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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: The Lowdown: u.s. Gun Homicides: Visualizing the Numbers

For Students 6th - 8th
Explore firearm deaths in the United States in 2010 by type, race, and age group in this interactive from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students are presented with a simple question: Is America a safe place to live? In...
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Interactive
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Circle Grapher

For Students 9th - 10th
A computer applet that will draw any circle graph with student's data input.
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Handout
Richland Community College

Richland Community College: Stats Graphs Defined

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Richland Community College provides a glossary of many terms that are needed in order to understand statistics graphs and charts. Each of the types of charts is quickly explained in terms of what it is most effective in displaying.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Mc Dougal Littell Middle School Math: Making Data Displays

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students will create data displays using a scatter plot and a line graph of the data and a circle graph of survey data.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs: Mathline Creature Feature Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An interdisciplinary math, science, and language arts lesson that engages students in an exploration of statistics. Through a study of various forest climates, students utilize data collection and analysis, classification, and graphing....
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Statistics: Displaying Categorical Variables

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This Concept covers a few ways in which categorical data can be displayed; using bar graphs and pie graphs.
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Unit Plan
Cuemath

Cuemath: Data Handling

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This comprehensive guide about data handling helps with understanding how the study of data handling and graphical representation of the data along with other tools help us in dealing with numerical data. Includes solved examples and...
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Website
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: The Tree of Life

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about the diversity of species on Earth by exploring a cladogram, a graph-like tree of life that illustrates relatedness among species. Includes instructions for reading cladograms and a pie chart that summarizes the percentages of...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Evaluate Graphics in Informational/procedural Text

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn to explain the function of the graphical components. You will also learn to evaluate graphics on how well they do what they are intended to do.
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Teachnology

Teachnology: Survey Teaching Theme

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Survey Theme provides an excellent collection of free sample worksheets, teacher resources, lesson plans and interactive media for grades k-12.
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Teachnology

Teachnology: Survey Teaching Theme

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Survey Theme provides an excellent collection of free sample worksheets, teacher resources, lesson plans and interactive media for grades k-12.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Taste Test

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students collect sample data and use the calculator to create pictographs, bar graphs, and pie graphs to demonstrate the favorite brand in the sample data.
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Lesson Plan
US Department of Energy

United States Department of Energy: Power Metering Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Two part instructional activity focuses on applying analytic tools such as pie charts and bar graphs to gain a better understanding of practical energy use issues. Students will learn how different types of data collected affect the...
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Handout
US Geological Survey

Usgs: Water Science for Schools Uses of Saline Water

For Students 3rd - 8th
This U.S. Geological Survey website explains a variety of uses for saline water. Pie graphs and bar graphs are used to illustrate the various uses. Click Home to access the site in Spanish.
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Activity
The Math League

The Math League: Ratio and Proportion

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This tutorial provides definitions and examples of ratios and proportions and features comparing ratios and converting rates.
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Professional Doc
Shmoop University

Shmoop: Using Shmoop Analytics

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
With Shmoop Analytics, you can see all levels of data at the license level, school level and classroom level. A Shmoop Classroom licensee can see their students' progress (or lack thereof) in the form of happy little pie charts and line...
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Handout
Other

Stat Soft: Statistics Glossary

For Students 9th - 10th
Dozens of statistical terms are defined and illustrated in this glossary.