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Odyssey of the Mind

Odyssey of the Mind Curriculum Activity: HEALTHY HUMOR

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
This lesson is hilarious! To understand how to investigate a topic, collect data, and evaluate the results, learners research the effects of laughter on health. Each group is assigned a research task, which they will turn into...
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Data, Data, Everywhere... and What Am I To Think?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students demonstrate good random sampling techniques for data collection, select and develop graphic presentations of data and analyze the data to solve a problem presented.
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Great Graphing

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students collect data, use a computer spreadsheet program to create various graphs, and compare the graphs. They state the findings of each graph in writing and decide which graph type best represents the data.
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Monk Seal Research Expedition

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students study data. In this seal research lesson, students act as scientific researchers observing Monk seals in their habitat. They work in small groups to record data from a video and when through they share a piece of information...
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Data and Scientific Graphs

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students conduct experiments and graph their data. In this statistics lesson, students collect data and graph it on a coordinate plane. They analyze the data looking for patterns and they discuss their findings with the class.
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Northwest Career & Technical Academy Foundation

Stand Up. . . Be InCtrl!

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
What is the difference between a bystander and an upstander? A collaborative project created through digital media helps the class understand that they can participate in an online community respectfully and responsibly. They consider...
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Bird Feeding and Migration Observation

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Students research bird migration and build a bird house. In this bird lesson plan, students research the birds in their area and where they migrate to. They also build their own bird house and record data on what kinds of birds come to...
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Center and Spread

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students collect and analyze data. In this statistics lesson, students define and calculate the range, median and standard deviation. They identify reasons for a skewed distribution.
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Collecting and Recording Data# O

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students observe plants growing over time, measure specific plant growth, and gather and record data on plan growth.
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What's Data?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars get the opportunity to investigate the concept of data collecting. They explore how to tally and read a bar graph. Vocabulary about data is also be included. At the end of the lesson, individual students collect data...
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Boomerang

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore the concept of boomerangs. In this boomerang lesson, students throw homemade boomerangs at different angles to record maximum distance and if it returned or not. Students collect their boomerang data then create a...
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Probability and Applications of Simulations

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Middle schoolers apply properties of probability to the real world. In this probability lesson, learners simulate the construction of empirical distribution. They collect and analyze data using central tendencies.
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Coming to Know F and C

For Teachers 9th - 11th Standards
Students collect temperatures using a probe and examine data.  In this temperature lesson students complete an activity using a graphing calculator. 
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Wiggle Worms

For Teachers 1st
First graders investigate worms, collect and analyze data. In this worm and data instructional activity, 1st graders listen to Chick and Duckling from the Macmillan/McGraw-Hill reading series. They conduct experiments with worms, collect...
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When is Your Birthday?

For Teachers K
Students use data about their birthdays to create graphs. In this collecting and communicating information lesson plan, students make a class list of their birthdays. Students use the information to make a bar graph showing the information.
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Ranging the Triple M's

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore collecting and analyzing data. In this mean, median and mode lesson, 5th graders use real word data to determine the mean, median and mode. Students are given sets of numbers on index cards as asked to find the...
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Sorting Sweethearts

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students categorize sweetheart candy by color or message. In this sorting and graphing activity, students collect data by sorting the candy and then diagram their results in a graph.
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Freckle Face

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students collect and record data. In this early data analysis instructional activity, students gather data about their partners face. As a class, the students use tally marks and pictographs to record the data and answer question about...
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Estimation and Your TV Diet

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students develop estimation skills by using real life situations. In this estimation lesson students collect data about their television watching habits. They make hypothesis about the number of hours they watch, how many...
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Creating a Graph

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students brainstorm favorite things to do during the summer. They survey classmates to collect data, arrange it in a chart, and create graphs using ClarisWorks.
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Comparing Data

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders create a survey, gather data and describe the data using measures of central tendency (mean, median and mode) and spread (range, quartiles, and interquartile range). Students use these measures to interpret, compare and...
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Probability and Expected Value

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students collect data and analyze it. In this statistics lesson, students make predictions using different outcomes of trials.
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Biological and Agricultural Engineering

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders explore mathematics by conducting a series of investigations using a colorimeter. For this math lesson, 8th graders explain the purpose of food irradiation. They collect data and graph them.
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Button Bonanza

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Collections of data represented in stem and leaf plots are organized by young statisticians as they embark some math engaging activities.

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