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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Statistical Analysis of Lincoln

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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University of Texas

Inside Mathematics: Parking Cars [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
This task challenges a student to use their understanding of scale to read and interpret data in a bar graph.
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University of Texas

Inside Mathematics: Our Pets [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This task challenges a student to demonstrate understanding of concepts involved in representing and interpreting data.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Great Golly Graphs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson plan asks learners to create a survey project including graphs, questions, tables, and data analysis. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation and extension as well as ways to manage behavior problems and reluctant...
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Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Make a Living Bar Graph

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Student use simple data to line up in a living bar graph activity when they respond to simple questions in this lesson plan. They physically and visually represent the data. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.B.3 Draw a scaled picture graph and a...
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Better Lesson: Graphing Our Snack Mix: Review of Graphing

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders review how to make bar graphs, line plots, and pictographs by tallying the contents of snack mix and building graphs to show their data.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Graphs, Charts, and Tables: Targeted Math Instruction

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
At the end of this lesson about graphs, charts, and tables, young scholars will be able to interpret and compare data from graphs (including circle, bar, and line graphs), charts, and tables.
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Better Lesson: Class Surveys and Graphs

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Learners love graphing data that they "own". In this plan, the class will select a type of graph and create it using a class survey frequency table. Included in this lesson plan are videos of the class engaged in the lesson plan and...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Getting to Know Your Classmates Using Bar Graphs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will collect data from class using surveys. Students survey classmates concerning favorite movies, favorite color, shoe size, time spent studying, brand of cell phone and etc. From the data they will create bar graphs using an...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: M&m's and Blogs: Interpreting Data!

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this hands-on, technology-rich instructional activity, 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...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Osmosis Using Water and Gummy Bears

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this biology classroom lab, students investigate the affect of soaking a Gummy Bear in water. They collect measurements of height, width, and mass before and after the soaking of the candy overnight. Students calculate % change for...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: You Scream, I Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream !

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Fun and yummy lesson to do on a sunny spring afternoon. Have the students take a poll of their favorite choice of ice cream and create a bar graph showing the information. This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: "Bursting With Math"

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Using "Starburst" jelly beans to sort, graph and add.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 8.sp.4 Music and Sports

For Teachers 8th Standards
This task looks at a possible relationship between playing a sport and playing a musical instrument. Students collect data from classmates, summarize the data into a two-way table, make some observations, and construct a bar graph of the...
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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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Better Lesson: Foods Third Graders Like

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders gather simple data, represent it on a bar graph, and answer simple, complex, and open-ended questions about the data.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Get on Your Mark, Get Set, Go!

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In collaborative/cooperative groups, middle schoolers 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...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Color Week

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Five-year-olds need to count things that relate to them. This activity builds on their need to be included or see the relevance of their counting. Students will practice counting, writing numbers, and filling in a chart or bar graph....
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PBS

Pbs Mathline: Sand Babies (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this engaging lesson, students use a variety of measurement strategies in creating their own Sand Babies. Students explore standard and non-standard measurements, area, data collection and analysis, and graphing. Adaptations are...
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PBS

Pbs: Mathline Creature Feature Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An interdisciplinary math, science, and language arts lesson plan that engages young scholars in an exploration of statistics. Through a study of various forest climates, students utilize data collection and analysis, classification, and...
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Better Lesson: Snack Attack

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Graphing can be made fun and hands-on with different real world "tools" - like snacks!
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Favorite Ice Cream Flavor

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
The purpose of this task is for students to represent and interpret categorical data. As a class, students will answer a question with three possible answers and construct a bar graph with the responses. Multiple discussion questions and...
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Better Lesson: Greedy Gordy Can't Decide Working With Venn Diagrams

For Teachers K Standards
Students have been working with pictographs and bar graphs. Now they take their learning a step further by working with Venn Diagrams.
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Better Lesson: What Is Your Favorite Pet?

For Teachers 1st Standards
SWBAT create a bar graph to match a data set. SWBAT analyze the graph to find 3 pieces of information the graph shows them.