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Applied Science - Built Environment Lab
Young scholars evaluate trash. For this Science lesson, students collect and weigh trash from their classrooms. Young scholars categorize the trash and the corresponding weights, recording the information on a data sheet.
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Can You Measure Up?
Here is a well-designed lesson on common standards of measurement for your young mathematicians. In it, learners calculate measurements in standard and non-standard units. They make predictions, record data, and construct and design...
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Math Made Easy
Students evaluate word problems. In this problem solving lesson, students are presented with word problems requiring graphing skills and students work independently to solve.
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The Moons of Jupiter
Can you name the three planets with rings in our solar system? Everyone knows Saturn, many know Uranus, but most people are surprised to learn that Jupiter also has a ring. The third in a series of six teaches pupils what is around...
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Happy Landings: A Splash or a Splat?
Huygens spacecraft landed on Saturn's moon Titan in 2005, making it the farthest landing from Earth ever made by a spacecraft. In this hands-on activity, the 12th installment of 22, groups explore how density affects speed. To do this,...
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Roll `Em!
First graders engage in using base ten blocks and dice for a fun engaging math lesson plan. They use a worksheet imbedded in this lesson plan as the game board to help them play this math game.
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Weather Conditions During the Fall Monarch Migration
Students keep detailed weather records during the fall migration of the monarch butterfly. They compare weather conditions to the days they do and do not see monarchs. As a class, they graph and analyze data and send it to a university...
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Kansas Foods A Data and Probability Investigation
Students study a number of food products and anticipate which are derived from Kansas crops. They make a list of words associated with the food stuffs and graph the results.
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Tally Charts and Graphs
Fourth graders play the game 'Data Picking', where they collect data, place the data into a tally chart, and choose the circle graph that best represents the data. They go to the Mathfrog website and select 'Picking'. Students choose...
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Statistics and Shopping
Learners explore the concept of using consumer data and statistics to aid in the consumer decision making process. For this consumer data and statistics lesson, students research consumer data and statistics. Learners analyze the data...
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Cold Enough?
Students read and record temperatures and display the data. They represent the temperatures on an appropriate graph and explain completely what was done and why it was done. Students display the data showing differences in the daily...
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Grade 2: Spinning Sums
Second graders collect data by spinning two spinners and creating sums, organize the data, and make conclusions from the data. Each students makes a spinner. They spin and record the number of the section each time. Students work in...
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Using Computers to Produce Spreadsheets and Bar Graphs
Students review graphing terminology and how to plot data points, how to input data into a spreadsheet, and how to make a chart using a computer.
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Bar and Histograms (What Would You Use: Part 1)
Young scholars practice creating bar graphs using a given set of data. Using the same data, they create a group frequency chart and histograms. They must decide the best graph for the given set of data. They share their graphs with...
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The Survey Says
Young scholars experience the development of statistical data. In groups, they construct a survey questionnaire for a target audience. Students produce the questionnaire, distribute it, collect it, and tabulate the data. Using EXCEL,...
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Tulip Graphing
Students create a graph of tulip growth. In this data analysis lesson, students plant tulip bulbs and use graph paper to begin graphing data on the growth of the tulip.
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Assessing Normalcy
Students define normal distribution as it relates to the bell curve. In this statistics lesson, students use the central tendencies of mean, median and mode to solve problems. They plot their data and draw conclusion from the graphs.
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Box Plots
Students review the concept of median, explore how to calculate quartiles for any size data set and experience how to build a box plot.
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What's Your Favorite? Survey And Graphing Project
Sixth graders create and edit spreadsheet documents using all data types, formulas and functions, and chart information. They collect and organize data that be portrayed in a graph that they create using EXCEL.
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Genetic Equilibrium: Human Diversity
Investigate the Hardy-Weinberg Principle to explain genetic equilibrium. The 10th lesson plan of a series of 12 is a laboratory exploration of genetic equilibrium. Your classes use a mixture of beans to model allele and genotype...
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Graphing
Young scholars gather statistical information on a chosen topic and place it into a spreadsheet. Using th Excel chart wizard, students create tables, graphs and charts of their information. They interpret the data and share it with the...
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Super Spreadsheets
Learners develop a spreadsheet containing statistical data. They describe and interpret the data to make conclusions. They review the differences between an unorganized spreadsheet verses an organized one.
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Using a Statistical Procedure To Search A Database For Out of the Ordinary Values
Young scholars develop a spreadsheet containing formulas and find summaries for them. In this investigative lesson students choose a topic, investigate it and use MS Excel to sort data.
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Water - Planning for the Future
Students explore and examine the increases and/or decreases for water user groups: irrigation, municipal, manufacturing, steam electric power generation cooling, livestock, and mining. They utilize percentage changes during their...