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University at Albany: Populations and Samples: The Principle of Generalization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource explains what generalization is in statistics, its advantages and disadvantages, and problems that can occur, e.g., sample or response bias. Includes detailed examples of sampling error and sample bias.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating the Ecology of Goldenrod Galls Through Biological Sampling

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this biology field lab exercise, students conduct a stationary population study of goldenrod galls. They examine a host of factors including goldenrod plant density, goldenrod gall density, gall height, gall mass, larval exit hole...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Making Inferences From Random Samples

For Students 7th Standards
Practice making inferences from random samples.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Making Inferences From Random Samples

For Students 7th Standards
Practice making inferences from random samples.
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Handout
Rice University

Hyper Stat Online Statistics Textbook: Population

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A definition of "population" as it refers to statistics.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: A Single Population Mean Using the Normal Distribution

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson explains how to calculate and interpret the confidence interval for a population mean. It also looks at the effect on the confidence interval of changing the confidence level or sample size. It then explains how to find the...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Generalizing About Populations From Random Samples

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Given a population with known characteristics, students will be able to use a variety of methods to generate random samples of the same size in order to understand how a random sample is representative of a population.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Making Inferences From Random Samples

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Given a random sample, practice figuring out what can we reasonably infer about the entire population? Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Estimation From Random Sampling

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Practice estimating wildlife population by using the process of random sampling.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Statistics: Sampling Methods

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Decide how to choose a sampling of a population to produce reliable statistical results.
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Nearpod: Random Sampling

For Teachers 7th
In this lesson, 7th graders will learn how to use random sampling to make generatlizations and predictions about a population.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Alien Invasion: Estimating a Snake Population [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn about the effects of alien species on native environments and explore biologists' use of capture/recapture statistics and analysis of sampling techniques by estimating the population size of a tagged species.
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Journal of Statistics Education: A Sample / Population Size Activity

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The author of the article admits having had a difficult time in the past when getting students to understand that samples need to contain a substantial portion of the population. Here, an activity is detailed to bring this important fact...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Using an Applet to Demonstrate a Sampling Distribution

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity students are exposed to the concept of sampling distributions by creating an example as a class. By having the students assemble the data, they can more readily understand that a sampling distribution is made up of a...
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CPALMS

Cpalms: Population of Utah

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a formative assessment task where students are asked to estimate the population of Utah based on information given about its population density and the perimeter of its state boundaries. Samples...
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Fayetteville State Univ.: Sampling Distributions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A detailed explanation of statistical sampling distributions is provided here. Several graphs are attached to aid in understanding. The sampling distribution of the mean and the Central Limit Theorem are also discussed at this site.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Samples and Surveys

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Get independent practice working with samples and surveys. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Reese's Pieces Activity: Sampling From a Population

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students use Reese's Pieces to investigate the proportion of orange candies present in a set of 25. After collecting data for the class, they use a web applet to collect more data for random samples. This is compared to the actual...
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PPT
Columbia University

University of Michigan: Generalizing From Sample to Population [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a slideshow presentation that offers many examples of statistical studies where generalizations to the larger population were made, often leading to incorrect assumptions. While the author's commentary has been omitted, there are...
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Missouri State University

Missouri State University: Introductory Statistics: The Sampling Distribution

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A review is provided at the start of this resource, then the more specific discussion of sampling distributions gets under way. Graphs are provided for ease in understanding the material.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Statistics: Sampling Distributions

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept introduces the sampling distribution of the mean, inferring the population mean from samples and sampling error.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Sampling: Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will introduce the process of sampling. It is 4 of 7 in the series titled "Sampling."
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American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Monitoring Life in the Rocky Intertidal Ecosystem

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity will allow young scholars to learn the sampling techniques used in the field by citizen scientists who participate in LiMPETS, five national marine sanctuaries along the West Coast.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Sample and Population: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces and defines the terms sample and population. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Sample and Population."

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