Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Birds: How Do We Increase the Bird Population at Our School?
This is a lesson of how to improve our environment as well as how to enjoy it. The students will sit in the schoolyard, study pictures of birds and then compile similarities and differences. Students will observe live birds in the yard...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Averages Handling Data
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a dynamic flipchart displaying and using measures of central tendency- mean, medium, mode, and average. Pictures capture the eye, for sure.
Concord Consortium
Seeing Math: Plop It
Plop It! lets you experiment with the concepts of mean, median, and mode (measures of center). You see the differences among them on a bar graph, as you add or remove blocks to an axis with a given range.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Box Plots
This lesson plan introduces quartiles and box plots. It contains an activity and discussion. Supplemental activities about how students can represent data graphically are also included.
Other
James Wright: Measures of Central Tendency
This site looks at measures of central tendency and dispersion. Discussed are topics such as standard deviation, mean, median, and mode.
Missouri State University
Missouri State University: Introductory Statistics: Statistics
This is an excellent resource on what the science of statistics involves. There are all kinds of definitions, examples, graphs, and charts to learn from. The topics covered include: mode, mean, median, skewed distributions and measures...
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: All That Data 2
Students describe graphs and explore range, measures of central tendency, and distribution in this interactive web lesson.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Measures
Enter data and view the mean, median, variance, and standard deviation of the data set.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What Does the Data Tell Us? Describing Data
Understanding how to interpret data by its shape, spread, and center helps students to understand statistics.
Calculator Soup
Calculator Soup: Statistics Calculator
Calculate basic summary statistics for a sample or population data set including minimum, maximum, range, sum, count, mean, median, mode, standard deviation and variance.