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Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Measure the Earth's Field!

For Students 6th - 8th
You can use a bar magnet and a compass to get a rough idea of the strength of Earth's magnetic field. Read this article to find out how!
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Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Solve Problems With Bar Graphs 1

For Students K - 1st Standards
Read and interpret bar graphs. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Lesson Plan
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Lesson Plan Non Standard Measuring

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This is a short, fun lesson plan with a literature connection, "Miss Nelson is Missing". It uses candy bars as non-standard units for measuring objects in the classroom.
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Lesson Plan
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Lesson Plan Non Standard Measuring

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This is a short, fun lesson plan with a literature connection, "Miss Nelson is Missing". It uses candy bars as non-standard units for measuring objects in the classroom.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Measuring Discharge and Flow in the Rum River

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars will travel to a small stream and make predictions regarding stream discharge at the point bar and cut bank. They will make conclusions about how velocity affects erosion and discharge.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Growing and Graphing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Candy Bar Density

For Teachers 6th
Activity allows students to think about what makes one object more or less dense than another.
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Website
Other

Basic Music Theory: Bar or Measure

For Students 9th - 10th
This website is extremely valuable in that it describes topics in easy-to-understand language. Relatively easy to follow. Just use the hypertext links.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How Tall Are We?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Kindergartners measure each other's height using large building blocks, then visit a 2nd and a 4th grade class to measure those students. They can also measure adults in the school community. Results are displayed in age-appropriate bar...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Mathline: Sand Babies (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this engaging lesson, students use a variety of measurement strategies in creating their own Sand Babies. Students explore standard and non-standard measurements, area, data collection and analysis, and graphing. Adaptations are...
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Lesson Plan
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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Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Lesson Plan: Tony's Tiger Bites

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this instructional activity, students are given a marshmallow cereal bar recipe and are challenged to make equivalent fractions while following directions.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Light Plants and Dark Plants, Wet Plants and Dry Ones

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students plant sunflower seeds in plastic cups, and once germinated, these are exposed to different conditions of light levels and/or soil moisture contents. During exposure of the plants to these different conditions, students measure...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Egg Graphing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a measurement activity to prepare for MAP test it incorporates bar graphing.
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Activity
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: All That Data 2

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students describe graphs and explore range, measures of central tendency, and distribution in this interactive web lesson.
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Website
International Olympic Committee

International Olympic Committee: Gymnastics

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This presentation shows the types of gymnastic events performed by both men and women in Summer Olympics, gives measurements of the various apparatuses used, and provides a brief explanation of how medalists are chosen.
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Unit Plan
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: All That Data

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students analyze data by finding the mean, median, mode, and range of a set of numbers. Line plots, bar graphs, and circle graphs are also included in this lesson.
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Lesson Plan
Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Microscope Imaging Station: What's the Size of What You See?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, you use microscope images to show how to use scale bars to measure very small things.
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Seeing Math: Plop It

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
Plop It! lets you experiment with the concepts of mean, median, and mode (measures of center). You see the differences among them on a bar graph, as you add or remove blocks to an axis with a given range.
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Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Make Line Plots

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Practice creating line plots (dot plots) from data sets. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a tutorial video, or receive hints.
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Lesson Plan
Council for Economic Education

Econ Ed Link: It Ain't Where You Start, It's What You Got, and Where You End

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This year's federal elections will involve electing a president, all members of the House of Representatives, and one-third of the Senate. Barring some international crisis, economic issues appear likely to dominate the debates. In past...
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Dinosaurs: Data and Chance

For Students 5th - 6th
Students can play learning games to explore how to label, read, and create graphs using a dinosaur theme.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Image Processing Tool Bar

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a tutorial on using computer image processing techniques to measure the size of sunspots and analyzing various phenomena visible in solar images. It also provides lesson plans for teachers to use in class.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The History of the Barometer (And How It Works)

For Students 9th - 10th
A barometer is an instrument that measures air pressure, allowing weather forecasters and scientists to better predict extreme weather events. Despite its incredible usefulness, inventing the barometer was no walk in the park. Asaf...