Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Collecting Data and Making Predictions
Given an experimental situation, the student will write linear functions that provide a reasonable fit to data to estimate the solutions and make predictions.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Using Graphs to Make Predictions
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your ability to use graphs to make predictions. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway:using Theoretical and Experimental Probability to Make Predictions
Given an event to simulate, the student will use theoretical probabilities and experimental results to make predictions and decisions.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Using Models to Make Predictions
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...
NOAA
Noaa: Storm Prediction Center: The Online Tornado Faq
What questions do you have about tornadoes? This site addresses, among other things, common safety misconceptions and historic tornadoes, damage facts, and tornado research.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Hurricanes: New Tools for Predicting
This video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW features new advances in predicting the intensity of hurricanes. [5:49]
Utah Education Network
Uen: K Act. 04: Shared Reading: Wishy Washy Day
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...
Read Works
Read Works: Passages: Predicting the Future
[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...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Circular Plot: Prediction Strategies in Reading and Writing
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...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What Is the Pulgar?
This is a instructional activity for students in grades 4-6 to learn visualization, prediction, and sequencing.
Buck Institute
Buck Institution for Education: Pblu: What Will They Think?
Graphing and making predictions go hand in hand during this real-world example of project-based learning.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: "Nuts" About Peanuts! (Reading)
The lesson will be implemented as part of a unit about plants. The students will learn about the growth cycle of a peanut and use a Five-Step Sequence Think-sheet to sequence the steps. They will also make predictions and complete...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Cognitive Strategies Toolkit
This article describes eight cognitive strategies - including monitoring, tapping prior knowledge, and making predictions - to help readers develop their comprehension skills.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Can You Curl Your Tongue?
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...
University of Washington
University of Washington: Alumni News: Technology: The World of 2088
Published in 1998, this article offers 10- and 20-year predictions for how technology would change the world we live in.
Other
Psychology Today: Parenting: Decision Making
Decision making is one of the most important skills your children need to develop to become healthy and mature adults. This article gives tips on raising good decision-makers and reviews the process of decision-making.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Here's Your Chance to Make Millions in the Stock Market (Part 1)
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...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Developing Comprehension Using
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...
NASA
Nasa: Predictions for the 2004 Transit of Venus
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.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Mapping Ocean Currents
An unfortunate spill of 92,000 rubber ducks into the ocean in 1992 elicited invaluable information about global ocean currents as scientists tracked their journeys around the world. In this lesson, students first learn about the Ocean...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Career Profile: Statistician
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...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Law of Independent Assortment
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.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Memories, a Connection to the Past
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'...
University of Maryland
Maryland Sea Grant: Dendroclimatology
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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