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American Institutes for Research

Digital Smiles

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Explore metric measurement, recording data, and creating an electronic spreadsheet displaying results with your math class. Scholars will measure the length of their smiles, record the measurements, and represent the results on an...
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Carolina K-12

The Results are In! Examining Our First Vote Election

For Students 8th - 12th
The 2016 election is over, and now it's time to dig in to some data! An activity revolves around data gathered from the First Vote Project in North Carolina wherein thousands of students voted. After diving in to the data using...
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School Journalism

Investigative and Data Journalism – Day One

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
A free press, free to investigate and report on responsibly, compelling stories, is essential to a democracy. A 10-slide presentation details where to get ideas, how to go about an investigation, gather data, and assure the accuracy of...
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Curated OER

The Gathering and Analysis of Data

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Young mathematicians gather data on a topic, graph it in various forms, interpret the information, and write a summary of the data. They present their data and graphs to the class.
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Curated OER

Data With Candy

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students, while utilizing the classroom and the computer lab with a bag of colored candy, gather and interpret data, calculate averages and draw conclusions and draw a bar graph. They estimate how many candies are in the bag, what...
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Curated OER

Gathering Data to Problem Solve

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students, while using reading and writing strategies (subheads, prediction, skim, details, drawing inferences, etc,), solve math problems that involve gathering and representing data (addition, subtraction, multiplication). They practice...
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Messenger Education

Can You Hear Me Now?—Communicating with Spacecraft

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Radio signals transmitted to Pluto take five hours to reach their destination! In these two activities, young scientists explore data communication in space. In activity one, pupils learn how data is gathered and sent back to Earth....
Unit Plan
Curated OER

Button Bonanza

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Collections of data represented in stem and leaf plots are organized by young statisticians as they embark some math engaging activities.
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Virginia Department of Education

Weather Patterns and Seasonal Changes

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Get your class outside to observe their surroundings with a lesson highlighting weather patterns and seasonal changes. First, learners take a weather walk to survey how the weather affects animals, people, plants, and trees during...
Assessment
Illustrative Mathematics

Foxes and Rabbits 3

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Model periodic populations. Here, in the context of foxes and rabbits, pupils look at graphs of the populations of these animals in a national park over a span of 24 months. Groups analyze the graphs and determine trigonometric...
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Curated OER

Visual Communication of Quantative Data

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students collect and analyze data based on academic performance. In this statistics lesson, students create graphs and analyze the data they created. They use positive, negative and no correlation to analyze the data.
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Curated OER

Ocean Exploration: How Doea you Data Grow? (Grades 7-8)

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore fieldwork.  In this seventh or eighth grade mathematics lesson, students watch a video on data collection in the field.  Students use fieldwork to gather data about their school environment. ...
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Curated OER

M & M Madness

For Teachers 1st
M&M's are always a great manipulative to use when teaching math. In this graphing lesson plan, learners predict how many of each color of M & M's there are. They count up each color and plug the data into a graph using the...
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NASA

Discovering the Milky Way

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What do you call a tiny collection of galaxies? A puny-verse! Young scholars graph data gathered by scientists studying Cepheids. They attempt to identify a relationship between the variables through standard and logarithmical...
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Curated OER

Lesson Plan Outline for Rainbow Science

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Young scientists study light reflection and refraction as they determine the critical angle, the rainbow angle, and color separation in rainbows. Teams record the data they collect in a shared spreadsheet and discuss results with the class.
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Curated OER

If Our Class Went to See the Prince

For Teachers 1st
First graders read the story One Monday Morning and create picture graphs based on the number of teachers, boys, and girls that would visit the prince. In this data lesson plan, 1st graders interpret tables and graphs with the help of...
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Curated OER

Reading the Neighborhood

For Teachers 1st
First graders complete activities with the story One Monday Morning in the Macmillan/McGraw Hill Textbook. In this data lesson, 1st graders read the story and gather data to create a picture graph. They read the graph and answer...
Activity
American Psychological Association

A Tasty Sample(r): Teaching about Sampling Using M&M’s

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Here's a sweet activity! As part of a study of psychological research methods and statistic gathering, individuals develop a hypothesis about the number of each color of M&Ms in a fun-size package. They then count the number of each...
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Curated OER

Linking Real World Data to the Classroom

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students analyze data representing real life scenarios.In this algebra lesson, students collect, plot and analyze data using a graph. They use different methods to represent and present their data.
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Curated OER

Analyzing Graphs and Data

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students collect and analyze data. In this statistics lesson, students graph their data and make inferences from the collected data. They display their data using graphs, bar graphs, circles graphs and Venn diagrams.
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Curated OER

Interpreting Medical Data

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore human anatomy by graphing scientific data. In this vision lesson, students discuss how ophthalmology works and take their own eye assessment test using the Snellen chart. Students collect vision data from all of their...
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Curated OER

Earthquake Epicenter

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students use chart data to determine the location of the epicenter of an earthquake. This task assesses students' abilities to generalize and infer, organize data, interpret data, and apply mathematical concepts.
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Curated OER

Create Your Own Form

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students gather and organize data using a mock census form, and determine mean, mode, range, and median for sets of data.
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Curated OER

The Numbers Tell the Story

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
Students demonstrate how to gather and interpret statistical data. In this data analysis instructional activity, students search for statistics on the health effects of smoking and place the information into charts. Students create these...

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