New York State Education Department
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 4
Why is it important to use precise language? Participants explore this question in the fourth activity in a series of 15 on effective instruction. Perfect for all content areas, the activity promotes appropriate language choice through...
Concord Consortium
Common Online Data Analysis Platform (Codap)
CODAP is a free, easy-to-use data analysis environment for students. Students can load their own data into an easy-to-use web-based data analysis tool to create their own datasets, share visualizations, and discover data-driven insights....
BSCS Science Learning
Bscs: Invitations to Inquiry With Data Using Field Scope
Invitations to Inquiry are short instructional activities designed to help middle and high school students work with large data sets. Teachers and students use the interactive FieldScope platform to collect, visualize, and analyze...
Other
Sun Microsystems: The Set Interface
A description of the Set interface in the Java programming language.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Statistical Analysis of Lincoln
For this activity, students first work in groups to collect information about a set of pennies. They measure and record the mass for each one in a table using a spreadsheet program if possible. They also record its year and, for 1982...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: M&m's and Blogs: Interpreting Data!
In this hands-on, technology-rich lesson plan, students will interpret data. The students will define words involving graphs, create a bar graph using M&M's, and post information from their findings on the internet. The students will...
Columbia University
Nasa: Sedac: Infrastructure
[Free Registration/Login Required] A collection of five data sets from SEDAC (Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center) that look at road networks, reservoirs, and dams in countries around the world, with one set examining China's...
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Science Fair Central: Investigation Set Up and Collect Data
A brief overview of how to gather both quantitative and qualitative data, complete with a sample data table.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: David Mc Candless: The Beauty of Data Visualization
Listen and watch as David McCandless turns complex data sets into beautiful, simple diagrams. He suggests that information design is really important because we all like to visualize our information. [18:19]
Other
Nearpod: Introduction to Data Representation
In this lesson on representation data, young scholars explore how to make dot plots, histograms, and box plots and learn about outliers in a data set.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Graph Party
First graders will be involved in creating three different types of graphs and then be asked to answer questions about each representations data set.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What Is Your Favorite Pet?
SWBAT create a bar graph to match a data set. SWBAT analyze the graph to find 3 pieces of information the graph shows them.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What Is Your Favorite Little Bear Story?
SWBAT create a bar graph to match a data set. SWBAT analyze the graph for 3 pieces of information.
NASA
Nasa: Cobe: Cosmic Background Explorer
The Cosmic Background Explorer, or COBE, satellite began its space mission in November of 1989. Its task was to measure radiation levels from the early stages of the universe. This site explains the mission goals, COBE's specialized...
BSCS Science Learning
Bscs: Frog Eat Frog World
Using maps and graphs of large data sets collected in FrogWatch, learners will determine the range, preferred land cover, and proximity to water of the American bullfrog to figure out the bullfrog's requirements for food, water, and...
Books in the Classroom
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Data Gathering and Analyzing
Carol Hurst provides this sample chapter from "Picturing Math." Gathering data is a frequent part of solving problems and satisfying curiosity, which includes working with graphs and using mathematical tools such as averaging and other...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Get on Your Mark, Get Set, Go!
In collaborative/cooperative groups, students will review basic vocabulary and concepts for data and statistics. Students will create, collect, display, and interpret data in the form of frequency tables, bar graphs and circle graphs.
Childnet
Childnet: Online Safety: Privacy and Data
Privacy is the ability to keep certain things to yourself, for them not to be seen by or shared with others. Personal data is information about you collected by the apps and websites you visit (like the things you like and open). This...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Continuous Data
Continuous data is defined and examples are given in this lesson.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Discrete Data
Explore the term discrete data and look at examples for further explanation.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Graphing Using a Frequency Table
Multiple graphs can represent the same data set and make the information easier to understand.
Columbia University
Nasa: Sedac: Environmental Governance and International Treaties
[Free Registration/Login Required] A collection of thirteen data sets from SEDAC (Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center) that examine international efforts to protect the environment. They look at international treaties,...
Columbia University
Nasa: Sedac: Health and the Environment
[Free Registration/Login Required] A collection of twenty-three data sets from SEDAC (Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center) that examine health issues and how the environment impacts health in areas around the globe. They look at a...
Columbia University
Nasa: Sedac: Land Use and Land Cover Change
[Free Registration/Login Required] A collection of twenty-six data sets from SEDAC (Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center) that examine land use and how human activities have impacted on land cover. They look at agriculture, loss of...