Unit Plan
Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Data: Using Graphs and Visual Data in Science

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of how data can be turned into visual forms which can help people comprehend information easier than observing numbers.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs: Interpreting Stories and Graphs

For Students 6th - 8th
This interactive exercise focuses on how line graphs can be used to represent mathematical data and provides an opportunity to translate actions from a story into graph form, then to write your own story to coincide with a line graph.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: F If.6 Mathemafish Population

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For this task, students are presented with a table and a graph and are asked to summarize the data and report the findings of a project by the Environmental Protection Agency to contain the effects of an invasive species on a fish...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Bubbling Plants

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students learn a simple technique for quantifying the amount of photosynthesis that occurs in a given period of time, using a common water plant (Elodea). They can use this technique to compare the amounts of photosynthesis that occur...
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: The Lowdown: Poverty Trends: What Does It Mean to Be Poor in America?

For Students 6th - 8th
Use math to learn about changes in US wealth distribution and poverty rate over time in this interactive from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students interpret the graphs and consider how the poverty rate spike following...