Students investigate a hypothesis about birds in their backyard using identification and survey skills.

Students survey the impact of racial, cultural, and/or socio-economic intolerance in their own lives in relation to other individuals. They develop written and oral proposals to solve inequality and intolerance on a local, state,...

Young scholars survey people to find out what roller coasters they like, conduct Internet research to find information on dangers in amusement parks, contact experts on subject, and write feature that shows pros and cons of coasters.

Students practice skills essential to all scientific investigation: carefully observing and collecting data. They become field biologists in a series of hands-on activities to collect and identify specimens, and survey and calculate the...

Find the best way to appeal to the kids in your class with a positive reinforcement survey. Using forced choices, they decide which of two options would be better for them, based on adult approval, peer approval, independent rewards,...

In this unit designed for second graders, youngsters are introduced to conducting surveys and creating tally charts based on the data they gather. Students then construct bar graphs, and observe the relationships between the two...

What is your favorite animal at the zoo? Young mathematicians answer eight multiple choice questions, based on a survey of 50 people presented in a pie graph. Additionally, the graph does not display any numbers, but rather...

Many people know that fiber optics are used in delivering the Internet, but are surprised to learn they are also used in astronomy. Scholars explore light, reflection, and fiber optics through hands-on activities. They discuss...

Two activities work with a fiction and nonfiction book about robots‚—Robot Dreams by Sara Varon and Robot by Roger Bridgman. Scholars read each story, then build a robot out of found objects, examine robot sensors, and search for...

Students measure a topographic and geologic cross-section across a floodplain using simple surveying and auguring techniques in a field lab. Students also reconstruct the history of a river system.

Pupils observe a local habitat. They stake out a survey site with string and collect samples for their soil separation and Tullgren funnel tests. In addition, they analyze collected data.

Young scholars make transect and quadrat surveys using a provided worksheet in order to understand the techniques used to study coral reefs. Each type of survey is used to identify the species, diversity, and number of corals.

Students create a survey online. In this math instructional activity, students graph survey data using flisti.com. They share and analyze their classmates' histogram.

Learners determine how land was divided and marked for boundaries in the early days of settlement in Delaware. Students mark out land on the playground according to the methods used by the early settlers. Learners write a description of...

Pupils display comprehension of the concept of nationalism. They design a tool to conduct a survey. Students conduct a survey to find out which groups pupils feel affiliated (family, nation, religion, school, etc). They complie the...

Pupils organize a video teleconference over CU-SeeMe to discuss the results of the survey with participants.

Students gather information about how people in their community make a living through surveys and interviews, organize the data, and create a Jobs on File notebook for completed surveys.

Students use prior knowledge to develop a survey on their peers' habits and preferences regarding video games and online gaming. They examine the social aspect of online gaming by discussing "Where Warriors and Ogres Lock Arms Instead of...

Students create original survey questions, and develop a bar graph of the data on paper. They input the survey data using two variables onto an Excel bar graph spreadsheet.

Learners evaluate a survey done to determine the level of happiness in United Kingdom students. They look at the most common reasons learners report for being unhappy and compare these results to similar surveys done in different...

Students examine the roll of polling in elections and assess information provided by polls. They define the term survey. Pupils conduct a poll, individually each student answers the questions, as a group, tally the results. Students...

Students create survey questions for their classmates. In this survey lesson, students pick a yes or no question and find what fraction of the class responded yes. They discover how the wording of a survey question can affect the...

Students complete a math survey. In this math graphs lesson plan, students complete a survey about their favorite candy bars. Students create different kinds of graphs using Microsoft Excel to show their results.

Students create a spreadsheet. In this spreadsheet lesson, students take the responses they received from a pedestrian safety survey to create their spreadsheet. Then they turn this information into a graph.