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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Rice Field: Data and Length

For Students K - 1st Standards
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario of a rice field. Those skills include understanding information displayed in column graphs, collecting data to answer a question, and measuring...
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Other

Drs.cavanaugh: Science proj.handbook, Display Checklist

For Students 9th - 10th
A checklist of the nine or ten items which should be on your display, plus an illustration of where they should go on a tri-fold poster.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Survey Skills: Assessment

For Teachers 1st Standards
Today we become Gallup Poll central as students take a set of collected data and create a visual representation using the skills that have been taught over the past few lessons.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Our Own Surveys

For Teachers 1st Standards
Operation Independence! Students will now take what they have learned from previous data lessons and put it into action. The students will work in pairs of two to decide on a survey question and then collects classmates' responses to...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Misleading Leading Graphs

For Teachers 6th Standards
Through the use of real life data, the students will be looking at a variety of graphs to decide if they are displaying misguided information.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Would You Rather Be a Kid or a Grown Up?

For Teachers 1st Standards
Would you rather be a kid or a grown up? This question interests students and engages them in an interesting graphing exercise focused on how many total data points there are in a graph.
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University of Texas at Austin

Mathematics Teks Toolkit: And We Go Around

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Collect and display data using a bar and circle graph to explore fractions and percents.
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Other

Delta State University: Lesson Plan 3: Pie Graphs

For Teachers 5th - 6th Standards
The students will gather, organize, and display data in an appropriate pie (circle) graph using M&M's! [PDF]
Handout
Richland Community College

Richland Community College: Stats Graphs Defined

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Richland Community College provides a glossary of many terms that are needed in order to understand statistics graphs and charts. Each of the types of charts is quickly explained in terms of what it is most effective in displaying.
Graphic
US Geological Survey

Usgs: Water Quality of San Francisco Bay

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource from the United State Geological Survey provides data about San Francisco Bay's water quality. Data is displayed in time series plots, vertical profiles, longitudinal sections, space and time contours, and x-y scatter plots.
Handout
Rice University

Galileo Project: Francois Viete

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Galileo Project of Rice University provides a brief overview of Francois Viete, displayed as ten biographical topics. The fields of data collected include topics such as birth/death dates, father, nationality,...
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: Start a Rock Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
Step-by-step details for building a rock collection, beginning with collecting specimens, moving on to observing and sorting rocks, and finishing with displaying the collection. Includes a data table for keeping track of all your...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Unit Assessment

For Teachers 1st Standards
Survey says? That is the question today, as students work on three different tasks to assess the how they are doing with the skills from the current unit.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Mathematics: Online Study Tools: Histograms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site gives a short interactive quiz which allows students to self-assess their understanding of the concept of histograms.