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How Sharp Is Your Memory?
Young scholars play a memory game as they explore reasoning. In this algebra lesson, students identify concepts using pictures and words. They model real life scenarios using hands on manipulatives.
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Graph and Compare the Adventure's Temperature Vs. Local Temperature
Students explore the concept graphing data. In this graphing data lesson plan, students use weather data from their local weather and some other city and graph them. Students plot the local weather vs. another city. Students record...
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Testing Weather Proverbs
Students study weather proverbs. In this weather lesson, students list weather proverbs and complete the worksheet to test the proverb. Students design an experiment to test the weather proverbs and conduct the experiments.
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Historical Temperatures
Students research historical regional temperatures for their current season. In this historical weather lesson, students conduct weather station and Internet research to learn about historical regional temperatures. Students collect and...
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How Wealthy Are Europeans?
Students investigate measures of central tendency. They examine compiled data and conduct critical analysis. The graph is focusing on the gross domestic product data. The instructional activity also reviews the concept of putting values...
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Skittles® in the Middle
Fourth graders work in small groups, using bags of Skittles?? to determine the mean of one color of Skittles?? found in each bag, in each group, and in the entire class. This is a good lesson to help motivate students to explore mode,...
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Using Statistics to Uncover More Evidence
Fifth graders participate in an online Web lesson plan on ways of interpreting data. They conduct a survey and interpret the results in a journal entry.
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The Statistics of M&Ms
Students explore the topic of statistics with M and Ms. In this math lesson plan, students use candy pieces to sort and gather information needed to create a bar graph. This lesson can be adapted to accommodate students in grades 1-12.
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Raisin the Statistical Roof
Use a box of raisins to help introduce the concept of data analysis. Learners collect, analyze and display their data using a variety of methods. The included worksheet takes them through a step-by-step analysis process and graphing.
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Weather for Health
Ninth graders encounter various types of numerical information (represented in multiple ways), much of which is abstract and difficult to comprehend. In this activity, 9th graders will convert given information into bar graphs. In the...
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Monitoring Math with a Statistical Spreadsheet
Learners use a spreadsheet to compute landmark statistics of a math
quiz. This lesson can be ongoing throughout the school year and it integrates mathematics curriculum and technology in a simple format for student use.
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Measures of Spread
Learners explore the concept of measures of spread. In this measures of spread lesson, students calculate the standard deviation for a set of data. Learners use the standard deviation to analyze and describe the set of data. Students...
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Introduction to Representing and Analyzing Data
Represent data graphically. Allow your class to explore different methods of representing data. They create foldables, sing songs, and play a dice game to reinforce the measures of central tendency.
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Baseball Stats
Students explore data sheets and statistics in baseball. They use baseball data available on the Internet to develop an understanding of the different ways in which data can be analyzed.
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Schoolyard Bird Project
Learners observe and count bird sightings around their schoolyard throughout the school year.
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What Can Data Tell Us?
Learners analyze data they have collected themselves and by their classmates. In groups, they create data distributions to identify the highest, lowest and middle values. As a class, they discuss the concept of sample size and how it can...
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Probability
Sixth graders study the probability of single events. Given a bag of marbles, they discuss and find the probability of single events. In groups of two, 6th graders complete additional activities, predicting the probability. Students...
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Descriptive Statistics
Young scholars demonstrate how to use frequency and scatter diagrams. In this statistics lesson plan, students are introduced to different techniques of representing data. Young scholars sort and graph data on a worksheet and use a...
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Looking for More Clues
Fifth graders explore how to collect data and display it on a bar and circle graph.
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Cars on the Curve
Second graders, using two dice, participate in a car race game called Cars on the Curve. They predict which car wins the game and records it in their Data Diary.
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Probability Popsicle Pop-ups
Fourth graders decorate and use popsicle sticks as manipulatives to assist with their learning of probability. They utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to organize the results of their experiment. They make a stem and leaf plot...
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Designing Detectives
Third graders explore the idea of formulating a hypothesis and designing an experiment to test the hypothesis.
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HEART THROBS
Students predict what might happen to their pulse rates after physical exertion and then make conclusions about the effects of physical activity on pulse rates.
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FLIGHT FAIR
Young scholars conduct their personal investigations into paper airplane flight. Cooperative teams are formed, with students choosing the paper airplane design that they are most interested in building.