TuvaLabs Data Stories provide resources for teachers to engage students in rich discourse about an interesting topic and then allows students to come to conclusions using mathematical reasoning and tools.
How does strength of a male horned dung beetle affect its chances at winning a fight? Look at this data and see what you think.
"Does the amount of time lady beetles spend at freezing temperatures affect how long it takes for them to wake up from a chill coma?" Use this data nugget and your graphing skills to determine a solution.
Use the data to see if you can answer the question, "Is there evidence that the Saratoga Creek restoration in 1999 was successful at reducing the Phragmites invasion?"
Practice finding mean while learning about plants, bacteria and their relationship.
Use the lesson outline at this link or have students work with the raw data to determine why some plant species thrive in areas and others do not.
Learn about mutualism while doing statistics.
Study the data to answer the question, "Are any perennial crops a good alternative to corn for biofuel production, and if so, why? How does the location of biomass production affect the outcome?"
Use this data to see what the affects of seretonin have on winning a fight. Students find averages and create bar graphs to interpret the data.
Study the effect of climate change on plants as you practice measures of center and create bar graphs.
Answer this question using your ability to find the mean from the data. "How does the elevation of the marsh organ pipe, relative to mean sea level, affect plant growth?"
What affects do different drugs have on spiders and their abilities to make their webs? Students look at the area of different webs to predict an answer to this question. The raw data is available for this experiment.
Does the temperature affect plants flowering? Use this data to determine the answer to this question while looking for patterns and making predictions. Students can interact with the raw data from this experiement.
Practice finding the mean while looking for an answer to the question, "Is there any evidence that mudsnails are causing the decline in fish populations through their effects on invertebrate populations?"
Discuss independent and independent variables as you learn about relationships between coral, algae and urchins. Look for patterns and determine if there are any relationships between these different sea creatures by reading or creating your own graphical representations.
Students will gather data about the entire school and create a chart using Numbers. Then they will analyze the data and come up with a conclusion about the kids in the school.
Open Middle tasks provide opportunities for student to approach a mathematical task using different strategies and representations. They can be used as a warm-up/closing activity, as a formative assessment, or to facilitate discourse and discussion and get insite into student thinking and problem solving. These tasks provide a great opportunity for student to engage with the Standards for Mathematical Practice.
Open Middle tasks provide opportunities for student to approach a mathematical task using different strategies and representations. They can be used as a warm-up/closing activity, as a formative assessment, or to facilitate discourse and discussion and get insite into student thinking and problem solving. These tasks provide a great opportunity for student to engage with the Standards for Mathematical Practice.
Open Middle tasks provide opportunities for student to approach a mathematical task using different strategies and representations. They can be used as a warm-up/closing activity, as a formative assessment, or to facilitate discourse and discussion and get insite into student thinking and problem solving. These tasks provide a great opportunity for student to engage with the Standards for Mathematical Practice.
Open Middle tasks provide opportunities for student to approach a mathematical task using different strategies and representations. They can be used as a warm-up/closing activity, as a formative assessment, or to facilitate discourse and discussion and get insite into student thinking and problem solving. These tasks provide a great opportunity for student to engage with the Standards for Mathematical Practice.