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SkittleGraphs

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders discover how to make a bar graph. Each student receives a bag of Skittles candy. They make a bar graph which documents the colors found in the bag. At the end of the lesson, the Skittles are eaten. Fun!
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Notes to a Mathematician

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders analyze the likelihood of simple events.
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Succeeding at Kite Day

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders design a successful kite for Kite Day.
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Classifying Candy III

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students create a classification tree based on grouping candy with eight different properties. This allows students to understand how living things are classified.
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Space: The Final Frontier

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders construct a graph to demonstration information that they've learned about the solary system. They also write or illustrate a sonar or lunar eclipse.
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Sow Bug Habitats

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students conduct an experiment to determine what type of environment sow bugs prefer. They use petri dishes with partially wet paper towels to assess whether they prefer wet or dry habitats.
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Missing Macroinvertebrates

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate the concept of a macroinvertebrate. They observe the presence of increases or decreases in population in order to test for factors that contribute to the extinction of a species. Students predict the likelihood...
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Rodeo Round-Up

For Teachers 1st
First graders create a graph of the various teachers' favorite events at the rodeo.
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Other

Ocean Tracks: Fact or Artifact? Interpreting Patterns in Ocean Tracks Data [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Ever wonder where marine animals go? How fast they swim? How deep they dive? Electronic tagging has opened a new window into the world of the open ocean. Ocean Tracks gives you access to data collected by tags on real live migrating...
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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: Using Table Data: Time to the 1/2 Hour

For Teachers 1st Standards
My students have learned how to read and write time. Now I want them to see how important time is for us to organize our lives. I want them to use data charts for schedules and be able to analyze the information.
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PBS

Pbs Mathline: Button, Button Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An integrated math and language arts lesson focusing on statistics. Students explore the concepts of estimation, data collection, data analysis, classification, graphing, and counting through the reading of the Button Box by Margarette...
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Better Lesson: Balancing and Comparing Data

For Teachers 2nd Standards
The connection between subjects is an important one to establish for students. Communicating across subjects is part of the Common Core expectations.
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Better Lesson: Graph Party

For Teachers 1st Standards
First graders will be involved in creating three different types of graphs and then be asked to answer questions about each representations data set.
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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: 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.