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Show Me!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students analyze and interpret graphs. In this graphing instructional activity, students view a video and construct their own graphs (line, circle, bar) from given sets of data. 
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Batchelder News Channel Data Mix Up!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners look at data in graphs with missing labels and use what they know about graphs to label the topics, titles, and axes of the graph. In this graph lesson plan, students pretend they are news reporters and have to fix their stories!
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Favorite Foods at Thanksgiving

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders study different types of graphs as a means of displaying information. They survey others to find their favorite Thanksgiving food and then graph the results using different types of graphs.
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Human Activity and the Environment

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students review and analyze graphs and tables as a group. They develop their graph and data analysis skills by converting data tables from Human Activity and the Environment into graphs.
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What's Your Line?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders collect temperature readings over a period of time, enter the information into a spreadsheet and choose the appropriate graph to display the results.
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Christmas Presents

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders create a graph of their Christmas gifts. They develop categories, compute fractional and decimal parts for each category, identify the number of degrees to represent each fractional part, and create a circle graph to...
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Equations and Inequalities

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students in a college algebra class use graphs to solve inequalities. Using the coordinate graphing system, they represent the relationship between x and y intercepts. They practice solving equations with complex numbers and locate...
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Problem Solving Parabolas

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students graph parabolas. In this problem solving parabolas lesson plan, students solve quadratic equations based as a scenario. Students discuss their graphs with their peers.
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Heart to Heart

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students predict the outcome of a question and conduct a survey and record their findings on a bar graph.
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Functions

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students explore a variety of functions. They recognize and describe functions and use linear functions to describe situations. Students find the domain and range of linear functions and graph rational expressions.
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Australian Settlers

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students interpret graphs and research events to identify links between events in the world and the arrival and plight of immigrant groups. They discuss the myths about immigration.
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It's 'ELEMENT' ary

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students, using a Web site about the periodic table of elements, create spreadsheets representing elements and their properties. They also create graphs that compare the physical properties of the elements.
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Loving Literature

For Teachers 1st
First graders, after having "Are You My Mother?" by P.D. Eastman read to them, participate in group discussions or independentally work to analyze a spreadsheet to identify essential elements in the story and graph their data. In...
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Using Excel to Draw a Best Fit Line

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create line graphs for given data in Microsoft Excel. Students follow step by step instructions on how to create their graph, including how to create a trend line. Students print graphs without trend lines and manually draw...
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Counting

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders comprehend how to use two different kinds of graphs. They complete a worksheet with the help of the teacher and a bag of jellybeans and then another worksheet without the direction of the teacher. Students listen as the...
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Race Track (Culminating Activity)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars graph and solve linear equations. In this algebra lesson, students use the slope and y-intercept to graph lines. They relate lines to the real world using different applications.
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Easter Candy Count

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this bar graph worksheet, students fill in the bar graph based on the information about Easter candy that each child got. Students complete 6 spaces in the bar graph and find the total number of candies.
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Easter Candy Count

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this bar graph worksheet, students complete a bar graph based on the information of Easter candy they are given for each color. Students complete 6 spaces in the bar graph and find the total.
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Easter Candy Count

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this bar graph worksheet, students fill in the bar graph with the information of Easter candy that each child has and find the total. Students fill in 6 bars in the bar graph.
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What Are We Listening To?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students gather data from a web site on number of music albums sold by genre for the last two years. They convert these figures to fractions, decimals, and percents, and display the results in bar graphs and pie charts.
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Introduction to Descriptive Statistics with Mode, Median, Mean and Range

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students complete several games and experiments, tally and graph their results. They figure the mean, median, range and/or average of their graphs to describe class results. They consider which statistic best represents the data at hand.
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Using Intercepts to Interpret Data

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Young scholars analyze data from a class read-a-thon. They graph equations using x- and y-intercepts and solve one and two-step linear equations.
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Inverse of a Function

For Students 10th
In this inverse of function learning exercise, 10th graders solve and graph 10 different problems that include graphically represented inverse functions. First, they solve each of the problems involving graphs and their inverses. Then,...
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Thanksgiving Dinner

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars plan a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. In this Thanksgiving activity, students compare and contrast the first Thanksgiving to Thanksgiving celebrations today. Young scholars plan a traditional Thanksgiving dinner and...