NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Homeland Security in the Information Age
This site provides the story detailing new attempts at sorting and using the large quantities of data generated by security measures in the information age. (4 September 2002)
Rice University
What Percentage of Your Class Is Right or Left Handed?
What percentage of the class is right or left-handed? Students will investigate this question using statistical processes of collecting the data, organizing it, graphing, and finally analyzing it. Follow-up questions are provided for the...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Who Lives Here?: Investigating and Sorting Schoolyard Insects
For this investigation, young scholars make a pit trap and collect bugs. They then record what they captured and sort the bugs. The data is combined to create a class graph.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Source Relay
Second graders will sort breakfast food items into sources in this activity.