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Interpreting Data from Birdfeeders

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
What kinds of birds live in your area? Read a book about birds to your learners and explore their feeding patterns. Charts and graphs are provided in this three page packet, but consider assigning the basic questions if using with young...
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Statistics of Mars

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students explore the concept of central tendencies. In this central tendencies lesson, students sort M&M's or Skittles based on color. Students graph their results. Students find the mean, median, and mode of their data.
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Favorite Food

For Teachers K
Students are given three choices of food. They then decide on their favorite and predict what the class's favorite food will be. After the teacher enters the data into the computer, students gather around the computer to view the...
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Generate Measurement Data Word Problems

For Students 2nd - 5th
Plot data for three word problems, each with a table of data. Learners create line plots for these, all of which have only single-digit whole numbers. The large text and few number of problems make this ideal as a whole-class warm up....
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Canadian Social Trends

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners use surveys to explore how to design graphs, tables, and diagrams. They discuss articles which can stimulate ideas for research topics, or surveys of their own.
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Aerosol Lesson: Science - Graphing SAGE II Data

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine and plot atmospheric data on bar graphs.
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Data Analysis: For Little Learners

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Using pictographs, tally charts, and surveys, kids learn all about data analysis and collection. They make surveys, collect data, then construct pictographs and tally charts to organize their information. 
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Making Data Visualizations

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Relax ... now visualize the data. Introduce pupils to creating charts from a single data set. Using chart tools included in spreadsheet programs class members create data visualizations that display data. The activity encourages...
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Waves

For Teachers 5th
Light waves and sound waves are the focus of this science lesson designed for 5th graders. Besides discovering how these waves travel, learners also discover the basic properties of waves, and analyze data tables and graphs. The...
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US Department of Commerce

Featured Activity: Population Change Over Time

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
Keep track of a state's population. After a brief discussion on how population data is used for funding, individuals look at population changes over time. Pupils find the population of two states using three different censuses. They then...
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Life Expectancy at Birth

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a line graph on the life expectancy for males and females in Canada. In this math and health lesson plan, students review table and graph terminology, create line graphs, and analyze the differences in life expectancy...
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Creating Circle Graphs with Microsoft Excel

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders will learn how to construct circle graphs using paper and pencil. Then they will learn how to construct circle graphs using Microsoft Excel. This lesson uses technology and shows learners how to cross skills into the...
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Graphing Pendulum Results

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders set up a pendulum experiment deciding which variable to manipulate (length of string or weight on the string). They create a hypothesis, collect necessary equipment, and write out each step of their experiment. They then...
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The African American Population in US History

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
How has the African American population changed over the years? Learners use charts, statistical data, and maps to see how populations in African American communities have changed since the 1860s. Activity modifications are included to...
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Virginia Department of Education

Functions 1

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
Scholars learn what it means for a relation to be a function and see various representations of functions. After learning the definition, they participate in a card sorting activity classifying relations as functions or not.
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Graphing

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Learners investigate graphing.  In this bar graph lesson, students view an informational website about graphing, then construct a class birthday bar graph outside with sidewalk chalk. Learners choose a survey topic, then collect data and...
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Problem Solving and Puzzles: 3

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Your class can use this to warm up or to discuss their problem solving strategies. They review the 8's times tables, relate the multiplication problems to division, then use a chart to solve a word problem involving money.
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Graphing Favorite Fruit

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders take poll and sort data, enter the data to create a spreadsheet and create bar and pie graphs.
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Graphing Sea Ice Extent in the Arctic and Antarctic

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students graph sea ice data and predict long term trends in the data. In this climate change lesson, students use sea ice data from the Arctic and Antarctic to construct line graphs. They use their graphs to predict the effects of global...
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Probability Using M&M's

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students estimate and then count the number of each color of M&M's in their bag. In this mathematics lesson, students find the experimental probability of selecting each color from the bag. Students create pictographs and bar graphs...
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EXCEL It!

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners surf the Web gathering information about graphs. The data collected is incorporated into an Excel spreadsheet and graphs of varying nature generated to further enhance student understanding.
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Organizing Data

For Students 7th
In this organizing data worksheet, 7th graders solve seven different types of problems related to data. They first identify the type of data as categorical, discrete or continuous from the information given. Then, students use Excel to...
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Using Charts and Graphs to Study East Asia's Modern Economy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine East Asia's modern economy. In groups, classmates use the internet to compare the resources, products, and economy of specified countries. After collecting the data, pupils create charts, tables and graphs. They...
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Student Costs Graph

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students calculate the mileage, gasoline costs, and travel time and costs for a vacation. They conduct a virtual field trip, and create a comparison graph of costs using Microsoft Excel software.

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