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Curated OER

Capturing the Wind

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners collect and analyze data about wind speed. They build a Lego wind sail and measure the wind speed with a rotation sensor. They use software to analyze the data.
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Curated OER

MOBILITY, Traveling Lightly: What’s My Footprint?

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students calculate their carbon footprint. In this environmental technology lesson, students listen to a lecture on climate change. Students brainstorm solutions to reduce environmental impact based on travel options. Students calculate...
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Curated OER

M&M Exponential Activity

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars create a scatter plot of their experimental data. In this algebra lesson, students use M&M's to determine an algebraic model. They discuss results in class.
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Curated OER

The Big E

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore predictions and estimation. In this math lesson, 6th graders analyze data and make predictions based on the past years data.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Interpreting Scatterplots

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Given scatterplots that represent problem situations, the student will determine if the data has strong vs weak correlation as well as positive, negative, or no correlation.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Sensors and Scatterplots

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore the use of several biomedical engineering sensor devices, and then use the collected data to create and analyze scatterplots of the different variables to determine if any relationships exist between the measured...
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Other

Nearpod: Scatterplots, Correlation & Lines of Best Fit

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this lesson on scatterplots, students will learn how to create the line of best fit and analyze scatterplots by learning about correlations and causation.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Scatterplots and Correlation With Ti 83

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students learn how to enter a list of data and use these lists to graph two-variable statistics. They learn how to analyze the resulting scatterplots to assess the correlation between two variables.
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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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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Scatterplots and Correlation Review

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A scatterplot is a type of data display that shows the relationship between two numerical variables. Each member of the dataset gets plotted as a point whose x-y coordinates relates to its values for the two variables.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Describing Scatterplots (Form, Direction, Strength, Outliers)

For Students 9th - 10th
Description and example of a scatter plot.
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Khan Academy

Khan: Lsn 8: Interpreting Relationships in Scatterplots/graphs/tables/equations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on Interpreting and analyzing linear, quadratic, and exponential models and graphs. Students will use best fit lines to interpret contexts, distinguish whether contexts are linear or exponential functions, use the...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Scatterplots and Correlation With Ti 89

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students input data relating the values of one variable associated with values of another and use these data to generate a scatterplot. From the scatterplot, they determine whether there is a correlation between the two variables and...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Shake, Rattle & Roll

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Middle schoolers will learn and reinforce skills for creating and analyzing scatterplots and histograms; using cost-benefit analysis to make predictions from data and using tree diagrams to understand outcomes of events.
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Purple Math

Purplemath: Scatterplots and Regressions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explains the purpose of scatterplots, and demonstrates how to draw them.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Weather: Rainfall

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Create and use scatterplots based on information from a table, and compare and contrast annual rainfall in various places around the world.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Mathematics: Online Study Tools: Self Check Quiz on Linear Functions

For Students 9th - 10th
The online assessment demonstrates knowledge of advanced mathematical concepts in Algebra II. The questions test students on linear functions. Topics include modeling real-world data with linear functions, scatterplots, and regression...
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Colorado State University

Colorado State Writing Center: Charts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The use of charts and graphs can improve your presentations, whether on paper or as visual aids. Here you can read about how to create line, column, bar, pie graphs, and scatterplots. Just follow the links to their respective pages.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Scatter Plots and Linear Correlation Grades 11 12

For Students 10th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This Concept introdices scatterplots and linear correlation for bivariate data.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Advanced Data Grapher

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Advanced Data Grapher can be used to analyze data with box plots, bubble graphs, scatterplots, histograms, and stem-and-leaf plots.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Correlation Coefficient Intuition

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Match correlation coefficients to scatterplots to build a deeper intuition behind correlation coefficients. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Cultivating Data

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will understand key concepts of data analysis and their graphic representations. Students will construct and interpret data tables, line plots, box-and-whisker plots and stem-and-leaf plots, scatterplots with line of best fit,...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Math Today More Students Apply Early

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity students will explore scatterplots and independent and dependent variables. Students will find the mean value of the number of students applying under the early decision plan.
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Rice University

Hyper Stat Online Statistics Textbook: Chapter 3: Describing Bivariate Data

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This chapter of an online textbook begins with a description of scatterplots, then focuses on the Pearson Product Moment Correlation.

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