Use evidence from a data set to determine cause and effect relationships that explain a phenomenon 0707.Inq.3

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1. Bar Graph - Enter data to create a bar graph, then manipulate the graph's maximum and minimum values
2. Circle Graph - Enter data categories and the value of each category to create a circle graph (similar to "Pie Chart" but the user can define the data set)
3. Fun and Sun Rent-a-Car - students use tables, graphs, linear functions to solve a real-world problem
4. Heads I Win - predict the likelihood of tossing heads or tails and graphs the results of coin tosses
5. The Hot Tub - This is a fun activity where students tell the story behind a graph and relate slope to rate of change.
6. How to Convert Data Into a Chart/Graph - instructions on using Excel
7. How to Solve Graph Interpretation Problems
8. How to Transform a Table into a Chart in Microsoft Word - once the chart is created, you can easily customize it
9. How to Translate Tabular Data Into Graphs - learn about bar graphs, pie charts, and scatterplots
10. Interpreting Line Graphs - explore line graphs.
11. Magic Bullets: Chemistry vs. Cancer - In this activity students will work with data about cancer deaths. The purpose of the activity is to give students some experience in reading and interpreting graphs. There is a worksheet associated with the data sets  
12. Pie Chart - Students view pie charts (parameters: number of sectors, size of sector as a percent)
13. Piece Of Pie - display data using a circle graph
14. Push Ups - collect data to put on a line graph
15. Reading Charts and Graphs - In this lesson you will: read bar graphs, pie charts, and grid charts, review percentages in pie charts, and compare types of information shown in different kinds of charts
16. Stem and Leaf Plots
    1. Lesson designed to introduce students to stem-and-leaf plots - this lesson plan includes a link to a worksheet to use with the lesson
    2. Let the Games Begin - Olympic Trials in Data Analysis -
    3. Long Distance Airplanes - a stem-and-leaf plot lesson from Iluminations (rated 3rd-5th grade, but quite useful) 
    4. Overview of Mean, Median, and Mode - presented in the format of a discussion between student and mentor
    5. Overview of stem-and-leaf plot - a display that organizes data to show its shape and distribution 
    6. Stem and Leaf Plotter - an interactive applet that allow students to input data
    7. Stem-and-Leaf plots - from Purple Math
    8. Worksheet to accompany a "Stem-and-Leaf Plots" Lesson
17. What Percentage of your Class is Right or Left Handed? - a data collection and analysis class experiment
    

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