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Biology in Motion

Evolution Lab

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Evolution occurs though change over time, but can it go any faster? Scholars speed up the process of evolution and observe a simulation of 20 blue organisms fighting for survival. A graph displays the changes in phenotype over time. By...
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University of North Carolina

Figures and Charts

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Sometimes words aren't the best way to get information across to the reader. The eighth handout in the 24-part Writing the Paper series describes different type of figures and charts to display complex information in a paper....
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Ncaa Basketball Finals Bar Graphs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Site from University of Illinois contains a lesson plan that utilizes the NCAA Basketball Final Scores from 1939-1994. Students are instructed to analyze and interpret data displayed in bar graphs.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Earthquakes of the World

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource contains a lesson plan that utilizes data from earthquakes. Students are instructed to analyze and interpret line graphs that display the earthquake data.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Rollin' Rollin' Rollin'

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This resource is the beginning of a series of pages that demonstrates the diffference between the mean and median of a group of numbers. Uses bar graphs to display the data.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Rollin' Rollin' Rollin'

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This page from the University of Illinois is the beginning of a series that demonstrates the difference between the mean and median of a group of numbers. The sites use bar graphs to display the data.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Spreading It Thick

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Resource contains the definition for variance. It also shows students how to calculate the variance. There is a link to a bar graph that displays variance for the data example.