and Graph Club 2.0.
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Survey Says

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students complete a survey questionaire and total the responses. They create a game like Family Feud with the top answers. They create a bar graph of one of the questions after the game is finished.
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Survey and Share

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students practice collecting data by surveying other students. In this data collection lesson plan, students decide on a question and collects data from 15 other students. Eventually the students will end up graphing their results.
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Creating a Graph

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders learn information can be organized in different ways to make it easy to read and understand. Students pretend it is their summer vacation and think about their favorite thing to do. After brainstorming, 5th graders survey...
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Pudd'nhead Wilson: Anticipation Guide

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Get your pupils thinking about some of the big ideas present in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson with this anticipation guide. Learners decided if they believe a series of statements are true or false. A discussion follows.
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For Land's Sake: George Washington as Land Surveyor

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students discuss the importance of land ownership and the purpose of land surveying in the eighteenth century. They interpret a transcript of an eighteenth-century land survey. They survey and area of land. They create a written or...
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Where's The Beef

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students create and conduct a survey in the community to evaluate the demographics of vegetarians in the community. They compile data, create graphs, calculate percentages, and draw conclusions about the survey data. Students create an...