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PBS

Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Data Saves the Day Activity Plan

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
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.
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NASA

Nasa: Using Radiosonde Data From a Weather Balloon Launch

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan allows students to learn about the layers of the atmosphere and to learn how to graph real atmospheric data.
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NASA

Nasa: Precipitation Towers: Modeling Weather Data

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson uses stacking cubes as a way to graph precipitation data, comparing the precipitation averages and seasonal patterns for several locations. Variations on the lesson can accommodate various ages and ability levels. Students...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Jumping Into Math, Measurement, & Data Day 1

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders apply measurement, graphing, and data skills to the real world context of physical education with standing jumps.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Weather Graph Data

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
The purpose of this task is for students to represent and interpret weather data, as well as answer questions about the data they have recorded. Student worksheets and recording sheet are included.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Multiple Choice Practice: Working With Data

For Students 9th - 10th
Test your knowledge of working with data by taking this twenty question multiple-choice practice test. Use a graphing calculator to help with any graphing problems and check your answers at any given time throughout the test.
Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Advanced Data Grapher

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Advanced Data Grapher can be used to analyze data with box plots, bubble graphs, scatterplots, histograms, and stem-and-leaf plots.
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Other

Graph Pad: Data Analysis Resource Center

For Students 9th - 10th
The GraphPad Statistics Guide is both a guide to doing statistical analyses with GraphPad Prism 7, and a concise review of statistical principles, emphasizing clear explanations with very little math. The GraphPad Curve Fitting Guide is...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Elephant Plant: Data and Graphs

For Students 5th - 6th
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real-life scenario involving plants. Those skills include interpreting data in a circle graph, interpreting data in a divided bar graph, and interpreting a bar...
Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Data Flyer

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Enter a set of data points, then derive a function to fit those points. Manipulate the function on a coordinate plane using slider bars. Learn how each constant and coefficient affects the resulting graph.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Science Fair Central: Investigation Set Up and Collect Data

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief overview of how to gather both quantitative and qualitative data, complete with a sample data table.
Website
NOAA

Noaa: National Data Buoy Center: What Are Tides?

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the National Data Buoy Center presents a brief description of the nature of ocean tides.
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University of Texas

Inside Mathematics: Parking Cars [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
This task challenges a student to use their understanding of scale to read and interpret data in a bar graph.
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University of Texas

Inside Mathematics: Granny's Balloon Trip [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
This task challenges a student to use knowledge of scale to organize and represent data from a table on a graph.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Displaying Data

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
Website
University of Auckland School of Computer Science

Morris: Graphs

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the graph data structure and how it is used to solve certain types of problems.
Graphic
The Franklin Institute

Frankin Institute Online: Group Graphing

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This site from The Franklin Institute explores how to make a simple graph using a spreadsheet to portray survey data. It also gives a set of interesting sports-related web sites so that students can get statistical inforamtion.
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Cuemath

Cuemath: Linear Graph

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A comprehensive guide for learning all about linear graphs with definitions, properties, their equations, how to plot or analyze them, solved examples, and practice questions.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Self Check Quizzes 1 Using Graphs to Make Predictions

For Students 9th - 10th
Use Glencoe's randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your ability to use graphs to make predictions. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click the "Check...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Graphing Data to Demonstrate Relationships

For Students 6th - 7th
Given problem situations, the student will graph data with a constant rate of change to demonstrate relationships in familiar concepts, such as scaling.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Collecting Data and Making Predictions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Given an experimental situation, the student will write linear functions that provide a reasonable fit to data to estimate the solutions and make predictions.
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NOAA

Noaa: Estuaries 101 Curriculum: Seasonal Swings

For Students 6th - 8th
Students use an interactive map to compare environmental conditions in different estuaries around the National Estuarine Research Reserve System. A second activity allows students to use the Graphing Tool to find, select, and graph data...
Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Gray Whale Migration Study

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow gray whales as they make their long journey from Mexico to their feeding grounds in the Arctic. This webpage gives students background information and up to date news about the migration of the gray whales. Also, students can...
Website
NOAA

Noaa: National Data Buoy Center: What Are Tides?

For Students 9th - 10th
A very general introduction to tides and their cycles, with one link to a graph of tide data.