Students will organize various stem items, make observations regarding those items such as their color, size, etc and then graph their observations.
Students will construct and analyze data from a Skittle bag in bar graphs.
Using the Green Screen app, students will create short theatrical scenes to experience how Green Screens can be used to enhance a theatrical budget.
Students analyze a chart with the characteristics of the three colonial regions and determine a better way to visualize the information that shows the similarities and differences between the three.This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2010256.Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
This resource has a YouTube video link and a website link on how the German Enigma Machine worked to encrypt messages during World War II.
This is a data collection, prediction, and graphing activity using three flavors of ice cream as the subject. It is a ready-made lesson with a Google Slideshow that has all of the activities built into it.
Students will gather information regarding the cultural and economic interactions between Europeans and American Indians during Westward Expansion. Students will work in groups to analyze several primary sources and create a visual representation depicting the Native vs. European perspectives of westward expansion.
Students will use dominoes to represent how data can be manipulated on a computing device.
This lesson exposes students to the idea that computers have their own numeric language and that any data such as a picture, color, song, etc. can actually be represented using numeric values a computer understands. Students will be able to identify the binary system and use the binary codes to represent textual data. Students will also be able to represent pictures using numeric values by understanding and using the concept of pixels
The resources contain a note/activity page for students to complete with the viewing of the introduction of binary numbers video. They will then practice using binary numbers to represent numbers.
This is a slideshow showing second graders how to model their own water cycle. 2.12 The student will create a model of a physical object or process in order to show relationships with or without a computing device (e.g., water cycle, butterfly life cycle, seasonal weather patterns).Models are used to represent a system (or parts of a system) under study, to aid in the development of questions and explanations, to generate data that can be used to make predictions, and to communicate ideas to others
Students will analyze data from the "State of the Bay" reports from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation while reviewing and completing the scientific method. The final assessment is a mission for students to create a persuasive speech or advertisement that will call for action to make changes that will positively impact the watershed with reasons why change is important.
The process of how a bill becomes law is a fascinating process that is much more than just a Representative or Senator introducing a bill and having it move through the process to its eventual demise or addition to another bill or to the bill ending up on the President’s desk itself. An even more interesting question is: “What is the subject matter of MANY of these bills- researched, drafted, and introduced? This lesson will tackle that question and many others!
The student will identify and interpret data and organize it in order to make a prediction, with or without a computing device.
Make life cycles and data recording “egg”-citing! Incubate eggs in your classroom. As you do, monitor and record data.
This lesson is designed to practice making graphs
Data and PredictionsComputer Science Strand: Data and AnalysisData can be useful to make predictions from trends in the data. A trend in the data is the general direction in which something is developing or changing. Based on the direction the data is going, you can make a prediction as to what may happen next. A prediction is when you use data to make an informed guess as to what may happen in the future.
This activity will show the sorting process using the Merge Sort Divide and Conquer algorithm that is used by a computer when sorting data without using a computer.
Overview of the activity: Introduce students to the Brainpop videos to open the discussion of what magnets are and how they can be used.
This will help students understand the difference between modeling and simulation. They are able to run a simulation program and see that over time it should get closer to the theorectical probabilty.