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Curated OER

Animal Skin

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students investigate the skin surface to body area ratios for different animals.  In this seventh/eighth grade mathematics/science lesson, students explore heat transfer between an animal’s body and the environment.  Using technology,...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Choose a Path

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this addition worksheet, students utilize data from a map to answer 6 fill in the blank questions where they provide the missing addends to addition problems.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Fractional Parts of a Group

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this problem solving worksheet, students problems solve the answers to 5 mathematical word problems involving fractional parts. Students use data from a pictograph to assist them in solving each word problem.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Clam Shell Data Collection Sheet

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this clam shell data worksheet, students collect clam shells and identify their length, width, and if they have holes and not. They indicate the weather, wind direction, tidal stage, surface conditions, and beach conditions at the...
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Lesson Plan
American Statistical Association

Bubble Trouble!

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Which fluids make the best bubbles? Pupils experiment with multiple fluids to determine which allows for the largest bubbles before popping. They gather data, analyze it in multiple ways, and answer analysis questions proving they...
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eBook
Rice University

Introductory Statistics

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Statistically speaking, the content covers several grades. Featuring all of the statistics typically covered in a college-level Statistics course, the expansive content spans from sixth grade on up to high school. Material comes from a...
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Equality and Human Rights Commission

Learning area 4: Learn About the Meaning of Community

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Scholars examine the jobs found in their community by way of surveying. After collecting data, pupils analyze their findings and share their observations with their peers. A video sparks interest. Two posters motivate participants to...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rescue Mission Game

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students conduct probability experiments. For this rescue mission lesson plan, sudents play a game and collect statistical data. They organize and interpret the data and determine the probability of success. Students plot points on a...
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Teach Engineering

Using Hooke's Law to Understand Materials

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Provide a Hooke for a lesson on elasticity with an activity that has groups investigate a set of springs. They use a set procedure to collect data to calculate the spring constant for each spring using Hooke's Law. The groups predict the...
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Lesson Plan
Cornell University

Density

For Students 6th - 8th
Certain things just do not mix, including liquids of varying densities. Learners collect data to determine the densities of several liquids. They then use the density information to predict the type of liquid.
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Activity
It's About Time

Present-Day Climate in Your Community

For Teachers 7th - 12th
So what exactly is climate? This first installment of a six-part series introduces the concept of climate using real-world data tables and topographic maps. The timely lesson includes a comprehensive overview of climate, as well as...
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Lesson Plan
University of California

Heating and Cooling of the Earth's Surface

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Scholars collect data from heating sand and water before forming testable hypotheses about why sand heats up faster. Afterward, they develop and run experiments to test their hypotheses.
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Lesson Plan
NASA

Behavior Over Time: Analyzing Seasonal Soil and Air Properties

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Moisture can affect air temperatures and so much more! An analysis of NASA soil moisture data allows pupils to make connections between climate and weather features. They first review general data and then select a specific location to...
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Lesson Plan
Education Development Center

Geography of the Coordinate Plane

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Put the graph into graphing and allow learners to understand the concept of point plotting and how it relates to data. The worksheet provides a nice way to connect data analysis to a graph and make predictions. The worksheets within the...
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Performance
Radford University

Modeling the Number of Starbucks Stores

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Drink your coffee, then marvel over the rise of Starbucks. Scholars use provided data on the number of Starbucks stores from 1987 through 2014 to create scatter plots. They then determine the equation for the curve that best fits the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Survey Says...

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young statisticians collect, organize, and present data to illustrate responses to a survey question. They write and conduct the survey. They finish by presenting the results in the form of a graph.
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Organizer
Curated OER

Food chains at sea

For Students 4th - 6th
Fifth graders interpret a table of data about food chains in the ocean. They create a food chain to represent the information on the table. Periwinkles eat seaweed, and crabs eat periwinkles - so who eats crabs? Extend the activity with...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

How Does Water Cool?

For Students 5th
How fast does water cool? First fifth graders will draw a line on a graph that predicts how fast they think water can cool from boiling. Then they plot the actual data on the same graph to see if their estimate was correct.
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Activity
US Department of Commerce

Let's Count!

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Counting objects is easy as one, two, three. Young mathematicians count objects in the classroom and create data tables to record their results. They then write comparison statements and answer questions about the data.
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Activity
US Department of Commerce

Educational Attainment and Marriage Age - Testing a Correlation Coefficient's Significance

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Do women with college degrees get married later? Using a provided scatter plot of the percentage of women who earn bachelor's degrees and the median age at which women first get married over time, pupils conduct a linear regression...
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Lesson Plan
American Statistical Association

Nonlinear Modeling: Something Fishy

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
There are plenty of fish in the sea, but only a few good resources on regression. Young mathematicians first perform a linear regression analysis on provided weight and length data for fish. After determining that a linear model is not...
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Worksheet
Math Drills

Valentine's Day Ordering and Comparing (A)

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Youngsters use a data table to answer questions, in a Valentine's Day-themed worksheet. 
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Interactive
Learning Games Lab

Water Sampling

For Students 9th - 12th
Scientific procedures ensure valid data and valid results. Use a water sampling interactive to teach learners the procedures for collecting water samples. The interactive takes users through the process step-by-step with notes of...
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AP Test Prep
College Board

2015 AP® Statistics Free-Response Questions

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Statistics is all about making inferences. Can you infer how your pupils will fair on their AP® exams? Collect your own data by giving them practice tests such as the 2015 free-response exam. The six-question test includes topics such as...

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