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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Growth Creature Lab Data Collecting

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Lesson plan completely explains how students will collect data on the growth of an "alligator" and determine the relationship of the growth data to the Fundamental Theorem of Similarity and to topics in geometry in general. All of the...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Selecting and Using Representations for Collected Data

For Students 5th - 7th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Given a variety of data (including line plots, line graphs, stem and leaf plots, circle graphs, bar graphs, box and whisker plots, histograms, and Venn diagrams), the student...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Scientific Investigation and Reasoning Data Organization

For Students 7th - 9th
Using interactive exercises, students will review how to construct tables and graphs in order to organize data.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Seventh Grade Mathematics: Data Sense

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This site has some interesting ways to collect and evaluate data. There are some activities about note taking, spreadsheets, surveys, and a cool bridge construction project. Teachers may want to use this site as a resource for some...
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University of Waterloo (Canada)

Wired Math: Organizing Data Grade 7 [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th
A collection of worksheets that focus on data analysis and organizing data. Includes detailed examples, colorful visuals, and a link to a related game. Acrobat Reader required.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Data Types

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The University of Illinois provides this site that is helpful because of the various kinds of data that can be collected. This lesson plan helps students differentiate between qualitative, quantitative, and many other types of data.
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National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara

Kids Do Ecology: Data and Science

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about conducting your own investigation with these tips on following the scientific method. Find out how to state hypothesis, make observations, collect and analyze data, and display data to share results and conclusions of your...
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Yale University

Yale University: Categorical Data Examples

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Site provides some different examples of categorical data and discusses the use of two-way tables.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Analyzing Data

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will learn how to choose a type of data visualization based on the kind of data they have collected and the objective of their research.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Data Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th
Given laboratory investigation data in the form of tables, charts, and graphs, students will analyze and predict trends from the 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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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Categorizing Data

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Three lessons on different types of data (qualitative, quantitative, univariate, bivariate, biased data) as well as a practice activity and teacher resource.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Pizza (Italian) Restaurant: Data and Chance

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
In this interactive site, students practice with bar and picture graphs by helping a pizza place collect and analyze their data.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Using Graphs to Understand Data Quiz

For Students 6th - 8th
This is a quiz with five quick questions to check your knowledge of how to use graphs to understand data. It is self-checking.
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Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Data: Record Results

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
Students explore the concept of recording data by working through an online tutorial and then attempting a ten question quiz that increases in difficulty as questions are answered correctly.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Graphing Our Snack Mix: Review of Graphing

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders review how to make bar graphs, line plots, and pictographs by tallying the contents of snack mix and building graphs to show their data.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Graph Party

For Teachers 1st Standards
First graders will be involved in creating three different types of graphs and then be asked to answer questions about each representations data set.
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National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California Santa Barbara

Nceas: Graph Types

For Students 3rd - 5th
At this site from NCEAS you can learn how to organize your data into pie graphs, bar graphs, and line graphs. Explanations and examples are given of each graph along with several questions that check comprehension.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Using Globe Data to Study the Earth System

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson guides students through the process of locating and graphing web-based environmental data that has been collected by GLOBE Program participants. The lesson provides opportunities for using GLOBE data to introduce basic...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Collecting and Analyzing Data Using Pedometers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will collect and analyze data after wearing a pedometer. They will record data, make a personal bar graph and a class graph. Activotes are used to analyze and discuss the data.
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PBS

Pbs Mathline: Button, Button Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An integrated math and language arts lesson focusing on statistics. Young scholars explore the concepts of estimation, data collection, data analysis, classification, graphing, and counting through the reading of the Button Box by...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Curious George: Hat Grab

For Students Pre-K - K
This Curious George game teaches children data analysis and graphing. Grab hats as people pass by so that George can graph the collected hats. Then answer a question about the hats!
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Practice With Organizing and Interpreting Data

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Several problems are presented to test your skills in creating and interpreting frequency tables, pie charts, box-and-whisker and stem-and-leaf plots.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Using Graph Theory to Analyze Drama

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students analyze dramatic works using graph theory. They gather data, record it in Microsoft Excel and use Cytoscape (a free, downloadable application) to generate graphs that visually illustrate the key characters (nodes) and...

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