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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: When Does 50 50 Become 50 50?

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Bianca goes on a quest to find out if a coin toss really is a 50-50 proposition.
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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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US Department of Energy

United States Department of Energy: Power Metering Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Two part lesson 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 outcome of...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What's Air Got to Do With It?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners are introduced to the concepts of air pollution and air quality. The three instructional activity parts focus on the prerequisites for understanding air pollution. First, students use M&Ms to create a pie graph that...
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Math Slice

Math Slice: Picture Fraction

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This resource covers basic fractions and students can choose between a fractional whole up to eight or up to sixteen pieces. Students are given a pie chart and they have to determine what fraction of the chart is shaded. There are ten...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Creating a Household Budget

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum PowerPoint module, students create a household budget by tracking their expenditures over a month-long period. Students use Microsoft Excel to create a spreadsheet to track their own...
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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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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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PBS

Pbs: The Lowdown: Indoor/outdoor Residential Water Use in California

For Students 6th - 8th
Compare data about indoor and outdoor residential water use in northern and southern sites in this infographic from KQED and the California Single Family Water Use Efficiency Study. The accompanying classroom activity helps students find...
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PBS

Pbs: The Lowdown: The Math of Trash: Percents and Proportions

For Students 6th - 8th
Discover how percents and proportions help explain issues like climate change, composting, and zero waste in this video from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students estimate the percentage of various types of trash that...
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Math Aids

Math Aids: Graph Worksheets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Great resource to practice and strengthen math skills pertaining to graphs. Math worksheets are printable, may be customized, and include answer keys.
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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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Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Kinds of Graphs

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
An interactive web lesson introduces five types of graphs to students and allows them to practice matching the names to examples.
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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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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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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Types of Graphs

For Students 6th - 8th
This presentation allows the learner to visualize the different types of graphs used to display data in scientific investigations.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Circle Graph Activity

For Teachers 6th
This instructional activity will allow the student to work through three stations. The stations will focus on creating and analyzing circle graphs. The students will be using technology to create their graphs along with a hands on...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Analyzing and Creating Circle Graphs

For Teachers 6th Standards
Sixth graders will be learning through exploration on how to analyze and create circle graphs and Venn diagrams.
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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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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Misleading Graphs

For Teachers 4th - 8th
This lesson will challenge students to think creatively by having them design and build water balloon catchers from random scrap materials, while requiring them to take into consideration a multitude of variables including cost,...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Movie Theater: Circle Graphs

For Students 5th - 6th Standards
On this interactive website, students practice interpreting information in circle graphs.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Group of Pyramids: Fractions and Graphs

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
On this interactive website, students practice various math skills using a real-life scenario at the pyramids. Those skills include showing percentages as fractions and decimals and interpreting data in a sector graph.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Elephant Plant: Data and Graphs

For Students 5th - 6th
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real-life scenario involving plants. Those skills include interpreting data in a circle graph, interpreting data in a divided bar graph, and interpreting a bar...
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Other

Mi Stupid: Composition of Air

For Students 9th - 10th
A pie chart showing the main elements that air is composed of, followed by a table with more detail, and a few facts about human respiration.

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