Practice asking questions with Tide Table data

Practice reading a table of data and determining appropriate statisitcal questions these data can answer using tide data.
Details

Activity Type: 

Mini-Lesson

Types of Instruction: 

  • Data Practice

Grades: 

  • 6, 7, 8

Subjects: 

  • Earth Science

Topics: 

  • Earth's Surface Systems

Statistical Concepts: 

  • Statistical questions

Standards: 

Practice 1
Asking questions and defining problems
Practice 4
Analyzing and interpreting data
Practice 8
Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
Crosscutting 1
Patterns
Crosscutting 3
Scale, proportion, and quantity
6.SP-1
Recognize a statistical question as one that anticipates variability in the data related to the question and accounts for it in the answers.
Crosscutting 5
Energy and matter: Flows, cycles, and conservation
MS-ESS2-1
Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth's materials and the flow of energy that drives this process.
HS-ESS2-4
Use a model to describe how variations in the flow of energy into and out of Earth's systems result in changes in climate.
Literacy.RST.6-8.7
Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table).
Activity Files

Data Activity : 

Mini Lesson 1 (PRAC) Tide Tables

Data Sets: 

Tides and Moon Phases Data - no images (xls)
Tides and Moon Phases Data - with images (xls)

Data Literacy Instructionals: 

INSTR 1c. Graph Choice 2 of 3
INSTR 1c. Graph Choice 1 of 3
Think statistically and ask statistical questions (One versus Many)
Begin with the Mini Lesson Overview
Language for asking questions
What Kind of Graph Should I Make?
What Kind of Question Am I Asking?
Language for asking questions
Practice with matching Question Type and Graph Type