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Data Collection and Presentation

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students concentrate on discrete quantiative data. They are shown that the vertical line diagram as a more appropriate way to present discrete quantiative data then bar charts. Students work as a group to help with the interpretation...
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Graph Those Stickers!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Pupils graph fruit. In this graphing instructional activity students create a graph using fruit label stickers. Pupils place a sticker on the graph when the fruit has been consumed.
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Learning to Make Data Tables

For Teachers 3rd - 10th
Students construct data tables using the results of previous experiments. In this graphing lesson, students plot data and interpret the results. Students discuss how they organized their data.
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Creating Graphs from Tables

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners interpret data from tables and then create a graph to show the same data in a different organization.
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Collect and Organize Data: Homework

For Students 4th - 5th
In this collecting and organizing data worksheet, students use the tally chart for the students' eye color to answer the first two questions. Students then survey their family for eye color, record those results in a tally chart, and use...
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Visual Communication of Quantative Data

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students collect and analyze data based on academic performance. For this statistics lesson, students create graphs and analyze the data they created. They use positive, negative and no correlation to analyze the data.
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Collect and Organize Data

For Students 4th
In this data analysis worksheet, 4th graders use a tally chart about favorite television programs. They record which are least or most popular, rankings, and combinations of programs.
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Chart This!

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students collect and analyze data.  In this middle school mathematics lesson, students collect data on three to four traits or favorites.  Students analyze their data and create a chart of graph for each trait or favorite they...
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Computer Graphing

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students research the Internet or create surveys to find graphable data. They collect, organize, analyze and interpret the data. Finally, they choose the appropriate type of graph to display the data and find the measures of central...
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Graphing Memories

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Mem Fox’s Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge provides the labels for a graphing activity. Class members create an illustration of a memory item brought from home, and place their illustration in the proper column of a graph. When the...
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Wiggle Worms

For Teachers 1st
First graders investigate worms, collect and analyze data. In this worm and data lesson, 1st graders listen to Chick and Duckling from the Macmillan/McGraw-Hill reading series. They conduct experiments with worms, collect simple data,...
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When Dinosaurs Ruled the World

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students graph the varying sizes of dinosaurs.  In this math and dinosaur lesson, students view dinosaur models and compare the different shapes and sizes of the dinosaurs.  Students complete a dinosaur math activity, read The...
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Beverage Tests

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students investigate the pH of a liquid.  In this middle school mathematics/science lesson, students collect and analyze data regarding the pH of various liquids.  Students display their data in various types of graphs as they...
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Favorite Vegetable Survey

For Students 2nd - 4th
What's your favorite? Use this chart template in your lesson on data collection and graphing. Learners record classmates' favorite vegetable in a survey, and then graph the results. A labelled graph is provided here- print both pages...
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China's Population Growth

For Teachers 7th
Learners collect data from China's population growth and determine the mean, median, and mode from the data. In this data lesson plan, pupils determine probabilities and use them to make predictions.
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Graphing With Candy

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students gather information and interpret the results using a tally chart, a table, and a bar graph.
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A Tall Story

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the growth rate of a man named Bob Wadlow.  In this growth rate of a man lesson, students determine if the growth rate of this particular man was normal or abnormal.  Students bring in data of their height...
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Creating a Spreadsheet and Graph

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students create graphs in Excel.  In this spreadsheet lesson, students input data into spreadsheet cells then use the graphing feature of the Excel program to produce colorful graphs of the data.  The directions to create the...
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Organizing Data

For Students 11th
In this statistics worksheet, 11th graders collect data and organize it using a frequency table. They plot their data and analyze it using stem and leaf plots. There are 3 questions with an answer key.
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Monopoly Graphs

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students relate the concepts of linear functions to the game of monopoly. In this algebra lesson plan, students solve problems with ratio and proportion. They collect data and graph it.
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Lesson 10: Graphs

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students explore graph theory.  In this geometry lesson plan,  graphs are used to solve problems in a variety of domains.  In this lesson plan the term graph refers to a collection of vertices and edges used to...
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Big Foot Bar Graph

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students explore all the different sizes of feet within their age range while exercising their graphing skills. They work in teams to survey children in their grade to gather data about the different range of shoe sizes. Each group then...
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3 Kinds of Graphs

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students construct three different graphs-a line graph, a bar graph, and a circle graph.  For this graphing lesson, students use different graphs to display various data that they collect. 
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Don't Spill the Beans!

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Become a bean counter. Pupils use a fun activity to design and execute an experiment to determine whether they can grab more beans with their dominant hand or non-dominant hand. They use the class data to create scatter plots and then...