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Common Core 8.SP.A.2 laboratories
Skittles Lab - Scatter Plots
In this lab, students will be creating data that they can use to create scatter plots and either demonstrate their understanding of scatter plots or discover new learning about scatterplots. Students will be creating two different scatter plots based on their skittles in their cup. They will follow directions and plot the data they create. The first part has students analyzing the trend of their data (positive, negative, no association) and describing the shape of the data. The second part of t
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7th - 9th
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Drop Zone: Parachute Design Project-Based Learning Lab
This highly adaptable investigation will engage students of many ages and levels. Options for primary, upper elementary, and middle school are included. This is a true STEM lab that incorporates the science, technology engineering, and math components. Common, inexpensive, and easily available materials make this an easy lab to teach yet it produces maximum learning and engagement in your classroom. NGSS and Common Core Math Standards alignment are included in this "STEM on a Shoestring Budget"
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1st - 8th
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Parachute Lab - Scientific Method, Experimental Design, and Engineering
PARACHUTE ENGINEERS!! UPDATED AND READY FOR NGSSIn this lesson, your students will become parachute engineers. By using the principals of the scientific method and scientific inquiry they will design a parachute and make a modification to test a hypothesis. Lab is written for grades 7-9, but can be applied and/or modified for grade 6-12.You will begin with a DO NOW that typically elicits humorous answers from your students, and feed right into the creative, hands-on fun and learning. This le
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6th - 10th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-ETS1-3
Fidget Spinners: Math in Motion
If a fidget spinner is better at holding a student’s interest than my math lesson, it’s not the fidget spinner than needs to go! Let’s use them to help the students see the math in their everyday life math in a fun and engaging way. Students will gather and interpret data, convert measurements of time, graph data, and even use online software if you wish.As a “S.T.E.M. in Action” lesson, you’ll find all four components of a true S.T.E.M. curriculum represented.Science — Students design an experi
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6th - 9th
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People Perfectly in Proportion: The Golden Ratio
Zip File includes - PDF and editable documentLesson Setup: This lesson can be used for students at all developmental levels. Measuring with a ruler, error analysis, and proportional thinking are a few of the skills this lesson practices. Groups can be made based upon skill requirements. Lower functioning students can perform measurements and watch higher performing students do calculations. Result could also be presented by a possible third student - if you want to do trios as opposed to pa
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3rd - 12th, Adult Education
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X vs Y: A Variable Recording and Graphing Lab
A 3 day to week long laboratory exploration into independent and dependent variables, and how equations like y=mx+b can describe the relationships between them.After breaking down the lab's instructions, students will get to choose their own x and y variables and then come up with a procedure for gathering data. Depending on how outgoing/creative they are, collecting the data for this lab can be a blast! Once they have 20 (x,y) samples, they will graph them and draw a line that fits the data. Th
Perfect Purple Paint Group Task
In this engaging color-mixing activity, students collaborate in heterogeneous groups to recreate the perfect purple paint discovered for a special room project. Originating from an 8 oz (1 cup) container, the challenge is to scale up the paint for larger 16 oz (2 cups) and 32 oz (4 cups) containers. Using red and blue food coloring, students explore ratios to achieve the identical shade, documenting their findings on a graph. The hands-on experiment encourages teamwork, critical thinking, and pr
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5th - 8th
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Earthworms Response to Temperature
This is a lab for Middle School and High School Science classes. It uses Red Wigglers, Eisenia fetida, to manipulate temperature variables to affect the worm's pulse rate. Red Wigglers are easy to work with and allow students to see the blow flow through the closed circulatory system and calculate the pulse rate of the worm. This lab uses graphing and data collection to help students understand how science accumulates data to make inferences about how conditions affect animals.
STATA software Secondary Data Analysis
This handout is intended for those interested in teaching/learning basic introductory statistics concepts to analyze real data. Students will learn how to tell a story using secondary data analysis. The handout is for STATA software and the US Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health data set. For handouts on setting up an account, the data set code book and raw data file, a PowerPoint to accompany the handout, or questions please email kristin.flaming@gmail.com or ldierker@wesleyan.edu.This
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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