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Camouflage!: Collecting Data and Concealing Color
Help young scholars see the important role camouflage plays in the survival of animals with a fun science lesson. Starting with an outdoor activity, children take on the role of hungry birds as they search for worms represented by...
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Rescue Mission Game
Students conduct probability experiments. For this rescue mission lesson, sudents play a game and collect statistical data. They organize and interpret the data and determine the probability of success. Students plot points on a...
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Data Collection - Primary Poster
Students explore the concept of collecting, analyzing, and graphing data. In this collecting, analyzing, and graphing data lesson, students create a survey about a topic of interest. Students poll their classmates, analyze, and graph...
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Pizza, Pizza
Young scholars survey community members to determine their favorite pizza toppings and create a bar graph to show their findings. In this probability and statistics instructional activity, students collect data by conducting a survey....
National Security Agency
Line Plots: Frogs in Flight
Have a hopping good time teaching your class how to collect and graph data with this fun activity-based instructional activity series. Using the provided data taken from a frog jumping contest, children first work together creating a...
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Create a Graph Online
Scholars create colorful bar, line, or pie graphs. They decide on a survey question to ask or a type of data to gather. From there, they collect information and data. They display this data in bar, line, or pie graphs that they create...
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Eat Your Veggies
Students investigate displaying data. In this displaying data lesson plan, students use tallies to count data about food preferences. Students use various types of graphs such as bar graphs, picture graphs, box-and-whisker plots, etc...
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Keep It Movin'!
Learners conduct an experiment to study friction. They complete a KWL chart on friction and conduct an activity about the amount of friction on a moving object. To conclude, pupils create a table or graph of the data collected and they...
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Data Display
Students explore different ways to display data. In this statistics lesson, students create pie charts, bar graphs and line graphs to show data. Students then write a paragraph discussing which types of graphs are helpful for different...
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Planning a Trip
Learners collect data, organize data, and compute differences of multi-digit numbers. In this data analysis lesson plan, students put together their best travel plan in small groups as outlined in the first lesson plan. Learners study a...
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How Old is Your Money?
Elementary learners explore coin mint dates. First, they listen to the book Alexander Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst. They then sort a collection of coins according to their mint date and put them in order from oldest...
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Dealing with Data in Elementary School
Students follow the scientific method in collecting data. In this following the scientific method in collecting data instructional activity, students develop a question they would like answered such as how many aluminum cans are...
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Populations and Life Cycles
Students explore biology by researching ocean statistics. For this data analysis lesson, students conduct a snail examination experiment utilizing live pouch snails. Students collect data about the snails over the course of six weeks and...
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Schoolyard Tree Inventory and Biodiversity Project
Young scholars investigate the trees in their schoolyard by collecting data. In this ecosystem lesson students examine the schoolyard in sections, tagging and numbering trees and shrubbery in the specific area. Young scholars collect...
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Spinner Experiment
Students collect and analyze data, then draw conclusions from the data and apply basic concepts of probability.
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Plotting Data on a Graph
Learners investigate graphing. In this graphing lesson, students survey the class and create graphs to reflect the data collected.
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An Introduction to Data Reading and Computations
Learners discover data reading and computations. In this math lesson plan, students collect nutritional data about intakes of certain foods compared with daily recommended allowances. Learners create their own data charts based on their...
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The Human Line Plot
Learners collect data and use charts and line plots to graph the data. Some excellent worksheets and activities are embedded in this fine lesson on line plots.
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Questioning NASA
Space science and math collide in this inquiry that investigates launching times for antacid-tablet rockets! Upper elementary or middle school learners collect data as they launch these mini rockets. They apply concepts of place value...
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Count on Math
Learners develop number sense up to a million. In this developing number sense up to a million lesson plan, students count their breaths in given time span. Learners use blocks representing 10's and 100's to create a million. Students...
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"One Day in the Prairie" by Jean Craighead George
Students collect "prairie insects" for data collection and analysis.
Sea World
Splash of Math
How can kids use math to learn about marine life? Combine math skills with science lessons in a resource featuring activities about life in the sea. Kids graph and calculate data, solve complex word problems, measure geometric shapes,...
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Confusing Colors!
Fourth graders collect data, graph their data, and then make predictions based upon their findings. They's interest is maintained by the interesting way the data is collected. The data collection experiment is from the psychology work of...
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Local Traffic Survey
Students conduct a traffic survey and interpret their data and use graphs and charts to display their results.