Baylor College
Body Strength
Your young learners will discover how muscular strength and endurance can increase with this truly hands-on activity! Beginning by writing an acrostic for the word strength, class members then engage in tracking their ability to squeeze...
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Population Growth in Yeasts
Students design an investigation using yeast. In this environmental engineering lesson, students design an investigation to determine how environmental factors affect the growth of yeast. They will collect quantitative data and discuss...
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Collecting My School Family Data
Pupils are tasked with collecting data on their school. In groups, they collect data on various aspects of school life along with social and economic backgrounds and charactertics of their hair and eye color. They draw two pictures,...
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Creating a Data Table
Seventh graders explore organizing data into a table. The teacher leads a handshaking activity among the class. They collect the information concerning the number of handshakes each person received. Students discover a pattern. They...
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Ocean Temperatures
Students list data collected by marine buoys and the different kinds of moored buoys. They describe how data is transmitted worldwide. They explain the difference between near shore and offshore air and water temperatures.
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Misleading Graphs
Students explore number relationships by participating in a data collection activity. In this statistics instructional activity, students participate in a role-play activitiy in which they own a scrap material storefront that must...
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The Great Race
Students identify the mean, median and mode of collected data. In this statistics instructional activity, students collect, graph and analyze data using central tendencies. They work in groups to collect data on a robot through an...
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Acid-Base Titration
Students determine the concentration of an unknown solution. This task assesses students' abilities to state hypothesis, develop procedures for investigation, plan for recording and organizing observations and data, collect data, create...
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Our Favorites
Students participate in and conduct a survey to determine various class favorites. They collect, organize and display their data, interpret the results, and complete a packet of worksheets to display the information.
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Bats and Hot Dogs
Students identify patterns and relationships from data that is collected and solve variables. In this investigative lesson students study ocean productivity, the nitrogen cycle and phytoplankton then answer questions.
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Wildlife and Highway Management
Students create a research questions about animal underpasses and how animals use them. In this animals lesson plan, students use their collected data to answer their question.
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Color Tile Graphing
Students explore data. They gather data and generate questions about the data in pictographs, tallies, tables, and bar graphs. Students use color tiles pulled by random to create their own bar graph. They discuss the bar graphs they...
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Getting A Grip On Graphs
Fourth graders investigate the concept of graphing and comparing different types of data using pictographs, line graphs, scatter plots, etc... They gather data and make interpretations while examining the medium of how it is displayed.
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La Toteca- A Tropical Paradise
Young scholars collect data on the time of the ferry. In this algebra lesson, students use the data to predict a ferry schedule. They also compute the depth where oxygen would be needed when diving.
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Student Heights
Students measure the heights of their fellow classmates and create a box and whisker plot to display the data. In this measurement lesson plan, students analyze the data and record results.
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Mapping River Statistics
Students research different statistics to do with the Mississippi River. They answer questions about finding data and collect it by conducting research. The research is used to construct a data table. Then students use the table to...
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Choosing the Best Graph
In this mathematics worksheet, 6th graders use a line graph to illustrate how a measure of data changes and explain their reasoning. Then they use a bar graph to compare pieces of data and a pictograph to compare data.
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Plotting Data on a Graph
Young scholars investigate graphing. For this graphing lesson, students survey the class and create graphs to reflect the data collected.
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Getting A Grip On Graphs
Fourth graders gather variety of data and create a graphs to display the data.
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Dough Lake Topology
Students practice coordinates and measurements, develop 2D, 3D topological map, construct grid with string on real surface, establish "level" fixed point for measurements, take and record data points of elevation, and enter data on...
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Peat Pots
Students place a peat pot in water to observe and calculate the rate of capillarity in a model of a soil. This task assesses students' abilities to make simple observations, collect, record, and represent data, use a data table to...
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Gee, It's Crowded in Here
Students interpret raw data about population statistics. In this raw data lesson plan, students plug the data into graphic organizers and draw conclusions based on their findings.
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Local Traffic Survey
Young scholars conduct a traffic survey and interpret their data and use graphs and charts to display their results.
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Temperature Bar Graph
Students explore mean, median and mode. In this math lesson, students analyze temperature data and figure the mean, median, and mode of the data. Students graph the data in a bar graph.