Random Population Sampling Lesson Plans & Worksheets

US Census Bureau

Population Pyramids

For Students 9th - 10th

Visual representations of population distribution by age and sex for any country.

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University at Albany: Populations and Samples: The Principle of Generalization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This resource explains what generalization is in statistics, its advantages and disadvantages, and problems that can occur, e.g., sample or response bias. Includes detailed examples of sampling error and sample bias.

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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Making Inferences From Random Samples

For Students 7th Standards

Practice making inferences from random samples.

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Generalizing About Populations From Random Samples

For Students 7th - 8th Standards

Given a population with known characteristics, students will be able to use a variety of methods to generate random samples of the same size in order to understand how a random sample is representative of a population.

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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Making Inferences From Random Samples

For Students 6th - 8th Standards

Given a random sample, practice figuring out what can we reasonably infer about the entire population? Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.

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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Estimation From Random Sampling

For Students 5th - 7th Standards

Practice estimating wildlife population by using the process of random sampling.

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Nearpod: Random Sampling

For Teachers 7th

In this instructional activity, 7th graders will learn how to use random sampling to make generatlizations and predictions about a population.

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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Reese's Pieces Activity: Sampling From a Population

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

Students use Reese's Pieces to investigate the proportion of orange candies present in a set of 25. After collecting data for the class, they use a web applet to collect more data for random samples. This is compared to the actual...

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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Sampling: Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th

This lesson will introduce the process of sampling. It is 4 of 7 in the series titled "Sampling."

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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: S Ic Why Randomize?

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

The exercise demonstrates that judgment (non-random) samples tend to be biased in the sense that they produce samples that are not balanced with respect to the population characteristics of interest. Students will estimate the mean...

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