Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Comparison of Univariate and Bivariate Data

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students learn about the difference between univariate and bivariate data and understand how to choose the best graph to display the data.
Website
The World Bank

World Bank Group: Gnp Per Capita

For Students 9th - 10th
The World Bank Group offers an educational overview of GNP per capita. Content includes a map, charts, data, photos, cases, research, and exercises!
Handout
Florida-Spectrum Environmental Services

Florida Spectrum: Chemical Fact Sheet: Fermium

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a fact sheet with information on the basic data and properties of Fermium. It also includes some of its uses.
Lesson Plan
BSCS Science Learning

Bscs: Heavy Metals in Waterways

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This inquiry focuses on heavy metals in waterways in Colorado. Students will learn about heavy metals and data collected about them from citizen scientists, and then analyze the data in tables and maps to identify possible evidence of...
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 8.sp.4 Music and Sports

For Teachers 8th Standards
This task looks at a possible relationship between playing a sport and playing a musical instrument. Students collect data from classmates, summarize the data into a two-way table, make some observations, and construct a bar graph of the...
Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Three States of Matter

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Teachers can find an interactive lesson plan for introducing the three states of matter to the early elementary student using items that they are familiar with. This also includes gathering data and filling in a table, an important part...
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 8.f Us Garbage, Version 1

For Teachers 8th Standards
Eighth graders work with input values (the year) and output values (the amount of garbage that year) in a table about the garbage produced in the US. They study the table to answer specific questions, state whether it represents a linear...
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Us Population 1790 1860

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, students are shown a table of U.S. population data between 1790 and 1860 and are asked to explore whether exponential functions would be appropriate to model relationships within the data. The purpose of the task is to help...
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F Bf Flu on Campus

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this task, students analyze data about the number of students being infected during an influenza outbreak. The purpose of this problem is to have students compose functions using tables of values only. Aligns with F-BF.A.1.c.
Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Carbon Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive lab simulation demonstrates the effects of increased carbon in the atmosphere and how that increase contributes to climate change. A data table for student records is available for download.