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High school statistics research for International Baccalaureate
Probability & Statistics in Baseball Project (Common Core Aligned, AND FUN!)
The problems and activities within this document are designed to assist students in achieving the following standards: 6.SP.B.5, 7.SP.C, HSS.CP.A.2, HSS.CP.A.3, HSS.CP.B.7, HSS.CP.B.9, as well as the standards for mathematics practice and the literacy standards. They are also designed to help the teacher assess the students’ abilities when it comes to working with the ideas within the standards.This document contains the following:A project designed to allow students to investigate theoretical
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
NCAA March Madness Basketball Tournament Team Research Statistics
Do you have students interested in the March Madness basketball tournament? Then this is the activity you need!To begin our March Madness unit, we look at all of the teams participating in the tournament and complete a map together to show where each team is from. We notice that some states have more than others and some states have none, and spend time discussing why that might be. Students will complete their own March Madness bracket.Students will then select a team in the NCAA March Madness
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4th - 9th
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OPVL: Evaluating Sources
When using a source, it is important to determine its reliability and validity. In other words, is the source believable? Is the data current and reliable, or too outdated? Is it biased, and therefore, unreliable? This resource will help students learn how to evaluate each source based on its origin, purpose, value, and limitation (OPVL). A chart that may be used as a poster or handout, along with an OPVL template is included.
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7th - 12th
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Literary Criticism Research Essay: Honors, AP or IB
This is an essay that requires students to step beyond their normal ideas regarding research and research writing. It asks them to have a literary "conversation" with critics regarding a work of literature. Students need to form their own opinion on the work of literature, then use literary criticism to support it.
The assignment you are purchasing consists of 8 parts:
1. The assignment sheet with essay description and directions on construction as well as using Easy Bib
2. A Peer Review
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12th, Higher Education
Scatter Plot and Bivariate Data Research Project
Students will begin a statistics project on one of their favorite restaurants or food chains! They will be researching nutrition facts and surveying others on what types of food they like to eat there. Through this data collection they will work on their skills of creating scatter plot graphs, creating relative frequency tables, and analyzing this data. This can be used either by paper or digitally. I used it the last two years during distance learning. Rubric included.
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7th - 12th
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Bundle: Economics Projects
These creative, student-centered projects engage students with economics by allowing them to work with their peers on the real-world connection of the course.This bundle include:Economics Fiscal and Monetary Policy ProjectEconomics Movie Project: The Hidden EconomistEconomics Weather Report ProjectEconomics Music ProjectEconomics: Minimum Wage and RentEconomics: Macroeconomics Success StoriesEconomics: Market Structures Talk ShowI've integrated all of the projects into regular economics, IB Econ
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11th - 12th
MYP Science Criterion D Assessment: The Elements - G7 & G8 Chemistry Research
MYP Science students must complete a research task: Reflecting on the Impacts of Science. This is a ready-made Criterion D assessment task for a chemistry unit with a focus on the elements of the periodic table and their uses. This IB MYP Year 2-3 Science research project can be used as-is with Grade 7 or 8 students, or modified for other levels. It is no-prep and requires no other resources - simply print and hand out, share electronically, or assign via Google Classroom.Students are guided th
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7th - 9th
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Life Cycle Analysis of a Cotton T-Shirt | Impacts of Fast Fashion
A mini unit of inquiry to spark discussions about fast fashion and the environmental, social and economical impacts of the garment industry. Students will analyze the life cycle of a cotton t-shirt and track the impacts throughout the life cycle of a typical cotton t-shirt. They will be introduced to the concept of the circular economy and how life cycle analysis can help make the fashion industry more sustainable by design. Students will then be challenged to find leverage points within the sys
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6th - 12th
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Blooms Question Stems for Research
Question stems help students (and teachers) ask higher level questions.
When students are working in groups to research a concept, the question stems are a great way for students to collaborate and ask each other questions to dig deeper into the concept.
Formats included are a half page with question stems and a pyramid for students to assemble and place on their desk.
The section that is cut out when assembling the pyramid has a reminder of what makes a good question. (Has more than one a
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3rd - 9th
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Extended Essay Research Guide Hyperlinked PDF
My husband is the IB coordinator at his high school and my sons earned the IB Diploma. After my eldest went through the Extended Essay process, I realized how lost he and his peers were. The official Extended Essay guide is fantastic, but it is also long and technical—most weren't doing more than skimming it. I created this EE Research Guide as a short, one-stop shop for my husband to use with his IBDP students. There are multiple links to further research information, website source information
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11th - 12th
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The 57 Bus- Looking at Hate Crime Data
A guided web search on hate crime data from the FBI, CDC, Pew Research Center, and U.S. Census Bureau. Uses reflection questions to make conclusions and predictions about the distribution of hate crimes. The kids are fascinated by the data!
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Careers in Statistics Digital Project
Distance Learning: Careers in Statistics Project Students complete this project by researching careers in statistics and creating a digital report. They select five careers and summarize their characteristics including job description, required skills (such as how statistics are used), education/training, and salary. Students may elect to create a digital poster (EDITABLE 24-inch by 18-inch template in PPTX included) or a short video report. Only want to assign a digital poster or only want vid
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9th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Bundle: Algebra I Statistics Activities (Common Core Aligned)
Sustainable Development Goals: Decision-Making Activity
This activity places students in a group to investigate the sustainable development goals and decide which goal to help advance using marginal analysis. Student familiarize themselves with relevant vocabulary (economics, tradeoffs, opportunity costs, and marginal analysis) through the activity, and apply critical thinking skills to select a goal and strategy to advance this goal.
