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Better Lesson: What Does the Data Tell Us? Describing Data

For Teachers 6th Standards
Understanding how to interpret data by its shape, spread, and center helps students to understand statistics.
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University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Data Management and Analysis Lessons

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A collaboration of elementary level lessons on data management and analysis. Some examples of the topics demonstrated are grids, timelines, and weather.
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University of South Florida

Fcat: Drops on a Penny: Teacher Notes

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students learn how to create stem-and-leaf diagrams and boxplots by collecting data on the surface tension of water molecules. This hands-on activity using pennies is a great way to learn how to organize data.
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National Geographic

National Geographic: The Politics of Place Naming

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use an online geographic information system (GIS) to uncover the geographic and social context of streets named after Martin Luther King, Jr. They map street locations to identify regional patterns in honoring King, consider...
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Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese Real Time Data Projects: Building and Using Weather Instruments

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson students will build and learn how to use three weather. They will use these instruments to collect weather data over a period of two weeks.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Generating and Recording Data

For Teachers K Standards
This "fish" activity will help early elementary students develop skills related to categorizing, recording data, developing vocabulary, and counting. An assessment rubric is attached.
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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: 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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Utah Education Network

Uen: Weather Walks

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this multi-day, young scholars will learn weather through multisensory approaches. Students will make daily predictions. After each daily prediction, they will collect measurement and observational data by taking walks in different...
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Better Lesson: Line Graph Activity

For Teachers 6th
Data collected is represented in tables and the students will need to choose what they want to represent in their line graph.
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University of Texas at Austin

Mathematics Teks Toolkit: And We Go Around

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Collect and display data using a bar and circle graph to explore fractions and percents.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Graphs, Charts, and Tables: Targeted Math Instruction

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
At the end of this lesson about graphs, charts, and tables, students will be able to interpret and compare data from graphs (including circle, bar, and line graphs), charts, and tables.
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: The Korean War

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Young scholars are given an opportunity to look at two textbooks recalling the same event, but one is written in and for North Korean schools and the other in and for South Korean schools. After...
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Michigan Reach Out

Michigan Reach Out: Do Plants Need Sunlight?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Do plants need sunlight? What happens to plants if they do not get sunlight? Young scholars will act like scientists in order to answer these questions. A scientist takes questions like this and then conducts an experiment to see what...
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Apples a Peel to Me

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This lesson plan helps children understand how to graph data by using both real objects, apples, and pictures of apples. Great activity for a variety of themes.
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US National Archives

Docsteach: The Voting Record of the Constitution

For Teachers 5th - 8th
In this activity, students will analyze a primary source document to find relevant historical data and measure the degree of agreement and disagreement during the Constitutional Convention.
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US National Archives

Docsteach: A Famous Person and Event Revealed: Examining an Arrest Record

For Teachers 5th - 8th
This activity requires students to examine the arrest record of an un-named person. Students will analyze and evaluate the data contained in the document, applying prior knowledge, to discern what happened in the incident and the...
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Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese Collaborative Projects: Bucket Buddies: Environmental Study

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Bucket Buddies is an opportunity for students to participate in a world-wide environmental study. By identifying organisms in pond water, participating classes can compare their findings, and look for relationships in data. In addition...
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Better Lesson: Exploring Weather One, Two, Three, Forecast!

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners will use weather data they collect to predict future weather. Included in this lesson are a weather forecasting recording sheet and an example of a student's completed work.
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University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas Mc Donald Observatory: Super Gelatin

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students measure the angles of refraction of laser light traveling through gelatin, then plot their data to calculate the gelatin's index of refraction.
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Better Lesson: Greedy Gordy Can't Decide Working With Venn Diagrams

For Teachers K Standards
Students have been working with pictographs and bar graphs. Now they take their learning a step further by working with Venn Diagrams.
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Better Lesson: Super Sorter! Multiple Attribute Sorting With a Venn Diagram

For Teachers K Standards
Understanding multiple attributes is an important mathematical process. The students use their knowledge of Venn Diagrams in this lesson to gain more knowledge about this concept.
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Relationships: Pressure, Volume, and Temperature

For Teachers 9th - 10th
From the Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE) program. A lesson plan that centers around a lab investigating the gas laws of Boyle, Charles, and Gay-Lussac. Data is collected, analyzed and discussed.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Animal Einsteins: Figure That One Out

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate problem-solving techniques by using observation and data analysis skills. Observe how different people solve the same puzzle and make conclusions about how humans and animals think.

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