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Population Pyramids
Students create a population pyramid based on current data for their final project country. They analyze data from comprehension trends of final project country. Students analyze populations of specific countries.
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Climate Comparison
Students explore climate regions. In this climate instructional activity, students examine the climate regions of Alaska as well as the state of Hawaii. Students research selected Internet sources to gather information regarding the...
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Pumpkin Seed Data!
Second graders work with pumpkins to estimate, then accumulate data about pumpkin seeds. After cleaning out the pumpkins, 2nd graders utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan which has a variety of pumpkin math activities they can do.
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Classification Introduction
Learners simulate classifying rocks using different colored skittles. In this earth science lesson, students create a Venn diagram according to their compiled information. They share this diagram in the class.
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Weather: Like It or Not!
Second graders investigate daily weather changes. In this earth science instructional activity, 2nd graders identify the different terms used to describe weather. They use the outdoor thermometer to record data.
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Sky Watching
Students trace how weather patterns generally move from west to east in the United States.
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A Bird's Eye View of our 50 States
Third graders focus on state birds as they learned absolute location (latitude/longitude) of each state, as well as their relative location (bordering states).
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Penguin Heights
Students use the worksheet from the first website listed below to collect data on the penguin heights on the Penguin Page.
Curated OER
"The Science Times"
Students create their own newspaper after gathering information at the Museum of Natural History's Hall of Biodiversity.
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Thank You... Thomas Edison!
Students investigate the life of Thomas Edison. They research how he made a difference. They understand that accurate data collection is important for math. They create a chart using spreadsheet data.
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Scientific Inquiry: Periodic Motion
Students construct their own pendulum. In this physics lesson, students design an experiment to find the factors affecting its period. They formulate a conclusion based on experimental data.
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Investigation of Timbre
Students design an experiment to analyze the timbre of different instruments. In this physics lesson, students analyze the missing quality in sound. They discuss their results in class.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Bars, Lines, and Pies
Students will learn and reinforce skills for creating, applying and analyzing pie charts, bar graphs and line graphs.
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Make a Living Bar Graph
Student use simple data to line up in a living bar graph activity when they respond to simple questions in this lesson plan. They physically and visually represent the data. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.B.3 Draw a scaled picture graph and a...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Graphing Our Snack Mix: Review of Graphing
Second graders review how to make bar graphs, line plots, and pictographs by tallying the contents of snack mix and building graphs to show their data.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Curious George Stem: Graphing Lesson Plan
A hands-on lesson plan where students compare and analyze data from their graphs.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Misleading Graphs
This lesson will challenge students to think creatively by having them design and build water balloon catchers from random scrap materials, while requiring them to take into consideration a multitude of variables including cost,...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Class Surveys and Graphs
Students love graphing data that they "own". In this plan, the class will select a type of graph and create it using a class survey frequency table. Included in this lesson are videos of the class engaged in the lesson and samples of...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Graphs, Charts, and Tables: Targeted Math Instruction
At the end of this instructional activity about graphs, charts, and tables, students will be able to interpret and compare data from graphs (including circle, bar, and line graphs), charts, and tables.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Great Golly Graphs
This lesson plan asks students to create a survey project including graphs, questions, tables, and data analysis. It gives an assessment and ideas for remediation and extension as well as ways to manage behavior problems and reluctant...