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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Design of Experiments

For Teachers 10th - 11th
In this statistics worksheet, students read studies and determine if they are experimental or observational. They identify the type of sampling used in 5 studies.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Alien Invasion: Estimating a Snake Population [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn about the effects of alien species on native environments and explore biologists' use of capture/recapture statistics and analysis of sampling techniques by estimating the population size of a tagged species.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Something Fishy [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Estimate the size of a large population (fish in a bay) by applying the concepts of ratio and proportion through the capture-recapture statistical procedure.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Deep Crisis: Salmon Counting

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
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...
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Lesson Plan
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Monitoring Life in the Rocky Intertidal Ecosystem

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity will allow students to learn the sampling techniques used in the field by citizen scientists who participate in LiMPETS, five national marine sanctuaries along the West Coast.