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Follow a Bill!
Learners participate in an activity to discover how a bill becomes law in California. In groups, they create a school program based on their own ideas for change. They develop and conduct a survey within their community and present their...
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"Graph It"
Students work in teams to conduct short surveys of their classmates. They show their results using at least two different types of graphs.
Students separate into teams and are asked that each team to choose something that they are...
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A Pocketful of Change
Students study the meaning, symbolism, and value of U.S. coins,
especially the quarter. They conduct a survey of coins in students'
possession, graphing the results to show frequency distribution and drawing
inferences about the U.S....
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Graphs Abound
Students create a survey for their classmates to collect data on their favorite foods, eye color, pets or other categorical data. They compile the data from the survey in a table and then make a bar graph of each category using a web tool.
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Our Favorite Season Lesson Plan
Fifth graders complete a survey about their favorite season of the year. Using Excel, they create a graph using the chart wizard and copy it into Microsoft Word. They explore the relationship between the survey and the bar graph.
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Balloon Graphing
Fourth graders explore data, charts and graphs. They create graphs using titles, labels, axes, intervals, and scale correctly. Students enter their data into Excel and create a graph.
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What's Your Favorite Stuffed Animal?
Second graders gather information in a survey and interpret the results using a tally chart, a table, and a bar graph. They' present their results of the during the final group discussion. The subject of the survey is favorite stuffed...
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Ketchup to Collecting Data
First graders collect data for a survey of 3 brands of ketchup and create class charts. They taste test three different brands of ketchup, and use the data to create a presentation. Tasty instructional activity!
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Fairytale Favorites
Students access George MacDonald's Fairytales website, read exerpts of pre-selected tales, select their favorite and communicate that information via the internet to another class.
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Data Analysis & Probability
Students make predictions based on survey results. They calcuate sample proportions. Students estimate the number of voters in their district preferring the democratic candidate using their sample results. They review sample proportions...
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Graphic Favorite Breakfast Foods
Second graders graph data based on a class survey of their favorite breakfast foods. In this graphing lesson plan, 2nd graders take a class survey of their favorite breakfast foods. Then they take that data and put it into a computer...
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Chart/Graph
Students create a class survey, place the data in a spreadsheet and graph the information.
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Your Just Desserts
Young scholars write letters to town officials and local businesses asking for favorite dessert recipes. They tabulate their responses in a spreadsheet. Students turn their survey results into colorful graphs.
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Do You Have a Coin Collection?
Learners create a graph showing which students in the class collect coins.
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Venn Diagrams & Word Problems
Students explore the concept of Venn Diagrams through word problems. In this Venn Diagram lesson, students solve word problems about groups of people using Venn Diagrams. Students use survey results about MySpace and Facebook in a Venn...
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Do You Like to Spend or Save?
Students, after briefly discussing spending and saving habits, take a poll to see how their peers like to manage money. Then students graph their findings and discuss the survey results.
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Turkeys or Eagles?
Students discuss how Benjamin Franklin wanted the wild turkey (not the bald eagle) to be our national bird and then graph their preferences and discuss the survey results.
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Opening the Case
Students participate in a class survey and then design an experiment and use graphs and statistics to assist them in solving a problem. They organize the results of the survey in a stem-and-leaf plot and find the range, median, mean, and...
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Food for Thought
Third graders conduct a survey of their class' favorite foods voting on 3-4 favorites overall. They then go to the computer lab and examine how to produce a horizontal bar graph by graphing the favorite foods of the class.
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Which is Your Favorite Beatrix Potter Book?
In this survey instructional activity, students use the form to gather information on people's favorite Beatrix Potter books. Students graph the results. Prior knowledge of multiple Beatrix Potter books is assumed.
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Getting to Work
Pupils examine the modes of transportation people use to get to work in Canada. They examine how the methods chosen differ among provinces and among urban areas. They focus on the choices people make when selecting a method of getting to...
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Bananas! Bubble Gum! Which One?
Students design and create a graph of data they have collected on their favorite candy bars. They explore how to organize data as well.
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Managing Your Money
Students discuss different money management options in a variety of situations. They identify moments to share, spend and save money.