Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Displaying Data
Use this lesson, practice exercise, and teacher resource in planning instruction on displaying data. In the lessons, you'll find definitions and examples of ways to collect and organize data, quartiles, and box-and-whisker plots, as well...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Rice Field: Data and Length
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...
PBS
Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Data Saves the Day Activity Plan
Data comes to the rescue! Children will collect, analyze, and represent data as they try to dodge a series of catastrophes faced by characters from their favorite PBS Kids shows.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Science Fair Central: Investigation Set Up and Collect Data
A brief overview of how to gather both quantitative and qualitative data, complete with a sample data table.
Rice University
Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Fun and Sun Rent a Car
A wide range of math skills is incorporated into a lesson that involves planning a family's vacation to Florida. Travel expenses are gathered and compared, graphed, and analyzed in hopes of finding the best prices. There are extension...
Cyberbee
Adventures of Cyberbee: Graphing
Teacher-directed lesson plan focusing on data analysis, graphing, and probability. Lesson includes a video and engaging spreadsheet activities.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Scientific Method Data Analysis/graphs
At the end of your experiment you should review all of the data you have collected. See samples of data analysis charts and graphs. Find out what makes for a good chart or graph using the self-grading rubrics.
Education.com
Education.com: 1.md.c.4 Worksheets
[Free Registration/Login Required] These worksheets can help students practice organizing, representing, and interpreting data with up to three categories. Choose from among 25 worksheets based on your student's needs.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What Playground Toy Should the Principal Buy for Us
SWBAT use a graph as evidence in a persuasive letter. SWBAT evaluate statements to determine which statement is true, citing evidence in the graph.
University of South Florida
Fcat: Get a Half Life!: Teacher Notes
Students use M&M's and a graphing calculator to collect and graph data. This activity helps them to understand exponential functions and the concept of half-life.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: M&m's and Blogs: Interpreting Data!
In this hands-on, technology-rich lesson plan, middle schoolers 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...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Would You Rather Be a Kid or a Grown Up?
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.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Balloon Rockets in 1 D
In this inquiry activity, students solve a 1D motion challenge in groups. Students build their own balloon rocket from the materials provided with little guidance from the instructor. They collect data and use it to prepare a position...