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9th - 12th
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Scatter Plot Project
This is an awesome research project that is summative assessment for a Scatter Plot unit. For this project students are asked to pick a research question about bivariate data, gather the data online or through a survey. Next, they will make a prediction, construct a scatter plot, draw a line of best fit, find the equation of a line of best fit, and answer analytical questions about the data by interpreting the scatter plot. This is a great project that will allow students to utilize technology t
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7th - 10th
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Marginal Analysis of Colleges Research
This activity pushes students to consider the costs and benefits of going to different colleges. The students consider the benefits (amenities, locations, prestige) vs. the costs (tuition, books, loans).On the back, students justify their decision, by applying words such as scarce resources, trade-offs, and opportunity cost.The last segment of the homework includes an article about the name image and likeness deals that some college athletes are signing, and how it might impact future decision-m
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11th - 12th
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Statistics Research Project
This project can be done in an Algebra 1 class or in a beginning Statistics class.Through this project students will...- Create a two-question survey questionnaire (using Google Forms).- Conduct a survey that will produce quantitative data.- Interpret survey data, and use Desmos to generate the line of best fit.- Find the correlation coefficient and use these values determine how well the line of best fit models the data.- Generate a residual plot and use it to interpret data.- Find the sum of t
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8th - 12th
Also included in:Â Math in the Real World Projects Bundle
8ts MYP DESIGN BUNDLE CRITERION A
MYP Design Criterion A1 -> A4 (9 Pages)These pages can be used to help guide students through the process of MYP Design A - Knowledge and Understanding. If you are unsure of what to include, or how to organize student research, then these handouts are for you!Students find them useful to reference to ensure that all needed materials are included. What's included:Task specific clarificationsRubric strands for 7/8 level (1,3,5)Student ExamplesExample Layouts
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6th - 10th
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College Research Project Unit
This is an excellent unit on college research. If your school is college focused or you just need a interested based project to get the students engaged, this is a great way to get kids interested in colleges and their stats. Did you know that the federal government compiles all the FAFSA data? It keeps track of how much money each person who filled out a FAFSA makes over the long term (10 years+). There is a wealth of data on every college that has ever accepted federal funding and it is all at
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6th - 12th
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Global Crisis Project (Exponential Functions)
The goal of the Global Crisis Project is to have students see and understand real applications for exponential functions. Students will do research on the population growth rate (globally or they may choose a specific location) and investigate the effect that a related global issue such as waste, food, disease, life"expectancy/mortality rate, poverty, inflation, national debt, etc. has on population. Students find accurate data points from reliable internet sources, and will use exponential reg
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9th - 12th
Also included in:Â Math in the Real World Projects Bundle
Stock Investing 101
For high school (and savvy middle school) economics students, Stock Investing 101 is a great tool for students to explore stocks on the Stock Market. This worksheet can be easily edited by simply changing the companies that the students need to investigate in order for it to be used over and over again. Estimated time for student completion: 45-60 minutes
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7th - 12th
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Theory of Knowledge | IB TOK Knowledge & Technology NO PREP BUNDLE!!!!!
Elevate your students' TOK experience with this comprehensive bundle and watch your students thrive in their pursuit of knowledge. The "IB TOK Knowledge & Technology NO PREP BUNDLE!!!!!" is a comprehensive and innovative set of resources designed to enhance the learning experience for International Baccalaureate students. This product is a carefully curated compilation of FOUR thought-provoking and engaging activities AT A DISCOUNT OF NEARLY 25%, specifically tailored to the IB Theory of Kno
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11th - 12th
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Scatter Plot Project on Desmos with Template
Learners will work to collect their own data from something they are interested in. They will then create a scatter plot using Desmos.com and analyze the information they collected. The analysis includes drawing their own trend line, finding the equation of that trend line, and predicting 3 values outside their original data collection. There are detailed directions with screenshots included along with a Google Slides template that can be shared with learners to help them organize their work. I
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7th - 9th
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Macroeconomics Project: Country Research on Business Cycles
This project gives students an opportunity to investigate a major economic crises or success story in specific countries within the last few decades. Students work in groups to help investigate the causes (historian), the impacts on people (anthropologist), the economic factors (economist) and policy take-aways (policy expert) of the downturn or success story.This overview provides a description of the product, a timeline of how to structure the class days, essential questions to research, speci
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
Also included in:Â Bundle: Economics Projects
Planning for Gameplay - Planning Positions and Basic Rules
A pdf teacher/student resource to compliment the MYP PHE Teamwork in Sports Unit.Use this resource to use as a guide for learning the positioning and rules or three different sports, basketball, volleyball, and dodgeball. Students can refer to this to create their teamwork plans, plan for game play during class, and record their plan as a team. Resource can be used as an introduction to each sport and help students organize their teams throughout the unit (should be used at least three times, ea
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6th - 9th
Also included in:Â Physical Education - IB MYP PHE Teamwork in Sports Unit Bundle
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