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Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Deep Crisis: Salmon Counting

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In this lesson, students can explore the techniques of census and population counting by inferring numbers of a virtual population illustrated within a rectangular sampling grid, and observing the accuracy of the technique in relation to the sample size the estimate are based on.

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CCSS: Adaptable
Concepts
data analysis
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census, data gathering, population counts, population sampling, sampling in research, pbs teachers: scientific american: deep crisis: salmon counting, analyzing data
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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Common Core
7.SP.A.1 7.SP.A.2