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Curious Clouds
Second graders explore clouds. They read The Cloud Book by Tomie dePola. Students sort the cloud pictures into three categories. Students create a graph using the cloud pictures. They use Excel to create a bar graph.
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Hemlock Trees and the Pesky Pest, The Woolly Adelgid
Students review Excel and how to create graphs with this program. They create two graphs in Excel, one showing the average number of woolly adelgid egg sacks on the outer 15 cm of hemlock branch at sites sorted by latitude, then one...
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Sweethearts and Data Analysis
Students explore the concept collecting and representing data. In this collecting and representing data lesson plan, students record the different colors of sweetheart candies in their sweethearts box. Students create a table of the data...
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Investigating: Interpreting Graphs and Analyzing Data
Students explore statistics by researching class birthday data. In this data analysis lesson, students investigate the different birthdays among their classmates and create data tables based on the given information. Students view bar...
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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...
Virginia Department of Education
Line of Best Fit
Pupils work through a guided activity on fitting a linear equation to a set of data by entering the data into a calculator and trying to envision a line of best fit. They then have the calculator determine the least-squares line and...
Chicago Botanic Garden
Historical Climate Cycles
Ice core samples give scientists access to climates of old—those from more than 800,000 years ago. Through an analysis of various temperature graphs from ice cores, tree rings, and weather stations, scholars compare historical climates...
Howard County Schools
Exponential Decay Exploration
How can you model exponential decay? Explore different situations involving exponential decay functions and decreasing linear functions by performing activities with MandM candy, popcorn kernels, and number cubes.
NOAA
A Matter of Density
Larvae transportation on the New England seamounts is based on the density of the water. Scholars calculate density and graph salinity versus temperature to better understand the distribution of organisms in a water column. Discussions...
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Beans and Baleen
Predict whale populations using different beans as whales! Learners observe different types of beans in a dish knowing that each bean represents a different kind of whale. They then predict how many "whales" there are in a certain area....
Virginia Department of Education
Calculating Measures of Dispersion
Double the fun — calculate two measures of deviation. The lesson plan provides information to lead the class through the process of calculating the mean absolute deviation and the standard deviation of a data set. After learning how to...
American Statistical Association
Spinners at the School Carnival (Equal Sections)
Spin to win a toy car. A fun activity has pupils use a spinner in which three of the equal sections represent winning a toy car, and the fourth section represents no car. They record the number of wins after certain numbers of spins,...
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Collecting Data
Fifth graders collect and describe data. Through various inquires, they collect information and describe it in graph form. Students predict information, find the actual amount based on their data and compare their findings with their...
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The Dog Days of Data
Students practice an alternative form of data presentation. They practice sequencing data, identifying the stem-and-leaf, creating stem-and-leaf plots, and drawing inferences from the data by viewing the plots.
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Pumpkin Seed Data!
Second graders work with pumpkins to estimate, then accumulate data about pumpkin seeds. After cleaning out the pumpkins, 2nd graders utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan which has a variety of pumpkin math activities they can do.
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Histograms and Bar Graphs
Students are introduced to histograms, bar graphs, and the concept of class interval. They use an activity and three discussions with supplemental exercises to help students explore how data can be graphically represented (and...
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Learning to Make Data Tables
Students construct data tables using the results of previous experiments. In this graphing lesson, students plot data and interpret the results. Students discuss how they organized their data.
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Chucky Chickadee's Bird and Breakfast: Sing in Please
Students observe bird feeding and complete a tally and graphing activity for their observations. In this bird graphing activity, students work in teams to observe bird feedings. Students complete a bird reporting sheet and collect data...
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Tables, Charts and Graphs
Students examine a science journal to develop an understanding of graphs in science. In this data analysis lesson, students read an article from the Natural Inquirer and discuss the meaning of the included graph. Students create a...
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Creating Graphs from Tables
Students interpret data from tables and then create a graph to show the same data in a different organization.
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Bar Graphs
Seventh graders visually represent and analyze data using a frequency table. They recognize what values in a data set are bigger by looking at a bar graph and answer questions about certain bar graphs and what they represent. Students...
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Charting and Graphing Sales
Students analyze and represent weekly sales figures using tables, bar graphs, and pie charts. They draw conclusions using bar graphs and pie charts. Students are told that each day at school they have the option of buying or bringing a...
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Creating Circle Graphs with Microsoft Excel
Students create graphs of circles. In this geometry lesson, students use Microsoft Excel to create graphs. They construct the graphs using paper and pencil as well as the computer.