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A Real Difference
Fifth graders use the Celsius and Fahrenheit thermometers to compare temperature readings. They use the Internet to find the temperatures of selected cities. After data is collected for five days, 5th graders graph the temperatures.
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Probability: the Study of Chance
Students experiment to determine if a game is fair, collect data, interpret data, display data, and state and apply the rule for probability. Students use a simple game for this experiment.
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Streamflow
Students discuss the topic of streamflow and how it occurs. They take measurements and analyze them. They interpret data and create their own charts and graphs.
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Water: On the Surface and in the Ground
Pupils explore the differences between surface water and ground water. They collect data using maps and graphs and investigate a Texas river basin and a nearby aquifer. They complete a written report including maps and data regarding the...
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What's Cooking at the Good Times Cafe?
Students collect data from classmates showing their favorite lunch food. They enter their data and graph the results using a computer program.
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Drip, Drip, Drip
Students gather scientific data and be able to utilize the data to generalize results over a long period of time. They use the appropriate tools to measure quanities of liquids and analyze the data to determine the cost of a leaky faucet.
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Fishkill
Students analyze data to determine the effect of thermal pollution on a certain species of fish. They graph temperature and dissolved oxygen and make inferences on the impact a change in temperature could have on the fish. As a class...
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Locating the Salt Front
Young scholars use Hudson River salinity data to create a line
graph that shows the location of the salt front, and use math
skills to explore how this location varies over time. They use the graph to estimate the location of the salt...
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Eight Basic Elements of the Earth
Students identify the concept of an element and work with an idea that all of the millions of substances on the earth are various combinations of only 8 elements. They work with the Periodic Table of the Elements and symbols of the...
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Lift vs. Airspeed
Students, after reading the explanation given below, use FoilSim and a graphing calculator to complete the activity to determine the relationship between airspeed and lift of an object by interpreting data.
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Newton's Third Law and Aircraft Propulsion
Students research propulsion, graph data, and interpret the results.
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Statistical Specimens
Third graders are introduced to statistical vocabulary. They complete an online activity that asks them to calculate the mean, median and mode for a set of data.
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State Economy Chart
Fifth graders create a 3D Pie graph using the Chart Wizard in Excel to represent their assigned states' data. They discuss the similarities and differences between states, and form a hypothesis on the relationship between location and...
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Coral Bleaching in the Caribbean
Students use authentic satellite data on the NASA website to determine when the sea surface temperature meets the criteria to induce coral bleaching.
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Heat Absorption
Students examine how heat moves from substance to another. In this heat absorption instructional activity students identify ways that heat is transferred and analyze data.
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Using 3-D Models for Code Validation with FoilSim
High schoolers use FoilSim to complete the activity to create tables of data sets comparing the lift values for a 3-D model of a symmetrical wing section to the values predicted by the FoilSim software.
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Fire Fighting Crew
Students use the concepts in statistics to make decisions. They calculate the mean, median and mode. They compare one firefighter against another and analyze the data. They share their information with the class.
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Different Perspectives of Oregon's Forest Economic Geography
Learners locate the many forests located in Oregon. In groups, they use the internet to research employment data on wood products made in the state. They discuss how looking at information presented in a different way can change their...
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Pepe Cleaners
Seventh graders gather data to determine the relationships between the base and height of rectangles with fixed perimeters and express the relationships using words and symbols. Students build rectangles with pipe cleaners. They create...
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Mathematical Models with Applications: What's Your Rate of Change?
Students use regression methods available through technology to select the most appropriate model to describe collected data and use the model to interpret information. They use numeric techniques to write the equation of a line that...
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Hermit Crab Races
Students predict the speeds of humans and hermit crabs and investigate their predictions using ratios and formulas. AppleWorks is used for this lesson, which includes a data worksheet.
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What Does It Eat?
Young scholars, working in research teams, investigate the eating habits of crickets. They collect and record data and compare their methods and results with other groups by making tables or graphs. They sumarize their findings with...
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Curveball vs. Fastball
Learners graph the relationship between the release point and the final position of curveballs and fastballs thrown by both right and left handers given a constant speed, and explain the relationships illustrated by the graphs of data.
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High School Mathematics Problems from Alaska: Problem Setup and Pattern Recognition: Sunrise in Barrow, Alaska
Young scholars make predictions using given data, writing a linear equation from given data, and using a linear equation to predict later behavior.
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