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Lincoln Public Schools
Cereal Box Project
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...
Kenan Fellows
How Does an Unhealthy Diet Influence our Health and Well-Being?
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.
Curated OER
Boy Scout Merit Badge: Surveying
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.
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What Do You Like on Top of Your Pizza Most? --class Bar Graph
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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Asthma Survey
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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Fire Safety Survey
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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Mayor Puts City on Diet to Lose a Million Pounds
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...
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What Do You Like on Your Popcorn?-- Class Bar Graph
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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Data and Probability: What is the Best Snack?
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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Lunch Food? Mmmm! Mmmm! Good!
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
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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Nutrition Lesson Plan
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.
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Chicken Pox Math
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...
Missouri Department of Elementary
How Much Does Smoking Really Cost?
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...
Curated OER
Drug Sales Soar: Bar Graph
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
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.
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We Care About Fire Safety
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...
PBS
Stories of Painkiller Addiction: Myth or Fact
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
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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Weight Training
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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Oklahoma Stone Soup
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...
Discovery Education
Mood Music!
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...
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How Do You Like To Eat Your Apples?-- Class Bar Graph
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.
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Which Vegetable Do You Like To Eat the Most?-- Class Bar Graph
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.