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The Perfect Principal

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Young scholars demonstrate their understanding of math skills. In this data analysis lesson, students complete a worksheet requiring them to calculate mean, median, and mode, and create and interpret graphs. Lesson is intended as an...
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How Many People Live in Your Household?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students create a pictograph showing household size for the class.In this data collection and graphing lesson, the teacher guides students through the creation of a concrete object graph, then students analyze and summarize the results.
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Graphing the Diversity of a Forest

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders work in groups to identify what types of trees create which types of leaves  For this plant life lesson plan, 2nd graders analyze a set of leaves and identify the tree it came from while graphing the data in a science...
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Shaky New Zealand

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students explore geography by answering study questions in class. In this plate tectonics lesson, students identify the earthquake data concerning the country of New Zealand and answer questions regarding the data. Students identify...
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Monopoly Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students relate the concepts of linear functions to the game of monopoly. For this algebra lesson, students solve problems with ratio and proportion. They collect data and graph it.
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What Did It Cost 100 Years Ago?

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students compare prices of good across the century in order to introduce the topic of inflation. They undertand the concepts of inflation and Consumer Price Index (CPI), use online calculators to figure the approximate cost of goods...
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Remembering Our Veterans

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders research a variety of military statistics while using the theme of Remebering Our Veterans. They use data management to plan and create a PowerPoint presentation with their findings. They incorporate different types of...
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A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze the numbers of male vs female administrators and teachers from their school. In this gender equality lesson plan, students use school yearbooks from the 1950's threw present to count how many male vs. female teachers,...
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Valentine Hearts Investigation

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars practice analyzing data and making predictions. In this 2nd - 3rd grade lesson plan, students investigate and compare data gathered using boxes of valentine candy hearts. Young scholars examine the different boxes of...
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Traveling Through the Solar System

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use calculator and non-calculator methods for analyzing data. They apply data collection and analysis in a study of mass and weight. Students enhance and apply the concept of line of best fit. They master graphing in a plane,...
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Scientists Track the Rising Tide

For Students 9th - 11th
In this tracking the rising tide worksheet, students use the data in a graph showing the seal level change versus time from 1900 to 2000 to answer 3 questions about the rising tides. Students determine the slope of a line drawn from 1920...
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What Influences Reaction Rate?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers study reaction rates, what determines how fast a reaction happens and how the chemical changes occur.  In this reactions lesson students complete a lab where they use Alka-Seltzer to observe reaction rate and create...
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A Tall Story

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the growth rate of a man named Bob Wadlow.  In this growth rate of a man lesson, students determine if the growth rate of this particular man was normal or abnormal.  Students bring in data of their height...
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Animal Skin

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students investigate the skin surface to body area ratios for different animals.  In this seventh/eighth grade mathematics/science lesson, students explore heat transfer between an animal’s body and the environment.  Using...
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Populations and Life Cycles

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore biology by researching ocean statistics. In this data analysis lesson, students conduct a snail examination experiment utilizing live pouch snails. Students collect data about the snails over the course of six weeks and...
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Lessons for Atlatl Users with Some Experience-Grade 5

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders throw darts, collecting data for distance traveled. In this data analysis instructional activity, 5th graders throw a dart using an atlatl. They calculate the speed for each throw and determine the best dart length for...
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Applied Science - Science and Math Post-Lab

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students explore optical illusions. In this Applied Science lesson plan, students view optical illusions and record the data of what they see. Students graph the data that they collect.
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Leveled Problem Solving: Histograms

For Students 5th - 6th
In this using data, frequency table, and histogram to solve word problems worksheet, students solve problems about prices of toys and numbers of toys sold to solve consumer mathematics problems. Students solve six problems.
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Range, Mean, Median, Mode

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students research the impact of craters. In this range, mean, median and mode lesson plan, students complete an experiment with a marble to simulate the effects of a crater. Students collect and analyze data finding the range, mean,...
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200 Years and Counting: How the U.S. Census Tracks Social Trends

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students examine the process of census taking in the United States. In this "200 Years and Counting" lesson, students examine the data collection process, look at an example of a census form, analyze data, and learn what the information...
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Water Resources

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study water resources that are important to the people of North American and Africa. They use satellite images and data to explore how human actions can degrade, improve, or maintain water resources. They analyze and interpret...
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Fractional Parts of a Group

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this problem solving learning exercise, students problems solve the answers to 5 mathematical word problems involving fractional parts. Students use data from a pictograph to assist them in solving each word problem.
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3 Kinds of Graphs

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students construct three different graphs-a line graph, a bar graph, and a circle graph.  In this graphing lesson, students use different graphs to display various data that they collect. 
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Algebra I - Worksheet G12: Graphing Lines

For Students 9th - 12th
In this graphing lines worksheet, learners graph 28 lines given various data.  Students graph lines given two points, a point and slope, and a line perpendicular or parallel to a point.

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