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Raisins, Raisins, Raisins

This lesson involves students in collecting data,organizing data into a line plot, discussing statistics, calculating mean, medain and mode and consumer awareness.

Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Mathematics)

By Melanie Simmons.

An average autumn

This lesson will be a review of skills for calculating mean, mode, median, and range of a set of numbers to be created by the students. It will result in a seasonal display for the classroom or school-wide bulletin board.

Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Mathematics)

By Scott Counce.

Human box and whisker plot

Students will learn how to construct box and whisker plots as they actively participate in being a part of one based upon their heights. As an extension of the lesson, students will learn how to interpret a graph of this type.

Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 Mathematics)

By Nikki Honeycutt.

Leap frogs tend toward the center?

Students learn the meanings of the central tendency concepts range, mean, median, and mode. They will make origami frogs, jump them across a track and record the length of their jumps and the total number of jumps across trials.

Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Mathematics)

By Erin Foerster.

Flying saucers: Circles

Students will apply what they have learned about circles and finding averages with this lesson. This lesson should be broken up into 3 class periods of an hour for each class.

Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Mathematics)

By Amy Romagnuolo.

Statistics project

Students collect numeric and non-numeric data. They are then expected to use the data collected to construct different types of graphs as well as finding central tendencies.

Format: lesson plan (grade 5–8 Mathematics)

By Audrea Saunders.

Stem and leaf hop

The students will measure and record the length of their jumps. The lengths will be used to create a class stem and leaf plot.

Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Mathematics)

By Kathy Sellers.

A street in Jaipur, India

This is a street in Jaipur, India. On the left side of the road, two buses are pulled close to the sidewalk. One is painted red and white, and the other is painted green and white. On the right side of the road, in an area separated from the bus lane by a...

Format: image/photograph

A horse drawn carriage in Jaipur, India

This is a horse drawn carriage in Jaipur, India. The horse is chestnut brown with a white blaze. A man in white shirts and pants balances carefully on a seat just behind the horse, driving the carriage. There is one passenger in the carriage. A car travels...

Format: image/photograph

Solar sizzlers

Group projects of building solar cookers or collectors provide arena for learning about energy sources and transformation. Gathering data for comparison and analysis exercises students' graphing skills and thinking.

Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Information Skills and Mathematics)

By Larry Parker.

Nutritional value unit integrated with Microsoft Works

This unit is an example of how to integrate technology into the curriculum to alleviate teaching it in isolation. Students will use Microsoft Works to compare and analyze nutritional values from nonperishable food items.

Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Computer/Technology Skills and Mathematics)

By Gretchen Parrish.

Biomagnification and bald eagles

In this activity, students will study biomagnification by using paper cutouts to represent food containing chemicals eaten by fish. The students will then repeat this activity but as an eagle collecting fish. The amount of chemicals taken in by each eagle will then be compared to amounts taken in by each fish.

Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Science)

By Elizabeth Caveny, Janet Carson, Heather Subleski, and Jeannie Galluzzo.

Antebellum North Carolina

Primary sources and readings explore North Carolina in the antebellum period (1830–1860). Topics include slavery, daily life, agriculture, industry, technology, and the arts, as well as the events leading to secession and civil war.

Format: book (multiple pages)

Determining the author's purpose: Analyzing a recruitment video

In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 1.10

In this lesson plan, students analyze a video about ROTC to determine why the video was created.

Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)

By Andrea Fedon, Gail Frank, and Cindy Neininger.

Post-EOG activities: Student products

In this project, students will become entrepreneurs. They will have a business that makes items with 3-dimensional shapes. They will receive various tasks that will require that they make decisions as any other business owner would have to do.

Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)

By Geneva Williams.

ACC basketball

The students will use ACC basketball statistics to practice the process of converting fractions to decimals then to percents and will learn how to create and edit a spreadsheet. They will then use this spreadsheet to analyze their data. This unit is done during the basketball season.

Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Mathematics)

By Susan Dougherty.

PIZZA = "Fractions: Any Way You Slice It!"

During this lesson, students will explore and investigate the relationships among fractions. Students will use paper pizzas divided into fractional parts to compare equivalent fractions. They will see part-whole fractions as fair shares and begin to understand that the parts must be equal.

Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Computer/Technology Skills and Mathematics)

By Alta Allen.

Would you really buy that? Persuasive techniques in advertising

In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 1.9

In this lesson plan, students learn about the persuasive techniques used in advertising and try to identify the techniques in a variety of ads.

Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)

By Andrea Fedon, Gail Frank, and Cindy Neininger.

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Comparing counties

In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students use the spreadsheet from the previous lesson to find the range, median, and mode of the populations. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Comparing properties of the mean and the median through the use of technology

Students compare and contrast properties of measures of central tendency, specifically the influence of changes in data values on the mean and median. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade 4–7 Mathematics)

Provided by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics