Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Worm Watch
For this field investigation, students use sampling techniques to identify the types of earthworms found in the schoolyard. Data will be combined for the whole class to get a snapshot of the earthworm population, species, and ecological...
Other
Looper's Delight: Home Page
An interesting loop-based music site featuring loop-based artists, performances, tools, tips and tricks, and more.
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Data: Data Collection Sheets
Students explore the concept of data collection sheets by working through an online tutorial and then attempting a ten question quiz that increases in difficulty as questions are answered correctly.
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Data: Questionnaires
Students learn about the concept of collecting data using questionnaires by exploring a tutorial. They can then test their knowledge by taking a ten question assessment that increases in difficulty as they correctly answer questions.
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Data: Practical Ways to Carry Out a Survey
Students learn about the concept of taking a survey by exploring a tutorial. They can then test their knowledge by taking a ten question assessment that increases in difficulty as they correctly answer questions.
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Data: Sample Size
This site provides students practice with the concept of sample size. Students can learn about the topic by completing an interactive tutorial. Students can then take a ten question timed test to practice the skill.
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Data: Stratified Sampling
This site provides students practice with the concept of stratified sampling. Students can learn about the topic by completing an interactive tutorial. Students can then take a ten question timed test to practice the skill.
Mangahigh
Mangahigh: Data: Hypotheses
Students learn about the concept of hypothesis by exploring a tutorial. They can then test their knowledge by taking a ten question assessment that increases in difficulty as they correctly answer questions.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Monitoring Life in the Rocky Intertidal Ecosystem
This activity will allow young scholars to learn the sampling techniques used in the field by citizen scientists who participate in LiMPETS, five national marine sanctuaries along the West Coast.
Web Center for Social Research Methods
Research Methods Knowledge Base: Sampling in Research
Site discusses the use of sampling in research. The key statistical terms used in sampling are linked for the user to quickly find definitions. The major concepts of probability and nonprobability are also highlighted.
Web Center for Social Research Methods
Research Models Knowledge Base: Selecting Survey Method
Details the following issues that should be considered when selecting the survey method: population, sampling, questionnaire, bias, and administration.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Field Investigation Source Platform
This site from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory gives a description of field investigation and then provides a detailed break-out of each step in the process.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: s.ic.4 the Marble Jar
Sometimes hotels, malls, banks, and other businesses will present a display of a large, clear container holding a large number of items and ask customers to estimate some aspect of the items in the container as a contest. In some cases,...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: S Ic Strict Parents
In this task, young scholars want to estimate the proportion of students in the school who thought of their parents as "strict". They do not have time to interview all 1000 young scholars, so they plan to obtain data from a sample of...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Making Inferences From Random Samples
Practice making inferences from random samples.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Statistics: Surveys and Sample
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn how to use surveying and sampling to collect accurate data.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Something's Fishy: A Lesson in Biological Sampling
Determining the population in a larger area by tagging. By using proper scientific method and careful sampling procedures, students learn how biologists work in the field to collect data about a population. Students will also calculate...
iCivics
I Civics: The Poll Picture (Infographic)
Use this infographic to show the process of surveying from pollster to prediction. Students will engage with the concept of sampling and gain a better understanding of the purpose of public opinion polls.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Types of Flaws
On the LSAT (as well as in real life), you'll encounter some types of flawed arguments more often than others. This article features some of the flaws that you're most likely to see on Test Day. The faster you can recognize these common...
Energy4Me
Energy4me: Core Sampling
Relate this to real-world drilling and why drill bits are used to churn up and break up rock in the sampling path. Explain to students that core sampling is one way that geologists determine the geologic formation of rocks and sediments...
SMART Technologies
Smart: Sampling and Misleading Graphs
Teachers can use Smart Exchange to download a SMART Notebook lesson covering the topic of sampling and misleading graphs.
University of Glasgow
Statistics Glossary: Stratified Sampling
An online statistics glossary which contains the definition for stratified sampling. Lists reasons for using stratified sampling instead of simple random sampling and gives an example situation in which stratified sampling may be used.
Rice University
Hyper Stat Online Statistics Textbook: Population
A definition of "population" as it refers to statistics.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Sampling and Prediction: Lesson 3
This lesson demonstrates how sampling can help predict outcomes. It is 3 of 2 in the series titled "Sampling and Prediction."