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Learning activities

Grades 4 to 8

1. What a zoo!
Examine bar graphs that represent the same data but use different scales.

2. You are what you eat!
Build bar graphs illustrating what we eat for breakfast.

3. Travel to school
Analyse the data using stem and leaf plots and pie charts.

4. Bias or no bias?
Consider the effect of bias on survey results.

5. Circle and bar graphs
Construct circle and bar graphs and compare them. Which type is better to use?

6. Survey says, who says?
Consider what information you can or cannot conclude from a survey.

7. How weird is our class? Compare your class data to a sample of Canadian results and draw some conclusions.

8. How many people live in a Canadian household?
Investigate differences between mean median and mode.

9. Role models and heroes
These activities on the study of heroes can apply to thematic units, social studies or history, as well as the development of language and critical thinking skills.

10. Just how old are you?
Have fun discovering your age in different units of time: minutes, days, months.

11. How tall will you be?
Predict your adult height using today's height.

12. You are the researcher!
Decide on an interesting question to research using your class results. See examples of student work.

13. The Vitruvian theory-does it apply to you?
Verify the famous theory illustrated by Leonardo Da Vinci-that armspan is equal to height-for a sample of students from your class.

14. Are you a "modal" student?
Choose a few survey questions, find the mode of their results and then write a description of the typical or "modal" student in your class.

15. Canada recycles! Do you?
Construct bar graphs then draw conclusions about how people are helping the environment, using data from your class and from a survey of Canadian households.

16. Make a graph of your Census at School data New!
Choose a survey question, make a tally chart of the responses and create a bar graph.