Geology beginners examine three different rock samples and determine their origin by their characteristics. By making and recording observations, they become familiar with features of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock types....

Students practice making graphs and interpreting them. They compare and contrast different sets of data. They use Microsoft Excel to create different types of graphs.

Eighth graders collect and analyze data about foul shots taken at basketball games.

Your young geologists generate a graph given a table of values from the context of latitude and percent of the earth's surface north of that latitude. The questions in the activity then focus the learners to a deeper understanding of the...

Light waves and sound waves are the focus of this science instructional activity designed for 5th graders. Besides discovering how these waves travel, learners also discover the basic properties of waves, and analyze data tables and...

In this line of best fit worksheet, learners solve and complete 8 different problems that include plotting and creating their own lines of best fit on a graph. First, they study the samples at the top and plot the ordered pairs given on...

Students graph sea ice data and predict long term trends in the data. In this climate change instructional activity, students use sea ice data from the Arctic and Antarctic to construct line graphs. They use their graphs to predict the...

Young mathematicians use bags of Skittles to help them gain practice in graphing and organizing data. They work in pairs, and after they have counted and organized their Skittles, they access a computer program which allows them to print...

What an impressive task it is to make dental impressions! Pupils learn how dentists use proportional reasoning, unit conversions, and systems of equations to estimate the materials needed to make stone models of dental impressions....

Third graders take poll and sort data, enter the data to create a spreadsheet and create bar and pie graphs.

Agriculture is truly a math-based profession! Help the dairy farmer determine the supplies needed to complete his barn. Using given dimensions, learners build equations and use units to determine the correct amount of materials.

Young scholars investigate graphing.  In this bar graph lesson, students view an informational website about graphing, then construct a class birthday bar graph outside with sidewalk chalk. Young scholars choose a survey topic, then...

Students read "How To Make an Apple Pie and See the World", the story of a girl who traveled the world to find the ingredients to make her apple pie. They conduct a series of interdisciplinary activities including testing their senses,...

Food companies understand how to use math to their advantage. Learners explore the math related to the packaging and serving size of yogurt. They then use unit analysis and percent values to make decisions on the product development.

Who knew running a greenhouse required so much math? Amaze future mathematicians and farmers with the amount of unit conversions, ratio and proportional reasoning, and geometric applications involved by having them complete the...

In this experimental design and homeostasis worksheet, high schoolers complete 20 sentences with key terms about designing experiments, gathering data, graphing data and determining controls. They also complete sentences about...

What makes this resource special? The amazing answer key that comes with worked out solutions and notes for each problem. Practice problems include all topics ranging from linear systems to simplifying exponential expressions. The...

Twelfth graders and college students alike work on great practical application problems related to supply and demand with this instructional activity series. There are five different worksheets containing graphs, charts, and scenario...

In this graph problem solving worksheet, students analyze a graph that shows commercial red meat production in five states. Students answer 5 word problems using the data on the graph.

For this graph worksheet, students solve 3 problems using a data table and bar graph. Students write number sentences to figure out answers to the questions about kinds of toys in a shop.

High schoolers analyze data on debt and write an equation. In this statistics activity, students are given data from different time periods, and are asked to graph and analyze the data. They work in groups, and are assigned different...

Students analyze and interpret graphs. In this graphing lesson plan, students view a video and construct their own graphs (line, circle, bar) from given sets of data. 

Students conduct a census at school. They collect data, tally it, and create a frequency table. Students display their data in three different types of graphs. They write complete sentences describing the graph.

Young scholars organize data collected from their experiments using graphs. In this statistics and biology activity, students organize their scientific data from an article into readable graphs. They define the usefulness of their graph...