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Spreadsheet Budget Project

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders record all the food they eat for one week, compute the costs for all of this food, and display the different categories on a spreadsheet and then convert to a chart.
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Ecosystems

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students create plots of land in three different ecosystems and use AppleWorks to collect data for research. This lesson includes a downloadable worksheet and can be accomplished in four days.
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Planet Protectors

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore ways to protect the earth.  In this environmental issues and technology activity, students investigate the water quality in their community and compare their findings to the water quality in other geographic areas. ...
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What Are We Listening To?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students gather data from a web site on number of music albums sold by genre for the last two years. They convert these figures to fractions, decimals, and percents, and display the results in bar graphs and pie charts.
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Graphing Valentine Candies

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders organize and display information in bar graph form using appropriate labels. Each student receives a box of Valentine heart candies, a worksheet of the tally chart and a worksheet of the bar graph.
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Cultural Ties in Your Nebraska Community

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders use different resources to collect data about how their specific community is affected by international ties and relations. Resources include local library, city hall, travel agent, visitors bureau, and Chamber of...
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Finding Mean, Mode and Median in the Computer Lab

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students create spreadsheets which will display and figure mean, median, and mode of a set of numbers.
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How Effective is Perspiration at Cooling?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students collect data on the cooling of water in two different test tubes, one that is wrapped in wet newspaper and one in dry newspaper. They then relate this cooling effect to the body's perspiration.
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Christmas Tree

For Teachers 9th
Ask the students for ideas on sorting the decorations so that they could tell someone what was in the box. Students share idea for sorting a box of Christmas decorations so that they could tell someone what was in the box. They share...
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Seed Sort

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students form a variety of categories for seed mixes (wild bird seed or 15 bean soup) and create graphs to display their categories.
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A Bar of Many Colors

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use colored candies to collect data, construct double bar graphs, and find averages.
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Picturing George: A Pictorial Survey of the Life of George Washington

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create pictorial biographies of George Washington. Working in groups, they research various portions of Washington's life, highlighting significant events. After presenting their projects to the class, they are displayed for...
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Traffic Light Probability

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students discuss the possible traffic signals that may be observed on the way to a field trip. They record data on the trip, and analyze the probability of the results occurring again.
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Growing and Graphing

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students visit a 2nd and a 4th grade class to measure the heights of older students using large building blocks as a non-standard unit of measure. They can also measure adults in the school community. Results are displayed in...
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Favorite Foods at Thanksgiving

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders study different types of graphs as a means of displaying information. They survey others to find their favorite Thanksgiving food and then graph the results using different types of graphs.
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How to Make Histograms

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students collect data and plot it using a histogram. In this statistics lesson, students interpret histograms. They find the frequency, percents and density.
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"Texas T"

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils examine how the discovery of oil replaced cotton and changed the Texas economy from agricultural to industrial. They read primary source documents, define key vocabulary terms, and create a bookmark.
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Commemorative Coin Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils discuss and research an individual or event that has been memorialized on a commemorative coin. They use the information they found to write acrostics, creating stand-up accordion books to display the poems.
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Working 9 to 5?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify different industries of the Industrial Revolution in America through the following: text, web research and image analysis. They evaluate a poster created by their classmates using a Poster Analysis Form.
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Ants in Your Pants

For Teachers 1st
First graders read "One Hundred Angry Ants" by Elinor Pinczes. They identify various sums that equal ten and display them on a chart.
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A Canadian Inventory: The Way We Are!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students, in groups, explore major thematic sections of the Atlas of Canada. They use their findings to produce a wall display, consider and incorporate the issue of sustainability into their material and deliver a presentation to the...
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Exploring Culture Through Folk Tales

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars listen to folk tales, examine art and discuss the cultural context of each. Using a folk tale from any culture they choose, they research a piece of artwork that has the same message as the story. They perform the story...
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That's the Way the Ball Bounces

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate and compare the bouncing ability of the materials from which four different balls are made. They determine which material performs the best for use as a basketball. After collecting data in a small group they...
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Doctor, Doctor, Gimme The News

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders work together to develop a health-related experiment to display at the school health fair. Using the human body systems, they use the Internet to research a health problem through a controlled experiment. They are...

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