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Curated OER

Graphics Creation and Statistical Interpretation: Relating Local Economics and the Global Environment

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students apply statistics, and graphical interpretation to economics, the environment and populations. In this statistical lesson plan students construct graphical displays and classify data.
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Curated OER

Temperature High and Lows

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students gather high and low temperature readings through email. In this temperature graphing lesson, students use a spreadsheet to input data for a graph. students interpret the graphs to compare and contrast the data from different...
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Curated OER

Backyard Birds: Who's Who Out There?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students practice techniques of field observation and data-gathering while studying local bird population, describe ecosystem as complex combination of elements, which can affect or be affected by each other, and determine effects of...
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Curated OER

Flight of Angles of Inclination

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students measure the flight of a gilder. In this fight of angles instructional activity, students explore the flight of a glider and measure the distance flown. They collect statistical data of the flights and determine the slope of...
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Curated OER

Studying Snow and Ice Changes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students compare the change in snow and ice over a 10 year period. In this environmental science activity, students use the live data on the NASA site to study and compare the monthly snow and ice amounts on a map of the entire Earth. ...
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Curated OER

Seasonal Cloud Cover Variations

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars, in groups, access data from the NASA website Live Access Server regarding seasonal cloud coverage and the type of clouds that make up the coverage. They graph the data and make correlations between types, seasons and...
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Curated OER

Filling Up

For Teachers 9th - 12th
In this filling up worksheet, high schoolers calculate the E85 per gasoline-gallon equivalent price to the E85 price per gallon to complete a chart of "alternative fuel". They use the data along with the price per gallon of gasoline to...
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NASA

The Effects of Sunspots on Climate

For Students 8th - 10th
In this sunspots and climate change learning exercise, learners use a diagram of a tree stump and its rings to determine the age of the tree. They use sunspot data from the internet and they construct an Excel spreadsheet to compare the...
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Curated OER

Satellite Sense

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students look at data to understand how it is interpreted by scientists.  In this satellite sense lesson, students complete worksheets based on radar and satellite images. Students work in groups of two to diagram a landform.
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Curated OER

What Are My Chances?

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students calculate probability. In this lesson on probability, students use given data to calculate to chances of a given event occurring. Many of the calculations in this lesson are applicable to daily life.
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Curated OER

Do Fast CMEs Produce Intense SPEs?

For Students 8th - 10th
In this coronal mass ejections and Solar Proton Events worksheet, students create a Venn Diagram to represent given data. They answer 5 questions about the data related to the number of coronal mass ejections and Solar Proton Events...
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Curated OER

Temperature in the Sun or Shade of the Desert

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use thermometers to measure the air temperature in several places around the school and then return to the classroom to record the data. They create a bar graph and discuss their findings about the air temperature in the...
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Curated OER

What Are the Layers of the Rain Forest?

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students investigate the different levels of the rain forest by comparing it to an apartment.  In this ecology lesson, students practice using forest related vocabulary words and complete a vocabulary data sheet.  Students create...
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Curated OER

Dangerous Atmosphere

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars discuss dangerous weather. In this science lesson, students decide on which state they want to research and check the Internet for the dangerous weather in that state. Young scholars determine which weather hazard was the...
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Curated OER

Chucky Chickadee's Bird and Breakfast: Sing in Please

For Teachers K - 1st
Students observe bird feeding and complete a tally and graphing activity for their observations. In this bird graphing lesson plan, students work in teams to observe bird feedings. Students complete a bird reporting sheet and collect...
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Curated OER

Meteorologist for the Day

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine the symbols used on weather maps. They analyze a newspaper weather forecast and identify and discuss the various symbols used on the map. Next, they prepare a weather map for their own city using the symbols...
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Curated OER

Birds

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students list marine birds in their area and report on the threats made to these species.  In this marine life lesson students compare bird count data and argue either for or against its accuracy. 
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Curated OER

Sensational Seasons

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore how seasonal weather patterns affect temperature and their lives.
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Curated OER

The Big Blow

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners identify and explain factors that contribute to extreme storms in the Great Lakes.  In this investigative lesson students study the weather systems in the Great Lakes and compare cyclones to tropical storms. 
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Curated OER

"Show Me" Missouri's Temperatures

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders gather climate data about cities from each of Missouri's five geographical regions and use technological tools to translate this data into graphs for further analysis and reflection.
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Curated OER

Crimes on the Great Lakes

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students solve simulated crimes using real-time online information. They research data on items such as ship tracking through GPS, lake conditions, and weather systems. They also collect information about invasive plant and animal...
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Curated OER

Seasonal Graphs

For Students 4th - 5th
In this math activity, students create a graph using the data recorded from the local newspaper concerning local temperatures.
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K12 Reader

What's the Forecast?

For Students 6th - 8th
Rain gauges, thermometers, and wind vanes. After reading a short article about weather forecasting, readers identify the tools meteorologists use to predict the weather.
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MENSA Education & Research Foundation

Hurricanes

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Learn the ins and outs of hurricanes through a series of lessons answering, "What is a hurricane? How does it travel? How is one formed, measured, and named?" Information is presented through informative text and images, while...

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