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| Voting Rights Amendments: The Voting Rights Act of 1965: | In this lesson plan, students will create and analyze a line graph to explore how the Voting Rights Act of 1965 expanded civic participation. |
| Voter Turnout and the 26th Amendment: | In this lesson plan, students will graph and interpret voter turnout data to explain how the 26th Amendment expanded the opportunity for civic participation. |
| Voter Turnout and the 24th Amendment: | Students will use voter turnout data to create and analyze a line graph to explain how the 24th Amendment expanded civic participation in this integrated lesson plan. |
| Practicing With Mean: | In this lesson plan, students will practice finding the mean of a set of data and be able to connect that to how mean is used in real-life. Students will be able to collect data, create line plots, interpret the data, and find the mean. |
| Voter Task Force: | Students will help the Supervisor of Elections determine which voter registration locations could be improved to help more citizens get registered to vote. Students will learn about the number of citizens who registered to vote in a general election year compared to the total population of those eligible to vote. They will discuss which voter registration locations will provide the most access to citizens and allocate funds to help address the issue in this modeling eliciting activity.
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| Voter Turnout and the 19th Amendment: | Students will graph and analyze voting data to explain how the 19th Amendment expanded civic participation in this lesson plan. |
| Voter Turnout and the 15th Amendment: | In this lesson plan, students will graph and analyze voting data to explain how the 15th Amendment expanded civic participation. |
| Heatin' It Up or Coolin' It Down: | Many chemical reactions are accompanied by a change in temperature. Whether it is extreme or barely noticeable, the temperature may go up or it may go down. Investigate these two chemical reactions described in this lesson to experience two different kinds of temperature change.
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| How Does Force Affect Motion?: | Students will explore how force affects an object's motion. Students will discuss how the greater the mass of an object, the greater the force required to move an object. Students will use data gathered through experimentation to justify their reasoning and understanding of forces and motion. |
| Marbelous Pool Noodle Ramps: | In this lesson, students will build a ramp out of a pool noodle and use it to launch a marble across the room. Students will investigate by adjusting the height and slope of the ramp and record their findings on a data sheet. Students will practice collecting and analyzing data and will investigate the importance of performing repeated experimental trials. Students will practice converting metric units of distance as well as the addition and division of decimals to find the mean of a small data set. |
| Line Plotting with Fractions Chicago Pizza Style: | In this lesson, students will be making a line plot and recording fractional data (1/4, 1/2, and 3/4) on their line plot. Students will then use fraction operations to solve problems involving data presented in their line plots. |
| April Showers Bring May Flowers - Line Plots: | In this lesson, students will create a line plot that displays rainfall data. They will use the data from the line plot to answer questions using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of fractions. Please note that the denominators for the line plot go to eighths.
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| Paper Airplanes Away!: | In this lesson, students will design and fly their own paper airplane and analyze their flight data to determine the best designs for getting planes to travel the farthest distance. Students will organize class flight data into a line plot and calculate the mean, median, mode, and range for the data set. |
| What is in the PLOT?: | In this lesson students will use Florida's wonderful seashells to collect data sets of measurement in fractions of a unit (1/2, 1/4, 1/8). They will plot the data on a line plot, then use operations with fractions to solve problems involving information presented in the line plot. |
| Sleep Versus Mood: | Using the case study, No Sleep, No Problem? Students will explore the amount of sleep they are allotting for themselves per night. Students will then investigate the impact of sleep on one’s daily mood. |
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