Curriculum Corner
Our Classroom Birthdays
Combine getting to know one another and math with a activity that focuses on graphing birthdays. Scholars collect data to discover how many peers share birthday months and fill in a bar graph for visual representation.
NASA
Newton Car
If a car gets heavier, it goes farther? By running an activity several times, teams experience Newton's Second Law of Motion. The teams vary the amount of weight they catapult off a wooden block car and record the distance the...
University of Georgia
Energy Content of Foods
Why do athletes load up on carbohydrates the evening before a competition? The lesson helps answer this question as it relates the type of food to the amount of energy it contains. After a discussion, scholars perform an experiment...
Curated OER
How Many Brothers And Sisters Do You Have? -- Class Bar Graph
In this math worksheet, students collaborate in generating a class bar graph which displays information about how many brothers and sisters each classmate has. Data is plotted on a bar graph.
Curated OER
Chance and Data - Data Collection
In this data and probability worksheet, students choose two football teams and label the graphic organizer. They question 10 friends as to which team they prefer and write their names in the organizer. They make a graph that displays the...
Curated OER
Horizontal Bar Graph-- Blank Grid
In this math worksheet, students use the blank horizontal bar graph to record and display any data and to learn the correct way to generate a bar graph. Spaces are marked for students to write in the title and labels; intervals of 1-10...
Center for Learning in Action
Density
Explore the concept of density within states of matter—gases, liquids, and solids—through a group experiment in which young scientists test objects' texture, color, weight, size, and ability to sink or float.