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Simple Inequalities

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students solve inequalities. For this inequalities lesson, students evaluate simple inequalities. They examine vocabulary words. Students participate in breath holding activities and write inequalities to represent the activity. In...
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Baylor College

Body Mass Index (BMI)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
How do you calculate your Body Mass Index, and why is this information a valuable indicator of health? Class members discover not only what BMI is and practice calculating it using the height and weight of six fictitious individuals, but...
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Unit Plan
The New York Times

The Careful Reader: Teaching Critical Reading Skills with the New York Times

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
The 11 lessons in this educators' guide focus on using newspapers to develop critical reading skills in the content areas.
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Activity
Prestwick House

Catcher in the Rye Activity Pack

For Teachers 9th - 12th
The Catcher in the Rye is the focus of a sampler that models some of activities included in a for-purchase packet based on J. D. Salinger's novel.
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University of Utah

Geometry: Transformations, Congruence, and Similarity

For Students 8th Standards
Rigid motions are to congruence as what are to similarity? Investigate properties of rigid motions and define congruence in terms of rigid motions with the ninth chapter of a 10-part eighth grade workbook series. The lesson then prompts...
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Consortium for Ocean Science Exploration and Engagement (COSEE)

Climate Change Impacts on Blue King Crabs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Carbon dioxide is not only causing global temperatures to increase, it causes the oceans to become more acidic. Lesson focuses on the blue king crab and the fragility of the habitat due to climate change. Scholars create a concept map...
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Council for Economic Education

GDP Data: Is the Economy Healthy?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Does the economy needs a check-up? Scholars analyze the gross domestic product (GDP) to determine the overall health of the current economy. They use a short video clip as well as economic data to determine the current growth of the...
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Handling Data: Comparing Distributions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars gather information by analyzing graphs, diagrams and pie charts. In this graphs and diagrams lesson, students complete addition and subtraction problems. Young scholars discuss a pie chart. Students use information to...
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Chart This!

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students collect data and graph or chart the information. In this data organization lesson, students poll their classmates about certain topics and chart or graph the information to show the results of their research.
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Graphing

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders create graphs based on climate in South Carolina. They read and interpret information in a chart and construct a graphy from the information in the chart. They create a spreadsheet using Excel and publish 2 graphs.
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Growing Up With A Mission

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Student measure heights and graph them using growth charts for which they find the mean, mode, and median of the data set. They graph points on a Cartesian coordinate system.
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Math Made Easy

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students evaluate word problems.  In this problem solving lesson, students are presented with word problems requiring graphing skills and students work independently to solve.
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Let's Go Shopping

For Students 4th - 5th
In this fraction and pie chart worksheet, students draw a line from the toys with the prices of 50 cents, 75 cents, and 25 cents to the pie chart that show the part of a dollar the toy costs.
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Delicious Graphing

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders sort trail mix by type and use that information to create different types of graphs for comparing.
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What's Your Favorite Planet?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders interpret a graph and make correlations using data. After taking a class survey, 4th graders create a class graph of their favorite planets. Working in small groups, they interpret the information and create at least ten...
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The Guise of a Graph Gumshoe

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders practice constructing bar, circle, and box-and-whisker graphs. They practice reading and interpreting data displays and explore how different displays of data can lead to different interpretations.
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Interactive
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Let's Line Them Up!

For Students 4th - 5th
In this line graph activity, students read through the problems about graphing and line graphs. Students select the best answer to solve the 10 online questions.
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Snow Cover By Latitude

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine computerized data maps in order to create graphs of the amount of snowfall found at certain latitudes by date. Then they compare the graphs and the data they represent. Students present an analysis of the graphs.
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Apple Eaters

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students sample a variety of apples and graph group results for the class favorites. They orally explain the graph.
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Your Just Desserts

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students write letters to town officials and local businesses asking for favorite dessert recipes. They tabulate their responses in a spreadsheet. Students turn their survey results into colorful graphs.
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Bird Bulletins

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students, in groups, create a survey to investigate how much their community knows about birds. They graph their findings using a bar graph. Using the data collected, they develop an advertising campaign to increase community awareness...
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Introduction to Graphical Representation of Data Sets in Connection to Cellular Growth

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students practice graphing relationships between variables by studying topics such as exponential growth and decay. They conduct a series of numerical experiments using a computer model and a variety of physical experiments using mold,...
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Spotlight on Students

For Teachers 1st
First graders participate in social skills activities at the beginning of they school year that including graphing work. Each student acts as the "Top Banana" while other students ask them questions about their likes and dislikes. As a...
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Walking Home

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers discover the formulas for calculating distance. In groups, they solve equations determine the distance in a specific amount of time. They record their answers in a chart or graph and compare them with their classmates.

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