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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Introduction to Graphing

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students practice graphing activities. In this graphing lesson, students discuss ways to collect data and complete survey activities. Students visit a table and graphs website and then a create a graph website to practice graphing.
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Young Voters Make A Difference

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers research recent statistics on voting by those 18 to 24. They survey senior students to determine their intent to vote in the next election. High schoolers display the data in charts and graphs. They write the results and...
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Means of Growth

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners collect and graph data. In this statistics lesson, students analyze their plotted data using a scatter plot. They identify lines as having positive, negative or no correlation.
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"One Day in the Prairie" by Jean Craighead George

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students collect "prairie insects" for data collection and analysis.
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Analyzing Health

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders analyze their health. In this analysis lesson plan, 3rd graders rate their health on a 1-10 scale. They then tally the scores from the class and create a data chart. Then they answer true and false questions based on...
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Scatterplots

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this statistics worksheet, students create a scatter plot based on their analysis of data provided form the space shuttle Challenger disaster.  The five page worksheet contains four questions.  Answers are not provided. 
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The Great Turkey Walk

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students formulate questions that can be addressed with data and collect, organize, and display relevant data to answer them. They wcreate bar graphs and pie graphs
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Circle the Earth - Explore Surface Types on a Journey around Earth

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Learners use CERES percent coverage surface data with a world map in locating landmasses and bodies of water at Earth's Equator.
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Collecting Data and Graphing

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders, in groups, count the different colors of M&M's in each kind of package and then draw a pictograph to show the results. Each group writes a program to show their results and then compare the manually-drawn and computer...
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Energy Content of Foods

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Why do athletes load up on carbohydrates the evening before a competition? The lesson helps answer this question as it relates the type of food to the amount of energy it contains. After a discussion, scholars perform an experiment...
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Graph and Compare the Adventure's Temperature Vs. Local Temperature

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore the concept graphing data. In this graphing data instructional activity, students use weather data from their local weather and some other city and graph them. Students plot the local weather vs. another city. Students...
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Exploring Linear Equations And Scatter Plots - Chapter 5 Review

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Young scholars complete rolling stocks experiment, and collect and enter data on the computer. They enter data on graphing calculators, complete scatter plot by hand with line of best fit, and discuss different graphing methods.
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Climate Change

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students compare weather data and draw conclusions. In this climate change lesson plan, students determine whether data collected over a period of ninety years shows a warming trend. 
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Statistics with State Names

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students analyze the number of times each letter in the alphabet is used in the names of the states. For this statistics lesson, students create a stem and leaf plot, box and whisker plot and a histogram to analyze their data.
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Graphics Creation and Statistical Interpretation: Relating Local Economics and the Global Environment

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners apply statistics, and graphical interpretation to economics, the environment and populations. In this statistical activity students construct graphical displays and classify data.
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Graphing Favorite Fruit

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders take poll and sort data, enter the data to create a spreadsheet and create bar and pie graphs.
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Inch by Inch

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders listen to a read-aloud of Leo Lionni's, Inch by Inch before measuring a variety of items using both standard and metric units. They record the measurement data and follow a recipe for dirt pie.
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Tall Tale Rollers

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners explore American tall tales. In this tall tale instructional activity, students discover the six characteristics that are included in tall tales. Learners survey their class to find each student's favorite tall tale character...
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Box-and-Whisker Plots

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders measure in feet and inches and convert to explore the relationship between the converted measurements. In this measurement lesson, 8th graders use the whisker and box plot to represent the measurement of a cat. ...
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Algebra: Reaching New Heights

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Students work in pairs to measure their arm span and height and record them on a class chart. The class works together to create a scattergram to display the data. Class discussion focuses on interpreting the scattergram.
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Count The Letters

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students perform activities involving ratios, proportions and percents. Given a newspaper article, groups of students count the number of letters in a given area. They use calculators and data collected to construct a pie chart and bar...
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Graphs

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students explore graphs and define the different ways they are used to display data. In this algebra lesson, students collect data and plot their data using the correct graph. They draw conclusions from their graphs based on their data.
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Water, Water Everywhere

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners monitor a local creek. In this environmental water lesson, students conduct an environmental study of a local creek by monitoring the temperature and water quality over a period of time, then submit data to the Global Water...
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Shedding Light on the Weather with Relative Humidity

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Learners study weather using a graphing calculator in this lesson plan. They collect data for temperature and relative humidity for every hour over a day from the newspaper, then place the data in their handheld calculator and examine it...

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