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Walk the Line
How confident are you? Explore the meaning of a confidence interval using class collected data. Learners analyze data and follow the steps to determine a 95 percent confidence interval. They then interpret the meaning of the confidence...
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Identifying Ozone Variations over Different Locations
Learners analyze ozone data. In this atmosphere lesson, students will use a NASA resource to gather data for different regions of the Earth. Learners will then create a graph for their data and answer related questions.
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Mystery Liquids: Linear Function
High schoolers determine the linear equations of the density of water and oil by collecting data on the mass of various volumes of each liquid. They construct scatter plots from the data and use these to write the linear equations for...
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Murder in the First Degree - The Death of Mr. Spud
Secondary learners investigate exponential functions in a real-world scenario. They collect data on the temperature of a cooling baked potato, enter the data into lists, and graph the data using a scatter plot before finding an...
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Data and Scientific Graphs
Students conduct experiments and graph their data. In this statistics lesson, students collect data and graph it on a coordinate plane. They analyze the data looking for patterns and they discuss their findings with the class.
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Reading the Neighborhood
First graders complete activities with the story One Monday Morning in the Macmillan/McGraw Hill Textbook. In this data lesson, 1st graders read the story and gather data to create a picture graph. They read the graph and answer...
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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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Data Collection and Presentation
Students concentrate on discrete quantiative data. They are shown that the vertical line diagram as a more appropriate way to present discrete quantiative data then bar charts. Students work as a group to help with the interpretation...
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Graph Those Stickers!
Students graph fruit. In this graphing lesson students create a graph using fruit label stickers. Students place a sticker on the graph when the fruit has been consumed.
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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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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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Visual Communication of Quantative Data
Students collect and analyze data based on academic performance. In this statistics lesson, students create graphs and analyze the data they created. They use positive, negative and no correlation to analyze the data.
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Chart This!
Learners collect and analyze data. In this middle school mathematics lesson, students collect data on three to four traits or favorites. Learners analyze their data and create a chart of graph for each trait or favorite they researched.
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Computer Graphing
Students research the Internet or create surveys to find graphable data. They collect, organize, analyze and interpret the data. Finally, they choose the appropriate type of graph to display the data and find the measures of central...
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Graphing Memories
Mem Fox’s Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge provides the labels for a graphing activity. Class members create an illustration of a memory item brought from home, and place their illustration in the proper column of a graph. When the...
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Weather
Students create a spreadsheet and chart using data collected. In this weather lesson, students select five cities from their state, including the city they live in. Students take daily temperature readings from all five cities. ...
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China's Population Growth
Learners collect data from China's population growth and determine the mean, median, and mode from the data. In this data lesson plan, pupils determine probabilities and use them to make predictions.
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Wiggle Worms
First graders investigate worms, collect and analyze data. In this worm and data lesson, 1st graders listen to Chick and Duckling from the Macmillan/McGraw-Hill reading series. They conduct experiments with worms, collect simple data,...
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Beverage Tests
Learners investigate the pH of a liquid. In this middle school mathematics/science lesson, students collect and analyze data regarding the pH of various liquids. Learners display their data in various types of graphs as they consider...
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When Dinosaurs Ruled the World
Students graph the varying sizes of dinosaurs. In this math and dinosaur lesson, students view dinosaur models and compare the different shapes and sizes of the dinosaurs. Students complete a dinosaur math activity, read The Dinosaur...
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The Appearance of a Graph
Sixth graders understand that the appearance and increment used on the x and y axis in a graph change how it looks. In this graphing lesson, 6th graders work in pairs and interpret graphs using different axes. Students collect graphs...
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Graphing With Candy
Students gather information and interpret the results using a tally chart, a table, and a bar graph.
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Big Foot Bar Graph
Students explore all the different sizes of feet within their age range while exercising their graphing skills. They work in teams to survey children in their grade to gather data about the different range of shoe sizes. Each group then...
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A Tall Story
Students investigate the growth rate of a man named Bob Wadlow. In this growth rate of a man lesson, students determine if the growth rate of this particular man was normal or abnormal. Students bring in data of their height over time...