Lead the way in learning about lead contamination. Pupils first read several articles about the Flint water crisis and the EPA's rules for lead concentration. They use provided data from 71 Flint water wells to compute the 90th percentile and make a dot plot to represent the data.

Concepts

statistics, data analysis, data display, lead poisoning, dot plot, outliers, water testing

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Instructional Ideas

• Team up with a social studies teacher and/or English teacher to conduct a cross-curricular project
• Have learners research and analyze water quality data from their own cities
  

Classroom Considerations

• Scholars should have familiarity in calculating percentiles and creating dot plots
  

Pros

• Includes links to additional resources
• Provides some questions for discussion and sample responses
  

Cons

• None

Common Core

HSS-ID.A.1 HSS-ID.A.3