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The Fisherman and His Wife

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners will conduct a survey, using the information collected they will construct a poster.
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Cruel Schools

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers survey the climate of their school. In this personal health lesson, students discuss bullying and violence in schools. Middle schoolers then complete a school climate survey, compile the results, and interpret them....
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Hearing Handicap

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine the effects of hearing loss. In this lesson on physical disabilities, students survey five older adults on hearing impairments. Students pool their data and compare their results with the results from other studies about...
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To Get the Right Answers about College: Ask the Right Questions

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students survey college students.  In this instructional activity, students explore typical costs.  They examine education loans.  Students complete a FASFA form and write an essay describing plans for obtaining money for...
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Our Pets

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this graphing worksheet, students survey their classmates about what pets they like. Students record the data in the form of a bar graph. There are 8 choices listed.
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Civil Rights

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders survey how controversial court cases have changed the viewpoints of civil rights.  In this U.S. Government lesson plan, 12th graders work in small groups to prepare summaries of specific court cases, then present...
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Survey Says

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students complete a survey questionaire and total the responses. They create a game like Family Feud with the top answers. They create a bar graph of one of the questions after the game is finished.
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A Thanksgiving Survey

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students conduct a survey. In this math lesson plan, students design and conduct a survey about Thanksgiving foods. Students display the collected data in a graph and use the graph to determine what food to serve for a Thanksgiving meal.
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A Thanksgiving Survey

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students take a survey then use the information gained from the survey to help plan a typical Thanksgiving dinner for our last day of class. They create a graph which corresponds the the data gathered during interviews.
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Forming Friendships

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils discuss the importance of friendships and the main factors of friendships after reading the story "Poll uncovers friendship secrets". The lesson plan is set up as an open class discussion in order for the students to learn from...
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Graphing in the Form of Bar Graphs

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars explore bar graphs. In this math lesson, students create and conduct a survey. Young scholars graph their data in a bar graph.
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The Household Environment Survey

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine data collected from a national survey of household environmental practices to develop their own questionaires. Once they have their own survey questions, students conduct their own investigations, and report their findings.
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Earth Day Trash Survey Unit

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students develop a questionnaire to distribute via e-mail or Web page forms that visitors fill out based on the data they gathered during their clean-up activities.
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Inventors Unit Survey

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students develop and conduct a survey for their inventors unit. They create a five question survey and tally the survey results, and create a graph using Microsoft Word and Graph Club 2.0.
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Black History Project

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore and analyze about famous African-Americans by listening to four picture book biographies. They generate a list of 15 famous African-Americans and then create a survey to rank them according to importance of...
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Who is your favorite character from Charlotte’s Web?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
In this Charlotte's Web worksheet, learners utilize a form with tally marks to gather information on people's favorite characters from the novel Charlotte's Web and then graph out their results.
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A Rewarding Endeavor

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Young scholars develop a survey to find out if people would return an envelope of money they found. Include options for giving it to the police, advertising for the one who lost it. Students place their research in a feature article that...
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What is the Nature of Science?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Conduct a survey about the nature of science with your high schoolers. They will record their responses in a table and then discuss the implications of scientific theory. Note: There are activity sheets, and forms included with this lesson.
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"Conducting a Watershed Snapshot of Blockhouse Creek"

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine specific skills in assessing water quality from a holistic approach. They assess the health of a local watershed and identify problems in the local watershed and suggest remediation.
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Journalism: Technology and Teen Abuse

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners investigate the link between technology and abuse among teens. They research dating abuse when cell phones or the Internet are involved. Working as a team of reporters, photographers, graphic artists, and page designers, they...
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Federal Reserve Bank

The Fed Is Protecting Your Money

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
A dollar bill, a check, a credit card, and... a cow? What exactly are the various forms of payment that exist today? Your learners will identify the three functions of money in this lesson. In addition, they will discover the most...
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Backyard Wildlife Conservation

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students survey local wildlife. They distinguish between permanent and migrating or seasonal species. Students identify species and describe the ecological niche. Students research the food chain and food web for the backyard...
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Button Bonanza

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Collections of data represented in stem and leaf plots are organized by young statisticians as they embark some math engaging activities.
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders work to write questions for a class survey. In this survey lesson, 6th graders survey their class members by asking the 4 questions they developed and will record their answers on the culminating assessment...