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Baseball Statistics

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students take an in depth examine baseball record breakers. They calculate statistics, not just for one year, but over whole careers, to compare some famous players and find who was the best all-time home run hitter.
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Equal Groups

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore statistics by completing a graphing activity. In this data analysis instructional activity, students define a list of mathematical vocabulary terms before unpacking a box of raisins. Students utilize the raisins to plot...
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Tech Algebra: A Statistics Study

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use the internet to gather a minimum of thirty pieces of data. Students create box and whisker graphs, and stem and leaf plots from the information. They calculate mean, median, mode, and range. Students write a summary and...
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American Museum of Natural History

Trip Up Your Brain

For Students 6th - 12th
Sometimes different parts of the brain disagree. See what this disagreement looks like using a remote learning resource to experience how brains often take shortcuts. Pupils complete the activity, observe their results, and then read...
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Different Perspectives of Oregon's Forest Economic Geography

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students map data on employment in wood products manufacturing in Oregon counties. In this Oregon forest lesson, students discover the percentage of people employed in the forest manufacturing industry. Students create a box and whisker...
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Building Two Literature Pyramids

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create literature pyramids. They read selections of various societies, eras, and ideas. They complete two pyramid sheets for the same literary element including either plot, character, setting, or theme. They color-code their...
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Tag It and Bag It: Archeology Lab Lesson

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders practice analyzing, collecting and categorizing artifacts. Using charts, they organize and interpret information about the artifacts they classified. They work together to create a graph to represent class totals and...
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Ornithology and Real World Science

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Double click that mouse because you just found an amazing lesson! This cross-curricular Ornithology lesson incorporates literature, writing, reading informational text, data collection, scientific inquiry, Internet research, art, and...
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BEETLES: The Coming Out

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Learners design an experiment to test the variables involved in the hatching of the Bruchid beetle.
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Whose Breakfast isn't for the Birds?

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explore coffee production.  In this cross-curriculum rainforest ecology lesson plan, students research regions where coffee comes from and investigate how the native birds in the rainforest are effected by coffee...
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Different Perspectives of Oregon's Forest Economic Geography

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers locate the many forests located in Oregon. In groups, they use the internet to research employment data on wood products made in the state. They discuss how looking at information presented in a different way can...