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Lincoln Public Schools

Cereal Box Project

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Challenge your class with this fun and engaging engineering design project. The goal, to create a brand new cereal complete with a list of ingredients, a name and logo, and a box to hold it in. Starting with a survey to determine the...
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Kenan Fellows

How Does an Unhealthy Diet Influence our Health and Well-Being?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
You are what you eat, or so they say! After surveying family and friends on a week of eating habits, learners analyze the data for patterns. They compare different variables such as fats and cost, fats and calories, or fats and LDLs. 
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Curated OER

Boy Scout Merit Badge: Surveying

For Students 8th
In this boy scout merit badge: surveying learning exercise, 8th graders research the websites listed to answer 8 detailed questions about first aid, surveying projects, GPS, the impact of surveying and careers.
Worksheet
Curated OER

What Do You Like on Top of Your Pizza Most? --class Bar Graph

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this math worksheet, students participate in completing a bar graph as a class. Students survey classmates as to their favorite pizza toppings and plot the results on this bar graph.
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Curated OER

Asthma Survey

For Teachers 6th - 11th
Learners collect survey data on the prevalence of asthma in a community. They summarize and display the survey data in ways that show meaning.
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Curated OER

Fire Safety Survey

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Young scholars collect data regarding fire safety and create a graph. Working in small groups, they administer a survey to family and friends regarding their attitudes toward fire safety. After data has been gathered, students graph...
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Curated OER

Mayor Puts City on Diet to Lose a Million Pounds

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students read a story called Mayor Puts City on Diet to Lose a Million Pounds and answer vocabulary and comprehension questions about it. In this current event Lose a Million Pounds lesson plan, students respond to literature by...
Worksheet
Curated OER

What Do You Like on Your Popcorn?-- Class Bar Graph

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this math worksheet, students participate in a class bar graph activity. Students survey classmates as to their popcorn preferences: nothing, butter or salt. Results are plotted on the graph.
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Curated OER

Data and Probability: What is the Best Snack?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
In this math/nutrition lesson, the nutritional value of 3 snack foods is recorded on a data chart and represented on a bar graph. Students analyze and compare information, construct data charts and related bar graphs, and draw...
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Curated OER

Lunch Food? Mmmm! Mmmm! Good!

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Examine how nutrition plays an important role in our lives by conducting online research and developing lunch menus that satisfy nutritional requirements set up by the United States Department of Agriculture. Learners download recipes,...
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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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Curated OER

Nutrition Lesson Plan

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders complete a survey as class answering the question: "Did you eat breakfast this morning?". They place a tally mark in the column that best represents their answer. They then discuss the results in the graph.
Lesson Plan
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Chicken Pox Math

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders are read a story about a boy with chicken pox. As a class, they discuss what to do when you have a contagious disease and identify who in the class has had chicken pox. Using this information, they create a graph and use...
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Missouri Department of Elementary

How Much Does Smoking Really Cost?

For Teachers 5th Standards
Following a brief survey about tobacco, scholars examine a fact sheet to answer questions about the substance. A practice page challenges the class to determine the cost of the habit using money math. Pupils discuss their findings...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Drug Sales Soar: Bar Graph

For Students 5th - 7th
For this graphs worksheet, students analyze a bar graph that shows retail prescription drug sales in the U.S. Students complete five problem solving questions about the data on the graph.
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How Do You Like Your Sandwich? --class Bar Graph

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this math worksheet, students participate in a group bar graph activity. Students survey their classmates on favorite sandwich choices: peanut butter and jelly, grilled cheese or meat. Results are plotted on a bar graph.
Lesson Plan
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We Care About Fire Safety

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students investigate the hazards of fires and how to best protect themselves and their family.  In this home safety lesson, students examine the importance of a smoke detector and discover how many homes are missing them among their...
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PBS

Stories of Painkiller Addiction: Myth or Fact

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Are opioids the most abused drug after marijuana? How hard is it for young people to obtain painkillers without a prescription? Middle and high schoolers explore the growing epidemic of opioid addiction with a lesson that prompts them to...
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Pedestrian Safety for Students Lesson 4: A Walkable Survey

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students create a survey. In this survey lesson, students use www.walktoschool.org to help them come up with questions to ask other students. They put the information in spreadsheet format. 
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Curated OER

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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Curated OER

Oklahoma Stone Soup

For Teachers K - 8th Standards
Class members complete activities related to the story "Oklahoma Stone Soup." First, pupils read, discuss, and answer questions about the story. Next, to incorporate math into the lesson plan, learners make stone soup using a variety of...
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Discovery Education

Mood Music!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Grouchy? Sad? Here's a great resource that shows kids how music can be used to lift their spirits. Kids collect and chart data on the effects of music on emotions. After analyzing the results of their experiment, they develop...
Worksheet
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How Do You Like To Eat Your Apples?-- Class Bar Graph

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this math worksheet, learners collaborate as a group to plot data pertaining to their favorite ways to eat apples: sliced, pie, whole, sauce, caramel or muffin. Students record their class data on the bar graph.
Worksheet
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Which Vegetable Do You Like To Eat the Most?-- Class Bar Graph

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this math instructional activity, students participate in a group graphing activity. Students are surveyed on favorite vegetables and the results are plotted on a bar graph.