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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Collecting Data and Making Predictions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Given an experimental situation, the student will write linear functions that provide a reasonable fit to data to estimate the solutions and make predictions.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway:using Theoretical and Experimental Probability to Make Predictions

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Given an event to simulate, the student will use theoretical probabilities and experimental results to make predictions and decisions.
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BBC

Bbc News: Strange Predictions for the Future From 1930

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes some fantastic predictions made in the 1930s for what technology might bring in the future, for example, the creation of a sea in the Sahara Desert and the widespread ownership of personal airplanes. (Published 26 December 2014)
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Using Models to Make Predictions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate the interaction between greenhouse gases, solar radiation, and the Earth's surface and oceans for the impact on global warming. By altering variables, they can project what reduction in greenhouses gases is needed in...
Website
NOAA

Noaa: Storm Prediction Center: The Online Tornado Faq

For Students 9th - 10th
What questions do you have about tornadoes? This site addresses, among other things, common safety misconceptions and historic tornadoes, damage facts, and tornado research.
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Hurricanes: New Tools for Predicting

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW features new advances in predicting the intensity of hurricanes. [5:49]
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Utah Education Network

Uen: K Act. 04: Shared Reading: Wishy Washy Day

For Teachers K
This two-day lesson engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to Joy Cowley's Wishy-Washy Day and Audrey Wood's book, King Bidgood's in the Bathtub. Students will participate in making predictions, sequencing, and...
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Read Works

Read Works: Passages: Predicting the Future

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read an informational text about the predictions of a futurist and answer questions on comprehension, text support, main idea, vocabulary, and more. Links to a paired text and paired text...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Circular Plot: Prediction Strategies in Reading and Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Contains plans for two lessons about circular stories like those of Laura Joffe Numeroff, who is known for the book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie." Students read stories with circular plots as models before composing their own. In...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Is the Pulgar?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
This is a instructional activity for students in grades 4-6 to learn visualization, prediction, and sequencing.
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Buck Institute

Buck Institution for Education: Pblu: What Will They Think?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Graphing and making predictions go hand in hand during this real-world example of project-based learning.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Cognitive Strategies Toolkit

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This article describes eight cognitive strategies - including monitoring, tapping prior knowledge, and making predictions - to help readers develop their comprehension skills.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Can You Curl Your Tongue?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson is adapted from a Connected Mathematics Unit, How Likely is It? This investigation introduces biology as a source of applications for probability. In this lesson, Curling your Tongue, students determine how many students in...
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University of Washington

University of Washington: Alumni News: Technology: The World of 2088

For Students 9th - 10th
Published in 1998, this article offers 10- and 20-year predictions for how technology would change the world we live in.
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Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: Here's Your Chance to Make Millions in the Stock Market (Part 1)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will learn about the impact that efficient markets have on attempting to correctly time the stock market, as well as how investing in stocks should have long-term investment goals. Part I begins by having...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Developing Comprehension Using

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Contains plans for three lessons that use the book "Thank You, Mr. Falker" by Patricia Polacco to teach making predictions and personal connections, as well as understanding the themes of the book. In addition to objectives and...
Website
NASA

Nasa: Predictions for the 2004 Transit of Venus

For Students 9th - 10th
NASA site provides detailed information on the 2004 transit of Venus across the sun. Also explores the modern value of Venus transits and how they aid in the study of astronomy.
Website
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Career Profile: Statistician

For Students 9th - 10th
Statistics is a fascinating subject and everyone loves to spout them, but a statistician really knows how to use statistics to answer real-life questions and make predictions based on mathematical data. This Science Buddies site lays out...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Law of Independent Assortment

For Students 9th - 10th
Article defines Mendel's law of independent assortment, provides examples, and takes a look at how it is used to make predictions. Also, discusses dihybrid crosses and 4 x 4 Punnett squares.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Memories, a Connection to the Past

For Teachers 3rd
This instructional activity engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to Elizabeth Howard's Aunt Flossie's Hats, Mem Fox's Wilford Gordon McDonald Partridge, Bill Martin's Knots On A Counting Rope, and Lucia Gonzales'...
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University of Maryland

Maryland Sea Grant: Dendroclimatology

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This is a set of lessons where students investigate tree rings and what scientists can learn from them. They measure tree rings and correlate the data to precipitation patterns in order to make predictions about the climate. For an...
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Other

Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Ctr.: Exploring Energy Transformations in Plants

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This set of lessons has students investigate how plants obtain energy from different sources to support their growth and development. Students conduct investigations, make predictions, and construct scientific explanations of the...
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyzing Scatterplots

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Given a set of data, the student will be able to generate a scatterplot, determine whether the data are linear or non-linear, describe an association between the two variables, and use a trend line to make predictions for data with a...
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Other

Digital Library for Earth System Education: Living in Earthquake Country

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An inquiry unit that teaches students about the how and why earthquakes cause damage and about life in earthquake country. Students specifically learn about: earthquake damage, where earthquake occur, earthquake patterns, seismic waves,...

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