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College Board

Evaluating Sources: How Credible Are They?

For Teachers 7th Standards
How can learners evaluate research sources for authority, accuracy, and credibility? By completing readings, discussions, and graphic organizers, scholars learn how to properly evaluate sources to find credible information. Additionally,...
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Unit Plan
OpenStax

Open Stax: Graphical Analysis of One Dimensional Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
In the following interactive module students will describe a straight-line graph in terms of its slope and y-intercept. They will determine average velocity or instantaneous velocity from a graph of position vs. time.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Creating Graphic Organizers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on creating graphic organizers for a variety of purposes. It presents the following types of organizers, their uses, and the format of each: the Cornell method, charting method, cause and effect organizers, flow...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Interpreting Area Data From Maps vs. Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Graphical methods of data presentation are a key feature of scientific communication. This project asks the question, "What's the best way to compare the land area of states: a map or a bar graph?" You'll be measuring performance on two...
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Finch Beak Data Sheet [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This graphic from Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches by Peter Grant presents data from the Galapagos Islands, showing that a severe drought put selective pressure on the population of Darwin's finches and resulted in a change in...
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Other

Bscs: Frog Eat Frog World

For Students 9th - 10th
In this self-directed lesson, students will use maps and Frogwatch data to explore the natural and invasive range of the American bullfrog. A handout with everything the student needs to complete this lesson is available as a PDF or...
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Graphic
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Customizable Graphic Organizers

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a series of graphic organizers for reading students. Forms are provided for plot, character analysis, reading logs, and reading responses.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: An Experiment in Visual Perception

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Graphical methods of data presentation are a key feature of scientific communication. This project will get you thinking about how to find the best way to communicate scientific information.
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Lesson Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Drawing a Box Plot

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Learn how to represent the Five-Number Summary graphically using a box plot.
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Unit Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Collaborative Booktalk: Sharing and Writing Development

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Are dark themes in young adult novels harmful or helpful to teens? Students will explore this question and will create an argumentative writing piece based on textual evidence. Videos of the lesson in action, examples of student work,...
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Handout
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Kinematics Section Summary

For Students 10th - 12th
This is a summary of the main topics for AP Physics Chapter 2 Kinematics. These include Displacement; Vectors, Scalars, and Coordinate Systems; Time, Velocity, and Speed; Acceleration; Motion Equations for Constant Acceleration in One...
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Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Real Survival Skills

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn about process analysis, writing procedurals texts, the steps of the writing process, and cause and effect in this unit. Also, examine patterns of organization in writing. A handy chart shows common organizational patterns which...
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Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Box Plots

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan introduces quartiles and box plots. It contains an activity and discussion. Supplemental activities about how students can represent data graphically are also included.
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Graphic
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Evaluate Decisions [Pdf]

For Students 5th - 9th
A nonfiction graphic organizer is available to help students evaluate decisions of people. Students will analyze how characters interact and develop throughout the course of a nonfiction text.
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Website
University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina Writing Center Handouts: Statistics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
When presenting an argument, the use of statistics to support a point can be very effective. This handout offers advice on both how to read statistics so that you understand exactly what they mean, and how to use them in your argument so...
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Unit Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Someone a Letter

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Through the vast online resources available from EDSITEment, students can read the correspondence of the famous, the infamous and the ordinary, some of whom lived through extraordinary times. Use these fascinating letters as a starting...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Gps Art

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students design their own logo or picture and use a handheld GPS receiver to map it out. They write out a word or graphic on a field or playground, walk the path, and log GPS data. The results display their "art" on their GPS receiver...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Ball Bounce Experiment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Many of today's popular sports are based around the use of a ball, yet none are completely alike. In fact they are all designed with specific characteristics in mind. Students will investigate different balls' abilities to bounce and...
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Lesson Plan
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Identifying Types of Correlation From a Graph and Calculator

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will identify different types of correlations graphically and by using the linear regression analysis obtained from a TI-84 Plus calculator. Students will also obtain and know the significance of a correlation coefficient as a...
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Interactive
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Comparing Distributions

For Students 7th
Practice comparing distributions of data in different forms of graphical representation.

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