As Veterans Day approaches, let your students learn about and appreciate the meaning of the day by analyzing the powerful data that we’ve supplied.
Students can use our numbers to create questions for their classmates … questions that can emphasize the tremendous gift of all those who have served in our armed forces.
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The growing deficits of our government and accumulated debt are constantly in the news. Allow your students to investigate these concepts and their causes with this timely activity.
The activity involves reading charts, making comparisons, computing percents and analyzing trends to let students's and their families more clearly understand these issues.
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Will November 6th election bring record number of voters to the polls? Students get a chance to understand what the usual percentage of voters is, look for trends and central tendencies, and make predictions about this year's voter turnout.
The activity: Mid-term-elections.pdf and the data: Percentage-voter-turnout.xlsx
CCSS: 6.RP.A, 7.RP.A, HSS.ID.A, MP4
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Daylight Saving time is controversial, disruptive, useful, saves energy, increases energy consumption, is inconvenient ... Imagine locations where neighbors are differentiated by one or two hours and experiment with what it might be like to live in a neighborhood of varied times.
One more - Operation Gratitude - Halloween Candy Buy Back - Dentists often offer $1.00 per pound for non-opened Halloween candy. The candy is donated to Operation Gratitude which gives thank you gifts to soldiers and first responders. Is this a good deal for kids?
Vampire bats - We've found lots of interesting metric and customary unit facts about Vampire bats and asked students to relate those facts to measurements that they are familiar with.
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Use your student’s Halloween enthusiasm to do a study on volumes. We’ve created an activity that asks students to calculate the volume of candy containers that are silly and intriguing. Skip the cone and the sphere to make this activity more useful for 5th or 6th graders or include the whole activity to challenge with a little bit of percent work.
