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Line 'Em Up!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars find coordinate points on a grid and create a line graph with those points. This lesson should ideally be used during a unit on various types of graphs. They make and use coordinate systems to specify locations and to...
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Graphing

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate graphing.  In this bar graph lesson, students view an informational website about graphing, then construct a class birthday bar graph outside with sidewalk chalk. Students choose a survey topic, then collect...
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Eatem Up!

For Teachers K
Students identify, interpret and demonstrate a positive learning attitude. They identify, comprehend and use basic concepts and skills and then, communicate clearly in oral, artistic, written, and nonverbal form. Students also identify...
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Data Handling

For Students 8th - 10th
For this data handling worksheet, students determine biased and unbiased questions to surveys. They explore methods of data collection and design a data collection sheet. This two-page worksheet contains 3 multi-step problems.
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Randomness and Probability

For Students 11th
In this statistics activity, 11th graders complete word problems by analyzing data given to them. They answer the probability of an even occurring and reasons it should occur. There are 16 questions on this activity.
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Union and Intersection of Sets

For Students 9th - 11th
In this Algebra I/Algebra II instructional activity, students determine the intersection and union of sets and solve problems with Venn diagrams.  The three page instructional activity contains a combination of seventeen multiple...
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The Global Warming Debate and the Arctic Ice Cap

For Students 7th - 10th
In this global warming and the Arctic ice cap worksheet, students use two graphs showing data about the amount of Arctic sea ice between 1950 and 2006 and the percent of people surveyed that believe the Earth has gotten warmer over the...
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Weight Training

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students conduct a class-wide survey collecting, compiling, and analyzing data about fitness, weight loss, and body image issues. They analyze the relationship between exercise and diet in weight control.
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Too Free, Or Not Too Free?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students create a survey that examines what level of electronic surveillance might be acceptable to members of the school and community. They poll the community, and analyze the results in the form of graphs and a written news article.
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Arthur Young and the President

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students work with NASS data by converting it into prose. In this historical agriculture information lesson, students read about how George Washington communicated information about crop yields, livestock, and land values. They apply the...
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Power Functions: A Question of Magnitude

For Students 9th - 12th
In this power functions worksheet, students read about determining the brightness of stars using a magnitude scale. Students solve 4 problems including finding the magnitude differences of stars and determining equivalent magnitudes.
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Cook Me Up Some Equations

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students study a variety of math concepts in the context of cooking up a meal. In this math lesson, students calculate surface area and volume. They draw and interpret different types of graphs.
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Stars and The Modern Telescope

For Students 9th - 12th
In this stars and the modern telescope activity, high schoolers use a photograph taken by the 2MASS telescope to calculate the number of bright stars and faint stars in the picture, the size of the picture, and the number of stars...
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Fit With Fiber

For Teachers 6th Standards
Sixth graders investigate the nutritional value of different types of cereal. They take a survey of students that ate breakfast and create a circle graph with the results. Students examine the nutritional information on the sides of the...
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M & M Madness

For Teachers K
Students work with the mathematics unit of collection, organization, and presentation of data. In this math and technology lesson plan, students use Valentine M & M’s and The Graph Club to sort and graph the various colored M & M’s.
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Ranging the Triple M's

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore collecting and analyzing data. In this mean, median and mode lesson, 5th graders use real word data to determine the mean, median and mode. Students are given sets of numbers on index cards as asked to find the...
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The Perfect Principal

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Young scholars demonstrate their understanding of math skills. In this data analysis lesson, students complete a worksheet requiring them to calculate mean, median, and mode, and create and interpret graphs. Lesson is intended as an...
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This Land Is Our Land

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore land use.  In this land activity, students examine the use of land and land records.  They create a diagram of a specified piece of land and determine the area of the land.  Students discuss their findings.
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Graphing Favorite Fruit

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders take poll and sort data, enter the data to create a spreadsheet and create bar and pie graphs.
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The Average Kid

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students determine the traits they have in common with other students in the class and create visual profiles of the "average" boy and the "average" girl.
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Reaction Time

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students record reaction time data and calculate minimum, maximum, mean, median, and mode. They participate in a class reaction time activity, observe and conduct an online experiment, and discuss and analyze the activity results.
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Wiggle Worms

For Teachers 1st
First graders investigate worms, collect and analyze data. In this worm and data lesson, 1st graders listen to Chick and Duckling from the Macmillan/McGraw-Hill reading series. They conduct experiments with worms, collect simple data,...
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Bar Graphs

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders investigate bar graphs.  In this third grade mathematics lesson, 3rd graders collect and analyze data and use the internet’s Graph challenge to create their own graphs.  Students write questions for the other...
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How Long? How Wide?

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders distinguish between and use nonstandard and standard units of measurement, use appropriate tools and techniques to measure length and width, and record and interpret data using graphs.