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Water Fun

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students examine uses for water. In this water lesson, students discuss how they use water. As a class students make a PowerPoint by naming one swimming safety rule. Students compare and contrast fishing for fun and fishing for survival.
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Harvest the Facts

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners discover heath problems caused by tobacco.  In this human health lesson plan, students identify the many diseases tobacco use causes and how to prevent such diseases.  Learners investigate the organs in the human body directly...
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A Weigh we Go!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Here are some cross-curricular activities whil should help your kids understnad weight measurements and grammar. In this grammar and math lesson, students read the book Skittles Riddles and practice counting and balancing skittles. They...
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Critter Museum

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students act as directors of a new science museum where they have decided to set up a display of animals without backbones that are found in the area. To organize their display, they need to sort and classify a collection of animals and...
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Friction Force

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate friction force on a variety of objects such as bricks and cardboard boxes. They use a force probe to collect data on the changes in force required to drag the objects across a variety of surface types.
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Education for Global Peace

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students survey the class and graph the results. In this graphing and data collection lesson, students conduct a survey to see where their shirts were produced. Individuals use software to graph the results and create a written...
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Fractions, Decimals, and Percents

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students connect different mathematical concepts. They create a circle graph. Students then create a question in which they collect data in order to convert fractions to decimals and decimals to percents.
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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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Stimulus/Response in Invertebrates

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students design and conduct and experiment to determine how invertebrates react to an outside stimulus such as light and other stimuli. Student must develop a clear plan of action, collect data in an organized manner and analyze their...
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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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